Tag: police
Police Officer Seeks Divorce
Osunrayi Oluwapelumi & Helen Nneka Nwanua A police officer, Mrs. Funmilola Alade has prayed the Iyana-Ipaja Grade ‘B’ Customary Court, Lagos…
Clashes between Madagascar police, cattle rustlers kill 15
Clashes between armed bands of cattle rustlers and security forces have left 15 people dead in Madagascar including two paramilitary…
Police Kill 3 Okada Riders
Sulaimon Mojeed-Sanni Policemen from Ishashi Police Station have reportedly gunned down three commercial motorcycle operators also known as Okada riders.…
Police Teargas Ogun Students
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Commercial activities were Friday paralysed in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, western Nigeria, as policemen from the…
Student killed in protest clash with police
A student taking part in a protest in Senegal’s capital Dakar was killed when demonstrators and police clashed, a government…
Teenagers Arrested For Cultism In Benin
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Nine teenagers were among 15 persons arrested by the Edo State Police Command for practicing cultism in the…
Fake Cop Nabbed With Marijuana
Femi Adi/Kaduna A fake Assistant Superintendent of Police, Ugochukwu Adegoke, has arrested with over 1ookg of marijuana by Kaduna State…
Terrorism: Police set up Tactical Operation Points in 8 states
Acting Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba, has ordered the setting up of Tactical Operation Points (TOP) in eight states in…
2015 Election: Police arrest Rivers monarch, others over shooting
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt There was pandemonium Wednesday in the Mile Four area near Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, southern Nigeria,…
Two docked for stealing generators
The Police on Monday arraigned Paul Benedict, 29 and Jamilu Usman, 25, in Wuse Zone 2 Senior Magistrates’ Court, Abuja,…
Police arraign mason for assaulting hair dresser
The police on Monday arraigned a mason, Mohammed Ibrahim, 22, in a Grade 1 Area Court, Karu, Abuja, for attacking…
Osun Election: Police confirm arrest, release of politicians
The police in Osun on Saturday confirmed the arrest and release of some politicians in Odo Otin Local Government Area…
Osun Election: Group commends police, INEC
An election monitoring group, Reclaim Nigeria, on Saturday commended security agents that supervised the conduct of the Osun governorship election…
Osogbo hotels raided by police ahead of election
By Gbenro Adesina/Osogbo Heavily armed policemen on Friday raided some hotels in Osogbo, capital of Osun state, demanding from the…
Illegal election materials intercepted in Osun State
By Simon Ateba, Gbenro Adesina and Jethro Ibileke/Osogbo Police in Osun State have intercepted alleged illegal election materials and some…
Navy, Police to strengthen cooperation
The Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Admiral Usman Jibrin, said on Thursday that the Nigerian Navy would strengthen…
Bangladesh police tear gas garment workers on hunger strike
Bangladesh police on Thursday fired tear gas and stormed a garment factory in the capital Dhaka where workers had been…
Isheri-Berger residents want miscreants off their road
Some residents of Isheri-Berger area of Lagos on Wednesday urged the Lagos State Government and the Police to curb the…
BH ‘Chief Butcher’ says he slaughters in 2 minutes
Boko Haram suspect, self-styled “Chief Butcher” Mohammed Zakari says he slaughters his victims in two minutes. Zakari was arrested by…
Tension in Osun as army, police take over state
Simon Ateba & Jethro Ibileke/Osogbo Tension was sky high and hotels were fully booked on Wednesday in Osogbo, capital of…
Soldiers, Police take over Aregbesola’s support rally venue
Simon Ateba & Jethro Ibileke/Osogbo Men of the Nigerian Army and mobile policemen on Wednesday morning took over the Nelson…
No ban on use of Hijab – Nigeria Police Boss
Nigeria Police Force said on Monday that the acting Inspector-General of Police Suleiman Abba has not banned the use of…
Gunmen kill traditional ruler in Bauchi
Some gunmen, suspected to be armed robbers, on Saturday killed the District Head of Soro in Bauchi state, Malam Abdulrahman…
Suicide bomb kills several people in Kano
A female suicide bomber targeting women lining up to buy kerosene killed several people on Monday in northern Nigeria’s Kano…
1 dead, 15 unconscious after all night prayers
The police in Aba, Abia, has confirmed the death of a four-year old boy after an all night prayer in…
Paris police fire tear gas as Gaza protesters defy rally ban
Riot police fired tear gas in Paris on Saturday as tensions rose at a 5,000-strong pro-Palestinian rally that went ahead…
JTF, Police repel pirates’ attack in Bayelsa
The Joint Task Force (JTF) and Police in Niger Delta said on Thursday it repelled attack by suspected pirates on…
Apapa Gridlock, Threat To Security
Kazeem Ugbodaga In the wake of nationwide insecurity, the Commandant of the Nigerian Navy Security, NNS Beecroft, Ovenseri Uwadiae, says…
Osun Election: INEC Commissioner arrives, police assure residents
Ahmed Wali, National Commissioner, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Tuesday arrived at Osogbo to supervise the 9 August governorship…
Police arrest NSCDC operative over alleged murder
The police in Osun have arrested an operative of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) over the death…