By Umar Akilu Majeri, Dutse Officers of the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) on Tuesday sealed the Jigawa state assembly, Nigerian NewsDirect can authoritatively report. This is as the seal is not unconnected with the plot to unseat the current Speaker…
The Nigeria Police has declared pastor Olarewaju Abayomi Olusoga wanted for allegedly practicing homosexuality in his church premises. Homosexuality is an attraction between people who are of the same sex. It is illegal in Nigeria and punishable by 14 years…
An Anambra female lawyer, Adachukwu Chikelu-Okafor, who allegedly brutalized her 11-year-old househelp, has finally handed herself over to the police in the state. Chikelu-Okafor, who allegedly inserted a hot knife into the private part of the house girl, ran…
Two persons identified as Adejoke Shuiab, 45 and Aminu Nurudeen, 45, on Tuesday appeared before an Ota Magistrates’ Court in Ogun, for allegedly stealing N3.7 million. The police charged the defendants, whose addresses were not provided, with stealing and…
The Nasarawa State Police Command, led by Commissioner CP Umar Shehu Nadada, in collaboration with the Vigilante group of Nasarawa Eggon LGA, recently conducted a successful raid on a suspected kidnappers’ den at Alogani mountains. This was conveyed in…
By Austine Emmanuel, Kaduna The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has recovered an AK-47 rifle from a suspected Kidnapper, Adamu Shuaibu in Kaduna state Police Command. The Police Public Relations Officer, (PPRO) Kaduna State, ASP Mansur Hassan in a press statement…
Police in Oyo State have arrested five persons suspected to be killers of a 68- year-old retired Permanent Secretary in the state’s civil service, Mrs Olaitan Gbenle. Assailants strangled Mrs Gbenle in her apartment at Apata area of Ibadan on Nov.…
The Nigeria Police, Gombe State Command, on Tuesday said two men were arrested for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl at a farm in Bajoga, Funakaye Local Government Area of the state. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Mahid Abubakar, disclosed…
The Commissioner of Police, Nasarawa State, Shehu Umar Nadada, has denied the command’s involvement in the formation of a 1,144-man Fulani Nomad Vigilante team which was recently established in the state by the President of the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore,…
The Ebonyi State Police Command has arrested 17 suspects for various crimes in the state. The State Police Public Relations officer, DSP Joshua Ukandu, disclosed this while briefing newsmen on recent breakthroughs recorded by the command. Ukandu said that the…
