The recent inauguration of Katsina State Community Watch Corps by Governor Dikko Radda is another clear pointer to the fact that the time to reorganise the Nigeria Police is now, rather than at a later date.

About 20 commercial motorcyclists (a.k.a Okada riders) were killed, and their motorcycles stolen in the last 21 days in Ondo State. Commander, Ondo State Security Network Agency, otherwise known as Amotekun Corps, Adetunji Adeleye, disclosed this, yesterday, while parading some suspected criminals at Amotekun headquarters in Akure, the state capital. Lamenting the surge in violent attacks on commercial motorcyclists across the…

Commander, Ondo State Security Network Agency, otherwise known as Amotekun Corps, Adetunji Adeleye, yesterday disclosed that within the last three weeks, there has been a surge in violent attacks on commercial motorcyclists across the state. Adetunji, who revealed this while parading some suspected criminals at the headquarters of Amotekun in Akure, the state capital, stated…

Ondo State Security Network Agency, popularly known as Amotekun, has arrested a couple for alleged involvement in a series of shop break-ins and thefts of goods worth millions of Naira in Akure, the state capital.

Osun Amotekun Corps on Tuesday said it arrested a 24-year old man for alledgedly stealing electric transformer cables in Iwaro Community in Ilesa, Osun State. Brig-Gen. Bashir Adewinmbi, Osun Amotekun Commander, made this known in a statement, adding that the suspect was arrested in the act on Monday, at 4:00 a.m. “A young man, Abiodun…

Operatives of the Ondo State Security Network Agency, otherwise known as Amotekun Corps, have arrested suspected kidnappers in the state while attempting to receive ransom from a victim’s family. According to the Commander of the corps, Adetunji Adeleye, the kidnappers, nine in number, were apprehended, last week, after his men disguised as family of one…

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State on Monday in Ibadan inaugurated a 12-man governing board for the Western Nigeria Security Network, codenamed “Amotekun”, operating in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the governor has restated his administration’s commitment towards ensuring that the state is secured and habitable for all and sundry.…

Two secondary school students, aged 13 and 15, have been arrested by operatives of Ondo State Security Network Agency, known as Amotekun Corps, for allegedly orchestrating their own kidnapping.

Operatives of Amotekun Corps have arrested a notorious leader of a cult gang, Taiwo Ogunsola, alias Taiwo Portable, in Ilesa, Osun State.

With few days to the end of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration, its inability to contain insecurity has remained a sore point. And one aspect of the pervasive insecurity is the resurgence of mindless killings in the states of Benue, Plateau and Nasarawa.

Ondo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has appealed to Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu to call the operatives of Amotekun Corps to order over the recent deaths linked to the agency in the state.

The Amotekun Corps in Osun said it has secured the release of a man kidnapped from a Fulani settlement at Ago-Igbira in Ila-Orangun area of the state. The Amotekun Commander in the state retired Brig-Gen. Bashir Adewinmbi, made this known in a statement on Tuesday in Osogbo. Adewinmbi said the victim, Muhammed Jubril, was released…