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31 Jan
Ogun State Police Command, yesterday, paraded officers, cultists, armed robbery and murder suspects arrested for various criminal offences in January 2024.
25 Jan
Clergyman and vision bearer of Global Liberation Movement for Peace, Unity and Progress, Messiah Osatohanmwen, yesterday, said plans are underway to organise a statewide crusade for suspected cultists to publicly renounce their membership.
19 Jan
It has been reported that top on the legislative thinking of the House of Representatives when it reconvenes on 30 January is the issue of security and the concomitant imperative of the establishment of state police.
4 Jan
This is not the best of times for Ekosodin community in Edo State, a suburb of University of Benin (UNIBEN), following the killing of its security personnel by suspected cultists.
4 Jan
Gunmen suspected to be cultists struck in Rivers State on Tuesday evening and shot six persons.
14 Nov
The police in Ogun State have arrested three persons in connection with the cult clash that occurred in the Agbowa area of the state, where three unidentified young men were shot dead by a rival cult group. The suspects are Oluwatosin Adeniro 25, Adebayo Oluwaseun, 35, and Segun Ademola, 38. Spokesperson for the command, Superintendent of…
14 Nov
Police operatives attached to the Ahoada Police station in Rivers State have killed two suspected cultists in Odiemerenyi community in Ahoada East Local Council of the state. Confirming the development, spokesperson for the command, Grace Iringe-Koko, said the operatives received a distress call at about 1:00a.m. on Sunday morning, that some suspected cultists loyal to…
13 Nov
Gunmen, suspected to be Iceland cult members, have killed five people during an invasion of the Odiemerenyi community in Ahoada East Local Council of Rivers State. 
10 Oct
Nigerian singer, Ikuforiji Olaitan Abdulrahman, also known as Oxlade, has disclosed that he dropped out of Lagos State University (LASU) in his final year because cultists were trying to make him join their gang. Oxlade made the disclosure in an interview on Tea with Tay Podcast. He said that the cultists threatened to kill him…
25 Sep 2023
A successful tactical operation carried out by the Ogun State Police Command has led to the arrest of notorious cultists in Ogun State.
20 Sep 2023
...mulls amnesty programme A Special Court is to be established by the Ogun State Government to try cult-related cases. Also to be set up is a Joint Anti-Cultism Security Task Force comprising all major security outfits, with the mandate to rid the state of the menace of cultism. The state is also proposing an amnesty…
8 Sep 2023
The Police Command in Ogun, on Friday, said it had arrested two suspected cultists in the process of trying to cause disturbance at Fadahunsi, Agbado area of the state.

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