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20 Dec
Three policemen and a female suspect were on Friday killed in an accident that occurred in Ore, Odigbo Local Council Area of Ondo State. With the identities of the victims yet to be known as of press time, the police officers, who were part of the monitoring unit of the police command in the state,…
14 Dec
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested a suspected online fraudster, Osang Otukpa, over an alleged duping of 139 Australians to the tune of eight million Australian dollars. EFCC’s spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, said this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. According to him, the suspect was picked up in a…
16 Nov
An armed robbery suspect, Godwin Emmanuel, has admitted to stealing a police officer’s phone from a patrol van while being transported to the Osun State Police Command. The 23-year-old was arrested along with two other suspects, Olajide Kareem and Mike Emmanuel. The trio is accused of robbing residents and sexually assaulting a 65-year-old woman on…
18 Oct
The Police Command in Yobe says it has rescued a 10-year-old boy from a suspected kidnapper in Bauchi State. DSP Dungus Abdulkarim, the command’s spokesman, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Damaturu on Friday. He said the suspect, 43, was arrested on Oct. 18 in neighbouring Darazo, Bauchi State, where he…
25 Aug
The Ondo State Judiciary has disclosed that an investigative panel to unravel the imprisonment of a suspect without trial by a Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ile-Oluji has been set up. While expressing worry over the backlash the development has generated in the state, the Chief Registrar of the state judiciary, Yetunde Ajanaku, called for calm…
19 Aug
The suspect behind the June 25 dynamite explosion at the Rivers State-owned Hotel Presidential in Port Harcourt was on police ‘Wanted List” before the incident. READ ALSO:Police to secretly arraign Lenin, others today over hunger protests NAN reports that a dynamite explosion happened on June 25 near Hotel Presidential in Port Harcourt during a protest…
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