The Inspector General of Police, Mr Mohammed Abubabar, has approved the promotion of 1,944 junior police officers to their next rank. A statement issued by Mr Frank Mba, the Deputy Public Relations Officer, on Friday said that all the promotions were w...
The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order in Borno said on Thursday that it repelled an attack by unknown gunmen in Marte Local Government Area of the state.
JTF spokesman, Lt.-Col. Sagir Musa, said in a statement in Maiduguri that the attack was targeted at the 21 Brigade, Nigerian Army troops in the area. ``This is to confirm that at about 2 p.m. on Wednesday, gunmen attacked the 21 Brigade troops’ location in Marte. In the process, one soldier and one police man lost their lives,’’ Musa said.
He, however, said that five of the attackers were killed in the shootout. Musa said that several items, including two AK 47 rifles and a locally made double barrel gun, were recovered. ``Others are three loaded magazines with 35 rounds of ammunition,'' Musa said.
A former manager with Intercontinental Bank Plc( now Access Bank), Mr. Olayinka Sanni and Personal Assistant to Adeyemi Ikuforiji, Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr. Oyebode Atoyebi have been arrested by the Economic and Financial ...
The Adamawa Police Command on Thursday confirmed the killing of four people by gunmen in Song town, the headquarters of Song Local Government Area.
The spokesman for the command, DSP Mohammed Ibrahim, said the early morning attack claimed the lives of a soldier, a policeman, an old woman and her grandchild.
Ibrahim said the gunmen, who used machine gun and explosives, burnt the Song Divisional Police Station and the Local Government Secretariat.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Song attack came less than a week after a similar attack in Maiha, Hong and Fufore local government areas of the state.
In Maiha, two people lost their lives in the attack that affected the police station, prison, area court, local education authority, customs post and district head's office.
In Hong, where police repelled the attackers from burning the Divisional Police Station, two people sustained bullet injuries, including the newly elected Hong Local Government Chairman, Alhaji Ahmed Yerima, who was hit by a stray bullet.
Meanwhile, residents of Yola, the state capital, are apprehensive over the development.
The Police Command in Kano State has arrested a man suspected to have sponsored the killing of two members of the state legislature. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalled that one of the legislators, Alhaji Garba Garko, was killed on November 17, 2...
About five persons were reportedly killed and eight injured in a clash between Kabawa and the Jukun tribes, at Abinsi town of Guma Local Government Area of Benue state. This was even as several houses were allegedly burnt and three vehicles smash...
The Joint Task Force (JTF) operating in the Niger Delta has arrested a vessel suspected to be carrying 1, 000 tonnes of crude oil off the coast of Bonny Island in Rivers. Maj. Gen. Tukur Buratai, the Commander of the 2 Brigade and Sector Two of J...
Adamawa Police Command’s Public Relation Officer, Mr. Mohammed Ibrahim, has confirmed the attack on Hong Divisional Police Station in Hong Local Government Area by some unidentified gunmen on Sunday.
Ibrahim told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yola on Monday that the gunmen attacked the station at 8 pm on Sunday but were repelled by policemen who engaged them in a shootout.
``They were forced to retreat in different directions and were disorganized after they were forced to abandon their mission.
"They scattered and could not regroup to attack other places as they planned", Ibrahim said.
He explained that no casualty was recorded on the police side except that a girl in the neighbourhood sustained minor injury from a stray bullet.
NAN reports that the Hong incident came three days after a similar attack on Maiha Divisional police station on Friday.
During the Maiha attack, in which two people were killed (a policeman and a civilian), the hoodlums also attacked Prisons, Customs, the Presidential Lodge, the Area Court and the Local Education Authority offices in the local Government.
Meanwhile, the Adamawa Comptroller of Prisons, Mr Andrew Barka, has confirmed that 11 out of the 35 convicts freed by gunmen at the Maiha satellite Prisons on Friday were now back in custody.
Barka explained that four of the convicts returned on their own while seven were re-arrested. While seeking the support and cooperation of the public in tracking those still at large, Barka said the inmates have been transferred to Mubi Prison.
Barka said the convicts of Maiha were serving various terms based on minor crimes.
The Bayelsa State Government as well as the State Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has kept sealed lips over the alleged plan by the Police to arrest the Speaker of the Bayelsa State Assembly, Hon. Kombowei Ben and two others ove...
Unidentified persons have kidnapped a member of the Gombe State House of Assembly, Alhaji Jalo Ganga (PDP-Gombe North ), in his residence in the Gombe metropolis on Sunday.
A source told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the kidnappers with a motorcycle, abducted the lawmaker around 5 a.m. when he was going for his morning prayers.
The source said the lawmaker shouted for help to no avail as his captors were bent on taking away to an unknown destination.
The Commissioner of Police in Gombe, Malam Mohammed Sule, confirmed the incident, saying that the lawmaker was kidnapped on Sunday morning.
“Yes, we just heard this morning that some hoodlums came with a motorcycle while he was going to pray.”
“He was accosted and they took him on a motorcycle; it seemed a vehicle was parked close to his house, because people said they heard a sound of a vehicle zoom off, ” he said.
The police chief explained that the kidnappers abandoned their motorcycle with no plate number.
He assured the public that the police comand would do all within it powers to rescue the lawmaker.
“My investigators and intelligence officers are already working to trace his whereabouts and the motive behind his kidnap," he said.
He noted that two mobile phones owned by the lawmaker were abandoned, wondering if a ransom was the motive for the kidnap.
The Gombe State Director of the State Security Services (SSS), Mr Bitrus Asher, also confirmed the incident.
The Speaker of the Assembly, Alhaji Inuwa Garba, said: "we are making some efforts please and I don't want to say anything about it now".
NAN reports that Ganga who is the Chairman of House Committee on Finance, was at the Seventh Annual Cultural Festival, staged by the Tangale ethnic group on Saturday.
Police detectives in Asaba Delta State have arrested a kidnap kingpin who has been on their wanted list in the last two years. According to the police spokesman in the state, DSP Charles Muka who confirmed the arrest of the kingpin, he said he was ...
The Ebonyi Police Command on Saturday in Abakaliki released some innocent suspects who were arrested in connected with the kidnap of a man on Dec. 21. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mr Franklin Ajah was abducted by a group of armed men a...
Commander of the Joint Military Task Force (JTF), code named, Operation PuloShield, Major- General Johnson Ochoga, has announced that the task force lost nine men in the last twelve months. He said the soldiers died during a military action against oil...
An alleged contract fraudster, Tope Akinmoladun told journalists yesterday that his advert publications calling for tenders from the general public to construct two blocks of 12 classrooms for primary and secondary schools in 774 local government counc...
Joint Task Force (JTF), Operation Pulo Shield, Sector 3 of the 13 Brigade Nigerian Army, on Wednesday destroyed 10,000 drums used for lifting illegal diesel product in Cross River.
Capt. James Joseph, the Public Relations Officer of the 13 Brigade Nigerian Army told newsmen in Calabar, that five people were arrested including a serving Assistant Superintendent of Police.
NAN reports that the drums containing the illegal diesel was destroyed at Nigerian Army burning site at Ikang in Bakassi Local Government Area of the state.
He said that the JTF arrested the illegal `bunkerers' at Mesembe Avenue at Anatigha in Calabar South Local Government Area of Cross River through an intelligent report.
Joseph said that the oil thieves were arrested on Christmas eve at 7 p.m, noting that the area was one of the hideout in Calabar South.
``We got an intelligent reports about this hideout, you can see in their hideaway, there are over 10,000 drums of diesel products and when we came, we raided the place,’’ he said.
He said that Nigerian Army was determined to curb the activities of oil theft in Cross River in particular and Nigeria in general.
NAN reports that the oil thieves dredged carnal in Calabar South to enable their boats convey the illegal diesel through water channel.
``Our soldiers have been combing Calabar South to make sure that illegal bunkering does not make headway in Cross River,’’ Joseph said.
Joseph said that Nigerian Army was working in collaboration with the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), to check the activities of oil thieves in the state.
He advised the perpetrators of the act to desist from the illegal bunkering or the long arm of the law would catch up with them.
The Army spokesperson said that the six people arrested had been handed over to Civil Defence for further investigations.