Police in Funtua local government area of Katsina State on Friday arrested a suspected armed robbery kingpin, Tasi’u Bommalli, who later died of gun shot injuries on their way to the hospital. It will be recalled that the police on Monday during ...
The Nigeria Air Force (NAF) yesterday paraded a 33-year-old Mohammed Musa in Kaduna for impersonating as an air force officer with the rank of a group captain, alongside one other fake lance corporal for selling fake air force recruitment forms to unsu...
Ten foreigners suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect have been arrested by the Benue State police command. The suspects, who were arrested in various parts of Makurdi, were said to be staying in places that could not be easily identified. The ...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Enugu State Command, has arrested a blind man for being in possession of cannabis. The blind suspect, Mr. Hassan Mohammed, from Borno State, was arrested with 15.5 kilogrammes of canabis at the cattle m...
Men of the Special Anti-robbery Squad (SARS) of Lagos State Police Command have arrested two men who were alleged to be involved in armed robbery. Parading the robbers at the headquarters of the State command, Officer-in Charge of SARS in Lagos, Mr. Ab...
The Police in Gombe were reported to have shot a youth suspected to be a bomber as he attempted to plant an explosive device at the residence of a serving Senator representing Gombe North Senatorial District. An Eye witness (name withheld), expla...
Security operatives yesterday morning rescued the kidnapped female member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and her visitor at Udoga community in Etche local government area of Rivers State. LEADERSHIP recalls that unknown gunmen had on ...
The Joint Task Force (Operation Pulo Shield) has said that it arrested a total of 36 suspected kidnappers and 11 suspected armed robbers in Rivers State in the last one month. This is even as the unit also said it destroyed no fewer than 108 illegal re...
The Police in Akwa Ibom State yesterday paraded a man, 18, who was alleged to have broken into a church in Eket south and stole the church’s tithe. Johnson Monday Umoetuk, a native of Idua Eket was arrested by the police for allegedly...
Security operatives on Thursday, rescued the kidnapped female member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and her visitor at Udoga community in Etche local government area of Rivers State. It would be recalled that unknown gunmen had on Monday ni...
The Delta State Police Command has said that 261 suspected kidnappers were arrested in the state in 2011 even as 46 others have been arrested in 2012 and were assisting the police in its investigation. Delta State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Mm...
An Akure Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday ordered that three ex-convicts brought before it for alleged armed robbery be remanded in prison custody. Chief Magistrate Akin Akintoye gave the order when Ajibola Aliu, 53; Kayode O...
Gunmen on Monday, shot dead three persons in Damaturu, Yobe State and two others in Maiduguri, Borno State. JTF's Field Operations Officer in Borno, Colonel Victor Ebhaleme confirmed the killing saying, "Two people have been shot dead today by...
The principal of God’s Time Acaedmy, Pius Ayubi, a private school located in Ngwan doka in Karu Local Government Area of Nasarawa State slumped and died hours after the graduation ceremony of the school LEADERSHIP SUNDAY gathered. According...
Niger State Police Command has arrested two persons, including a policeman for allegedly robbing a business, man ,Alhaji Usman of Shekolo Motors. LEADERSHIP SUNDAY gathered that the robbery took place in the afternoon of Friday. Luck however, ran out o...