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Gunmen, on Friday night, killed two policemen from the Enugu State Police Command. The policemen from the Ogui Divisional Headquarters were conducting a stop-and-search along Presidential Road, Enugu when they suddenly came under attack by armed men at around 9.30pm. This incident was reported to have taken place on May 10.

Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo State, on Saturday, announced the arrest of two members of its vigilante group for allegedly raping a female student of the institution. The management, in a statement by its Public Relations Officer, Olufemi Atoyebi, said the university had set up its own internal panel of inquiry to investigate the allegation. Atoyebi […]

The police in Nasarawa State have arrested five men suspected of raping people in the Karu and Doma Local Government Areas of the state. They made the disclosure in Lafia on Thursday while parading a total of 33 suspects arrested for committing various crimes across the 13 LGAs […]

The Anambra State Police Command has dismissed the claims that 21 soldiers were killed by gunmen in the state. There have been reports across social media since Tuesday saying that 21 soldiers who were on their way to Enugu State were rounded up and killed in Onitsha, Anambra State, on Monday evening. But while reacting […]

Men of the Ekiti State Police Command have arrested eight suspected cult members at the Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Sunday Abutu, said in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday that the arrest on Tuesday followed the intervention of men of the Command’s Rapid Response Squad following a distress call. Abutu […]

The Ogun State Police Command operatives eliminated two kidnappers who were terrorizing travelers on the Sagamu Ijebu-Ode-Benin expressway on Tuesday. The kidnappers were killed during a gunfight with the police, who were conducting a rescue operation. The police also recovered N7.9 million and 1500 Indian Rupees believed to be part of the ransom […]

The Police Assistant Inspector-General in charge of the Zone 2 Command, Onikan, Lagos, has apprehended a 37-year-old fake medical doctor and practitioner, with suspected forged certificates. The Zonal Anti-Piracy Unit's operatives arrested […]

The Federal Capital Territory Police Command on Friday said it had launched investigations into the death of a yet-to-be-identified lady whose body was found after Mpape junction in Abuja. The FCT Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh, told our correspondent that the Mabushi Division of the Force had taken the body to a hospital, […]

A journalist named Daniel Ojukwu from the Foundation for Investigative Journalism was reportedly taken by the Intelligence Response Team of the Inspector General of Police. Ojukwu is currently being kept at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, in Lagos State, according to FIJ. He disappeared on Wednesday and his phone was off, so no one could […]

The Anambra State Government, with the help of the Ministry of Women and Social Welfare, saved Chidiebere Otenyi, a victim of domestic abuse living in Ezinifite in Aguata Local Government Area. Martha Umenweke, the offender who is in her late 60s, has been captured and given to the police for more questioning and legal action […]