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Sokoto Police have arrested 3 suspected armed bandits in Tangaza Local Government of Sokoto State. This is contained in a press release issued to journalists in Sokoto by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Ahmed Rufa’i. He said officers in Gidan Madi received credible information from some good Samaritans and accordingly swung into action, intensified patrols and conducted stop and …

Gunmen suspected to be bandits have attacked the Police Mobile Force (PMF) Camp at Tenebo Village in Kaiama Local Government Area of ​​Kwara State and killed three officers. The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Ojo Adekimi, confirmed the incident in a statement issued on Saturday in Ilorin by the spokesperson of the state police command, Toun Ejire-Adeyemi. He added that …

Police agents in Katsina have arrested four suspected cattle thieves and recovered 18 stolen cattle at Tudun Iya Village in Funtua Local Government Area of ​​the state. This was disclosed by the Spokesman of the State Police Command, Abubakar Sadiq-Aliyu in a statement on Friday in Katsina. He said the arrests were a follow-up to the directives of the Inspector …

Police operatives in Ogun have arrested two suspected cattle thieves and recovered a stolen cow, worth N1.7 million in Ifo/Ibogun area of ​​the state. The State Police Public Relations Officer Oluseyi Babaseyi confirmed the arrest in a statement on Thursday in Abeokuta. Babaseyi said a SWAT team attached to the state police command, arrested the two suspects following a distress …

Nigerian police have confirmed the arrest of an officer caught on video extorting a motorist in Lagos State. The police revealed this in a post shared on its X account, @PoliceNG_CRU, on Wednesday, noting that the case is under investigation. According to the Police, the Lagos State Police Command will publish the full results of its findings as soon as …

Police operatives in Zamfara have arrested two suspects in connection with the murder of a reporter with the Voice of Nigeria (VON) in the state, Hamisu Danjibga. The state’s Commissioner of Police, Muhammad Shehu, paraded the suspects at a press briefing on Tuesday in Gusau. He said the suspects were Danjigba’s nephew, Mansur Haruna, and his friend, Ibrahim Garba, both …

The Kwara State Commissioner of Police, Adekimi Ojo, has confirmed that 42 illegal miners have been arrested following the kidnapping of Oba Salman Aweda of Olayinka community in Ifelodun Local Government Area of ​​the state. He also said the monarch’s brother, who was taken together with Oba Olayinka, was rescued in a bush, where the victim was tied to a …

Police agents in Rivers have arrested three suspected kidnappers and rescued one victim in the state. Spokesman of the state police command, Blessing Agebe, told journalists on Saturday in Port Harcourt that the suspects were allegedly linked to the kidnapping of a man named Chukwudekwu Emmanuel. Emmanuel, a resident of Lagos, was reportedly kidnapped on February 17 in Etche Local …

Police agents in Kwara have intercepted a stash of live ammunition hidden in garri bags in the state. They also arrested suspects suspected of being involved in cultism, kidnapping and smuggling human body parts. The State Commissioner of Police, Ojo Adekimi, disclosed this while addressing journalists on Friday in Ilorin. Adekimi said the command remained “firm, proactive and unrelenting” in …

Police on Thursday charged a 30-year-old man, Ibrahim Karaye, in court in Kebbi State for allegedly killing his father, Bahago Karaye. Spokesman of the State Police Command, Usman, confirmed this in a statement in Birnin Kebbi. He said the incident occurred on March 30 at a farm in Rakka Village, Birnin Yauri, Yauri Local Government Area of ​​the state. “The …