The Police Service Commission (PSC) has said that anyone with evidence on the allegation that some of its officers and the Nigeria Police Force collected bribes of $10,000 to facilitate promotions of police personnel should make such evidence available to a panel of investigation it has set up on the issue. The PSC also vowed that anyone found culpable of …

Two suspected Lagos-based robbers have been arrested by operatives of Ogun State Police Command after they unleashed terror on the residents of Ijebu-Ode, Ogun state The suspected robbers were reported to have been terrorising the people of Ijebu-Ode and its environs in recent times. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this in a statement on …

The Ondo State Police Command on Tuesday said it has arrested two suspects who allegedly stoned a 35-year-old man, Olorunfemi Tope, to death in Akure, the state capital. Tope was killed in a mob attack in the Ijoka Area of Akure on Monday after his Toyota Camry car allegedly crushed two people to death and injured others. The deceased was …

The Delta State Police command has arrested three suspects for the gruesome murder of a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Sylvester Efeurhobo in Agbarho, Ughelli North Local Government Area of the state. A source in the community told The PUNCH that the deceased was shot by his assailants in his residence at Agbarho on Sunday night It …

The prime suspect in the case of an Ibadan-based Instagram cloth vendor, Adesina Olayinka (popularly called Khadi), who died mysteriously at Wetland Hotel, Akobo, in Ibadan, Oyo State recently is currently in police custody. Khadi was found dead after the man she was with checked out early on Thursday morning. It was gathered that the suspect is currently in the …

Osun State Police Command on Monday said its operatives have arrested a suspected human trafficker, Muideen Adebisi, while he was trying to move four teenage girls from Ile-Ife, Osun State to Libya. In a statement, the Command’s spokesperson, Yemisi Opalola said the suspect had invited the victims to a birthday party in Ile-Ife, during which he offered them food and …

Bandits operating in Zamfara and Katsina States who abducted 85 women and children in Wanzamai community of Tsafe local government area in Zamfara State have finally agreed to collect N20,000 from each of the victims amounting to N1.7 million. The bandits also demanded that military operatives deployed to Wanzamai village should be relocated to another axis, vowing that they would …

One of the prisoners who escaped from the Kuje Correctional Center during the attack on it last year in the Federal Capital Territory of Abuja has been captured by men from the Nasarawa State Police Command. In a statement made available to journalists in Lafia, the state capital on Sunday, the state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ramhan Nansel, identified …

A popular Instagram cloth vendor identified as Adeshina Olayinka (popularly known as Khadi), was found dead at a hotel in the Akobo area of Ibadan, Oyo State. Khadi was known for her designer clothes and bag business on social media. According to Oyo Affairs, she informed her friend of a meeting with an individual at Wetland Hotel in Akobo last …

Gunmen who kidnapped children and women in Wanzamai village, Zamfara State have demanded N30 million ransom according to reports. At least 100 persons were kidnapped on Thursday from farmlands in Zamfara and Katsina states. Eighty children from Wanzamai village were reportedly kidnapped and more than 20 other persons from neighbouring villages were abducted. “Negotiations have started in earnest and kidnappers …