The Lagos Police Command has arrested one Adepoju Ifedayo for allegedly defiling his 13-year-old sister. This was made known in a statement shared by the state Police Public Relations Officer, Superintendent Benjamin Hundeyin, on his X account on Saturday. Sharing a picture of the suspect, Hundeyin wrote: “Adepoju Ifedayo reported to the police that his neighbour allegedly defiled his 13-year-old …

Three suspects have been arrested by the Kwara Police Command over the dismembered corpse of a tricycle operator discovered in a yet-to-be-occupied building in Oko-Olowo area of Ilorin, Kwara State capital. The body of the Tricycle operator identified as Musibau Aliu who had been declared missing since last Friday by his family was found in a yet-to-be-completed building on Sunday …

Troops of Operation Safe Haven in Plateau State have arrested 271 suspected criminals including bandits operating in various locations in the state. The Deputy Commander of Operation Safe Haven, T. Iyua, made this known on Friday while addressing journalists at the command’s headquarters in Jos He also disclosed that 110 different weapons and 1,161 ammunition were also recovered from the …

The Delta State Police Command, on Wednesday, announced the arrest of nine Delta youths for allegedly attacking its officers and destroying the vehicle of the Force. The state Public Relations Officer, Deputy Superintendent Bright Edafe disclosed this via his X handle, adding that the head of one of its officers was broken in the attack. Explaining the incident, Edafe stated …

Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested a suspected one-chance robbery leader, Ndubisi George, aged 49. The command’s Public Relations Officer, Superintendent Benjamin Hundeyin disclosed this in a statement on his X handle on Monday. ‘One chance’ is commonly used in Nigeria to refer to a robbery that takes place when criminals disguising as commercial drivers pick up …

The Niger State Police Command has arrested a 30-year-old woman, Aisha Jibrin, who led women and youths in a mass protest on Monday, over the high cost of living in Minna, the state capital. Aisha was arrested alongside two other women: 57-year-old Fatima Aliyu, and 43-year-old Fatima Isyaku; and 22 others. Youths and women of Niger State took to the …

Men of the Bauchi State Police Command have arrested a 400-level student of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Mike Habila, for allegedly being in possession of firearms. In a statement in Bauchi on Wednesday, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Superintendent Ahmed Wakil said the suspect claimed that the arms belonged to one Samson Irimiya who had earlier been …

The Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Aderemi Adeoye said that the command has arrested about 30 suspects, including kidnappers, armed robbers, cultists and hoodlums who have been terrorising the state in recent times. Adeoye made this known at a press briefing at the police headquarters in Awka, on Monday, while parading some of the suspects and recovered items, adding that …

The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has apprehended one Barrister Ekere Sunday Ebong, 55 years, of plot 40 L Line Ewet Housing Estate, who was seen in a video assaulting his wife A statement by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, Superintendent Odiko Macdon, on Monday, said the suspect, known as a habitual domestic violence perpetrator, was arrested on the orders …

The Ondo State Police Command have arrested two persons over the disappearance of a newborn baby and the placenta of the baby at Isua, the headquarters of Akoko South-West Local Government of the state. The suspects, Akinjise Ifeoluwa, 40, and Oyewole Margaret, 66, a herbalist and the grandmother of the missing baby, respectively. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Deputy …