Police authorities in Kebbi State have intercepted two vehicles conveying 7,500 live cartridges and parcels of Indian Hemp worth over N600 million. One of the trucks was coming from Ghana through Togo and Benin Republic to Nigeria, while the second vehicle took off from Benin Republic to Nigeria, beating different checkpoints. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Nafiu …

Chairman of the Nigeria Police Service Commission (PSC), Solomon Arase, has attributed the inability of the police and other security agencies to dominate the security space to lack of numerical strength. Arase in an interview with journalists in Abuja yesterday during the Vigilante Group of Nigeria national conference with the theme: “Mobilising VGN Members for Improved Security in Schools, Farmlands …

The Force Headquarters, yesterday, disclosed that detectives of the Nigeria Police Force National Cybercrime Centre (NPF-NCCC,), have arrested 10 suspected cyberstalking criminals, following the escalating cyber threats aimed at the banking and financial sector, as well as unsuspecting members of the public falling victim to High-yield Investment Fraud (HYIF). According to Force Headquarters, “the operation leading to the arrests of …

Police in Katsina State have rescued a 65-year-old kidnapped victim, identified as Hashim Yusuf, along with 95 rustled cows and two motorcycles after engaging bandits in a fierce gunfight at Ruwan Lafiya village, along Sheme Road in Kankara area of the state. In a statement on Saturday, the state’s Police Public Relations Officer, Assistant Superintendent Abubakar Sadiq, said the Command …

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has said its Director General, Brig. Gen. Yusha’u Ahmed is working with the Nigeria Police Force, the Department of State Services, and the military brigade to secure the release of eight corps members kidnapped in Zamfara State on Saturday. The NYSC Director of Press and Public Relations, Eddy Megwa made the development known on …

The Ogun State Police Command has begun an investigation into a sexual assault allegation against a three-year-old girl (name withheld) by one 17-year-old Great Orogun and a yet-to-be-identified student. The mother of the three-year-old victim, Chidinma, who reported the incident on Friday at the Ibafo Divisional Police Headquarters, was said to have accused Orogun and his accomplice of perpetrating the …

Security operatives in Katsina State will anytime this week launch joint operations against terrorists operating in Katsina State. The operatives to be involved in the exercise include the police, troops of the Nigeria Army, the Nigeria Airforce as well as operatives of the Department of State Security Service, among others. It was also learnt members of the registered vigilante may …

A chartered accountant, Omafume Ayinuola, and her mother, Lydia Ehrievuyere, were, on Wednesday, arraigned by the police before the Federal High Court in Lagos for allegedly laundering N1,072,254,411 and  $975,102.58. The daughter and mother were arraigned alongside their company, Patridia Resources Limited, before Justice Nicholas Oweibo, by the Force Criminal Investigation Department Annex, Alagbon, Ikoyi, Lagos. They are facing 15 …

The National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) has said that its National President, Tajudeen Ibikunle Baruwa, and three other officials have been arrested. It said the arrest was “without any tenable reasons”. The arrests reportedly took place on Friday evening at the NURTW’s national secretariat in Garki 2, Abuja. The union’s Deputy President, Mr. Isa Ore expressed shock over …

The President of, Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has said that apart from international pricing, extortion by security agencies, such as the Department of State Services (DSS), Police and arbitrary levies by government agencies were responsible for the recent increase in fuel price from N537 to N617. The National President of the association, Mr Chinedu Okoronkwo, made the …