President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the extension of the tenure of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun, sources at the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation have disclosed. The officials, who requested anonymity, told Daily Trust that the IGP’s tenure was extended by three years. They said the SGF, George Akume, gave the IGP …

British national, Andrew Wynne, who was declared wanted on Monday by the Nigeria Police for allegedly plotting to overthrow President Bola Tinubu’s administration, has denied the allegation. Wynne, who spoke on Monday’s edition of Channels Television’s Politics Today from his base in the United Kingdom, said he was not even aware he had been labelled a fugitive. The rebuttal comes …

Lagos State Police Command is currently investigating a 70-year-old farmer, named Bashiru Abiodun, for defiling his daughter. Abiodun, who lives at No. 26, Papa-Ado Street in the Agbowa community of Lagos State, was arrested on 29 August 2024, by the Agbowa-Ejirin division of the community for defiling his 14-year-old daughter. According to the victim’s mother, Mrs. Abiodun, “My daughter told …

The Solidarity Network for Workers’ Rights (SNWR) has called for the release of its member, Comrade Akande Daniel Babatunde who was arrested by the men of the Nigerian Police yesterday. In a statement by its Coordinator, Segun Ogun and its Secretary, Lateef Adam, SNWR revealed that Daniel was apprehended during a church service on allegations of being connected to a …

A private firm, the Boing Luxury Estates, has donated three drones to the commands of the police and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Ondo and Ekiti states, to tackle hoodlums’ activities. The three drones were specifically meant for Ekiti and Ondo police commands and the Ondo command of the NSCDC. Presenting the security equipment to the Assistant …

Following the ongoing face-off between it and Nigeria Police, the leadership of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has asked its members to be ready to commence a nationwide strike if need be by midnight of Tuesday. The labour centre said in a communique after its emergency National Executive Council in Abuja that it had directed all the state chapters and affiliates …

The police yesterday threatened to issue warrant of arrest on Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Joe Ajaero should he fail to appear before an investigative panel today. Ajaero got an invitation yesterday from the police over alleged terrorism financing, treasonable felony, cybercrime and other related offences. He was asked to show up at the Special Intervention Squad (SIS) Office, Old Abattoir …

The management of Chinese firm, Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Company Limited, has said its top officials were unlawfully detained and brutalised by the police during its contractual disagreement with the Ogun State Government. The firm said the maltreatment compelled it to seek the seizure of Nigerian assets overseas. The media was awash on Thursday with the news of the seizure …

Operatives of the Special Tactical Squad have arrested a 30-year-old woman identified as Hauwa Yusuf for hiding one AK-47 and four AK magazines inside a sack of garri. Yusuf was arrested along the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway during a stop-and-search operation. While parading suspects at the STS Headquarters in Abuja on Friday, Force spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner Olumuyiwa Adejobi said that Yusuf confessed …

Nigeria Police have confirmed that fire gutted The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), along Federal College of Education (FCE) Road Kontagora, even as the Christian community in the area said hoodlums were behind the incident. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) Wasiu Abiodun told newsmen that “information was received at about 4 am, there was a fire incident at …