Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and the Nigeria Police have restated their readiness to prevent vote buying as part of the effort to conduct credible and corrupt-free polls across the country. During a radio town hall meeting against electoral corruption organised by the Progressive Impact Organisation for Community Development (PRIMORG) at the weekend …

Six people were killed on Friday in a shooting rampage in a rural area of the southern state of Mississippi in the United States, local media reported. The assailant was then pursued by Police to a second home where he was apprehended. Two others were found dead at that location, WREG reported. The elementary school in nearby Coldwater was put …

Police operatives in Anambra State have rescued 15 abducted National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members who had just completed their orientation in Imo. The Corps members from the NYSC orientation camp located in Eziama-Obaire, Nkwerre Local Government Area of Imo State, were in a vehicle on their way to Lagos when they were abducted. In a statement on Tuesday in …

Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command have arrested six suspected armed robbers and recovered guns and some military uniforms. The six suspects, who were arrested by officers on a stop-and-search operation on the Port Harcourt-Owerri Road, were said to be from Kogi State. In a statement in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, Police Public Relations Officer for the state Police …

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alabi has charged political parties to shun electoral violence by acting within the dictates of the Electoral Act 2022 in the forthcoming general election. Alabi made the statement during an event tagged “Stakeholders Meeting on Election Security”, organised by the Lagos State Police Command in the Ikeja area of the state. The stakeholders’ …

The Divisional Police Officer of Pankshin, Superintendent Nwapi Augustus, who was kidnapped by armed persons, has reportedly been freed, according to the Plateau Police Command. According to a statement by the command’s Police Public Relations Officer, Deputy Superintendent Alfred Alabo, in Jos on Sunday, “the officer has been taken to the hospital for medical examination and treatment, and will soon be …

The Sokoto State Police Command has arrested four suspected bandits for the allegedly killing of a ward chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Lawali Agajiba. In a statement on Tuesday, the state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Sanusi Abubakar said: “Recall that on 31st December 2022, there was a report of suspected armed bandits who invaded …

The police command in Ogun State has begun investigation into the death of a couple, Mr Kehinde and Mrs Bukola Fatinoye, at Ibara GRA in Abẹokuta, on the New Year’s Day. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Superintendent of Police Abimbola Oyeyemi told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abeokuta that the police would do all within their …

It is difficult to comprehend – not even in our wildest imagination – how life was snuffed out of Omobolanle Raheem, an enterprising young woman who was a lawyer, realtor, wife and mother. Bolanle who was pregnant with a set of twins was killed on Christmas day by a misbegotten police officer. Understandably, there has been widespread outrage and the …

Power distribution companies’ officials and greedy landlords are unlikely to rank high on the table of Nigerians deserving of public sympathy. But they can thank their stars that the animus towards them is nowhere near- in intensity and consistency-of what goes in the direction of the police establishment and its personnel. When the police post photographs or videos of policemen …