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The Edo state police command’s tactical teams have arrested four suspected Boko Haram members while planning coordinated attacks against police formations on April 19, 2019. They are: Salihu Uzovehe (23), Hadi Musa Gambari (23), Tijani Garuba (24) and Mohammed Abdulkadri (44), all said to be...

Two people including a British aid worker were shot dead and four tourists abducted from a resort in northwestern Nigeria in an attack on Friday, police have said. Gunmen stormed the Kajuru Castle Resort, 60 kilometres southeast of Kaduna City at 11.40pm on Friday, Kaduna state … Read more...

An breakdown of order has been reported after police officers opened fire at a bus-stop in Ogun State, killing at least a young man and wounding unknown number of others. The shooting occurred at Iyana Coker area of Ifo, a market community on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway. It … Read more...

The Imo State police command has arrested a 23-year-old lady, Chinonye Oparaocha, for selling her baby boy, just 6 hours after his birth on February 2, 2019, at a clinic along #Nekede Road in #Owerri Chinonye allegedly conspired with one Confidence Anyanwu, a 28-year-old nurse, and her...

Four suspected Boko Haram members accused of planning coordinated attacks against police formations on April 19, 2019, have been arrested in Edo State. The four suspected Boko Haram members who were arrested by the Edo state police command’s tactical teams, were identified as Salihu Uzovehe...

Worried by killings and displacement of thousands from their ancestral homes in different parts of the country, the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Samson Ayokunle, says the country is more than ripe for states to have their own police or security … Read more via...

News of murder of the self-styled Enugu-based prophet and social critic, Mr. Anthony Nwoko, by yet-to-be identified assassins, has been made public by the police. Nwoko, who until his death has been … Read more via Newtelegraph – http://bit.ly/2PhSgsz Get More Nigeria Metro News

A 52-year-old Canadian, Kyliuk Morris, on Tuesday said policemen in Ogun State assisted him to deliver the N2.5m ransom paid to his kidnappers to regain his freedom. Morris, in a chat with PUNCH Metro in Abeokuta, said his ordeal started when he was abducted by … Read more via Punch...

Importers of used vehicles into Nigeria have decried paying additional money to some officials of the Nigeria Customs Service and the Nigeria Police on the highway after paying all duties, other federal government’s charges at the seaports and their goods cleared. LEADERSHIP findings showed...

Following the passage of the new Police Reform bill today, 17th April, Senate President Bukola Saraki has expressed optimism on the Performance of the men of the Nigerian Police. Saraki in his reaction through his Twitter handle has the new police bill would strengthen the Police institutional...

The Police in Cross River state have confirmed the killing of a Police constable at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Bakassi local government area of the state. Police spokesperson in the state, DSP Irene Ugbo, who confirmed the incident, said the policeman was at...

Those clamouring for the end of #SARS are criminals – Policeman Read more via Instablog9ja✅(instablog9ja)’s feed | WEBSTAGRAM – http://bit.ly/2KJQm5d Get More Nigeria Metro News

The Commissioner of Police Lagos State, CP Zubairu Muazu, has ordered the immediate arrest and detention of Police Officers who opened fire on Ada Ifeanyi, 20, and her boyfriend, Emmanuel Akomafuwa, 32, at Akpiri Street, Olodi Apapa. . The incident happened on 13th April, 2019 at about 7.00am...

Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde has called out the Vice President of Nigeria, Yemi Osibanjo over the recent brutality being experienced by youths from men of the Nigerian Police Force. The award-winning actress made this known via her Instagram stories on Sunday, April 14, 2019. She expressed shock...

Veteran singer, Daddy showkey is going bonkers with the Nigerian police after photos surfaced online showing a woman killed by SARS officers while her boyfriend is fighting for his life. The musician who chastised police brutality taking place all over the country and the inability of the...

The Lagos State Police Command has released the names and pictures of the five police officers involved in the shooting of two young lovers, Ada Ifeanyi and Emmanuel Akomafuwa, who were returning from the nightclub early on Saturday morning. The couple were waved down by the … Read more via...

Operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, IRT, led by Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, have apprehended a seven-member notorious kidnapping gang that killed an American Soldier in Okigwe area of Imo State in 2017. The deceased, a Nigerian who...

Operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, IRT, have arrested seven members of a notorious kidnapping gang who masterminded the January 12, 2017, killing of a United States Army veteran, Chuks Okebata in Okigwe area of Imo State. ..... Read more via...

An unkind fate recently visited 67-year-old Mrs Olufunke Odebiyi, whose only son, Kolade Johnson, had life snuffed out of him, by a bullet from the riffle of one Inspector Ogunyemi Olalekan, who was attached to the Anti-Crime Unit of the Lagos State Police Command...... Read more via Vanguard...

The SARs police officer who r*ped and impregnated the viral young lady Ochanya when she was 15 years, was eventually arrested. He was picked up yesterday by the IGP special squad. This young lady has been suffering from the tender age of 7 after her Parents died and her … Read more via...