Security

  The Bayelsa State Police Command has commenced investigations into the death of a Bolt driver at Samphino Junction in the Kpansia axis of Yenagoa, the state capital.   Punch Metro gathered that passersby discovered the lifeless body of the middle-aged driver on Friday morning inside his vehicle and alerted ...

  The Nigerian Air Force said airstrikes from its operatives with Operation Hadin Kai have killed scores of terrorists and destroyed their stronghold in Borno State.   The service air mission, which was carried out in the early hours of Friday, was conducted on fleeing Boko Haram elements in Bita, ...

  The Nigeria Governors’ Forum has commiserated with the Niger State Government on the flood, which has claimed many lives in the Mokwa Local Government Area of the state.   In a statement signed by the NGF chairman, AbdulRaman AbdulRazaq, on Friday, the forum said that it was shocked by ...

  The Katsina State Governor, Dikko Radda, has revealed that 70 to 80 per cent of the perpetrators of insecurity in the state are not in the forests but rather embedded within local communities as informants.   Speaking on Thursday during a special prayer event to mark his second anniversary ...

  Operatives of the Nigeria Immigration Service have arrested a popular native doctor, Levi Obieze, also known as ‘E de play, e de show.’   Obieze is wanted by the Enugu State Police Command for alleged involvement in abduction, kidnapping, and ritual killings.   The Comptroller General of the Nigeria ...

  Operatives of the Rivers State Police have arrested a 45-year-old Pastor of a new generation church simply identified as Lucky, for allegedly defiling a 10-year-old girl in the Ihuaje community in Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State.   It was gathered that the arrest of the said ...

  Personnel of the Nigerian Navy, Forward Operating Base Escravos, have deactivated eight illegal refining sites in the Niger Delta creeks in a sustained effort to enhance Nigeria’s daily crude oil output and combat economic sabotage.   The Commanding Officer of the FOB Escravos, Navy Capt. Ikenna Okoloagu, told journalists ...

  Personnel of the Nigerian Navy, Forward Operating Base Escravos, have deactivated eight illegal refining sites in the Niger Delta creeks in a sustained effort to enhance Nigeria’s daily crude oil output and combat economic sabotage.   The Commanding Officer of the FOB Escravos, Navy Capt. Ikenna Okoloagu, told journalists ...

  The All Progressives Congress in Benue State has called on President Bola Tinubu to intervene in the incessant killings in the state.   The party stated that the state governor, Hyacinth Alia, can no longer address the worsening insecurity.   The state publicity secretary of the party, under the ...

  The Nigeria Police Force has identified and summoned a group of officers featured in a viral video extorting motorists.   The video, which circulated widely on Monday, captured the moment a police officer demanded either ₦5,000 or five litres of fuel from motorists who were unable to provide proof ...