Category: Security
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Reps honours DCP Abba Kyari over outstanding performance
The House of Representatives on Thursday honoured the leader of the Inspector-General of Police’ Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari for distinguishing himself in effective service delivery to the Nigerian Police Force and the country. Kyari, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, was invited in the chamber during Thursday’s plenary. The invitation and honour came following a…
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Leave our land now or… Ohanaeze youths tell killer herdsmen
Ohanaeze Ndigbo youths, the youth wing of pan-Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has given two-week ultimatum to all killer herdsmen in Igboland to quit the forests and bushes in the area or face forceful ejection. While insisting that the bushes and forests belong to the people of the territory, the youths say they can no…
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Insecurity: Frustrated protesters burn down billboards bearing Buhari, Masari images
Protesters in Yantumaki town, Damusa Local Government Area of Katsina State, on Tuesday burnt down a campaign billboard of the All Progressives Congress with the pictures of the President Muhammadu Buhari and that of the State Governor, Aminu Masari. The state had come under serious attack by bandits who kill residents and rustle their cows.…
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Former CP passes on in Benue
A former Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Alhaji Abubakar Tsav has died. Tsav, a social critic was said to have died in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, after an undisclosed protracted ailment. According to his personal assistant, Torkuma Uke, the former fight fighter died at Federal Medical Center, Makurdi, Monday afternoon. Uke, declining to…
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Soldiers neutralise gunmen, repel attack on Benue communities
Troops of the joint military operation codenamed Operation Whirl Stroke have reportedly killed five gunmen in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State. The troops were said to have responded to the distress call made by the authority of the local government over the invasion of three villages: Torkula, Kponko and Kaseyo. Five of the…
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Isanlu Bank, Police Station Attacks: Asiwaju Idris Commiserates with victims, Says Perpetrators Would Not Go Unpunished
Isanlu Bank, Police Station Attacks: Asiwaju Idris Commiserates with victims, Says Perpetrators Would Not Go Unpunished. The Kogi State Commissioner for Finance, Budget and Economic Planning, Asiwaju Asiru Idris has prevailed on security agencies in the state to go after the criminals who participated in Thursday’s bank robbery in Isanlu and attack on Police Station…
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ISANLU BANK, POLICE STATION ATTACKS: BELLO CHARGES SECURITY AGENCIES TO FISH OUT THE CRIMINALS
INSANLU BANK, POLICE STATION ATTACKS: BELLO CHARGES SECURITY AGENCIES TO FISH OUT THE CRIMINALS. Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello on Thursday prevailed on security agencies in the state to go after the criminals who participated in Thursday’s bank robbery in Insalu and attack on Police Station which led to the death of some persons including…
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9 killed in fresh Kaduna attack
No fewer than 9 people were killed in Tudu village of Agwala Dutse general area in Kajuru Local Government Area, Kaduna State as unidentified gunmen attacked the community on Wednesday. Chairman of the Local Government Council, Mr Cafra Caino who confirmed the attack to journalists said it was the military intervention that made the assailants…
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Police nab 4 suspected arm robbers in Anambra
No fewer than four suspected arm robbers who specialise in snatching motorcycles along Nri-Neni in Anocha local government of Anambra state are currently cooling off in the police custody. The suspects who have allegedly been terrorising the area include 22-year-old Francis EzeIbekwe from Ikenga village Adazi Ani, 20-year-old Ndubuisi Kaliaozor from Agbadama village Nri, 19-year-old…
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Affirm Sanda’s death sentence, Police tell Appeal Court
The Nigeria police, FCT Command has urged the Court of Appeal to affirm the death penalty imposed on Maryam Sanda, who was sentenced to death by the FCT High Court in Abuja for killing her husband, Bilyaminu Bello three years ago. Justice Yusuf Halilu of the FCT High Court had held his judgment delivered on…