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Nwodibo Ekechukwu, the commissioner of police for Enugu state, says the killings of nine people in Nimbo community was carried out by suspected herdsmen.

This appears to contradict a statement released by the state police on Wednesday saying that the killers were “mere hoodlums”.

“First of all, let me extend my condolence to the families, it is painful to us and we would get to the root of the matter,” he said in an interview with Channels TV.

“The present situ

Fulani herdsmen have reportedly kidnapped a police man after engaging a joint team of the Nigerian Army and Mobile Police Force personnel in Agatu, Benue state in a gun duel.
One of the policemen, Corporal Ebiakpo Akparakazi, was also reported missing during the attack.
The Benue state police spokesman, ASP Moses Yamu, who confirmed the incident, said tha

Last week, residents of Jiwa community in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) witnessed a ceremony marking the solemnisation of a gay marriage in the area. DAVID ADUGE-ANI reports that the ceremony was however cut short by the intervention of men of the Nigeria police who promptly arrested the suspects.

On Saturday February 6, 2016 a popular hotel in Jiwa Community of Abuja, King’s Land Hotel hosted two male guests who were there to celebrate their marriage, otherwise known as same-sex marriage. According to our findings, the stage was already set with the hall decorated awaiting the commencement of the ceremony. At about 5.30 pm many invited guests were already seated for the occasion, with invited guests, including their sponsors, the chairman of the oc

A teenager has revealed how he was raped several times while in Kirikiri Prison. The teenager, Bashua (surname withheld), said that the incident happened in 2014, when he was just 16-year-old. He said that the policemen doctored his age, to ensure they arraigned and sent him to prison.

Bashua had recently regained his freedom, through the intervention of the Stephen and Solomon Foundation, a Non-Governmental Organisation (WHO). The foundation is led by Mr. Giwa Amu, a Lagos-based human rights lawyer.

Bashua, a secondary school student, said he was returning home from a coaching class when he was arrested by a team of policemen. According to him, he was later charged to court for an offence he did not commit. He said: “I was remanded at the Kirikiri Prison and experienced bein

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The Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team (SIRT) has arrested the elusive coordinator of the Lekki, Ikorodu, Festac and Agbarra bank robberies which Nigerians will not forget in a hurry.

The coordinator, Clement Abanara, 42, otherwise known as Millions, has been organising robberies and kidnapping operations for over 20 years. According to detectives, he is the brain behind most of the high bank robberies and high profile kidnappin

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Six heartless and cruel men are telling police what they know after a girl was drugged and repeatedly raped by them in a hotel room.

OPERATIVES of the Abia Police Command have arrested two suspected car thieves and recovered two vehicles allegedly stolen by them.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ezekiel Onyeke, said the command was investigating a 32-year-old Ihechin Nathaniel Wilson of No. 4 Agolawa Street in Aba and another 22-year-old Samson of Oloha in Dankina LGA of Kogi State for allegedly snatching a Suzuki Grand Vitra with registration number LSD 723 DF, which was recovered by the police.

Onyeke said the recovery and arrest followed information received from River State th

Police have arrested a fake soldier and impounded a truck-load of Indian hemp on Ajuwon- Akute Road in Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State. The Commissioner of Police, Abdulmajid Ali, yesterday paraded the fake soldier, identified as Emmanuel Abiodun, at the state command headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta. Ali, who also paraded 34 suspected criminals arrested in connection with armed robbery, cultism and kidnapping, expressed the readiness of the command to provide security for residents during and beyond the Yuletide.

He disclosed that the 29-year-old fake soldier, who