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Residents and traders on Okoya Street in the Ajegunle area of Lagos State have lamented the robbery attack that allegedly led to the death of two guards and the burglary of many shops. The attack, which reportedly happened around 2am on Tuesday, was said to have … Read more via Punch...

More facts emerged Tuesday night on how Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, escaped the plot by the security agencies to prevent him from making it to the National Assembly in order … Read more via Thisdaylive – https://ift.tt/2A8RqKE Get More Nigeria Political News

A member of a notorious kidnap gang, Sunday Clark, who plotted the abduction of a businessman, Mr. Adewale Kazeem, has been arrested by operatives of Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad attached to the Rivers State Police Command. Clark told newsmen he acted as an … Read more via Punch...

The Rivers State Police Command has paraded several suspected criminals in the state with properties recovered from them... Read more via Tori News – https://ift.tt/2Lyb5Z2 Get More Nigeria Metro News

The Police authorities have insisted that the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, must honour their invitation for questioning about the Offa bank robbery or be forced to do so. “If the Senate President refuses to honor the invitation, police would not hesitate to use all the instruments of the...

Nigerians on Social Media have reacted to the invasion of the residences of the principal officers of the Senate, Bukola Saraki and Ike Ekweremadu by security operatives in Abuja. DAILY POST had reported that the Police blocked Saraki’s convoy at Lake Chad junction in Abuja. Similarly, the …...

The Nigeria senate president, Dr. Bukola Saraki would be leading senators to the residence of his deputy, Dr. Ike Ekweremmadu whose house was laid siege by the Nigeria Police Force... Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2v12NhX Get More Nigeria Political News

Police spokesman, Jimoh Moshood, has said that the blockade of the Abuja home of Senate President Bukola Saraki must have been by his own security aides, rather than by the Police. as widely reported. Moshood, in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday afternoon, said that the Inspector-General of...

Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has stated that the invitation to him by the Police to report to a station in Guzape over the Offa robbery investigation is a mere afterthought which is designed to achieve political purpose. Saraki in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media …...

Police officers have prevented Senate President Bukola Saraki from leaving the street where his residence is located at in Abuja. The house is located on Lake Chad Crescent in the Maitama district of the nation’s capital. READ MORE HERE

Four policemen attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) have been arrested in Lagos for kidnapping a bishop and collecting N7 million from him. The policemen were also dismissed by the Assistant Inspector General (AIG), Adamu Ibrahim, in charge of Zone 2 Command, after conclusion of...

The senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye, has accused the police command of Kogi State of attempting to kill him. Melaye said this in reaction to the police, which had alleged that the senator’s security details repeatedly shot at policemen conducting ‘stop and...

The All Progressives Congress has said the ongoing legislative process seeking to empower states to own and manage their police, as part of Nigeria’s security architecture, is in line with its restructuring agenda. The National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, said this...

Some of the 22 commanders of the Boko Haram sect recently arrested by the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, have made confessions on how the Chibok girls were kidnapped in 2014...... Read more via Tori News – https://ift.tt/2A4WKyS Get More Nigeria Metro News

The video footage of a Ghanaian police officer assaulting a nursing mother in a bank went viral online on Friday, July 20. The Ghanaian police identified as Fredrick Amanor was captured in the video wrestling with and ruthlessly assaulting … Read more via Naija news 24/7 –...

The Police in Ekiti say they arrested 27 persons for election-related offences concerning the July 14 governorship election in the state. The Commissioner of Police, Bello Ahmed, said the suspects were arrested a day to the election and also on the day of the … Read more via Punch...

The governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, on Wednesday raised alarm over aerial surveillance of the Government House, Ado-Ekiti by a police helicopter. According to the governor, the police chopper has constituted danger to his personal safety, his family, workers and visitors to the...

Four years after the abduction of 276 Chibok school girls in Borno State, the police yesterday paraded eight men, who were alleged to be involved in the kidnapping. The eight persons were among the 22 suspects arraigned for act of terrorism by the … Read more via Thisdaylive –...

Suspected members of Islamist militant group Boko Haram are pictured after being arrested in Maiduguri on Wednesday. Police credited an intelligence operation for rounding up the suspects in various locations. Read more via Nigeria News – https://ift.tt/2zU93xK Get More Nigeria Metro News