The police said they are investigating a Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in Imo state over failure to report a rape case to the police headquarters in the state. Police officers working under the DPO are also being investigated for the same case. The Force spokesperson, Olumuyiwa Adejobi stated this in a post on his X handle (formerly known as Twitter) Tuesday. Three Read More
A chieftain of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Comrade Olufemi Ajadi, has called on the National Judicial Commission (NJC), to investigate the controversy surrounding the last Friday’s Appeal Court judgement in the Kano state gubernatorial election tussle. Speaking with journalists on Thursday, Ambassador Ajadi said there was the urgent need for the investigation since a paragraph in one of Read More
The Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, has ordered investigations into the circumstances surrounding the alleged assault of the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero, allegedly by Policemen in Imo state. The Force Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said the IGP has directed the deputy inspector-general in charge of the Force Criminal Investigation Read More
The House of Representatives, has condemned in strong terms the gruesome and brutal killing of security personnel, bank officials and other citizens during a robbery attack on banks in Otukpo, Benue state last week. While urging the Nigerian police, Department of State Services (DSS) and other security agencies to as a matter of urgency, arrest and prosecute the perpetrators of Read More
A branch of a tree reportedly fell on Monday killing two persons on the spot and leaving seven others with varying degrees of injuries in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital. The victims included passers-by, shop owners and those awaiting commercial vehicles at Oke Andi, Sango area in Ilorin, Kwara state capital, when the tragedy occurred. Blueprint gathered that the incident, which happened early Monday Read More
The National Management Committee (NMC) of the National Rescue Movement (NRM) has suspended its National Chairman, Hon Isaac Chigozie Udeh, for allegedly collecting the sum of $25,000 to N250 million from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the public endorsement of PDP and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Udeh was suspended during the Movement’s National Executive Council (NEC) meeting on Monday in Read More
The Borno state Commissioner of Police, CP Yusuf Muhammad, has said the command arrested over 500 criminals as suspects for various offences in different locations across the state. He stated that the command also arrested a rape suspect and a murder suspect and investigations are ongoing with a view to prosecute them in the period under review, which is August Read More
The 15th edition of the Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series with the theme” ‘Building a resilient Nigerian media and democracy’ is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, July 12, and Thursday, July 13, 2023, on Twitter Spaces at 11 am daily. A press statement by Executive Director/CEO, WSCIJ, Motunrayo Alaka, said the Board Chair, WSCIJ, Ropo Sekoni; Chief Executive Read More
The Governor of Kaduna state, Uba Sani, has ordered full investigation into the alleged shooting of 12 residents of Sabon Gyero community by personnel of Kaduna Vigilance Service (KADVIS), who were pushing back residents from stopping a demolition exercise. The residents of Sabon Gyero in Millennium City, Chikun local government area of Kaduna state in an attempt to stop the Read More
The Department of State Services (DSS) has commenced investigation into attack by some staff of the Service staff in Adamawa state by miscreants. DSS Public Relations Officer (PRO), Dr Peter Afunanya, in a press statement, Sunday, said, “The attention of the DSS has been drawn to a trending video on the social media in which someone suspected to be its Read More
Police in Lagos says it has commenced investigation into how a 20-year-old identified as Sodiq Olayemi, hanged himself with rope and died immediately in Lagos. Our correspondent gathered that Sodiq’s body was found hanging inside an uncompleted building in the area as he reportedly committed suicide in the early morning of Sunday in Epe area of the state. “Preliminary investigations showed no Read More
Three persons have been reportedly feared dead on Thursday during a bloody clash between members of the Oyo state All Progressives Congress (APC) and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) at Ile-Tuntun area of Ibadan, South East local government area of Oyo state. During the bloody clash, over 10 others sustained severe injuries with many motorcycles and vehicles damaged. Sources said trouble started Read More
The Director General of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Yasha’u Dogara Ahmed, has been charged to speak out on the certificate issued to Mr. Peter Mbah, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Enugu state. A group under the aegis of Total Support for the Rule of Law and Justice Initiative and Enugu Progressive Forum, made this Read More
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Baba, has extended additional human and logistic support to Nigeria Police Force (NPF) Commands and Formations across the country for effective election security management during the March 18 Governorship and State Assembly elections. Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, in a press statement, Tuesday in Abuja, said the additional support includes the Read More
Swiss federal prosecutors have closed an investigation into Fifa president Gianni Infantino over his use of a private jet in 2017, world soccer’s governing body said on Thursday. In a statement welcoming the decision, Fifa said the investigation “related to a private jet being chartered to fly from Suriname to Switzerland in 2017”. “It has been confirmed that the travel Read More
Barcelona president Joan Laporta insisted Tuesday his club have never “bought referees” amid investigations into payments made to a former refereeing chief over several years. The Catalan side paid a reported 6.5 million euros ($6.9 million) between 2001 and 2018 to a company owned by Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira, a former vice-president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) in Read More
Senator Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe (PDP Cross River North), has challenged the Police in Cross River state to be professional in their conduct by not colluding in anyway with members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in their cheap blackmail against him. Jarigbe who was the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the National Assembly election conducted penultimate Saturday, defeated Read More
The Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, Monday, visited the families of the two persons who were allegedly killed while exercising their franchise at their polling units during Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections in the state. The victims include late Festus Idahosa, 33, and late Mrs. Elizabeth Owie, 43, mother of three children, aged eight, six, and four years respectively. While Festus Idahosa’s Read More
Seven suspects; including two traditional rulers have been arrested in connection with Igueben train station attack in Edo State. The State Commissioner for Communication and Orientation, Mr. Chris Nehikare, disclosed this to journalists in Benin City on Wednesday. He stated the suspects are currently helping the police in investigations. Nehikare also said the two remaining victims of the attack have Read More
The Kaduna state Police Command has killed one bandit and arrested two others, recovering AK-47 rifle, locally fabricated general purpose machine gun and 10 rounds of ammunition, the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Muhammed Jalige, has said. Jalige, in a statement issued, Sunday, said the incident happened on Saturday in Amana Maimadachi village close to Rigachikun, Igabi local government area of Read More
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Thursday said it will demand at least N5 billion in compensation for the murder of one of its members, Bolanle Raheem. The seven-month old expectant mother was allegedly killed by ASP Drambi Vandi on Christmas Day right in the presence of the husband and other family members. Vandi, who had since been arrested and suspended by Read More
Worried by Sunday’s incident of a policeman shooting dead a young woman, Mrs Bolanle Raheem in Lagos, the House of Representatives has asked for the banning of alcohol and other intoxicating substances for police personnel on duty as a guard against unruly behaviour. While calling for an immediate investigation to be carried out to get justice for the latest victim, Read More
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Coordinator in Zamfara State, Kabiru Garba Marafa, has condoled with the families of victims caught in military fire against bandits in Maru Local Government Area of the state. At least, 64 people were reportedly killed in the airstrike on Sunday. Marafa, who is the senatorial Candidate for Zamfara Central, expressed sympathy over the Read More
United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, called on Nigerian authorities to investigate allegations of systemic and coerced abortions reportedly perpetrated by the Nigerian Army, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric has said. The Reuters news agency reported on Wednesday that the Nigerian Army has run a secret, systematic and illegal abortion programme in the country’s northeast since at least 2013. The programme allegedly Read More
Former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, on Thursday at the Federal High Court in Abuja accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of being responsible for his travails at the London court where he is in detention. The Senator who has been in custody in London over alleged organ harvest told the Federal High Court that the anti-graft Read More
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