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The Ogun State Police Command says it has begun an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the killing of a zoo keeper, Babaji Daule, at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library Wildlife Park, Abeokuta, the state capital.…
A former Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (retd.), has challenged the military to end the insecurity and killings in the country. According to him, the military has no excuse not to end insecurity once and for all. Danjuma…
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has raided and sealed a factory allegedly producing counterfeit cosmetic products in Lagos. According to a statement on X.com on Tuesday, NAFDAC officers stormed the illegal factory at Benue Plaza,…
No fewer than five people lost their lives last Sunday when the rear tyre of the vehicle they were travelling in suddenly burst, causing it to somersault at Shuwarin village in Kiyawa Local Government Area of Jigawa State. The spokesman…
The Crack Squad, attached to Area Command in Ughelli, Delta State, has arrested five suspected kidnappers in a brothel and criminal hideout in Ewu Community. The suspects were arrested on September 12, 2024, at about 1:30 am. The police also…
The Nigeria Police Force, led by Inspector-General Kayode Egbetokun, has dismantled a notorious gunrunning syndicate and arrested over 2,700 suspects in connection with various criminal activities within the past month. The arrests, which include armed robbers, kidnappers, and murder suspects,…
The Edo State Police Command has rescued a 21-year-old student, Iyobo Ighodaro, who was allegedly abducted from his hostel by gunmen at Ugbowo in Ovia North-East Local Government Area. DAILY POST reports that the Public Relations Officer of the Command,…
The Rivers State Police Command has rescued 16 youths from job scammers and arrested a suspect. Rivers State Commissioner of Police Olatunji Disu briefed journalists at the Command Headquarters on Moscow Road on Tuesday, explaining that operatives from the Octopus…
Five persons have died and twelve others sustained various degrees of injuries in a road accident along the Shiwarin -Kano road in Jigawa State. Eyewitnesses told DAILY POST that the incident happened on Monday when the tyre of a Toyota…
The Police Command in Delta has apprehended five kidnap suspects in Ughelli South Local Government Area of the state. The command’s spokesman, SP Bright Edafe, told newsmen in Warri on Tuesday that the suspects were arrested on Thursday at their…
Six days after a commercial bus traveling from Lagos to Port Harcourt veered off the highway and plunged into the river Ovia in Edo State, the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, said the bodies of two babies involved in the…
An Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan on Tuesday remanded two men, Opeyemi Ayinla and Abdulahi Sanni, in a correctional facility for allegedly stealing two motorcycles while armed with weapons. Ayinla, 28 and Sanni, 25, whose addresses were not provided, were…
The Nigerian Navy Forward Operation Base in Bonny, Rivers State said they had rescued 20 passengers including women and children on the Port Harcourt-Bonny sea route. The Commander of the NNFOB in Bonny, Maksum Mohammed, who disclosed this to newsmen,…
The Borno State Police Command has successfully re-arrested an escaped convict, Abubakar Mohammed, 27, who had been serving a prison sentence for culpable homicide before escaping from the Medium Security Custodial Center in Maiduguri. A statement issued on Tuesday by…
The Lagos State Government has issued contravention notices to over 280 illegal property owners and occupiers in the Mayegun Waterfront Scheme in a bid to protect the state’s coastal areas and prevent the proliferation of slums. The Commissioner for Waterfront…
The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has confirmed the rescue of five persons and recovery of nine bodies from the boat accident that occurred on Sunday in Mashayar Yandaga River in Gummi Local Area of Zamfara State. NEMA said that…
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