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Apr

2024

IGP Orders Massive Promotion Of Junior Police Officers

IGP Egbetokun Orders Massive Promotion Of Junior Police Officers The Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun, on Friday authorised massive promotion of junior rank officers to their next rank. According to a statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the under the initiative, nine thousand, eight hundred and thirty-one (9,831) Police Constables will be elevated to the rank of Corporal while eighty-one (81) Corporals will be promoted to the rank of Sergeant. Also, six hundred and sixty-nine (669) officers are to be elevated from the rank of Sergeants to Inspectors. According to the statement, the Deputy…

Apr

2024

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Security Remains Our Top Priority In Abia – Gov Otti

News Flash, Politics, Security

SECURITY REMAINS OUR TOP PRIORITY IN ABIA - GOV OTTI Abia State Governor, Dr. Alex Otti, OFR, says security remains a top priority of his administration's agenda. Governor Otti spoke Thursday when he received the Flag Officer Commanding, Naval Training Command, Lagos, Rear Admiral Ignatius Albara, who was in the state on a familiarisation tour of the Nigeria Navy College of Accounting and Finance, Owerrinta. The Governor said without security government's initiatives would amount to nothing, adding that in the last 10 months, all the various security outfits in the state had been working tirelessly to secure the state. He…

Apr

2024

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Fire Guts LP Chairman, Abure’s Abuja Home

Abuja, Mishap, News Flash, Security

Fire Guts LP Chairman, Abure’s Abuja House The Labour Party, on Wednesday, said that the house of its national chairman, Julius Abure, was gutted by fire in the early hours of the day. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, made this known in a statement on Wednesday. He also claimed it was an assassination attempt on the chairman. The statement read, “His residence was gutted by a mysterious fire which started a few minutes after 1am while Abure and members of his family were asleep. “According to a member of the family who narrated the incident, the family was…

Mar

2024

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Traditional Ruler Declared Wanted By DHQ For Killing Soldiers In Delta Surrenders To Police

Crime, News Flash, Security

Traditional Ruler Declared Wanted By DHQ For Killing Of Soldiers In Delta Surrenders To Police A traditional ruler, Clement Ikolo Ogenerukeywe, has been detained by the Delta State Police command in connection with the killing of 17 officers and soldiers of the Nigeria Army 15 days ago. The state Police Commissioner Abaniwonda Olufemi said Oghenerukevwe, who is the Urhukpe I of Emu Kindom, “turned himself in” shortly after the Defence Headquarters declared him and seven other wanted. Okuama where the military men comprising a Leutenant Colonel, two Majors, one Captain, and 13 soldiers were gruesomely killed, is a clan in…

Mar

2024

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Nigerian Army Declares 8 Persons Wanted In Connection With Killing Of It’s Personnel At Okuama Community, Delta

Crime, News Flash, Security

Nigerian Army has declared 8 persons wanted in connection to killing of its personnel at Okuama community, Delta In an update posted Nigerian Army official page on X, and sighted by our correspondent, the military revealed names are photos of the wanted persons. The names released contains 7 males and a female. The names are: WANTED PERSONS IN CONNECTION TO THE KILLING OF 17 NIGERIAN ARMY PERSONNEL AT OKUAMA COMMUNITY Akeywru Daniel Omotegbono (AKA Amagbem) Prof Ekpekpo Arthur Andaowei Dennis Bakriri Igoli Ebi Akata Malawa David Sinclear Oliki Clement Ikolo Oghenerukevwe Reuben Baru See also I Am Prepared To Help…

Mar

2024

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Official Document Exposes 54 Individuals Behind IPOB Activities In 22 Countries

Crime, FGN, News Flash, Security

Official Document Exposes 54 Individuals Behind IPOB Activities In 22 Countries Documents by Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) has exposed the sources of funding for the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The NFIU has also uncovered 27 cells belonging to the IPOB in 22 countries across the globe, including the United State of America and the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland. The NFIU said the US and the UK house the largest numbers of these IPOB cells per country, with seven and six operating IPOB cells respectively in both countries. Details of the development were revealed in a newsletter…

Mar

2024

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Kidnappers Must Be Treated As Terrorists – President Tinubu Declares

Crime, News Flash, Presidency, Security

Kidnappers Must Be Treated As Terrorists — Tinubu Declares President Bola Tinubu has declared that individuals involved in despicable crimes such as kidnapping must be treated as terrorists. The President made the declaration on Tuesday at a Ramadan dinner with members of the Federal judiciary led by the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola. Reiterating the government’s resolve to defeat banditry, the President said those who resort to kidnapping children are cowards, incapable of confronting the might of the Nigerian Armed Forces. ”We must treat kidnappers as terrorists,” the President said, according to a statement by his spokesman,…

Mar

2024

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Details Of Gumi’s Meeting With Security Agencies Revealed

Abuja, Crime, News Flash, Security

Details Of Gumi’s Meeting With Security Agencies Revealed Controversial Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has confirmedsecurity agencies invited him over his comments on the activities of bandits in the country. The Minister of Information and Orientation, Mohammed Idris, on Monday, revealed that Gumi had been invited over some of his remarks. The minister said Gumi was not above the law and would be interrogated if security agencies deemed his comments reckless. This comes after Gumi continued his advocacy for amnesty for bandits in a recent radio interview, saying that many took to banditry because of alleged neglect and marginalisation…

Mar

2024

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FG Invites Controversial Islamic Cleric Sheikh Gumi For Questioning

Crime, News Flash, Security

FG Invites Controversial Islamic Cleric, Sheik Gumi For Questioning The federal government said the Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Ahmad Gumi has been invited for questioning over his comments on the activities of bandits in the country. Mohammed Idris, minister of information and orientation disclosed this while addressing journalists at the State House, in Abuja on Monday. Recall the controversial cleric faulted the Federal Government on the continued use of force or kinetic means to secure the release of victims of kidnapping. Gumi said the government ought to go closer to the bandits and study them to provide them with better living…

Mar

2024

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Many Feared Killed, Homes Razed In Fresh Plateau Clash

Crime, News Flash, Security, War

Many Feared Killed, Homes Razed In Fresh Plateau Clash Several homes were razed, barns destroyed and cattle rustled following a violent clash between irate youths in the Ponglong area of Lalin district, Mikang local government council, Plateau state. The clash, between Motola and Taroh youths, occurred on Saturday night in Mikang local government. The Nation gathered that some persons were killed while the numbers of those who sustained various degrees of injuries are also reported to be high. Some residents added that they are yet to ascertain the number of persons reportedly killed in the bloody clash. The transition chairman…