THE Nigerian Air Force said it would deploy two additional fighting helicopters to the North East by March,2019, to join the ones being used at the moment in the fight against insurgents in the region.

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 40-year-old man for allegedly raping his neighbour’s daughter.

Four policemen arrested last week for dispossessing a Togo-based Nigerian, who was returning home for the Christmas celebration, of 350,000CFA, have been dismissed from the Force.

There is anxiety and fear in Eliozu and Rumuosunwor areas of Eneka, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State following alleged harassment of chiefs, elders and youths of the areas by men of the Inspector General of Police Monitoring unit in the state.

As she sauntered into the Corporate Headquarters of Vanguard, having been battered by the scourging sun, it was obvious that all was not well with the 30-year-old lady later identified as Ada Njoku.

Details emerged yesterday on how operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team IRT, trailed and arrested two confirmed suspects who took part in the gruesome murder of former Chief of Defense Staff, Vice Air Marshal, Alex Badeh (RTD) who they attacked penultimate Tuesday on his way home from his farm on the Kaduna-Keffi Expressway, Nasarawa State.

Gunmen have killed five villagers in central Nigeria’s Plateau state, police said on Friday, but it was not immediately clear if the killings were linked to a long-running battle over grazing rights.

Edo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Johnson Kokumo, has said the new security architecture and trust fund launched by Governor Godwin Obaseki, have positioned the police and other security agencies in the state to better fight crime.

An Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Friday ordered
a security guard, Usman Abdulkareem to be remanded at the Ikoyi Prison for allegedly killing his colleague.

Five persons who were returning from a birthday party, Wednesday night, were attacked and killed while two others were injured at Rawuru village, Fan district of Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State, the State Police Command confirmed.

Thirteen suspected kidnappers and robbers that have been terrorising motorists plying Okene- Ogori Road and other areas of Kogi State, have met their waterloo, following their arrest by detectives attached to Akpafa Police division and operatives of the Federal Special Anti Robbery Squad, FSARS.

There was pandemonium at the premises of a new generation bank along the popular Ndidem Usang Iso Road in Calabar, yesterday, after a Policeman, Sergeant Williams Enah, attached to Mopol 11, allegedly shot and killed an Air Force personnel,

A 300 level student of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, ABU Aisha Omolola, has committed suicide in her apartment at Samaru area of Zaria.

An unidentified male pedestrian was yesterday crushed to death, along the Lagos / Ibadan expressway, while waiting to board a vehicle to his destination.

BENIN—It was a bleak Christmas for residents of 27 Mabel Street, off Etete road in Benin City as a family of three lost their lives to an early morning fire which razed their building.