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By Egufe Yafugborhi – Port Harcourt The Commissioner of Police (CP) Rivers state, Joseph Mukan has transferred the case of alleged rape on a 32-year-old widow by a policeman to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID). The rape victim had alleged that one policeman, Inspector Peter Iba, among a four-man police team had on Tuesday
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By Evelyn Usman A Policeman, Inspector Monday Gabriel, went berserk, in Ikoyi area of Lagos, opening fire on his colleagues, killing one of them in the process, while others sustained bullet wounds. Vanguard gathered the Police officer, Gabriel, attached to Squadron 21 of the Police Mobile Force, Abuja, was on Special duty at the Federal
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A teenage girl, Margaret Ikumu, 19, of Oni community in Oju Local Government Area of Benue, has faked her own death on social media to avoid financial pressure from her mother. A statement signed by DSP Bala Elkana, the Police Public Relations Officer in Lagos State, made this known on Sunday. Elkana said that Ikumu,
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By Evelyn Usman The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Police Command has ordered the arrest of the Divisional Police Officer in-charge of Ilemba Hausa Division in Lagos, following allegation that he allegedly shot one of the policemen in the division to death. Though there were different accounts as to how the deceased cop, Sergeant Onalaja
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Paraded IPOB members and AK-47 rifles recovered by Delta Police. Photo by Emma Amaize By Emma Amaize and Festus Ahon – Asaba Commissioner of Police, Delta State Command, Hafix Inuwa, has said the state’s police officers discovered three undercover training camps operated by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPoB at Ibusa, Okpanam, and Illah
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As Okada man dies after hitting electric pole By Olasunkanmi Akoni Tragedies occurred on Sunday when a policeman was allegedly killed by a hit and run motorist at Marwa area, along Lekki-Epe Expressway, Lagos. In a similar incident same day, a yet-to-be-identified commercial motorcycle operator, popularly called “Okada” rider, died in a lone accident after
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There is tension in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State over the death of a 27-yr-old 500 level Law student of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Augustine Ugwu, who was allegedly murdered by an officer of Nigeria Police Force at Nsukka.
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By Chancel Sunday, Bomadi There is pandemonium in Bomadi, headquarters of Bomadi council area of Delta state, as a soldier, attached to the Joint Task Force, JTF, Bomadi Division, Thursday, was shot dead by a policeman attached to SARS. Though the soldier’s identity has not been known as at the time of filing in this
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A 44-year-old land Surveyor, Mr Sheriff Ahmed, on Monday urged an Igando Customary Court, Lagos, to nullify his seven-year marriage, over wife’s alleged romance with a policeman. The petitioner alleged that his wife, Rashidat, with whom he had two children was promiscuous, adding that she was dating a police officer. “I checked her phone, and
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A Police Sergeant with Sagamu Road Division, Ikorodu, Lagos, Saheed Osiefa, has been shot dead while his neighbor a civilian has been hospitalised following gunshots received from a group of cultists.
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