Police in Kano has arrested a principal suspect and one other over the killing of Alhaji Danladi Isa Kademi, a lawmaker in Kano House of Assembly and a top-notch of the All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP). The Kano state Commissioner of Police, Mr Ibrahim K. Idris told Pointblanknews.com that among two suspects at Bompai, Kano […]
Abuja- The Nigeria Police Force on Tuesday dismissed rumour of a bomb explosion at a shopping complex in Lokogoma, a settlement in the Federal Capital Territory. The Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Frank Mba, who dismissed the rumour during an interaction with newsmen in Abuja, described the unfortunate incident as false alarm. Mba said that […]
From IKENNA EMEWU and MOLLY KILETE, Abuja Less than 48 hours after the embarrassing attack and release of Boko Haram detainees allegedly by their members, information has continued to turn in that there must have been an insider job in the act. Sources within and outside the police formation who spoke in anger but would […]
Luck ran out of some robbers on Sunday in Sagamu, Ogun state South-West Nigeria when Police recovered a sum of six million naira looted from an ATM of a commercial bank. Reports say the robbers acting on hints that the machine has just been reloaded, blew open the ATM using methane gas and other dangerous […]
IG should check police killings and brutality DESPITE the outcry against police killings and brutality over the years, the problem has not abated. Instead, the police have become more emboldened in recent times, harassing, intimidating and sometimes killing innocent citizens in a way that suggests that violence has become an acceptable policing strategy in the […]
Police in Ukanafun Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State have apprehended a woman-led robbery gang. The robbery gang, it was learnt, specialised in robbing their victims of cars, motorcycles and valuable items. The operation was carried out by combined teams from Ukanafun Police Division and Rivers State Police Command, according to the state Police […]
Five men were on Sunday night arrested at the Sagamu area of Ogun State in connection with the assassination of a former chairman of Ikeja Local Government, Lagos State, Mr. Toyin Hamzat. Hamzat was also a former special adviser on health to Governor Babatunde Fashola. It was learnt that he had just dropped a female […]
Aggrieved contractors on Tuesday invaded the ministry of police of affairs to protest unpaid contracts estimated at N7.4 billion. The contractors lamented that the ministry owe them for contracts done since 2005 even as they vowed a showdown with the officials of the ministry. During the Tuesday’s protest, the contractors invaded the office of the […]
Adebanjo, the mechanic | credits: File copy A 30-year-old mechanic, Oladele Adebanjo, has accused the policemen attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Lagos State Police Command of torturing and shooting him while he was in detention. Adebanjo said he spent seven days in the SARS custody at the police command headquarters in […]
-Punch Umar, Badejo and CP, Tanko | credits: Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Umar Manko, on Tuesday ordered a correspondent of The PUNCH, Kunle Falayi, out of the premises of the police command headquarters, Ikeja. Manko said a story published on Tuesday titled, ‘Guard shot by policemen in critical condition’ was an attack on […]
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