The Gubernatorial Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sun State, Ademola Adeleke has been detained by the Police. Frank Mba, police spokesperson, confirmed the arrest to TheCable, stating that he would be charged to court today. Adeleke was reportedly detained after he honoured an invitation at the force headquarters in Abuja. “We alert the…
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Seven ladies who were arrested in Abuja and convicted by a mobile court for prostitution have alleged that policemen attached to the Utako and Gwarimpa police stations in Abuja raped and physically assaulted them in custody. They also claimed that the police compelled them to plead guilty when they were arraigned before the court on…
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Two people have been reportedly arrested after a photograph appeared online apparently showing the body of footballer Emiliano Sala, who died in a plane crash in January, British police said. They revealed a 48-year-old woman had been held in February on suspicion of unauthorised access to computer material and malicious communications and is now out…
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Sunday Ogundapo, team leader of the zonal intervention squad (ZIS), Obada, Ogun state, allegedly shot one Akeem Akinsanya to death in an effort to escape attack by suspected cultists. Hausa Idris-Adamu, police public relations officer of zone 2, said the police team had gone to effect the arrest of some suspected cultists when the team…
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The Lagos State Police Command has recommended for the dismissal of Inspector Olalekan Ogunyemi from the Nigeria Police Force after an orderly-room found him guilty of unlawfully killing a football fan, Kolade Johnson, on Sunday. His co-accused, Sergeant Godwin Orji was however discharged and acquitted. The State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bala Elkana, said…
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Los Angeles police have arrested the suspected killer of rapper Nipsey Hussle, who was gunned down outside his clothing store on Sunday. Police said that 29-year-old Eric Holder was taken into custody after a witness spotted him in Bellflower, about 20 miles from the shooting scene. Police said they believe the shooting stemmed from a…
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Nigerian rapper, Falz The Bahd Guy has joined the list of celebrities who painfully reacted to the death of Kolade Johnson, a young man who was killed on Sunday, March 31, after been allegedly hit by a police officer’s stray bullet during a raid in Lagos while watching football. He took to his Twitter page lamenting…
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The Police in Nigeria have emerged as the most corrupt public institution in the country, according to a new survey released today by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) The power sector was ranked second in the survey’s corruption index, which examined five public institutions in Nigeria in the last 5 years. Other public institutions…
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council on Monday asked the Nigerian Police Force and the Department of State Services to invite, interrogate and possibly prosecute leaders of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over what it described as an illegal access to the server of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The complaint…
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The Kano Police Command has arrested three persons for allegedly buying permanent voter cards(PVCs), ahead of the supplementary governorship elections on 23 March. DSP Abdullahi Haruna, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), disclosed this in a statement issued in Kano on Wednesday. Haruna said on March 12 at about 8 p.m, based on information…
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