Afghan officials say five civilians were killed when a bomb detonated inside a house in the southern Zabul province, while in the north Taliban insurgents are clashing with police. Atta Jan, head of the Zabul provincial council, said Monday that two children and a woman were among those killed
Protesters demonstrated in Burundi for a second day on Monday after activists said at least five people were killed in unrest a day earlier sparked by the president’s plan to run for a third term, a move critics say violates the constitution. “The fight continues,” protesters chanted in the Musaga district of the capital Bujumbura. […]
The Ogun Police command, on Monday, has rescued another five-year-old kid, Abraham Adeyemi, who was abducted in a non – descript location in Lagos, on Sunday. Master Abraham, who gave his parents’ name as “Mummy Sarah and Daddy Sarah” was kidnapped by unknown persons in Lagos, and rescued at Imedu – Nla, by the Police […]
The All Progressives Congress has urged the new Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, to approach his new task with a high level of professionalism while shunning crass partisanship, which it says has dragged key national institutions of state, especially the police, into the political fray. In a statement in Abuja on Thursday by […]
The Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecutions on Thursday asked the state’s magistrates’ court siting in Ebute-metta to discharge a former Lagos State Commissioner for Special Duties, Tola Kasali, accused of murder and illegal possession of firearms. Kasali, Folami Musiliu and Tobin Lukman, who were all taken before the court by the police on November […]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged the newly-appointed Acting Inspector-General (IG) of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, to approach his new task with a high level of professionalism while shunning the kind of crass partisanship that has dragged key national institutions of state, especially the police, into the partisan fray. In a statement issued in […]
More facts are emerging as to why immediate past Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba, was booted out of office by President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday. In a tweet message by presidential spokesman, Reuben Abati, President Jonathan had asked Abba to quit his exalted position and in his place, he appointed Deputy Inspector General of […]
Afghan officials say an explosion near a southern police station has killed three people and wounded 17. Samim Khpalwak, spokesperson for the provincial governor, said the explosion on Tuesday morning struck the city of Kandahar, the capital of Kandahar province. Authorities initially believed a car bomb caused the explosion, but later said they were unsure […]
The Gombe State Police Command says it has arrested a gang of eight armed robbers, who had been terrorising the residents of Gombe, the state capital. The Gombe Police spokesman, DSP Fwaje Atajiri, while parading a suspected rapist and four homosexuals stated that the armed robbers had been charged to court. According to him, the […]
The nanny who masterminded the recent kidnap of the three children of the Orekoya family has been apprehended by the police. The Lagos State Police Commissioner of Police, Mr Kayode Aderanti, on Thursday confirmed the arrest of the lady behind the kidnap of three children of the Orekoyas who are aged 6, 4 and […]
ANYIM JOY NDUDI reports the strange story of a man who murdered the mother of his son in Ajegunle, presented himself to the police and said ‘it was the work of the devil.’ A lawful suspect may be the right word to describe Michael David, a 31 year old indigene of Delta state who murdered […]
A banker accused of killing her husband alarmed neighbours at the Oworonsoki area of Lagos last Sunday. ANYIM JOY NDUDI reports that the mother of two is police net. Detectives at the State Criminal Investigation department may have a hard nut to crack as one Mrs. Busayo Olafare, a banker is alleged by her in-laws […]
Detectives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Lagos State Police Command, have arrested six suspected armed robbers, including a Lebanese national, for impersonating operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to rob bureau de change operators, especially, in Lagos and Abuja. The suspects, who were paraded by the Commissioner of Police,
An elderly Belgian has been sentenced to 20 years’ jail for raping two girls, aged 11 and 13, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the lawyer of one of the victims said on Tuesday. Septuagenarian Jacques Francis Bellize, whose trial began in March, was sentenced on Monday “to a total of 20 years’ imprisonment” and […]
The Enugu State House of Assembly made good their threat by ordering for the arrest of the State Accountant General, Mr. Basil Okolie, for refusing to appear before it. Subsequently, the House has empowered the Commissioner of Police, Enugu State, to produce him on Tuesday, April 21, 2015. Moving a motion for the arrest of […]
The Police Command in Oyo State has paraded 15 suspected electoral offenders for last Saturday Governorship and House of Assembly elections held in the state. Addressing journalists at the command’s headquarters in Eleyele, Ibadan, the state capital, on Monday, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Ade Ajisebutu, who represented Commissioner of Police, Mr.
The tension in Port Harcourt has turned bloody as opposition party thugs have allegedly murdered about nine top members of the APC in cold blood. FAITH FAITHFUL reports from Port Harcourt. Evil visited many families last week as the nation prepares for the governorship and house of assembly elections tomorrow. With less than 24 […]
Inspector General of Police (IGP), Suleiman Abba, on Thursday, redeployed some Assistant Inspectors- General of Police to supervise the April 11 gubernatorial and states Houses of Assembly elections. The redeployment was an addition to an earlier postings of six Deputy Inspectors- General of Police to coordinate police activities in the six geo-political zones of the […]
Two people suspected to be involved in an attack on the Fenerbahce team’s bus over the weekend have been detained by the Turkish Police. Gunmen fired at the team bus conveying the players of the second placed Fenerbahce injuring the bus driver, who was taken to hospital after being wounded in the incident. The unfortunate […]
Mr. Akeem OlatundeAfolabi, a Senior Advocate, is an indigene of Offa town in Kwara state. He read law at the Usman Danfodio University, Sokoto and graduated in February 1994. Akeem, who had his Masters Degree (LL.M) at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State was called to the Bar in March 1995. In this interview […]
