Against the backdrop of recent suicide bombings at banks across the country the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar on Tuesday announced the creation of a special protection unit as part of training for security officers deployed to banks in Nigeria. Mr Abubakar made this known at a meeting with heads of security in banks across the country in Abuja. The closed door meeting is expected to map out ...

A man suspected to be a kingpin of a gang which majors in the vandalisation and theft of petroleum products has been arrested by Ogun State Police Command. The man was arrested, Monday, alongside two members of his gang. The men, Lateef Ayoola, Abelat Dayo and Adekoya Azeez, were arrested on Monday while trying to escape with 20 units of 25-litres keg of petroleum products. Apart from Mr. Ayoola, the leader ...

1, 000 drums containing diesel and petrol worth over N100m allegedly siphoned from pipelines and stored in two warehouses in Ikang, Bakassi Local Government Area have been destroyed by the Nigerian Navy in Calabar, Cross River State. The Commanding Officer, Nigeria Navy Ship Victory, Commodore Kingdom Itoko, who led the operation, on Friday said the Bakassi environment had become notorious for illegal bunke ...

The Nigerian Army on Saturday stated that 70 per cent of the 10 million illegal weapons in West African are produced in Nigeria. The Chief of Army Standards and Evaluation, Major-General Shehu Abdulkadir, gave the figure in his paper entitled, ‘The challenges of internal security and implications for national development’ at the 7th annual Ramadan lecture of Muslim Media Practitioners of Nigeria in Abuja. A ...

The African Network for Environment and Economic Justice has described the arrest of its Executive Director Reverend David Ugolor, over the murder of the Principal Secretary to Governor Adams Oshiomhole, Comrade Olaitan Oyerinde, as a frame up. Over ten heavily armed security operatives some wearing Federal SARS Jacket while others on plain clothes arrested Reverend David Ugolor yesterday after searching hi ...

An oil worker with Italian energy firm Eni, has been killed by pirates along the Tarabaora creek in Bayelsa state. The worker was on a boat belonging to the firm’s local subsidiary, Agip in the state, the military said on Friday. "The boat conveying some staff of Agip was attacked by sea robbers and one of the staff of the company died when he was attempting to escape and drowned," Onyema Nwachukwu, spokesm ...

The police on Thursday raided a residence in Festac Town, who specialize in human parts and are suspected to be ritualist. The police made the discovery when neighbors suspected some funny movements in the building and alerted them. The police searched the entire building which is located at No. 6, B Close, Third Avenue Festac and discovered fresh human parts inside a bathtub. According to the police severa ...

The Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mr Mohammed Abubakar has decried the claim by a non -governmental foundation that robbery in the country has increased by sixty percent. Speaking at a meeting with government agencies and non-governmental agencies in the justice sector the police boss noted that such assumptions cannot be made without an input and cross checking with the police authorities. He added tha ...

Rodney Dwayne Valentine on Saturday morning was granted freedom at the Rockingham County jail in northern North Carolina, but when he refused to leave the prison the police arrested him for trespassing and sent him back to the prison. Valentine reportedly refused to leave the prison as a result of authorities declining his request for a ride to a local motel. The police officers suggested that Valentine tak ...

Armed bandits today in Lagos shot a newspaper editor, Steve Nwosu. Sources disclosed that Mr.Nwosu,the editor of Sun Newspapers in Nigeria was shot while coming from Zenith Bank in Maza Maza area in Lagos. It was gathered that the bandits robbed him of the money he went to withdraw from the bank this afternoon. The criminals operated on motorcycle and vanished within minutes. Latest reports show that Nwosu ...