President Bola Tinubu has urged the Nigerian Armed Forces to confront insurgents and terrorists with renewed vigour, warning that their objective is to derail his administration’s reforms and plunge the country into economic chaos. President Tinubu, represented by Senate President Godswill Akpabio, delivered the message on Saturday at the combined passing-out parade of the 72 […]
The body of former Inspector-General of Police and immediate past Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Mr Solomon Arase, arrived at the Benin Airport on Saturday from Abuja via a chartered aircraft.Present at the airport to receive his body were top police officers including the Gopvernor of Edo State, Senator Monday Okpebholo, Assistant Inspector General […]
His Royal Majesty, Ewuare the Second, Oba of Benin, has described the death of former Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Ehigiator Arase, at age sixty-nine as a major loss to the nation and his family. Oba Ewuare the Second expressed his condolences to the Nigeria Police and the Arase family when he received the Commissioner of […]
A 40-year-old commercial driver, popularly known for offering “Bolt Cab” services, Prince John Okojie, has cried out over the alleged harassment and intimidation faced by drivers in Benin City at the hands of policemen. The victim claimed that officers stationed at Okhoro Junction arrested his 22-year-old passenger and demanded a sum of four hundred thousand […]
As bandits fulfil part of the agreement reached during a recent truce with the people of Faskari local government area, Katsina state, the Vice-Chairman of the local government says he has received over two hundred kidnapped victims after the reconciliation meeting. The Vice-Chairman who led the local government delegation during the meeting that saw peace […]
A Special Court-Martial of the Nigerian Army in Maiduguri, Borno State, has sentenced three soldiers to life imprisonment and a fourth to 15 years for illegally selling arms in collaboration with police officers and terrorist groups. The trial was presided over by the Acting General Officer Commanding 7 Division and Commander of Sector 1, Operation […]
Lagos State Police Command said it will on Friday arraign a National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, leader, Shamsideen Adio, popularly known as Shameleon, over the alleged killing of a dispatch motorcyclist in Lagos Island. You will recall that Adio, 55, was arrested after he allegedly descended on the victim during a scuffle on […]
Niger State Police Command has arrested two men over the kidnap and gruesome killing of a 10-year-old boy in Mariga Local Government Area, and separately apprehended three suspected motorcycle thieves in Kontagora. In a statement made available to news men on Wednesday, by Niger State Command Public Relations Officer SP Wasiu Abiodun, the case began […]
The Edo State Police Command has launched an investigation into the activities of suspected gold jewelry robbers believed to be behind the killing of Derrick, also known as “Denco”, at a spare parts market in Igun, Benin City.Our crime correspondent, Jolaade Ojo, reports. www.itvradiong.com/livewww.youtube.com/itvradiongwww.facebook.com/itvradiongwww.twitter.com/itvradiongwww.instagram.com/itvradiongwww.tiktok.com/@itvradiong
Tension continues to grip residents of Benin City following the death of a man named Derrick, popularly known as “Denco,” who was killed by a group of armed robbers at Igun Market. The robbers made away with his gold jewelry during the attack. Our crime correspondent, Jolaade Ojo, who spoke to residents, reports that the […]
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