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Lagos: DPOs, others get fresh training on weapons’ handling

Lagos: DPOs, others get fresh training on weapons’ handling

Divisional Police Officers (DPOs) attached to Lagos State Command have begun fresh training on how to handle weapons. About 110 DPOs and other officers were trained at the command headquarters, Ikeja. The state Police Public…

Protest rocks Delta over killing of policemen

Protest rocks Delta over killing of policemen

Coalition of Civil Society Organisations yesterday trooped to the streets of Asaba, Delta State, to protest the incessant killings and burning of police stations across the country. The protesters wondered why the Presidency and the…

Three soldiers, two bandits killed in Niger shootout

Three soldiers, two bandits killed in Niger shootout

At least five people – three soldiers and two bandits – have been killed in a gun duel at Nasko town in Magama Local Government Area of Niger State. Addressing journalists yesterday shortly after a…

Workers, millers protest multiple taxes at Ebonyi rice mill

Workers, millers protest multiple taxes at Ebonyi rice mill

Buying and selling at the popular Abakaliki Rice Mill Company Limited, Ebonyi State were brought to a halt yesterday when the millers and workers of the firm protested against alleged multiple taxation and other ill…

NAPTIP quizzes Lebanese over alleged minors’ defilement, child pornography

Investigators from the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) have started quizzing a Lebanese on his alleged involvement in the defilement of some minors in Jos, Plateau State and also using…

Nigerian judge kidnapped inside court

Nigerian judge kidnapped inside court

  Gunmen have abducted a judge identified as Alhaji Husaini Sama’ila at a Sharia Court in Bauren Zakat village in Safana Local Government Area of Katsina State. It was learnt that the attackers broke into…

Delta’s Okowa grants full autonomy to state judiciary

Delta’s Okowa grants full autonomy to state judiciary

The Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, Tuesday said that the state’s judiciary has been granted full autonomy to carry out its operations independently and effectively. Announcing the new development, Governor Okowa said that the judiciary’s…

Two feared dead, three injured as explosion rocks Gbenga Daniel’s hotel

Two feared dead, three injured as explosion rocks Gbenga Daniel’s hotel

A technician and another person have been killed in a gas explosion that rocked Conference Hotel, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. The hotel, located at Okemosan, is owned by a former governor of the state,…

Insecurity: 3 soldiers, 2 bandits killed in gun duel in Niger

Insecurity: 3 soldiers, 2 bandits killed in gun duel in Niger

…as bandits kidnap Chinese man At least five persons, including two bandits and three soldiers, have been killed in a gun duel in Nasko town in Magama Local Government Area of Niger State. Addressing journalists…

‘You’re not different from bandits’, El-Rufai slams NLC protesters

‘You’re not different from bandits’, El-Rufai slams NLC protesters

  Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna has likened the action of protesting members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to bandits terrorising the state. Kaduna is one of the states with a high level of…