• CRPP, AP laud exercise BUT for the timely intervention of the police, a bloody clash would have ensued Tuesday between suspected supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Edo State over last weekend’s local council elections. However, despite the protests against the polls in some quarters [...]
THE Police have appealed to the Supreme Court the affirmation of the Court of Appeal in the N5 million judgment sum awarded to the Executive Director of the African Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), Rev. David Ugolor by a Benin High Court for his unlawful remand in police and prison custody for 41 [...]
POLICE have launched a search for the abducted wife, Adedoyin and daughter of Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour of the Supreme Court in the forest of Edo State, Nigerian Tribune has reliably gathered. Doyin, her daughter and the driver to the family were kidnapped by gunmen on Friday at about 5.00 p.m within Edo State jurisdiction, a [...]
THE Police have appealed to the Supreme Court the affirmation of the Court of Appeal in the N5 million judgment sum awarded to the Executive Director of the African Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), Rev. David Ugolor by a Benin High Court for his unlawful remand in police and prison custody for 41 [...]
KAMPALA, Uganda, May 21 (UPI) — Ugandan police closed down the offices of the Daily Monitor after it ran a series of articles about the president making his son successor, journalists said. Longtime Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is apparently grooming his son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, to be his successor, Voice of America reported Monday. The Criminal [...]
Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu,Health Minister By Adebiyi Adedapo If human beings have the luxury of choosing the kind of ailment to suffer from, Nigerians will be advised not to choose any ailment that will require the attention of a plastic surgeon, because even the country’s most equipped medical facility do not have one. It is difficult [...]
A gunman opened fire in a small Bank Hapoalim branch in Beersheba on Monday, killing four people before taking his own life. The shooter, identified as 40-year-old Itamar Alon, had reportedly been turned down a day earlier by the bank when he tried to extend his credit line, because of a NIS 6,000 debt. After [...]
A gunman opened fire in a small Bank Hapoalim branch in Beersheba on Monday killing four people before taking his own life. The shooter, named as 40-year-old Itamar Alon of Beersheba had reportedly been turned down a day earlier by the bank when he tried to extend his credit line, because of a NIS 6,000 [...]
POLICE have launched a search for the abducted wife, Adedoyin and daughter of Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour of the Supreme Court in the forest of Edo State, Nigerian Tribune has reliably gathered. Doyin, her daughter and the driver to the family were kidnapped by gunmen on Friday at about 5.00 p.m within Edo State jurisdiction, a [...]
Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole By Onyebuchi Ezigbo The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Edo State chapter said it has written to President Goodluck Jonathan and the Inspector General of Police on the allegation of age falsification levelled against the Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole. The party said it has asked the President to strip Oshiomhole [...]
Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar The Inspector General of Police (IG), Mohammed Abubakar, has deployed former security officer of the Super Eagles, ACP Gideon Akinsola, to the Edo State capital, Benin City where he is expected to work with the state police commissioner in ensuring that there is adequate security during the Okpekpe 10km [...]
No fewer than 100 volunteers and security personnel, including the Police and the Para-military, have been engaged by the organisers of the maiden Okpekpe 10km International Road Race, an official said on Friday. Over 2,000 athletes have registered for the one-day event scheduled for May 4 in the Etsako-East Local Government of Edo. Navy Commodore Omatseye [...]
• CRPP, AP laud exercise BUT for the timely intervention of the police, a bloody clash would have ensued Tuesday between suspected supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Edo State over last weekend’s local council elections. However, despite the protests against the polls in some quarters [...]
Edo LG Polls: Police deploy 5,000 men Category: Nigeria News Published on Saturday, 20 April 2013 14:49 Written by SIMON ELEGBULEM Hits: 109 ALL is set for the Local Government Council election in the 18 Local Government Councils of Edo state today, as the Edo state police command deploy over five thousand policemen across the [...]
Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has called on the police to fish out and prosecute those behind the crisis in Fugar, Etsako Central Local Government Area of the state, that led to the death of two persons. The Governor, who lamented the unnecessary loss of lives and wanton destruction of property during a condolence [...]
IGP, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar *Seeks N2 billion compensation By Omon-Julius Onabu A Delta State High Court in Ogwashi-Uku has restrained the Inspector General of Police (IG), Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar and his agents joined as respondents in a suit from further arresting and detaining a member representing Aniocha South Constituency in the state House of [...]
“We need to be careful in this country and avoid causing unnecessary commotion through needless disagreements between our security agencies leading to avoidable death, injuries and destruction at all times” It was the late Afrobeat king, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, who invented the phrase “roforofo fight” to describe a messy, weird tango between two people or a [...]
The recent report that Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State and the Minister of Justice Muhammad Bello Adoke nearly got into a physical fight on March 12, 2013 – just before the National Executive Council meeting that day – over the alleged procedural flaws in the investigations of the murder of Comrade Olaitan Oyerinde should [...]
Delta – Delta State police command said it has arrested 16 persons and recovered an Improvised Explosive Device, IED in the state, Vanguard reports. The Police said they were able to discover the bomb following two days of constant raid at criminal hideouts in Kwale area of Delta State. Also arrested were two teenage brothers [...]
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