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  • Suspected herders kill 3 cousins of Benue Police spokesperson

    Suspected herders kill 3 cousins of Benue Police spokesperson

    The Police Command in Benue has confirmed the killing of three persons at Tse Gamber, Sengev Council Ward in Gwer-West Local Government Area (LGA) by suspected herders.

    The State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Sewuese Anene, told newsmen in Makurdi that the victims were her cousins.

    Anene said that suspected herders launched the unprovoked attack on the villagers on Sunday, killing and destroying properties in the process.

    She said Tse Gamber, a village in Sengev Council Ward, was a peaceful village whose inhabitants were farmers.

    “That is my village. Three of my cousins were killed,” she said.

  • Police spokesman seeks arrest of prankster, Trinity guy

    Police spokesman seeks arrest of prankster, Trinity guy

    The Nigeria Police Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, has told his men to arrest a popular skit maker Abdullahi Maruff Adisa popularly known as Trinity guy.

    It was gathered that the FPRO ordered the arrest after he ignored initial warnings to skit makers to regulate their pranks as they endanger Nigerian lives.

    Sharing an extreme prank video of Trinity Guy via his Instagram page on Monday, CSP Adejobi urged people who have been affected by the skit maker’s pranks to report them to the authorities.

    He said, “This doesn’t make any sense. I think the guy should have been arrested.

    “Those individuals who feel the heat and fear of the pranks should be reporting the pranksters as many of their pranks are criminals, immoral, and evil.”

  • DAVID IMOH: Police deflates faceless DSS officer write-up

    DAVID IMOH: Police deflates faceless DSS officer write-up

    Lagos State Police Command has debunked a write-up making the rounds on social media, by a faceless DSS officer, claiming a cover-up by the Police in the unfortunate lynching of David Imoh on May 12, 2022.

     

    In a statement by the Command’s spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, the police explained that the Divisional Police Officer, Maroko Division, arrived at the crime scene promptly, arrested four suspects and rescued two persons under attack

     

    The statement reads: “The attention of the Lagos State Police Command has been drawn to a write-up making the rounds on social media by a faceless DSS officer, claiming a cover-up by the Police in the unfortunate lynching of David Imoh on May 12, 2022.

     

    “The Command wishes to debunk this write-up as nothing but a cunningly-crafted work of fiction ill-intended by some unpatriotic persons and war mongers to cause disaffection, and possibly ethnic war, amongst Nigerians.

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    Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin

    “The Lagos State Police Command again confirms that the Divisional Police Officer, Maroko Division arrived at the active crime scene, promptly arrested four suspects and rescued the other two persons under attack. The numerous observers of the arrests, some of whom made videos,

     

    “It is therefore ridiculous, frivolous and laughable that the suspects were allegedly paid a miserly One Hundred Thousand Naira each to admit and take the fall for murder.

     

    “Further investigation by the State Criminal Investigation Department led to the arrest of two other suspects. All six suspects were paraded before the press by the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, CP Abiodun Alabi, fdc, mnim, psc on May 20, 2022.

     

    “A seventh suspect, Usman Abubakar, aged 22 (not the mastermind), who literally poured petrol on the victim, was eventually arrested the next day. This brings the total number of arrested suspects to seven.

     

    “Furthermore, not only has the State Director of DSS in Lagos State confirmed to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police that the alleged officer was unknown to them, he equally confirmed that the DSS neither arrested nor handed over any suspect to the police.

     

    “CP Alabi, therefore, urges Nigerians to disregard the write-up as a mischievous attempt by fifth columnists to cause trouble within the country.”

     

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) recalls that six days after David was lynched over N100 change from a commercial motorcycle {Okada} rider, Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, banned their operations in Ikeja, Surulere, Eti-Osa, Lagos Mainland, Lagos Island, and Apapa.

  • Ogun Police arrest 27-year-old cultist for killing own father

    Ogun Police arrest 27-year-old cultist for killing own father

    In Ogun state a 27-year-old man, Sikiru Ibrahim, suspected to be a cultist has stabbed his own father Mumini Ibrahim to death.

    Ogun state police command public relations officer,DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi disclosed that the suspect was apprehended on wednesday after a neighbour of the deceased Abiodun Sunday logded a complaint at the Onipanu divisional headquarters,

    The neighbour informed the police that the deceased, Mumuni Ibrahim, who was until his death a nightguard, returned home and met his son still sleeping.

    As the father questioned why he was still on the bed at that time of the day, “the suspect got annoyed and brought out cutlass with which he macheted the victim in five different places,” the Ogun State police spokesperson said on Saturday.

    According to Oyeyemi, the DPO of the Onipanu Division, CSP Bamidele Job, had immediately mobilized his men to the scene where the suspect was arrested.

    Oyeyemi said the victim was rushed to a General Hospital for treatment, but he died the following day and was buried according to religious rites, as requested by the family.

    “The suspect, who is strongly suspected to be a cultist had no reasonable explanation for his action when interrogated,” the police spokesperson said.

    Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, said the suspect should be moved to the homicide section of the state CIID for further investigation and diligent prosecution.

  • Ekiti poultry farmer shot dead by uñknown gunmen

    Ekiti poultry farmer shot dead by uñknown gunmen

    Unknown gunmen in Ago-Aduloju area of Ado Ekiti area of Ekiti State, has shot dead a poultry farmer in the state.

     

    It was gathered that the farmer had just rounded off work on his farm and entered his vehicle but unknown to him the evil men were already waiting for him.

     

    The farmer was said to have been shot in the head while the killers fled.

     

    Spokesperson for Ekiti State Police Command, ASP Sunday Abutu, confirmed the incident.

     

    In his words: “A distress call was received yesterday being 09/03/2022 at about 18:30hrs by Odo Ado division that a man was shot by two unidentified gunmen right in front of his poultry farm at Ago Aduloju area.

     

    ” A team of police personnel moved to the scene where the victim was met in the pool of his blood.

     

    “He was immediately rushed to the hospital where he was confirmed dead by a medical doctor.”

     

    Abutu explained that investigation had commenced to unravel the identities of the perpetrators, arrest and “bring them to book”.

  • Gov Bello, Police spokesperson want to assassinate me using lethal injection – Melaye raises alarm

    Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye has accused Governor Yahaya Bello of colliding with Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Jimoh Moshood of nursing plans to assassinate him using lethal injection if he ever embarks on a journey to the state (Kogi).

    He said that is why they insist on prosecuting him in Kogi State, instead of Abuja, for a crime he allegedly committed.

    The embattled senator stated this in an interview with BBC Hausa on Monday evening.

    “I have supporters and I already know their plan.

    “Jimoh Moshood Nigerian Police spokesperson and Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state have colluded against me,” he said.

    Speaking further, he said: “I can’t go to Lokoja to defend myself in a court because I doubt I can get to Kogi state alive. This is because they want to use poisonous lethal injection to kill me.”

    He said the police accused him of sponsoring thugs with guns at Abuja Airport road.

    “Why can’t they take me to court in Abuja? Since I was in the lower chamber and now a senator, I never mingled with political thugs. The police are lying because they said, the incident happened in December but failed to say the day and time” he said.

    “I can’t go to Lokoja” he added, saying that it would be too dangerous for him because he survived two assassination attempts at Lokoja.

    “I reported the case to the police. I told them the people I suspected, my local government chairman inclusive. The police raided the council chairman’s house, they found guns, the case is now before a court of law. Unfortunately, the police later turned against me and said the information I gave them was inaccurate.”

    Melaye also denied fleeing Nigeria, saying while he was in Nigeria, nobody notified him with a court summon.

    “I just read from Moshood Jimoh press conference that I was supposed to be in court on the 20th of this month. By then I was in Ghana alongside 10 other senators. We attended the international conference on local context.

    “Even the publicised issue that I would be declared wanted on the 28th of this month, nobody notified me, either in my office or at home, I am not on the run I am innocent.

    “They want to kill me because of the good things I have been doing to the Nigerian masses. We laboured hard to bring this administration to the helm with a sole purpose of serving the poor, to wipe-out their hardship and bring justice. Unfortunately, the reverse is the case.”

    When contacted, Jimoh Moshood, Nigerian Police spokesperson, said the senator has been evading (the police) and that the police are not doctors, hence, they cannot inject him.

    “He said he is having issues in Kogi state and he has to explain whatever he has to say (in Kogi).

    “Let him appear in court on the 28th of this month instead of making false accusations, which is also a criminal offence,” he said.

    Apart from being accused of arming suspected criminals, the outspoken senator is also facing a recall from the Senate.

    The Independent Natioan Electoral Commission, INEC, has announced that it will proceed with the recall, after getting clearance from the Court of Appeal.