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  • Policeman who assaulted Lagos Uber driver, arrested

    Policeman who assaulted Lagos Uber driver, arrested

    A policeman, Obic Modestus, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for assaulting an e-hailing driver.

    The video of the Inspector assaulting the yet-to- be identified driver was shared across social media, including đť•Ź.

    Reacting, Nigerians decried that men of the Nigeria Police Force have yet to learn how to relate with citizens professionally, despite the October 2020 protest against police brutality.

    Nigerian activist and comedy skit maker, Debo Adedayo, known as Mr Macaroni, condemned the action of the police officer in his reaction to the video.

    “Nobody should be treated like this!!! Just look at this barbarism!!! Will you people ever change??? Nigerian Police!!! Please have some shame!” Macaroni wrote in reaction to the video.

    Reacting to the development, the Lagos Police Command spokesman, Benjamin Hundeyin, disclosed that the officer has been arrested.

    Hundeyin noted that the Command’s Commissioner of Police, Olohundare Jimoh, would not condone unprofessional acts of officers. He assured that the officer would face disciplinary measures.

    “The Police Officer, Inspector Obic Modestus, has been summoned by the Complaint Response Unit (CRU). He will be handed over to the Provost Department for appropriate disciplinary measures.

    “The Lagos State Police Command, under CP Olohundare Jimoh, will not condone any form of incivility to members of the public,” he stated.

  • Policeman jubilating over colleague’s promotion shoots nursing mother dead

    Policeman jubilating over colleague’s promotion shoots nursing mother dead

    The Ekiti State Police Commissioner, Adewale Adenirsin has confirmed the arrest of Police officer for killing a nursing mother in Ekiti .

    The CP who was recently promoted to the rank of an Assistant Inspector General of Police said the suspect allegedly killed one Miss Ifeoluwa Adekalu, a mother of one .

    The suspect, said to be a Personnel of the Special Unit of Nigeria Police Force, Rapid Response Squad (RRS) Ekiti State Command committed the act at Okela police post in Ado Ekiti in the afternoon on Thursday.

    It was learnt the young Nursing Mother was coming from a Place where she had gone to pay for her new House rent when she met her untimely death.

    The deceased was said to have been standing across the Road, opposite the police Post when the Officer who had come to the post from another Station fired gun while rejoicing over the news of promotion of one of his Colleagues and hit the Woman.

    The Woman was rushed to the Hospital but later confirmed dead.

    Adeniran noted that, the Officer will face interrogations in line with Nigerian Police Act.

    Late Ifeoluwa Adekalu who is from Ondo State has struggled as a young woman and worked hard in Ado Ekiti in an attempt to make ends meet as a station attendant at BOVAS Petrol Station, Bank Road and Hotel Worker at Delight, Midas and Prosperous Hotels, Ado Ekiti among others.

    The Ekiti Police Command is said to have been making arrangements to take the Corpse to her parents in Ondo State any moment from now in preparation for her burial.

  • Army investigates death of policeman by its personnel

    Army investigates death of policeman by its personnel

    The 81 Division Nigerian Army (NA) has begun investigation surrounding the circumstances of the death of a Police Inspector by its personnel.

    The spokesperson for the Division, Lt.-Col. Olabisi Ayeni, in a statement signed on Thursday, said that the unfortunate incident leading to the death of the Inspector, took place on Wednesday in Lagos state.

    “The soldier suspected to have committed the offence has since been apprehended and handed over to the Military Police for investigation and further disciplinary procedures,” he said.

    Ayeni said that the General Officer Commanding (GO ) 81 Division, Maj.-Gen. Farouk Mijinyawa, commiserated with the family of the deceased and the Nigeria Police on the unfortunate incident.

    “The incident is highly regrettable, given the Division’s commitment to the Nigerian Army Code of Conduct and Rules of Engagement.

    “The Nigerian Army continuously sensitised its personnel not to engage in activities that would tarnish its image and bridge the trust with other security agencies and the civil populace.

    “The Division reassures the general public that a thorough investigation will be conducted, and appropriate disciplinary measures will be taken to ensure that justice is served,” he said.

    The spokesperson said that Nigerian Army would continue to collaborate with other security agencies to ensure security of lives and property in line with the constitutional mandate of the Nigerian Army,” the Division’s spokesperson said.

    NAN investigation reveals that dead police Inspector, Saka Ganiyu, was attached to the Lagos State Traffic Taskforce.

    The incident occurred on Wednesday at about 6.30 a.m. at Volks Bus Stop, along Ojo/Iyana-Iba Road, Ojo Lagos.

    Credible sources told NAN that the officer was carrying out lawful enforcement with his team when they saw an unregistered T4 Volkswagen commercial bus, driving against traffic.

    The said bus was driven by a man who identified himself as a soldier.

    “In the ensuing altercation, the said soldier called his colleagues, who trooped out from Ojo Cantonment Barracks with dangerous weapons and attacked the police team.

    “While the attack was on, the taskforce called for reinforcement and more policemen swiftly mobilised to the scene and repelled the soldiers.

    “One Insp Saka Ganiyu, a member of the team, who sustained injury during the attack was rescued and rushed to Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja, for treatment.

    ” However, the injured officer later died in the hospital while undergoing treatment,” a reliable sources told NAN.

    According to the credible source,  the corpse has been deposited at the mortuary for autopsy and preservation, while the command has begun investigation into the case.

  • Policeman shoots father to death in Borno

    Policeman shoots father to death in Borno

    A Maiduguri based police sergeant has shot his father to death in the Tudu area of the Maduganari community behind the Borno State Police Command headquarters in Maiduguri.

    The officer identified as Linus Wadzani was reported to have shot his father multiple times.

    Findings show that he is a Mobile Police personnel with Mopol 6, Maiduguri, and serves as a security detail at the Borno State House of Assembly.

    Kenneth Daso, the Borno State Police Command Headquarters on Monday briefed pressmen on how the incident happened.

    According to Daso, the deceased was a retired assistant superintendent of police.

    He said the deceased served at the state command with the Mounted Unit.

    Narrating how the incident happened, Daso said Sergeant Linus got home at about 4:30 pm on Sunday and had a heated argument with the father.

    This led him to fire him multiple times with an AK-47 rifle, resulting in his instant death.

    He added that  when police officers visited the compound of the deceased identified as Wadzani Natsiri, a family member disclosed that when Linus got home, there was no one except the father as such no one could give an account of what transpired.

    However, the spokesman said a police patrol team calmed the situation when they received a distress call.

    He said on interrogation, Sergeant Linus confessed to being under the influence of alcohol and other hard substances.

    According to him, a forensic team from the command has been assembled and blood samples of the sergeant collected to determine his mental status. An investigation has begun into the homicide, he said.

  • Stray bullet kills policeman on duty in Jos

    Stray bullet kills policeman on duty in Jos

    A policemen has died after he was hit by a stray bullet on Wednesday  while on duty at the Terminus area of Jos, the Plateau State capital.

    Findings show that trouble started after  a team of policemen met resistance from  hoodlums who defied the State government order to vacate the busy neighbourhood for the free flow of traffic.

    It was further gathered that the hoodlums indiscriminately displayed goods consisting mainly of second-hand clothes, bags, and others on the road despite repeated warning by the authority for them to end the menace.

    In their efforts to resist the Joint Task Force comprising of personnel from the Police, DSS, NSCDC, Immigration, FRSC, and Operation Rainbow saddled with the responsibility of ensuring sanity in the Terminus area and the confrontation saw the firing of warning shots to disperse the mob but the bullet hit the policeman and he died at the spot.

    Confirming the incident, the spokesman of the State Police Command, DSP Alfred Alabo said, “The Joint Task Force comprising of personnel from the Police, DSS, NSCDC, Immigration, FRSC, and Operation Rainbow saddled with the responsibility of ensuring sanity in the Jos Terminus Market area, while conducting a clearance operation today, met stiff resistance from a mob.

    “After all efforts by the team to bring the situation under control proved abortive, an officer from one of the sister agencies fired a warning shot but unfortunately, one Inspector Emmanuel Tanko with AP. No. 336714 attached to 38PM Akwanga, who is on special duty in Plateau State Command was hit by the bullet and he died on the spot.

    “In a bid to restore normalcy to the State, the Commissioner of Police Plateau State Command, CP Emmanuel Adesina, visited the scene to assess the situation.

    “The officer was immediately arrested, and he is currently under investigation at the State CID Jos while the victim’s corpse was deposited at the Bingham University Teaching Hospital in Jos for autopsy.”

    He added that the State Police commissioner, Hassan Yabanet had extended condolences to the family of the deceased officer and the entire Nigeria Police Force over the tragic loss of the diligent and dutiful officer.

    He urged members of the public to always cooperate with the security agencies in the execution of their lawful duties, as the laws the officers were enforcing are for the general good of the citizens.

  • Police inspector jailed 22 years for impregnating his teenage daughter

    Police inspector jailed 22 years for impregnating his teenage daughter

    In Niger state, an Inspector of police, Gbenga Fajuyi has been sentenced to 22 years in the Minna Correctional Centre by the Senior Magistrate Court for allegedly putting his 13-year-old biological daughter in the family way.

    In a cruel manner, Fajuyi was also accused of strangulating and killing the baby his daughter delivered.

    According to the Police First Information Report, marked SMC/MN, CR/06/2023 stated that Gbenga Fajuyi, age 47, sometime in 2019, in the Ungwan Nasarawa area of Tafa LG, lured his biological daughter, an SS1 student of Government Day Secondary School Sabon-Wuse, into his room and forcefully had sexual intercourse with her.

    During the police Investigation, you, Gbenga Fajuyi, confessed to the commission of the offense. After delivery, you took the new-born baby to a nearby river and strangled the baby to death”.

    The police prosecutor, Inspector Lawrence Owette, told the court that the three-count charge contravened Section 18 (2) of the Niger State Child Right Law 2010, Section 390 25 (3), and 397 B of the penal code.

    When the charges were read to him by the Presiding Senior magistrate, Christy Barau, the suspect pleaded guilty to the charge.

    However, the court insisted that due to the serious nature of the offense, and asked the police prosecutor to prove his case and bring along his witnesses and evidence to enable the court to give him the maximum punishment in accordance with the offenses he committed.

    Hence, the prosecutor called the investigating police officer, who invited both the mother of the girl, and the girl, and they claimed the father had canal knowledge of his daughter at age 12 until she got pregnant at the age of 13.

    Delivering judgement, the court’s presiding senior magistrate, Senior Magistrate Christy Barau, described the convict as a monster who, as a law enforcement officer that was supposed to protect the little girl, ended up putting her into adulthood.

    She then pronounced that he was to spend the next 22 years in prison without the option of a fine, and the sentence was to run concurrently

  • Just In: Why I slapped policeman -Seun Kuti

    Just In: Why I slapped policeman -Seun Kuti

    Afrobeat artist, Seun Kuti has revealed why he slapped a police officer in a recent viral video.

    TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) recalls the afrobeat crooner was captured in a viral video assaulting a police operative on duty.

    Reacting via his Instastory on Saturday, Kuti said the officer attempted to kill him and his family members.

    He said the policeman has apologized and he has forgiven him.

    He warned those saying he was chasing clout to mind their business and not let the police officer lose his job.

    Kuti wrote, “He tried to kill me and my family. I have the proof but I no dey chase clout. He has apologised and I have agreed not to press charges.

    “Make una mind una business make the poor guy no lose him job”.

  • Unknown gunmen kill one Policeman, injure three in Ikorodu area of Lagos

    Unknown gunmen kill one Policeman, injure three in Ikorodu area of Lagos

    A Policeman in the Ikorodu area of Lagos state was killed while three others were injured  by persons suspected to be unknown gunmen.

    The Lagos State Police Command on Monday confirmed the killing of the policeman in Ikorodu area of the state to pressmen on Monday.

    It was gathered that the assailants escaped with the rifle of the slain policeman.

    The police spokesman in Lagos State, SP Benjamin Hundeyin told the pressmen that three other police operatives were seriously injured in the attack.

    Operatives of the Imota Police Division in the Ikorodu area were on patrol duty when they came under the assailants’ attack at Emuren Junction, on Itokin Road in the area.

    Local sources said the assailants, suspected to be errand boys of land grabbers, ambushed the police patrol team, opened fire and killed one on the spot and escaped with his rifle.

    “On Saturday, police raided cultists’ hideouts in Emuren, Shagamu Local Government Area of Ogun,’’ a resident said.#

    Findings show that many innocent people had fallen victim to gun attacks by agents of land grabbers in Ikorodu and its environs in the past.

  • Resident doctors begin strike over assault of members by policeman

    Resident doctors begin strike over assault of members by policeman

    Members of the Nigeria Association of Government Medical and Dental Practitioners at the General Hospital, Ilorin, Kwara State, have embarked on a two-day strike over an alleged assault on their colleague by a police sergeant.

    The state Chairman of the Nigeria Medical Association, Dr Ola Ahmed, said the doctors were forced to down tools due to the frequent threat to their lives.

    “After an emergency congress, the doctors have unanimously agreed that no doctor will work in the hospital for 48 hours. We are tired of being a punching bag by the public,” he said.

    Ahmed stated that a sergeant attached to the Police Mobile Force (MOPOL) attacked and assaulted one of the doctors at the general hospital.

    He explained that around 5pm on Sunday, the doctor was assaulted at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology unit, by a police sergeant who brought his sick wife for treatment.

    “The doctor conducted the necessary test and she was later discharged. The sergeant, however, returned to the hospital and attacked the doctor who examined his wife.

    “The sergeant alleged that the doctor did not seek his consent before examining his wife and that in his culture, it is a taboo,” he said.

    Ahmed pointed out that the woman was not a minor but an adult, adding that there was a colleague around before the test was conducted.

    He observed that the doctor sustained an injury before he was rescued from the policeman.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that Ahmed noted that the accused person had been arrested and is presently detained by the police.

    “It is terrible that this is happening to us. Our workload is much, coupled with all the social issues, including naira and fuel scarcity. We come to work as early as 7am and go home late, and people we are trying to save are abusing and attacking doctors.

    “We have used all necessary means to enlighten the public through jingles, banners and talk shows on warning the public to desist from assaulting our members (doctors).

    “Similar incident happened at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital. If people are ready to take the law into their hands, we will not allow our doctors to die,” he added.

    Resident doctors begin strike over assault of members by policeman

    Ahmed explained that they were not blaming the state government in any way, but merely safeguarding the lives of their members.

    Reacting to the development, the Chief Medical Director of General Hospital, Ilorin, Dr Bola Abdulkadir, said management was aware of the incident and was doing all it could to de-escalate the situation.

    Abdulkadir also confirmed that the state government was aware of the attack and had been doing all it could to ensure the safety of doctors.

    “We appeal to them that the management and the state government are doing everything possible to prevent a recurrence.

    “The consultants will continue to care for patients, so there will be skeletal services that will be rendered,” he assured.

    The CMD commended the efforts and sacrifice of all health workers in ensuring they save the lives of people in the hospital.

  • Nigerian Army reacts to killing of soldier by Policeman in Lagos

    Nigerian Army reacts to killing of soldier by Policeman in Lagos

    The Nigerian Army on Thursday reacted to the alleged killing of a Soldier by a Policeman on Wednesday in Lagos State.

    The reaction is contained in a statement signed by Lt.-Col. Olabisi Ayeni, Deputy Director, Public Relations, 81 Division Nigerian Army.

    Ayeni claimed that the victim (soldier) allegedly confronted the suspect (Policeman) who was not properly dressed and standing very close to a patrol vehicle of Operation MESA, to confirm his identity.

    “This led to an argument and subsequently, the unfortunate incident.

    “The soldier was immediately rushed to the  Lagos State Polytechnic Hospital, Odogunyan, for medical attention, but was declared dead on arrival.

    “The corpse of the soldier has been moved to 174 Battalion Medical Centre in Ikorodu,” the army spokesperson said.

    He said the suspect was arrested and kept in military custody for his safety and subsequently handed over to the Nigeria Police Force for prosecution.

    “However, an angry mob, who witnessed the unfortunate incident, took advantage of this and attacked the Police Station in the community.

    “Troops have been deployed around the vicinity of all police stations in Ikorodu area to prevent breakdown of law and order.

    “The situation is under control as normalcy has returned to the community,” Ayeni said.

    Recall that the angry mob at Ogijo Community, a border town between Ogun and Lagos States, on Wednesday attacked a Police station following the death of the soldier who was allegedly stabbed to death by the Policemen.