Tag: policeman
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Court sentences policeman to death for killing 17-year-old boy
The Bayelsa State High Court sitting in Yenagoa has sentenced a former policeman, Corporal Vincent Koluama-Owei to death by hanging for an extra-judicial killing of 17-year-old Innocent Kokorifa. Kokorifa, who was running an errand for his mother, was shot dead on 18 August, 2016 near the Air Force Base, Okaka, Yenagoa, by a patrol team…
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Soldier, policeman, lecturer, 97 other Nigerians abscond during pilgrimage in Israel
The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Tor Uja, has said 100 Christian pilgrims absconded during the 2017 pilgrimage to Israel. Uja, who made this known while receiving security report of the 2017 pilgrimage on Monday in Abuja, said that no pilgrim absconded in Rome and Greece. The NCPC boss said that…
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Policeman shoots NYSC member to death on eve of passing out
A policeman has allegedly shot dead a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member serving in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The deceased, Linda Angela Igwetu, was billed to pass out of the NYSC programme on Thursday (today) after a compulsory one-year service in Abuja. She served at Outsource Global Company in Mabushi. The late…
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Lagos student, four others killed as police, hoodlums clash in Mushin
Not less than five people including a student and a policeman were feared killed in cult-related violence in Mushin area of Lagos on Monday and yesterday. Two traders were killed inside Ladipo International Market on Monday evening by suspected cultists. A policeman, a hoodlum and a pupil died during a clash at Idi-Oro area in…
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Drunken policeman kills graduate of Kogi State Polytechnic
There was pandemonium in Ajaokuta town on Sunday after a drunken police officer shot dead a father of one. The victim, Mohammed Ismail, met untimely death at a rally of one of the chairmanship aspirants in the Ajaokuta Local Government Area, Abdulrahaman Dansabe, at the Local Government Secondary School, Ajaokuta. It was reliably gathered that…
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‘How drunk policeman almost shot me in Lagos’- Alaafin of Oyo’s son, Tillaman
Musician son of the Alaafin of Oyo, Prince Adeyemi Adetona popularly known as Tillaman has described how he escaped being shot by a drunken policeman at the Abraham Adesanya Area of Epe Local Government in Lagos on Monday. Tillaman took to his social media accounts to describe his ‘horrible experience’ in the hands of the…
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Trending Video: Drunk policeman sleeps in mud
A video of a drunken policeman sleeping on a muddy busy road has gone viral. The video, exclusively solicited by TheNewsGuru.com shows the drunken policeman sleeping helplessly on a dirty muddy floor. The policeman, whose identity could not be immediately identified as at press time could not even move in response to the noise by…
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BREAKING: Gunmen invade another Anambra church, kill policeman
Gunmen on Sunday struck at the Assemblies of God Church on the Oguta road Onitsha, Anambra State killing one policeman and a civilian., PUNCH reports. The church is located on Oguta road in Onitsha. The attack comes exactly a week after a Catholic church was attacked in the Ozubulu area of the state. According to…
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Theft at Jonathan’s home: Court grants N7m bail to dismissed policeman
A Magistrate’s Court in Abuja on Tuesday granted bail in the sum of N7 million with one surety to a dismissed police officer, Musa Musa, who was arraigned for stealing former President Goodluck Jonathan’s property. Musa was also charged for mischief and theft, contrary to Section 353,326 and 288 of the Penal Code. The charge…
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Policeman shoots wife, maid, then kills self
The Nasarawa State Police Command said on Sunday that a police officer, Thomas Agada, in the early hours of Sunday, shot and killed himself at Masaka in Karu Local Government Area of the state. The command’s spokesperson, Kennedy Idirisu, told news men in Lafia that late Mr. Agada served at the Police command in the…