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The Commissioner of Police, Delta State Command, CP Aina Adesola, on Friday, continued his familiarisation visits to sister security agencies across the state as part of efforts to strengthen inter-agency collaboration and coordinated security operations. Accompanied by members of the Command’s Management Team, the CP paid courtesy visits to the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), the Delta State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), and the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), RS 5.2 Delta Sector Command. During the visits, CP Adesola emphasised the importance of sustained collaboration, intelligence sharing, and operational synergy among security agencies to enhance effective…

The Nigeria Police Force INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB), Abuja, has successfully repatriated the sum of $23,000 recovered from an international romance scammer to the victim in The Cayman Islands. A statement signed by the Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Ag. ACP Benjamin Hundeyin, on Friday, said the repatriation followed a request received from the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service seeking assistance of the INTERPOL NCB Abuja to investigate a Nigerian national, Achufusi Obioma Ikenna, who defrauded a resident of the Cayman Islands through an online romance scam. Acting on the request, INTERPOL NCB Abuja conducted discreet, intelligence-led investigations which…

The Police Command in Ondo State says it has arrested a 40-year-old landlady, Nafisat Lateef, in connection with the alleged poisoning of her tenant’s three-year-old son in Odigbo Local Government Area of the state. DSP Abayomi Jimoh, the command’s Spokesperson, made this known in a statement on Friday in Akure. Jimoh said the incident was reported on Thursday, Feb.5 at the Odigbo Police Division by the victim’s mother, Rofiyat, aged 32, both residents of Omifon, Odigbo. According to the report, the incident occurred on Wednesday Feb.4 at about 8:30 a.m., when the suspect allegedly gave the victim identified as Abdulrasheed,…

The All Progressives Congress has replaced Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, with former Katsina State governor, Aminu Bello Masari, as Chairman of the National Convention Central Coordination Committee ahead of the party’s March 27 and 28, 2026 convention. This was contained in a statement signed by the National Secretary of the APC, Surajudeen Basiru, and posted on the party’s official X page on Friday. “In further consultation with the leadership and national stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Central Coordination Committee for the 2020 National Convention has been reconstituted. “Sub-committees of the Central Coordination Committee will be constituted…

Troops of the Nigerian Army have dismantled kidnappers’ hideouts in Edo North Senatorial District, apprehended 13 suspects and recovered arms, drugs and other incriminating items. This is contained in a statement on Friday by the acting Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, 4 Brigade Nigerian Army, Capt. Kennedy Anyanwu. Anyanwu said the operation, carried out on Feb. 4 by troops of 4 Brigade in collaboration with the Nigerian Air Force, Nigeria Police Force, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and the Edo State Security Corps, targeted Osara, Auchi and Okpella communities in Etsako West Local Government Area. He said the…

The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has ordered the immediate deployment of tactical and intelligence assets to Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara State following a violent attack that claimed lives on Tuesday. The Force Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, in a statement on Thursday, described the incident as “deeply painful and tragic,” while assuring that the perpetrators would be apprehended. He said, “The Nigeria Police Force strongly condemns the violent attack that occurred on Tuesday, 3rd February, 2026, in Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara State, which has sadly resulted in the confirmed death of seventy-five persons.” The police…

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is currently meeting with the Governor of Kwara State, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, at the State House, Abuja, following the deadly attack on Worro community in Kaiama council area of the state. The meeting is coming barely two days after more than 160 people were reported killed in the rural settlement in an assault authorities have linked to suspected jihadist fighters. Sources at the State House said the engagement is part of ongoing consultations on the security situation in Kwara and the immediate federal response to the killings. On Wednesday, Tinubu ordered the deployment of an army battalion…

Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a man, identified as Gafaru Rasaki, for the unlawful possession of four human heads in Sagamu area of the state. The arrest was disclosed in a statement issued on Thursday by the command’s Public Relations Officer, CSP Oluseyi Babaseyi, and made available to journalists in Abeokuta. According to the statement, Rasaki was arrested on January 21, 2026, by officers attached to the Shakura Division during a routine operation in the area. Babaseyi said preliminary investigations revealed that the suspect allegedly exhumed the human remains from a cemetery. “On the 21st of…

The Yobe State Police Command has arrested an 18-year-old suspected burglar, Shettima Adamu, alongside five alleged accomplices over cases of criminal conspiracy, trespass, theft, and receiving stolen property in the state. The suspects were arrested following complaints from shop owners in the Bayan Tasha and Nayi Nawa areas of the Yobe State capital, Damaturu, over repeated incidents of burglary and theft involving goods valued at about ₦530,000. In a statement issued on Thursday, the Police Public Relations Officer of the command, SP Dungus Abdulkarim, said operatives of the A Divisional Police Headquarters arrested Adamu at about 4 a.m. on February…

Operatives of the Delta State Police Command have successfully rescued four kidnapped victims from their abductors’ den inside Ewu forests in Ughelli South Local Government Area. Two expended 7.5mm ammunition rounds were also recovered from the kidnappers’ hideouts, while intensive bush combing and manhunt operations are ongoing to apprehend the fleeing suspects. This was contained in a statement signed and released by the police public relations officer for Delta State Command, SP Bright Edafe, copies of which were made available to journalists in Warri on Thursday. The police statement noted that on February 2, 2026, at about 2130 hours, five…