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In the wake of viral videos showing soldiers and officers of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) engaged in brawls across the state, the traffic says such an occurrence will not repeat itself. The General Manager of LASTMA, Mr Bolaji Oreagba, disclosed…

The Ogun Area 1 Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has intercepted 1,245 live ammunition allegedly concealed in 203 bags of foreign rice abandoned in a bush path at Tombolo Junction, near the Yewa North Local Government Area (LGA) of Ogun State. This…

The Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Sunday, facilitated the extradition of Samuel Ogoshi and his brother, Samson, to the United States for sexually extorting several young men and teenage boys. The victims were located in the…

In a shocking incident, a 37-year-old father of three, Taye Agbaje, has been taken into police custody for the alleged murder of his younger brother’s two children, Promise, aged nine, and seven-year-old Testimony in the Kemta region of Abeokuta, Ogun State. The Spokesperson…

About five senior officials in the Department of Farm Inputs Supports Services of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development were arrested by operatives of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission over alleged diversion of funds. They were said…

A 33-year-old suspected armed robber, Akeem Owonikoko, has alleged that a police inspector, identified simply as Ola, supplied him and other gang members with guns, the Ogun State Police Command said on Sunday. According to a statement by the Police Public Relations Officer,…

PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has admonished young police officers to shun all forms of corruption and adhere to the ethics of modern policing in discharging their duties. The President gave the charge at the graduation ceremony of 169 graduands of the Nigerian Police Academy,…

A grandfather identified as Monday Chukwuka has been arrested by the Oyo State Police Command for allegedly selling his one-day-old grandchild for N700,000. The Command, in a statement signed by the State Public Relations Officer, Adewale Osifeso, made available to press on Saturday,…

The Osun State Police Command has arrested some policemen for allegedly extorting some youths in the state. The policemen at a roadblock along Ile-Ogbo in Iwo axis were said to have stopped a vehicle and compelled the occupants to transfer money into the…

The Acting Inspector General of Police (IG-P), Kayode Egbetokun, says promotion in the Police Force will henceforth be based on merit. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Egbetokun stated this while addressing officers and men of the Kano State Police Command on…