LAW ENFORCEMENT

Members of the Nigeria Association of Government Medical and Dental Practitioners at the General Hospital, Ilorin, Kwara State, have commenced two days strike over an alleged assault on their colleague. The News Agency of Nigeria reported that the state Chairman of the Nigeria Medical Association,…

The Nigeria Police Force has asked candidates of the All Progressives Congress, Peoples Democratic Party, Labour Party, New Nigerian Peoples Party, among others, to rein in their supporters from making inciting comments “capable of unnecessarily heating up the polity and creating undue…

Police in Rivers State, south-south Nigeria, said they have arrested three of their personnel for alleged electoral malpractice in the state. The police spokesperson in Rivers, Grace Iringe-Koko, who disclosed this in a statement on Monday, said the arrest followed a viral video of the alleged…

Three sexagenarian grandfathers and a Nigerien top the list of suspects arrested in connection with the seizure of over 52.252Kg of cocaine, methamphetamine, and skunk as well as 32,590 pills of opioids in Lagos, Kwara, Plateau, Sokoto and two courier companies by…

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission monitoring the presidential and National Assembly polls arrested some suspected vote-buyers in Benue State on Saturday. A lecturer with the Sarwuan Tarka University (formerly known as the University of Agriculture), Makurdi, Dr. Cletus Tyokyaa was…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a 73-year-old woman, Comfort Muoneke, for been in possession of 20 Permanent Voter Cards. Two of her accomplice, Afekhana Esther and Segun Osaimokhai were also arrested. The EFCC in a statement on its Facebook handle on…

Lagos State Commissioner of Police (CP), Owohunwa Idowu, on Saturday said many suspects had been arrested over election related offences and exhibits recovered from them. He said this during interview with journalists shortly after he returned from Maryland where there were skirmishes. Idowu who…

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has taken into custody one Hassan Ahmad in possession of N2 million cash allegedly meant for a politician in Gombe. The ICPC Spokesperson,  Mrs MrsAzuka Ogugua, who said this in a statement in…

A Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps vehicle conveying election materials from Abuja to Lagos crashed on Friday evening, election eve. The accident reportedly occurred at the Giri Roundabout bridge in Abuja. The vehicle was also carrying operatives of the NSCDC to Lagos. In a…

The massive operation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to deter vote trading and other financial malfeasance ahead of Saturday’s presidential and national assembly elections may have begun paying dividends with the interception in Lagos of the sum of N32,400,000…