(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The decision by the Central Bank of Nigeria to introduce a 0.5 per cent cybersecurity levy to be charged on all bank transactions has sparked reactions on social media. The African Examiner writes that the Central Bank of Nigeria on Monday, issued a circular to all commercial, merchant, non-interest, and payment service […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia says it has arrested and detained about 800 Nigerians for various offences which border on irregular migration. This was announced in a statement signed by the Head of, Public Relations Unit, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Gabriel Odu, on Friday. The Saudi authorities stated that 45,458 illegal migrants […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Operatives of the Enugu state police Command have arrested three male armed Robbery Suspects in the state. It said “one Chukwuneku Monday (a.k.a “Boss”) aged 39 and Agu Emmanuel (a.k.a “Fuckoyor”) aged 22, were arrested in their criminal hideout at New Artisan Enugu, on 23/01/2023; while Nnamani Monday (a.k.a “Sewa”) aged 21, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Enugu Chief Magistrates’ Court Grade 1, presided over by Mrs. U.I. Jideofor, on Thursday remanded Mrs. Ujunwa Ugwuoke, in the Enugu Correctional Centre, for allegedly killing nine year-old Miss Precious Korshima, her house help. The charge No. MEN/14C/2023 – Commissioner of Police vs Ugwuoke was explained to her in Igbo language. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company EEDC says its collaboration with Stakeholders in curbing activities of vandals across its network is yielding the desired result, as Vigilante group on Thursday nabbed two suspected vandals of her installation in Anambra and Enugu states. According to the Organization, this is evident as most communities are […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Operatives of the Anambra State police Command have arrested nine Suspects for Vandalizing an electricity mast, just as they recovered two stolen vehicles. The command Spokesman, DSP Ikenga Tochukwu, said : “On 15/1/2023 by 3:am Police Operatives in conjunction with the Vigilante group and acting on credible information at New Site, Ikpo […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A teacher (name withheld), on Tuesday told an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court how her neighbour, Jubril Zakari, allegedly defiled her two-year-old child in his room. The witness, a resident of Ojo in Lagos, said she met the defendant naked in his room with his penis erected while her […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it has arrested a Brazil based drug dealer, Okafor Moses in connection with over 2.55 kilograms of cocaine. This is contained in a statement signed by NDLEA’s Director, Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi, in Abuja on Sunday. He said that drugs were recovered […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Commissioner of Police in Lagos, CP Hakeem Odumosu, has said that all the police stations burnt in the state during last year’s EndSARS protests are now undergoing renovation. Odumosu, who disclosed this to the African Examiner on Sunday, stressed that some of the police stations had been completed and were now ready […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER0 – The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Baba, has ordered the immediate posting of Bartholomew Onyeka to the Plateau State Police Command as the new Commissioner of Police. This followed the redeployment of CP Edward Egbuka to the Force headquarters for other national engagements. This is happening five days after the Speaker, Plateau […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) -Benue Police Command has assured residents of the state that it will soon apprehend the criminal elements luring young women into hidden places and killing them for unknown reasons. This is contained in a statement issued by its Spokeperson, Mrs Sewuese Anene, on Monday in Makurdi. “The command is on the trail of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Two people have been killed after an attack on the police divisional headquarters at Unwana, Afikpo North LGA of Ebonyi state. This development is coming on the heels of another attack on a police station in Ohuakwu LGA of the state. Loveth Odah, spokesperson of the Ebonyi police command, confirmed the incident […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police in Lagos State said on Sunday that they were clamping down on cultists in Ikorodu and other parts of the state. Police spokesman in the state, CSP Adekunle Ajisebutu, said this in reaction to allegation of police illegal detention of some students of Lagos State Polytechnic, Ikorodu Campus, over alleged cultism. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – THE Kaduna State Police Command stated that that it arrested kidnappers of students of Greenfield University as well as students of the Bethel Baptist High School, all in the state. Also in the police net are kidnappers of the 37 students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, in Igabi LGA […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Council meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, has confirmed Usman Alkali Baba as Inspector General of Police (IGP). Minister of Police Affairs, Alhaji Maigari Dingyadi, who disclosed this to State House Correspondents after the meeting, said Baba was unanimously confirmed. President Buhari had on April 6, appointed Baba as […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The acting Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, on Thursday, disclosed that the disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) created a vacuum in Nigeria’s Police effort at fighting insecurity. The acting IGP spoke at the weekly Ministerial briefing, organized by the Presidential Communications Team at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. He […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Acting Inspector-General of Police, Alkali Baba, has ordered the immediate disbandment of the IGP Monitoring Satellite Offices in Lagos and Port Harcourt over complaints of harassment and operating beyond their briefs by Nigerians. Speaking at his maiden meeting with Command Police Commissioners and zonal AIGs, in Abuja , Baba said the IGP […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Security agencies have started a massive man hunt for 1,884 inmates of Owerri Custodial Centre, Imo State, who escaped when the facility was attacked by gunmen on Monday morning. Six escaped inmates willingly returned to the facility and 35 others did not escape during the attack. The attackers invaded the facility at […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state police Command under the watch of Commissioner, Mohammed Ndatsu Aliyu, have arrested four (4) male criminal suspects Involved in various crimes. According to the Command, the offences ranges from armed robbery, unlawful possession of firearm, burglary, stealing and cultism. The state police public Relations officer, PPRO, Daniel Ndukwe, who […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ogun State Police Command has arrested eight members of a family for the alleged kidnapping of people in Sagamu . Six members of the syndicate comprising the father, Oweniwe Okpara and three of his children: Samson Okpara, Bright Okpara and Eze Okpara as well as one Christian Ishaha and Emmanuel Joseph […]
