Crime

The National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) on Friday urged parents to stop putting undue pressure on their children to prevent them from falling victims to human traffickers.

The state’s Commissioner of Police, Damian Chukwu, made the discourse in a statement on Friday in Maiduguri.

AVM Olatokunbo Adesanya, NAF’s Director of Public Relations and Information, who confirmed this in a statement on Friday in Abuja, said the operation was conducted on Sunday.

The Police Command Public Relations Officer, Muhammad Shehu, said in a statement made available to journalists that Zango was shot dead at his residence in Gusau this Friday.

The Nigerian Mission in South Africa announced on Friday that police officers implicated in the alleged murder of a Nigerian, Ibrahim Badmus, would be charged to court soon.

The Commandant General of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Abdullahi Gana Muhammadu, on Wednesday held a meeting with Chief Executive Officers of various security companies in Nigeria.

The Kwara State Government has raised the alarm over vandalisation and theft of streetlight cables and bulbs and other components of solar farm tunnels currently being built in Ilorin under the Light-Up Kwara project.

A pro-Abubakar Atiku support group, Atiku Renaissance Group, has accused the Federal Government of planning to frame Former president, Atiku Abubakar, for the killings by suspected herdsmen.

The Chief of Army, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, says there there is no going back in operation to rid the North East of remnants of terrorists and charged troops to remain focus.

Modu said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday at the Borno state Police Command, Maiduguri.

Abubakar Kori, a dwarf, who facilitated the suicide bombing activities of ‘Boko-Haram’ insurgents, said he was paid not less than N5, 000 for each suicide bomb attack carried out by the insurgents in Maiduguri.

Kogi Police Command Public Relation Officer, DSP William Aya, told newsmen that Sani was assassinated in his Idah residence in the evening of Tuesday, July 17.

A yet-to-be-identified motorcyclist was shot dead in the early hours of Thursday by unknown gunmen at the new Adeoyo Hospital Road in the Fodasis area of Ibadan, the Oyo state capital.

The Bill was introduced by Hon. Kayode Oladele.

The House of Representatives has urged the Inspector-General of Police to constitute a team of detectives to fish out those behind the murder of four policemen in Edo.

The President of Nigerian Union in South Africa, Adetola Olubajo, has called on the South African authorities to arrest and prosecute killers of Nigerians in that country.

The body of a middle-aged man reportedly killed by a hit-and-run truck was found at Costain area of Lagos on Wednesday, reports the News Agency of Nigeria.

No fewer than three people were reported killed, with scores injured as unknown gunmen attacked two communities, Sikida and Gyaddu Villages in Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara.

Adamu Shehu, the Spokesman, Jigawa Command, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, confirmed the incident to NAN in Dutse on Wednesday.

The Police in Borno have arrested 22 suspected Boko Haram members including those who participated in the abduction of Chibok school girls.