The command’s spokesman, DSP Nnamdi Omoni, said in Port Harcourt that operatives from the Bori Police Station, in a coordinated operation, trailed the deceased and his gang to their hideout in a forest at Okwale in the boundary between Rivers and Abia States.
Browsing: Nnamdi Omoni
The Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Nnamdi Omoni, disclosed this in a statement in Port Harcourt
They were killed on Monday when armed gunmen attacked the bullion van they were escorting.
The deceased, a professor of Microbiology, lived with his family in his personal house, not far from the state-owned Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Rumuorlumeni
The Police in Rivers have ruled out terrorist attack in the explosion that occurred at the Port Harcourt Mall, popularly called Spar.
The incident happened on Thursday at Community Secondary School, Oroworukwo in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
Five oil workers were on Tuesday kidnapped by gunmen within the Oil Mining Lease 55 operated by an indigenous oil company, Belemaoil Producing Limited, in Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The Police in Rivers say they have secured the unconditional release of four abducted staffers of the National Emergency Management Agency.
The police command in Rivera says it has intensified security and restricted movement in four local government areas of the state where supplementary election will hold on Saturday.
As thousands of applicants await Short Message Service for recruitment into the Nigeria Police Force, the Police Command in Rivers says those with criminal records will not be recruited.
The police in Rivers on Tuesday said that cultists and thugs that had lost patronage from politicians were behind the upsurge in killings in the state.
The Police Command in Rivers on Monday said some suspected cultists had been arrested in connection with the death of three persons in Mgbodohia, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state.
The Rivers State Police Commad has appealed to residents of Port Harcourt to continue to show understanding and cooperation with the command’s continuous closure of Port Harcourt-Aba Road.
The Police Command in Rivers has confirmed the kidnap of Dr. Anugbom Anuoha, the Special Adviser to Governor Nyesom Wike on Lands and Survey by unknown gunmen in military uniform.
The incident occurred on Tuesday in Alesha community near Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
The command’s Spokesman, Nnamdi Omoni, told News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Port Harcourt that the suspect allegedly killed Miss Better Wovez, 32, and buried her in his sitting room.
Gunmen suspected to be cultists have killed the traditional ruler of Elibrada community in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State, Eze Augustine Amadionu, and beheaded two others.
The Rivers Police Command says it has restored normalcy after suspected members of Indigenous People of Biafra allegedly burnt trucks belonging to Dangote Industries Ltd.
The Police Command in Rivers has arrested one Sunny Williams and three others for alleged illegal tax collection from truck drivers and traders at Oyigbo in Oyigbo Local Government Area of the state.
The spokesman of the command, DSP. Nnamdi Omoni, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday that investigation into the killing was, however, continuing.