Police

“I am still in charge, no change of guard,” Edgal told newsmen at Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja, where he was expected to hand over to a new Acting Commissioner, Kayode Egbetokun.

The Police Command in Ekiti State said on Tuesday that it had arrested a six-man robbery gang that allegedly killed Michael Adedeji, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state House of Assembly.

The unit comprises Police Mobile Force, Counter Terrorist Unit and the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad.

In his address read during the passing out parades at the police training schools in Maiduguri, Enugu and Minna, Idris said the constables had completed their seven-month basic police training.

Dozens of protesters, some wearing high-visibility vests, sat on the AP 7 highway, which runs down the Mediterranean coast, hands held in the air as police, in riot gear, pulled them from the road.

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The Police Commissioner, Abdurrahman Ahmad, made the disclosure at a press briefing in Kaduna.

Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and the Police have taken over the jobs of National Assembly staff.

This followed the directive of the leadership of the National Assembly to the Department of State Services and the police to secure the complex for sitting on Tuesday

The Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, SP Haruna Mohammed, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Awka.

The information was contained in a statement by the Force Spokesman, acting DCP Jimoh Moshood, on Sunday in Abuja.

In a condolence message to the command, NANS demanded that the culprit must be made to face the consequences of his action to serve as deterrent to others.

The Force Public Relations Officer, Ag. DCP Jimoh Moshood, told newsmen on Friday in Lagos that the suspects operated the factory from a four-bedroom building located at No. 2 Okunnenye Street, Ikotun Egbe area of the state.

The suspects are : Emeka Madu, 47, aka Cabara, owner of  the factory; Eze Young, 26, staff of the factory; Chijioke Umunna, 19, staff of the factory and Kingsley Obilo, 22 , also staff of the factory.

Edgal’s order is contained in a statement signed by the spokesman of the command, CSP Chike Oti, who did not name the officer.

Chukwu told News Agency of Nigeria by telephone that the incident occurred at about 8:30 p.m. on the outskirts of Maiduguri.

Mohammed, who made the assertion at a workshop on Human Rights organized for police officers in Port Harcourt on Monday, cautioned against the use of such tactics on suspects.

Spokesman of the command, Othman Abubakar, a Superintendent of Police, confirmed the arrest to newsmen in Yola.

Teams of police and state security officials in the southwestern city of Chengdu came to the homes of leaders and members of the Early Rain Covenant Church, late on Sunday and detained them, according to church announcements.

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.