The Kogi State Command of the Nigeria Police has confirmed the gruesome killing of Rev. Fr. Samuel Opeyemi Oyetoro, a Catholic priest whose lifeless body was discovered by the roadside in Ajaokuta on Wednesday.
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A Kano High Court on Thursday sentenced a 19-year-old woman, Saudat Jibrin, to death by hanging for the murder of her 30-year-old husband, Salisu Idris, just nine days after their wedding.
Jibrin, who resides in Kumbosto Local Government Area of Kano State, was charged with culpable homicide.
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No fewer than 15 persons have been reportedly killed, and many others remain unaccounted for, after suspected herdsmen launched an unprovoked attack on Efeyi community in Ugboju district of Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue State.
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The Nigeria Police Force has clarified comments made by the Inspector-General of Police, Olatunji Disu, regarding officers’ use of firearms. The Force stated that the IG did not give a “shoot-on-sight” directive targeting people with illegal weapons.
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Operatives of the Bayelsa State Police Command have taken three employees of the State Ministry of Labour, Empowerment and Productivity into custody over the alleged theft of government equipment valued at more than N500 million.
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Operatives of the Katsina State Police Command have apprehended a suspected drug dealer believed to be supplying narcotics to armed bandits in Funtua Local Government Area
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The Kwara State Police Command has commenced a full-scale investigation into the killing of a cocoa farmer, Mr. Azeez Garba, whose body was discovered on his farmland along the Owa-Onire axis, the boundary between Isanlu-Isin and Owu-Isin in Isin Local Government Area.
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The FCT Police Command says it has rescued four kidnap victims following a fierce gun battle with their abductors in the Mpape area of Abuja.
FCT Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh, disclosed this in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja.
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Unidentified gunmen have abducted three students of the Federal University of Lafia (FULafia) from their off-campus hostel in Nasarawa State, with police successfully rescuing one of the victims.
The Nasarawa State Police Command confirmed the incident in a statement posted on X on Wednesday. According to the police, the students were kidnapped from their residence along Awe Road, near the university’s temporary campus in Akunza, Lafia.
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The Niger State Commissioner for Women Affairs, Hajiya Hadiza Kuta, has confirmed the arrest of a police officer attached to the State Police Command for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl. Two other suspects were also arrested for repeatedly assaulting the victim.
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