The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Olukayode Adeolu Egbetokun, PhD, NPM, has ordered the deployment of the newly promoted Deputy Inspector-General of Police, DIG Mohammed Usaini Gumel and seventeen Commissioners of Police to strategic department, commands and formations across the nation. The deployments are intended to strengthen operational capacity, effective leadership, enhance public safety, and improve...
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PRESS RELEASEIGP ORDERS DEPLOYMENT OF DIG GUMEL, 17 COMMISSIONERS OF POLICE TO STRATEGIC DEPARTMENT, COMMANDS AND FORMATIONS, HARPS ON PROFESSIONALISM, INTEGRITY AND EFFECTIVE SERVICE DELIVERY
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Olukayode Adeolu Egbetokun, PhD, NPM, has ordered the deployment of the newly promoted Deputy Inspector-General of Police, DIG Mohammed Usaini Gumel and seventeen Commissioners of Police to strategic department, commands and formations across the nation. The deployments are intended to strengthen operational capacity, effective leadership, enhance public safety, and improve...
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FCT Police Command Arrests Pastor Following Alleged Assassination Threat To Nyesom Wike.
The Rivers State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of a Port Harcourt-based pastor over an alleged plot to assassinate the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike. The arrest comes amid an unresolved political confrontation between Wike and Rivers state Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, which has continued to heighten tensions across the state. According to...
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Trigger Happy Nigerian Soldier Allegedly Shoots A 13-Year-Old Boy After Cross Over Church Service In Akwa Ibom On January 1
On January 1, 2026, junior secondary student Timothy Daniel from Port Harcourt was shot in the head and killed along Akongntekong Road in Ukpum Ete, Ikot Abasi, after attending a crossover service at Mount Zion Full Gospel Church. According to Inibehe Effiong, a human rights lawyer who is seeking for justice, revealed that the deceased...
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Ex-Arizona Lawmaker Who Questioned Election Integrity To Be Sentenced For Using Forged Signatures
A former Republican lawmaker who questioned the integrity of Arizona’s elections and served as a leader for the conservative group Turning Point Action is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday for using nominating petitions that contained forged signatures in a bid to qualify for a 2024 primary election. Austin Smith, 30, pleaded guilty in mid-November to...
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Afghan National To Serve 15-Year Imprisonment Over Election Day Terror, US Immigration And Customs Enforcement To Deport Him Thereafter
An Afghan national who plotted an Election Day terror attack will serve a 15-year prison sentence. Abdullah Haji Zada held a U.S. green card when he conspired on behalf of ISIS to receive two AK-47-style rifles and 500 rounds of ammo — knowing their intended use was a violent 2024 Election Day attack. ICE Homeland...
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Troops Seize 13 AK-47s And Explosives In Successful Taraba Operation.
Troops of Operation Whirl Stroke have recovered a cache of assault rifles, ammunition and grenades in Takum Local Government Area of Taraba State, in a raid the military said delivered a major blow against criminal networks operating in the Benue–Taraba axis. In a statement posted by the Acting Media Information Officer HQ JTF Operation Whirl...
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Trial Begins For Officer Accused Of Failing To Protect Children During Uvalde School Shooting
One of the first police officers to respond to the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, goes on trial Monday on charges that he failed to protect children during the attack, when authorities waited more than an hour to confront the gunman. Adrian Gonzales, a former Uvalde schools officer, faces 29 counts of child abandonment...
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Cuba Confirms 32 Military And Intelligence Officers Killed During Maduro’s Capture.
Cuban government has said 32 of its citizens had been killed in the US attacks in Venezuela, including military or intelligence personnel, a rare public signal of Cuba’s importance to Venezuela and the Maduro government. According to Cuban state media, President Miguel Díaz-Canel of Cuba said the casualties were personnel from the country’s armed forces or its interior...
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Nigeria Army kills two bandits, arrests suspected logistics supplier in Kogi Hassan Abdullahi, the acting assistant director of Army Public Relations for the brigade, said the operations followed credible intelligence on bandits’ movements in the areasJanuary 4, 2026
Troops of the Nigerian Army’s 12 Brigade have killed at least two suspected bandits and arrested a man described as a logistics supplier in Kabba Bunu and Yagba West local government areas of Kogi State. Hassan Abdullahi, the acting assistant director of Army Public Relations for the brigade, said the operations followed credible intelligence on...