The Nigeria Police Arrest 34 Year Old Tik Toker Arrested For Instigating Violence
By Oluwakemi Kindness The Nigeria police has arrested a 34-year-old TikToker, Suleiman Yakubu, resident of Jos North, for instigating violence. His arrest follows a recent viral video on TikTok, where an individual incited violence against state critical infrastructures, law enforcement agencies, and private individuals in Plateau State, in connection with the planned nationwide protest. Parading […]
FCT Police Command Vows To Resist Violence During The Planned Nationwide Protest.
The Nigerian Police, FCT Command has vowed to resist violence during the planned nationwide protest slated for August 1. A statement by Police Public Relations Officer, Josephine Adeh in Abuja on Friday, said the FCT Command has also deployed a total of four thousand two hundred police officers to curb any form of violence that […]
Defence Headquarters Warns That The Planned Nationwide Protest.
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ), says the planned nationwide protest has the potential of degenerating into anarchy, and reign of terror based on the situational analysis by the military high command. Director, Defence Media Operations, Major General Edward Buba made this statement in Thursday while briefing newsmen on the operations of the armed forces in Abuja. […]
President Bola Tinubu, Pledges To Empower The Nigeria Police Force With More Weapons, Training And Personnel.
President Bola Tinubu, has pledged to empower the Nigeria Police Force with more weapons, training and personnel to boost its capacity to fight crimes. The President made the pledge on Wednesday in Abuja at the inauguration of the Nigeria Police Force National Cyber Crime Centre (NPF-NCCC) and the Nigeria Police Force Resource Centre. Tinubu, represented […]
FORMER BODYGUARD OF SIERRA LEONE’S EX-PRESIDENT ERNEST BAI KOROMA FOUND GUILTY OF TREASON.
A former bodyguard of Sierra Leone’s ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma has been found guilty of treason and sentenced alongside 10 others over a failed coup last year. Amadu Koita Makalo, who is also a former soldier, was sentenced to 182 years in prison on charges of treason, murder and shooting with intent to murder. The […]
FCT POLICE COMMISSIONER WARNS RESIDENTS FROM ENGAGING IN PROTEST
The FCT Commissioner of Police, Bennett Igweh, has called on residents and indigenes not to partake in the nationwide protest. Some groups and citizens had scheduled a nationwide protest for August 1 in response to the economic hardship in the country. However, the FCT CP, while speaking with journalists in Abuja on Monday, urged residents […]
THE CHIEF OF DEFENCE STAFF AND INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE DENY ALLEGATIONS ON PROVIDING PROTECTION FOR ILLEGAL MINNERS
The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Musa, and the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, on Thursday denied allegations that the military and police provide security for illegal mining sites and miners in the country. They made this denial at a hearing by the House of Representatives Committee on Mineral Resources, chaired […]
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR MIGRATION (IOM) SAYS MORE THAN 10 MILLION SUDANESE HAVE BEEN DRIVEN FROM THEIR HOMES SINCE THE WAR BEGAN.
More than 10 million Sudanese, or 20 per cent of the population, have been driven from their homes since the war there began, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday, as the world’s largest displacement crisis continues to worsen. The number is the latest dire figure out of the east African country, devastated […]
UN CALLS FOR RELEASE OF ABDUCTED POLITICAL ACTIVIST IN LIBYA
The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said on Wednesday it was deeply concerned by reports of the recent abduction of a political activist whose whereabouts remain unknown. Al-Moatassim Al-Areebi, 29, was abducted on Monday in the north-western city of Misrata, located roughly 187 kilometres east of the capital;Tripoli. UNSMIL, in a statement, reiterated the […]
ISRAEL MILITARY TELLS GAZA CITY RESIDENTS TO LEAVE AS BOMBARDMENT INTENSIFIES
The Israeli military has told all residents of Gaza City to evacuate south to the central Gaza Strip, amid intensified operations in the north. Leaflets dropped by aircraft instruct “everyone in Gaza City” to leave what is described as a “dangerous combat zone” via designated safe routes – marked as two roads that lead to […]