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A Twitter user has raised an alarm regarding the case of a Nigerian man still being kept in Kirikiri prison for 6 years without trial after he was "wrongfully" arrested while charging his laptop at his neighbour's house. @hausa_girl who identified the Nigerian man as "Junior" said the criminal the police
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The operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team have arrested two persons, Victoria Ogunsomi and Shafe Abayomi, for allegedly siphoning fuel from a pipeline belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation in the Ejigbo area of Lagos State. The suspects allegedly dug wells in their respective places of residence
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The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the probe of the policemen who allegedly arrested Seyitan Babatayo, the lady that accused musician Oladapo Oyebanjo aka D’Banj of rape. The IGP gave the order in a letter dated June 25, 2020 with reference number CZ:7050/IGP.SEC/ABJ/Vol. 132/978 signed on his behalf by
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Personnel of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested two robbers on the Long Bridge, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, in the Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of the state while dispossessing motorists of their belongings. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said this in a statement on Sunday. Oyeyemi said the
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Amnesty International has criticized the police for allegedly failing to prosecute members of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) whom it accused of engaging in the torture of suspects. The group noted that the squad had continued to use torture and other ill-treatment to execute, punish, and extract information from suspects. In a
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Nigerian singer, Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo, popularly known as D'banj, has been interrogated by the Nigeria Police Force over the rape allegation made by Seyitan Babatayo. The singer was interrogated by an Assistant Commissioner of Police, Adaku Anya, at the Force Criminal Investigation Department, Garki, Abuja, Punch reports. The publication adds that Seyitan was also invited
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The Lagos state police command has released an official statement on the murder incident that happened in the Lekki area of the state on Sunday, June 21. Spokesperson of the state police command, Bala Elkana, in the statement released, said the state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has ordered a
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The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered a probe into the allegations of rape levelled against Music Icon, Oladapo Oyebanjo aka D’Banj. This is contained in a letter with reference number CB.7000/IGP.SEC/ABJ/VOl.484/801 signed by the Principal Staff Officer to the IG, DCP Idowu Owohunwa. The letter was addressed to the Deputy
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Operatives of the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit (Taskforce) of the Police Force have arrested 21 notorious miscreants/cultists during a raid on criminal hideouts in Lagos. The Chairman of the Lagos State Task Force, CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi, who led the enforcement team, disclosed that the 21 suspects/
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Nkechi Ezekwe, mother of slain teenager, Tina, a neighbour and her uncle have narrated how policemen manning a checkpoint at Berger in Oworo killed her. They revealed that it was not the first time such a situation was happening in that axis. Recall that last week, InsideMainland reported the death of
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