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New Oyo CP takes charge

1+ hour, 7+ min ago  (213+ words) Abimbola Olugbenga has officially assumed duty as the 49th Commissioner of Police in Oyo State. Olungbenga takes over from Olufemi Haruna, who served as the 48th Commissioner of Police from April 1, 2025. The development was announced in a statement issued on Friday by…...

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2+ hour, 15+ min ago  (11+ words) 29 Nigerians still in detention as Mozambique deports 13 " NIDCOM'Punch Newspapers...

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Kebbi attack: Gunmen kill 10 security officers

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (376+ words) Gunmen, on Tuesday night, killed 10 security personnel " nine soldiers and one police officer " in a deadly ambush on troops in Kebbi State. The incident occurred in the Giro Masa community, Shanga Local Government Area, where the assailants also burned two…...

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Gunmen ambush military, police in Kebbi, kill several

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (280+ words) Several military and police officers, along with civilians, were killed in a deadly ambush by gunmen in the Giro Masa community, Shanga Local Government Area of Kebbi State, on Tuesday night. The exact number of casualties among security personnel remains…...

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Punish killers of Citizen Anayo

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (6+ words) Punish killers of Citizen Anayo'Punch Newspapers...

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Court affirms citizen's right to film officers in public

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (709+ words) A Federal High Court sitting in Warri, Delta State, has affirmed the constitutional rights of Nigerians to record police officers conducting stop-and-search operations in public spaces. Justice Hyeladzira Nganjiwa gave the pronouncement while delivering judgement on Tuesday in an enforcement…...

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Rape: Prosecutors seek seven-year jail term for Norway princess' son

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (324+ words) Prosecutors in Norway called Wednesday for the son of Crown Princess Mette-Marit, Marius Borg Hoiby, to serve seven years and seven months in prison for offences including raping four women. Hoiby, the princess's 29-year-old son from a relationship before her…...

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Police seek help to identify woman’s body found in Oyo

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (300+ words) File: Oyo PPRO, DSP Ayanlade Olayinka The Oyo State Police Command on Monday appealed to residents to assist in identifying the lifeless body of a woman discovered in Egbeda Local Government Area of the state. In a statement issued in…...

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Lagos CP defends task force, calls viral extortion video ‘misleading’

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (335+ words) The Lagos State Police Command has dismissed claims that operatives of the Lagos State Task Force on Environmental and Special Offences Enforcement Unit were involved in extortion, describing a viral video circulating online as misleading and malicious. The Commissioner of…...

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Police seek help to identify woman found dead in Oyo

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (336+ words) The Oyo State Police command, on Monday, called on residents of the state to come forward for the identification of a lifeless body of a woman discovered in Egbeda Local Government Area of the state. A statement by the state…...