Following last Friday night’s attack on police checkpoints and police stations in which seven police officers were killed in Rivers State, Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has extended the existing curfew in the state from 10pm to 7 am to 7 pm to 6 am with effect from Tuesday. In a broadcast to the people…
Policemen Die in Ghastly Accident in Ondo
No fewer than five policemen of the Nigerian Police Mobile Force have reportedly lost their lives in a ghastly motor accident in Ondo State. The accident was said to have occurred along the Oba Ile Road, Akure, the Ondo State capital on Tuesday. TELL gathered that the victims were in a Toyota Hilux vehicle and…
Ondo CP Warns policemen against Extortion
Isaac Eke, the Ondo State Commissioner of Police, has warned all the officers and men of the command against extorting money from members of the public, especially motorists and commercial motorcyclists. Eke, who gave this warning in his office on Wednesday while speaking with journalists, said the Ondo police command would not hesitate to punish…
Two New York Policemen Shot Dead
A gunman has shot dead Liu Wenjin and Raphael Ramos, two police officers sitting inside a patrol car in New York before killing himself in a subway station. The officers were on duty in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn when they were shot on Saturday. Bill Bratton, commissioner of the New York police department, said…
Ten Policemen Killed In Afghan Explosions
Several bomb blasts have struck three Afghan cities, including the capital Kabul, leaving at least 10 policemen dead on Monday. In Kabul, a magnetic bomb planted in a flowerbed near a university killed seven policemen and wounded three people, while in eastern Logar province a suicide bomber blew himself up at the provincial police headquarters.…
Gunmen Kill Four Policemen, Abduct Six Oil Workers
Gunmen on a speedboat in Bayelsa State have killed four policemen and kidnapped six Nigerian Agip energy firm employees in an attack that happened on Friday, October 24 in the Nembe Creek area of the state. Mustapha Anka, spokesman for the military’s Joint Task Force in the region, said, “Four policemen who were escorting a…