Month: June 2021
Tragedy struck in Ebem and Elu Ohafia of Abia State as the personnel of the Ohafia Police Station shot and killed a youth identified as Innocent Friday on Saturday. INDEPENDENT gathered that the youth was hit at the main motor park at the Ohafia Local Government Area of the state. Speaking to INDEPENDENT on the […]
Tragedy occurred in Rivers State, South-South Nigeria, on Wednesday when a female police sergeant was shot dead by another officer. A statement from the police spokesperson in the state, Nnamdi Omoni, identified the victim as Lovender Elekwachi, who was serving at Eneka Police Division, Port Harcourt. She was shot while on traffic duties at the Eneka […]
On May 4, 2020, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State announced a 24-hour lockdown on Port Harcourt City and Obio/Akpor Local Government Areas of the state as part of the government’s measures to check the spread of coronavirus. In a broadcast where he informed members of the public of his intended action, Wike said: “Consequently, […]
A ten-year-old boy allegedly shot by police while enforcing lockdown order in Sankara community in Ringim Local Government Area of Jigawa State, is in critical condition, his father told PREMIUM TIMES. The father of the victim, Abdulkadir Suleiman, said his son, Usman, sustained a fracture in his head and that his condition is critical as […]
A team of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigeria Police allegedly killed a young man on Saturday. The incident occurred in front of Wetland Hotel, Ughelli in Delta State. The operatives allegedly shot the citizen and left the scene. A trending footage shows them speeding off in the victim’s vehicle – a white […]
A mobile police officer shot a yet-to-be-identified woman in the mouth at Salvation bus-stop, Opebi area on Thursday. In a video shared by a Twitter user @abba_kanselem, the bullet went through the young woman’s mouth, tearing her cheeks. The victim was rushed to a nearby hospital by passersby and the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA). […]
Some teachers at the Federal Government Girls’ College, FGGC, Calabar, yesterday, got the beating of their lives when men, suspected to be officials of the Department of State Service, DSS, stormed the school because a student was flogged. The said student, who is in senior secondary class, reportedly took some junior students to sweep her […]
A 22-year-old 200-level undergraduate, John Ekefre, is currently battling for his life at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital after policemen from the Iponri division brutally tortured him and damaged his intestine in the process. The Punch Newspaper reports that the young man had to be operated upon to rectify the internal injury he sustained and […]
The 42-year-old Elimihe, narrated the power-drunk police officers had stopped him in front of the Onipanu Police station and demanded to see his vehicle particulars and other papers and after he showed them the items, they were still not satisfied and went ahead to demand that he gave them some money which he refused and […]
The Nigerian Army has jailed one Pvt. Suleiman Olamilekan to 28 days with hard labour for allegedly assaulting a Nollywood actress, Ebere Ohakwe. The Army’s spokesman, 6 Division in Port Harcourt, Col. Aminu Iliyasu, said on Thursday that the soldier would also forfeit his one month salary to the Federal Government. He said the unprofessional […]
A woman, Toyin Adeleye, who returned from the United States of America about a week ago had a feel of the brutality of the Nigerian police on Friday in Ado-Ekiti State after she reportedly refused to give bribe to police at a checkpoint in the city. The woman was manhandled along with her two-month-old baby, […]
Governor Tanko Al Makura of Nasarawa State on Thursday gave a stern warning to Nigerian citizens about what they may expect from the era of the All Progressives Congress (APC): “Go to hell!” The all-powerful governor was addressing a lady who had dared cry to him for help as police officers in his convoy brutalized […]