By Our Correspondent,
Bayelsa State Police Command, today, denied the report that a N15 million ransom was paid to secure the release of the kidnapped cousins of former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.
Kate Ene and Patience Ebeni, cousins to the former president, were abducted on May 15 along with their friend, Edith Ekeni, along Akipelai in Ogbia ...
By Francis Sadhere
Hoodlums in Warri and neighboring communities are in for a hard time as police have started bombing strategic and crime infested areas to fish out bad boys who have been terrorizing the oil city.
Solomon Arase
The search which began since after the general election is yielding fruitful results as scores of criminals, ranging ...
Tejiri Ebikeme
Three accused persons, Mr. Oghor Osie; Mr. Great Obawakpor and Mr. Tejiri Akpofure have been sentenced to twenty one years in prison, with hard labour for rape by Justice F.O., Ohwo, sitting at High Court 2 Warri.
Honourable Justice Ohwo gave the sentence recently, while giving his judgment on the three accused on three count ...
BY EBEN ENASCO KINGSLEY, BENIN
Several youths have been killed in a renewed cult fracas that engulfed Benin City, four days ago.
The Spokesman, Edo Police Command DSP Stephen Onwochei said that the command has made several arrests and recovered weapons from the warring cult groups.
DSP Onwocha stated further that the police are doing everything to stop the killings.
'We ...
By Francis Sadhere
The Nigerian Police has vowed to fish out the killers of the Financial Secretary of Ekpan community, Comrade Abraham Edesiri Olomu, who was murdered in cold blood on Monday 27 in Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State.
Solomon Arase, Acting Inspector General of Police.
According to a credible police source who pleaded anonimity, ...
PHILIP EKE, YENAGOA
Armed men, recently, invaded Otuasega in Ogbia Local
Government Area of Bayelsa State and abducted the council chairman,
Mr. Enaye Abah.
The incident occurred at about 7.05am, along the Otuasega-Okarki Expressway.
According to eyewitnesses, four men armed with sophisticated weapons,
blocked the official Prado Sport Utility Vehicle, SUV, of the council
chairman with a blue Mazda car, believed to ...
By Francis Sadhere
A staff of the Delta Printing and Publishing Company Limited (DPPCL), publishers of THE POINTER titles, Mrs. Patricia Amitaye has died in the hands of Kidnappers, just as a house wife Mrs. Caro Botosan has escaped from her captors after spending a gruesome nine days in their den at Usie-ffurun forest in Ughelli ...
By Francis Sadhere
As condemnationhas continued to trail the spate of the gruesome killing of foreigners, mainly Africans in South Africa, A Niger-Delta based Non-Governmental Organization, Center for Peace andEnvironmental Justice (CEPEJ) expressed rude shock over the xenophobic attacksby the South African rampaging youths.
Scenes from xenophobic attacks in South Africa.
ItsNational Coordinator/ CEO, Comrade Sheriff Mulade, ...
By Our Correspondent
Gunmen suspected to be assassins in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State have killed the Ughelli branch Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Barrister Icheghe.
This is following series of killings rocking Ughelli metropolise, which has taken a new dimension.
The incident it was gathered happened around 9pm at the 14 Ekredjebor ...
By Omos Oyinbode, Warri
A business man, one Agbarah Benawariebi, has cause to rejoice as the Enerhen Division of the Delta State Police Command, weekend, swooped on a three man robbery gang who dispossessed him of N450,000 he withdrew from his First Bank Account.
Delta Police Public Relations Officer, Celestina Kalu, told journalists that the recovery ...
By Omos Oyinbode, Warri
Delta State Police Command has arrested two notorious armed robbers, one Josiah Apoi and Oghenechuko Lucky, who were operating along Olomu Street in the city of Warri, Delta State.
The arrest was made following a distress call to the B’ Division of the Police in Warri, leading to the deployment of Anti-Robbery ...
Mary Okpalaume
A woman simply identified as Ms. Onajite was apprehended by men of the Ughelli Police ‘A’ division for allegedly biting her fiancé’s manhood.
Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba.
It was gathered that the woman who works as a peace ambassador for a renowned non-governmental organization (names withheld) descended on her fiancé after a misunderstanding ensued ...
BY OMOS OYINBODE, ASABA
Police in Delta State have recovered not less than 7,365 Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) earlier stolen from the office of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) by persons suspected to be political thugs in Oghara, Ethiope West Local Government Area of the state.
CP Alkali Baba Usman, Delta State Commissioner of Police
Following the ...
By Our Corresponent
Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Delta State Council, Comrade Williams Akporeha has called on the Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan to urgently deploy relevant security agencies to secure the immediate release of some of the Delta State University lecturers kidnapped recently in the state.
Comrade Akporeha made this call at ...
By Francis Sadhere
Kidnapped Delta State University lecturer, Dr. Nyerohovwo Tonukari has been released in the early hours of yesterday after 45 torturous days in the hands of his kidnappers.
His released came barely 24 hours after ASUU, DELSU chapter, staged a peaceful protest at the Government House, Asaba and the office of the Delta State Police ...
