The Ogun State Police Command has advised the public, especially those who lost their vehicles/motorcycles to theft or abandoned around the city, to report at Ibafo Divisional Headquarters for identification and claims.
The vehicles are: One unregistered Honda Accord; one Kia Rio with number plate JJJ 27 CK and Mitsubishi Spacewagon with no AKD 34 HD.
Motorcycles: four unregistered Bajaj; five Bajaj with nos: GB 530 VH; GGE 890QJ; AGL 610 QN; AAB 413 VM and DED 228 WN, a statement by Police Public Relations Officer, Omolola Odutola said yesterday.
Forty special detectives, acting on the directive of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbedokun, are searching to arrest Mr. Sanusi Bature Dawakin-Tofa, the spokesman of Kano State Governor Abba Yusuf, The Nation has learnt.
It was gathered that the IGP men were deployed from Abuja to arrest Dawakin-Tofa on a complaint filed by the National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje.
Ganduje had petitioned the IGP over his suspension from his ward in Dawakin-Tofa Local Government, accusing the governor’s spokesman who is from his constituency of orchestrating the suspension.
Family sources told reporters yesterday that the detectives who were in plain clothes were spotted around the residence of Dawakin-Tofa on Monday.
One of the members of the family who wants to remain anonymous because of security reasons lamented that the secret police ransacked the residence more than five times, scaring members of Dawakin-Tofa’s family, including the wife and children, as well as creating apprehension in the neighbourhood.
“The IGP special force has mounted dragnet for Sanusi Dawakin-Tofa’s arrest in the last two weeks despite an order of the court restraining the IGP, DSS, CP Kano and other security agencies from arresting and or harassing the Kano hovernor’s media director general,” the family source said.
Justice Amina Adamu Aliyu of Kano State High Court had granted an ex parte application, preventing further manhunt of Dawakin-Tofa pending the hearing and determination of substantive matter on his fundamental rights slated for January 22, 2025.
The animosity between Dawakin-Tofa and Ganduje dated nine years ago, when Ganduje, as governor-elect, reportedly ordered Dawakin-Tofa’s arrest over his opposition during the gubernatorial election.
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has joined forces with the Nigeria Police Force commands in Anambra and Delta states to tackle traffic congestion on the Niger bridges connecting Onitsha and Asaba, during the yuletide season.
This collaboration aims to ensure a smoother flow of traffic on these critical corridors
The checkpoints will be removed from December 18 2023 to January 10, 2025, according to spokesman of the FRSC, Assistant Corps Marshal Olusegun Ogungbemide, in a statement on Tuesday.
Ogungbemide said that other areas of collaboration between the two agencies during yuletide season include “establishment of mobile surveillance at the Second Bridge axis, dismantling of all police checkpoints on the Delta side of the Old Niger Bridge to facilitate free trafficking flow, as well as adequate deployment of officers for joint traffic control on the two bridges.”
He said the partnership was reached following a “critical session” by the Sector Commander, Anambra State, Corps Commander Joyce Nnennaya Alexander, and the Anambra State Police Commissioner, CP Nnaghe Obono Itam and his counterpart in Delta State, CP BS Oluwafemi.
Ogungbemide said that the Corps Marshal of the FRSC, Shehu Mohammed, had applauded the Sector Commander for the synergy.
“He said that the collaboration will strengthen the resolve of the Corps towards achieving safety and ease of movement for all road users on the Niger bridges during the festive period,” Ogungbemide said.
The Nation reports that the FRSC has a history of working with state governments and other stakeholders to improve road safety and traffic management.
During the 2021 yuletide season, the FRSC partnered with the Delta State Government to ensure free-flowing traffic on the River Niger Bridge.
The Police Service Commission (PSC) yesterday approved the promotion of 27 senior police officers comprising 11 commissioners of police (CPs) to the next rank of Assistant Inspectors General (AIGs) and 16 deputy commissioners of police (DCPs) to the substantive rank of commissioners of police (CPs).
The newly promoted officers were at PSC’s corporate headquarters yesterday in Abuja for written and oral promotion examinations.
PSC Chairman Hashimu Argungu, a retired Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), said the written and oral examinations would henceforth be a prerequisite for promotion in all the cadres of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF).
Argungu urged NPF officers to continue to improve and expose themselves to global best practices including proficiency in ICT.
The 11 CPs promoted to AIGs are: Umar Shehu Nadada (Commissioner of Police, Nasarawa State), Mustapha Mohammed Bala (Commissioner of Police, Rivers), Abayomi Peter Oladipo (Commissioner of Police, Ondo), Taiwo Olatunde Adeleke (Commissioner of Police, SWAT, FCID, Abuja), Ibrahim Abdullahi (Commissioner of Police, Kaduna) and Nwonyi Polycarp Emeka (Commissioner of Police, PPP, DLS, Force Headquarters, Abuja).
The Police Service Commission (PSC) on Monday approved the promotion of 27 senior Police Officers comprising 11 Commissioners of Police to the next rank of Assistant Inspectors General (AIGs) of Police and 16 Deputy Commissioners of Police to the substantive rank of Commissioners of Police.
The newly promoted Officers were in the Corporate Headquarters of the Commission on Monday, December 16th, where they went through both written and oral examinations.
PSC Chairman, DIG Hashimu Argungu rtd, said both written and oral examinations would henceforth be a prerequisite for promotion in all the cadres of the Nigeria Police Force.
Argungu noted that officers of the Nigeria Police Force should deliberately continue to improve and expose themselves to global best practices, which should include proficiency in ICT.
The eleven Commissioners of Police promoted to Assistant Inspectors General of Police were; Umar Shehu Nadada, Commissioner of Police Nasarawa state; Mustapha Mohammed Bala, Commissioner of Police, Rivers state; Abayomi Peter Oladipo, Commissioner of Police, Ondo state; Taiwo Olatunde Adeleke, Commissioner of Police, SWAT, FCID, Abuja; Ibrahim Abdullahi, Commissioner of Police, Kaduna State and Nwonyi Polycarp Emeka, Commissioner of Police PPP, DLS, Force Headquarters Abuja.
Others are; Akinwale Kunle Adeniran, Commissioner of Police, Ekiti State; Zubairu Abubakar, Commissioner of Police Courses, Police Staff College, Jos; Fom Pam Joseph, Commissioner of Police, Homicide, FCID Abuja; Emuobo Fred Ekokotu, fdc, Commissioner of Police Admin, Airwing Abuja and Garba Musa Yusuf, Deputy Commandant Police Staff College, Jos.
According to a statement issued by the Head, Press and Public Relations, PSC, Ikechukwu Ani , the 16 Deputy Commissioners of Police elevated to the substantive rank of Commissioners were; Kayode Ojapinwa, DC, SCID, FCT, Emmanual Ighodalo, DC, ZCID, Zone 8, Lokoja; Bose Funmi Akinyemi, DC SEB, FCID Annex, Lagos; Barayimil Ahmadu Samaila, DC, DFA, Kogi state; Martin Nwogoh, fdc, DC, DFA, Zone 2, Lagos; Shetima Jauro Mohammed, DC SCID, Nasarawa state; Ibrahim Gotan, DC, DFA Zone 2 Bauchi; Rabiu Mohammed, DC Ops, Zone 3, Yola; Olugbenga Ayodeji Abimbola, DC, SCID, Ekiti State and Adepoju Olugbenga Adewale, DC Ops Rivers State.
Others were; Bello Yahaya, DC, Anti Money Laundering FCID Abuja; Ibrahim Adamu Bakori, PhD, mnim, DC Ops, DOO AKPO, Bayelsa State; Hauwa Ibrahim Jibrin, mnips, DC, DFA, FCT; Abayomi Shogunle, fsi, DC, Ops Osun State; Mohammed Azare Baba fsi, DC, OPs, Akwa Ibom state and Ezekiel Philip Husseini, DC ZCID, Zone 3 Yola.
Ani said: “DIG Taiwo Lakanu, Commissioner in the Commission and Chairman Standing Committee on Police Promotions took the Officers through a rigorous oral interview and advised them to pay more attention to the dictates of their new office.
“DIG Lakanu said they must give their best in the service, adding that the Commission will continue to ensure that their promotions are timely and based on merit.
“The Plenary Meeting continues tomorrow, Tuesday, December 17th 2024”.
The Oyo State Police Command has apprehended 15 suspected cultists and armed robbers in Ibadan and its environs.
Items recovered during the arrest include five inscribed cultism jackets, three Dane guns, one locally made pistol, one locally made cut-to-size gun, one long barrel gun, a Toyota Camry with registration number KTU 41 JH, one red cloth, a powder blue beret with inscriptions, and three cutlasses, among other items.
Speaking while parading the suspects at the Command headquarters in Eleyele, Ibadan, the Commissioner of Police, Ayodele Sonubi, stated that cultism and other criminal activities have become a major concern for the police in the state.
He noted that the Command has received disturbing reports of cult-related activities in some parts of Ibadan, particularly around Apete, Abayomi (Iwo-road axis), Ijokodo, Moniya, Monathan, Ojoo, Samonda, and Sango areas.
He said: “As we all know, cultism poses a significant threat to public safety, hence the Oyo State Police Command’s strategic interventions to counteract and diffuse the sinister trend first through; intelligence gathering, advocacy campaigns, designated stakeholders’ meetings and then afterwards regular intelligence-led raids to prevent the spread of further blood-letting in our beloved State.
“Ongoing Investigations have revealed that these experiences of cult-related violence are retaliatory driven embedded with components of the quest for absolute dominance by these sinister Cult groups against their rivals.”
He urged parents, guardians, and leaders to prevail on their children, wards, and followers against Cultism as the Command would not relent in ensuring that any individual or group who distorts the relative tranquility of the state faces the full wrath of the law.
He, however, said the period in view, residents will witness, high-level visibility policing, coordinated stop and searches, and intelligence-led raids to assert Police presence as the lead agency in matters of internal security from time to time.
“It is worthy to note that the Oyo state police command under my watch has increased the level of supervision of our field officers, particularly those in the junior cadre to prevent cases of professional misconduct, incivilities, and extortion during this period.”
Two suspects alleged to have specialty in certificate forgery have been arrested by police operatives attached to the Assistant Inspector-General (AIG) Zone 2, Onikan.
The suspects were alleged to have specialised in forging documents of various international universities, as well as allegedly defrauded several unsuspecting victims on the internet.
Elvis Osakpolo Edokpain, 23, and Kelly Osas Endgieen, 24, were alleged to have acquired exotic vehicles and erected mansions in different parts of the country with the proceeds of fraud.
Added to their alleged charges is the attempt to bribe detectives with N66 million to be let off the hook. It was gathered that the investigation team had to report the development to the AIG, Adegoke Fayoade, who directed them to play along with the young men to secure the money as exhibits.
Their arrest, it was gathered, followed a tip-off to the Anti-Corruption Unit of the Zone that there was a group of boys who engage in forging foreign certificates.
The unit, acting on orders from Fayoade, laid ambush on the suspects who were said to have been out of the country at the time.
Acting on credible intelligence, detectives were said to have stormed the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, from where they trailed the suspects to a hotel at Osapa-London in Lekki.
It was gathered that the young men soon got wind that the police were after them and made to flee the hotel but were arrested at the bus stop with their luggage.
Sources alleged that upon search of their luggage, detectives found a certificate from Blue Crest College, Ghana, belonging to Edokpiain, while a student identity card of Academic City College was recovered from Kenny Osas.
Further search indicated a transcript of an academic record from Blue Crest University belonging to Elvis Osapolo. Going through the search again, detectives discovered a letter of English proficiency from the said college and a letter of recommendation from the same Blue Crest College.
Reports said that upon interrogation, the suspects made useful statements to the police and confessed that they never got any admission into the school, that they procured the degree certificate through the help of a female Nigerian resident in Ghana.
The suspects further stated that their goal was to get Ghanaian resident permits, as students which they got.
Police sources further stated that the suspects confessed that they were made to pay 15,000 Ghana cedis (N1.5 million) for the certificate and 5,000 Ghana cedis (N500,000) for the resident permit. They reportedly paid a total of 26,000 Ghana cedis to procure the documents.
On further interrogation, they said they were doing it to evade arrest in Ghana since they don’t have any means of livelihood.
According to the suspects, whenever police intercepted them, they showed their passports that they were students and had no means of livelihood in that country.
They further confessed to the police that they were into online romance scams and provision of foreign bank accounts for fraudulent transactions through “Facebook bombing”.
The suspects said: “We meet people online and present ourselves as American soldiers by name Captain Donald Rowe, whom we are impersonating on Instagram. He is a captain of the United States of America and on a peacekeeping mission in Syria.
“While we are engaging our victims, we will tell them that there are goods in Syria that if they are interested to buy, they should pay money and we will send the goods to you. We will show them pictures of good materials in Syria.
”After they make the payment, we use our block chain wallets to collect the money or foreign bank accounts, which at last, are being credited in our Nigerian accounts. We have our partners in the UK, South Africa, and other countries and most of our victims are from Japan, Denmark and China.”
Sources said the police have written to the Ghanaian High Commission to get more information about the result and their alleged accomplices in Ghana said to be spearheading the fraud.
They have also spread their dragnet through the International Police, Interpol, to round up their foreign partners.
The suspects who claimed they were only able to attend secondary schools in Benin City lamented the fate that befell them stating that it was poverty and the need to make ends meet that drove them into fraud.
Police operatives from Zone 2 Command, Onikan, Lagos, have arrested two suspects allegedly specializing in forging certificates from various international universities and defrauding unsuspecting victims online.
The suspects, Elvis Osakpolo Edokpain, 23, and Kelly Osas Endgieen, 24, were accused of amassing wealth through fraudulent activities, using the proceeds to acquire luxury vehicles and build mansions across the country.
According to reports, the suspects attempted to bribe detectives with N66 million to evade prosecution.
The investigative team, acting on instructions from the Assistant Inspector General (AIG) of Police, Adegoke Fayoade, played along to secure the bribe as evidence.
Their arrest was initiated after a tip-off to the Anti-Corruption Unit of the command revealed a syndicate engaged in forging foreign academic certificates.
The police are continuing investigations into the suspects’ activities to uncover the extent of their operations and other potential accomplices.
The unit, acting on orders from Fayoade, laid ambush on the suspects who were said to have been out of the country at the time.
Acting on credible intelligence, detectives were said to have stormed the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, from where they trailed the suspects to a hotel at Osapa-London in Lekki.
It was gathered that the young men soon got a wind that police were after them and made to flee the hotel but were arrested at the bus stop with their luggage.
Sources alleged that upon search of their luggage, detectives found a certificate from Blue Crest College, Ghana, belonging to Elvis Osakpolo Edokpiain, while a student identity card from Academic City College was also recovered from Kenny Osas.
Further search revealed a transcript of an academic record from Blue Crest University belonging to Elvis Osapolo. Going through the search again, detectives discovered a letter of English proficiency from the said college and a letter of recommendation from the same Blue Crest College.
Reports said that upon interrogation, the suspects made useful statements to the police and confessed that they never got any admission into the school, and that they procured the degree certificate through the help of a female Nigerian resident in Ghana.
The suspects further stated that their goal was to get Ghanaian resident permits, as students which they got.
Police sources further disclosed that the suspects confessed that they were made to pay 15,000 Ghana cedis for the certificate (N1.5 million) and 5,000 Ghana cedis for the resident permit (N500,000). They reportedly paid a total of 26,000 Ghana cedis to procure the documents.
On further interrogation, they said that they were doing it to evade arrest in Ghana since they don’t have any means of livelihood.
According to the suspects in their confessional statements, whenever police intercepted them, they showed their passports that they were students and had no means of livelihood in that country.
They further confessed to the police that they were into online romance scams and the provision of foreign bank accounts for fraudulent transactions through “Facebook bombing”.
The suspects said: “We meet people online and present ourselves as American soldiers by the name Captain Donald Rowe, whom we are impersonating on Instagram. He is a captain of the United States of America and is currently on a peacekeeping mission in Syria.
“While we are engaging our victims, we will tell them that there are goods in Syria that if they are interested in buying, they should pay money and we will send the goods to you. We will show them pictures of good materials in Syria.
”After they make the payment, we use our blockchain wallets to collect the money or foreign bank accounts which at last are being credited to our Nigerian accounts. We have our partners in the UK, South Africa, and other countries and most of our victims are from Japan, Denmark, and China.”
Sources said that the police have written to the Ghanaian High Commission to get more information about the result and their alleged accomplices in Ghana said to be spearheading the fraud.
They have also spread their dragnet through the International Police, Interpol, to round up their foreign partners.
The suspects who claimed they were only able to attend secondary schools in Benin City lamented the fate that befell them stating that it was poverty and the need to make ends meet that drove them into fraud.
According to a statement issued on Saturday by the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh, violators, including sellers and users of firecrackers and fireworks, will be subject to arrest and prosecution under the law.
Adeh encouraged community leaders and residents to raise awareness about the potential dangers associated with the items.
She said: “Residents are urged to remain vigilant and report any suspicious activities or violations of this directive to the Police, using the following emergency numbers: 08032003913; 08061581938 and 07057337653.”
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Police Command has banned the use of firecrackers (knockouts) during the upcoming Christmas and New Year celebrations.
This ban, police said is implemented to ensure the safety of all residents and to protect lives and property throughout the festive season.
Commissioner of Police FCT, CP Olatunji Disu, emphasized that the use of the items can lead to unnecessary panic and anxiety within the community.
Disu said additionally, they present significant risks, including fire hazards and other preventable incidents.
According to a statement issued on Saturday by the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh, violators, including sellers and users of firecrackers and fireworks, will be subject to arrest and prosecution under the law.
Adeh encouraged community leaders and residents to raise awareness about the potential dangers associated with the items.
She said: “Residents are urged to remain vigilant and report any suspicious activities or violations of this directive to the Police using the following emergency numbers:
– 08032003913
– 08061581938
– 07057337653
“The FCT Police Command is committed to maintaining law and order during this festive period. We encourage everyone to celebrate responsibly, wishing all a peaceful and joyful Christmas and New Year”.
