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The Police Service Commission (PSC) on Monday said no date has been fixed for training for the recently shortlisted candidates for recruitment into the Constable cadre of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF).

PSC confirmed that all the dates being bandied around in the social media are fictitious and should be ignored.

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According to a statement by the Head, Press and Public Relations, Ikechukwu Ani: “The Commission has been inundated by calls and messages by concerned Nigerians on the authenticity of the dates in the public space.

“The Commission is currently working with the Nigeria Police Force to determine the training colleges and will make a formal announcement at the appropriate time.

“Successful candidates are requested to wait for the official announcement of the date and the colleges for the exercise”.

Two ex-convicts were among four suspected kidnappers arrested by the operatives of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Police Command over the weekend.

The suspects were nabbed by the FCT Police in synergy with the special forces of guards brigade and Department of State Service (DSS), hunters, in a continued effort against criminality in the Territory.

According to a statement issued on Sunday, June 9, by FCT Police Public Relations Officer, Josephine Adeh, men of the FCT Police Command, acting on credible intelligence, stormed some identified kidnapper’s camps at Gidan Dogo and Kweti Forest, Kaduna State, bordering FCT, trailed and arrested four suspects, whose names were withheld, but their ages put at between 20 and 35 years.

Adeh said: “The suspects freely confessed to being members of a notorious bandit syndicate with the name ‘Mai One Million’, responsible for a series of kidnappings and other heinous crimes in FCT and its environs.”

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She said the operation resulted in a shootout between the bandits and the security operatives; a development that forced the suspects to scamper to safety and victims rescued, adding that: “the illegally erected structures by the kidnappers in all the patrolled camps, were all decimated.”

Adeh said the rescued victims have since been reunited with their families and loved ones.

The commissioner of police FCT, Benneth Igweh commended the efforts of the security operatives in the fight against criminality in the nation’s capital, and reiterates the command’s unflinching commitment to ensuring the security and safety of the residents of FCT.

The Lagos State Police Command, in a remarkable move to provide a more stable channel of communication between the public and the police, has acquired hundreds of telephone lines to be permanently assigned to the offices of Divisional Police Officers (DPOs) and other strategic officers.

This move, according to a statement by the Lagos Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, is to phase out the old era where the personal phone numbers of these strategic officers are used for official communication/ assignments, resulting in communication barriers whenever these officers are redeployed.

With the new arrangement, the statement said, numbers remain permanently attached to particular offices such that with the redeployment of the occupants of such officers, the phone numbers remain the same.

“The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, CP Adegoke Fayoade mni, has taken this step to provide improved access, quicker response times, and enhanced communication for the good people of Lagos State.

“CP Fayoade equally commends the Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC), Lagos State Command, under the leadership of Apostle Kehinde Showemimo for magnanimously providing desktop phones to all police divisions within the state for the use of the newly introduced phone lines.

“The CP noted that this gesture will go a long way in consolidating the commitment of the Command in engaging with communities and creating a safer environment for everyone in the state,” the statement said.

Below is the list of dedicated phone numbers of Police Area Commands and Divisions:

Area A: 09168627507; Victoria Island: 09168630904;  Adeniji Adele: 09168572033

Ebute-Ero: 09168629299; Ikoyi: 09168628970; L/Building: 09168628965; Dolphin: 09168628982;  Onikan: 09168627519

Area B: Area B: 09168630921; Trinity: 09168630907; Layeni: 09168627509; Kirikiri: 09168628948; Tolu: 09168628960; Ajegunle: 09168628940; Ijora-Badia: 09168628964

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Area C:: 09168627513; Iponri: 09168553406; Aguda: 09168566217; Orile: 09168628972; Bode Thomas: 09168628951; Denton: 09168630933; Yaba: 09168627995;  Surulere: 09168628984; Sabo: 09168628937

Area D: 09168628979 Isolo: 09168629298; Ajao Estate: 09168627505; Ago Okota: 09168629297; Ejigbo: 09168630916; Alakara: 09168630923; Ijeshatedo: 09168628956; Aswani: 09168620774; Mushin: 09168628969; Itire: 091686228980

Ilasamaja: 09168628938

Area E: 09168630939; Ojo: 09168628926; Okokomaiko: 09168628997; Satellite: 09168628955; Onireke: 09168628979; FESTAC: 09168628988; Trade Fair: 09168627515; Iba: 09168630918

Area F: 09168628963; Ikeja: 09168630930; Alausa: 09168628945; Akinpelu: 9168628959; Mosafejo: 09168567306; Shogunle: 09168628937; Makinde: 09168627520; Ojodu: 09168630911; Man-Centre: 09168628981; Ilupeju: 09168628961

Area G: 09168630968; Dopemu: 09168630906; Abattior: 09168628993; Elere: 09168628994; Isokoko: 09168628992; Oko-Oba: 09168628407; Alakuko: 09168605713; Ijaiye-Ojokoro: 09168628941; Pen-Cinema: 09168630914

Area H: 09168628983; Shomolu: 09168629245; Ogudu: 09168630912; Ketu: 09168627508; Isheri: 09168628971; Anthony: 09168628954; Alapere: 09168630940

;Alade: 09168629281; Oworoshoki: 09168628949;  Bariga: 09168629395; Onipanu: 09168627506; Ifako: 09168627506

Area J: 09168628973; Maroko: 09168630931; Epe: 09168628995; Ogombo: 09168630922;  Elemoro: 09168628968; Langbasa: 09168628947; Akodo: 09168628943; Ajah: 09168627314; Odo-Noforija:  09168627516; LFTZ: 09168628959;

Ilasan: 09168628976

Area K: 09168628985; Badagry: 091686230917; Ijanikin: 09168628998; Seme: 9168628998;  Morogbo: 09168627511; Ishashi: 09168627993; Ilemba-Hausa: 09168568189

Area L: 09168628962; Ibese: 09168628944; Takwa Bay: 09168628939; Ilashe: 09168627512; Igboologun: 09168630938; Osolu Kingdom: 09168627517

Area M: 09168630924; Ikotun: 09168688099; Igando: 09168630919; Shasha: 09168628967; Gowon-Estate: 09168627514;; Idimu: 09168628953; Isheri-Oshun: 09168627994

Area N: 09168627996;  Shagamu Rd: 09168630909; Owutu: 09168630905; Ipakodo: 09168628942; Ikorodu: 09168628942; Imota: 091686230910; Ijede: 09168628990; Ketu-Ereyun: 09168627510; Owode-Onirin: 09168628977; Agbowa: 09168630915

Area P: 09168629392; Ipaja: 09168628975; Oke-Odo: 09168630937; Alagbado: 09168630920; Meiran: 09168628946; Ayobo: 09168627518

State CID & Control Rooms:– State CID Panti: 09168628950;

Control Rooms: 09168631001, 09168631002, 09168631003, 09168631004.

Abia State Police Command says the case involving a suspected organ dealer, the late Andrew Amaechi, is no longer with them in Umuahia the state capital.

According to the police authorities, the suspect was arrested in the Aba area of the state on May 8.

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After Amaechi’s arrest, reports emerged that police authorities allegedly killed him amid the search for two of his latest victims.

It was reported that the suspect arrested in connection with the disappearance of two friends, Celine Ndudim and Afiba Tandoh in Aba, Abia State, was killed while trying to escape when the case was transferred to Abuja.

But an Assistant Superintendent of Police, and the spokesperson of the Abia State Police Command, Maureen Chinaka, said the suspect was transferred to Abuja after his arrest.

According to her, the case was moved to the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) of the Force headquarters on May 21.

The Police Command in Katsina State says it has thwarted  a kidnap attempt, killed three suspected bandits, and rescued all the kidnapped victims.

ASP Abubakar Sadiq-Aliyu, the command’s spokesman, who disclosed this said the incident occurred at Duya village, Maibakko ward, in Sabuwa Local Government Area (LGA).

“On June 7, 2024, information was received at the Sabuwa Divisional Police Headquarters that armed bandits in their numbers, wielding dangerous weapons, attacked Duya village and kidnapped a number of women

“Upon receipt of the report, promptly, the DPO of the Divisional headquarters, CSP Aliyu Mustapha, in collaboration with members of the vigilante, mobilised a team of operatives to the scene.

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“On noticing the presence of the team, the bandits opened fire on the them, which the team responded gallantly and successfully thwarted the kidnapping attempt and rescued all the kidnapped victims.

“In the course of scanning the scene, the bodies of three neutralised suspected bandits were recovered from the scene,” Sadiq-Aliyu said.

He said that the Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Aliyu Abubakar-Musa, commended the operatives for their exceptional display of bravery and gallantry.

He said Abubakar-Musa also reiterated the command’s commitment towards ensuring the safety and security of the good people of the state.

Operatives of the Zone 2 Police Command, Onikan, Lagos have arrested a suspected internet fraudster, Joshua Olawuyi, for allegedly obtaining a vehicle under false pretences and stealing N30 million.

Umma Ayuba, the  Zonal Public Relations Officer, SP. Umma Ayuba, confirmed the arrest in a statement on Thursday in Lagos.

She said that the command, under the leadership of the Assistant Inspector -General of Police, Mr  Olatoye Durosinmi, arrested the suspect after receiving a petition from the petitioner.

“Based on a petition received from Adesuwa  Ogizie, female,  a US based licensed car dealer; that sometimes in 2016,  Olawuyi contacted her to purchase a Mercedes Benz GLE 350 valued at N30 million.

“Olawuyi deceived her stating that he had instructed his brother Jude Hanslem to make payment on his behalf.

“After the vehicle was delivered to the suspect in Nigeria; the petitioner discovered that the money paid into her account was the proceeds of fraud, ” she said.

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Ayuba said that a team of detectives attached to Zonal Anti-Kidnapping Unit Zone 2 command, led by SP Abass Gadzama (O/C ZAKU) swung into action and apprehended the suspect.

“The suspect was arrested and he volunteered his statement where he confessed to the crime.

“He claimed he was into internet fraud at the time he committed the offence and that the Mercedes Benz GLE 350 has been sold and the proceeds converted, “he said.

Ayuba said investigation is ongoing and further findings would  be communicated, and suspect will be prosecuted accordingly upon completion of investigation.

(NAN)

Kaduna Police Command on Tuesday, June 4, said its men arrested four notorious Kidnappers responsible for terrorizing the northwest region.

The command also said it recovered firearms which includes an AK 47, a locally made pistol, and three cartridges from the suspects. 

In a statement by the command’s PPRO, ASP Hassan Mansir, he said a joint patrol team, comprising of hunter group in Lere council acted  on a tip-off from a concerned citizens and successfully arrested three suspects involved in kidnapping and cattle rustling.

According to the police spokesperson, the arrested suspects are “Isah Baffa Rabo, male, 30 years old, from Maibindiga Village, Lere LGA, implicated in kidnappings for ransom in Zango Kataf LGA and Kachia LGA, Ja’afaru Sale, male, 30 years old, from Durumi Village, Lere LGA and Umar Musa, male, 24 years old, from Durumi Village, Lere LGA.”

In his statement, Mansir said suspects confessed to be a part of kidnapping syndicate in Lere coubcil and admitted to stealing two cattle, which they sold to Idris Abubakar, male, 47 years old, from Dokan Lere, who was also arrested.

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“Recovered items include a locally made single-barrel gun, a cutlass, and three mobile phones. The case has been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) for further investigation,” the PPRO added. 

In the same vein, the PPRO said, following credible intelligence information about suspicious movement of an armed bandit, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Tudun Wada Zaria Division led a swift action resulting in the arrest of one Hussaini, male, 70 years old, from Tudunjukun in Zaria.

“The arrest took place at about 0250 hours. During the operation, an AK-47 rifle, a locally made pistol, and three cartridges were recovered from the suspect. The suspect is helping the police Investigations to apprehend his accomplice and will be charged to court as soon investigation is completed,” ASP Mansir said.