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Police in Enugu State, Thursday, said they arrested a total of 123 suspects within July and August this year.

The State Commissioner of Police, Kanayo Uzuegbu, announced during a parade of some of the suspects at the command's headquarters, Enugu.

Uzuegbu told newsmen that several incriminating exhibits were recovered during the operations, while many of the suspects have been arraigned in court and remanded in the Nigerian Correctional Cu...

Enugu—On August 18, 2024, around 10:30 p.m., Police Operatives serving in the Nsukka Sector of the Enugu State Command’s Anti-Cultism Tactical Squad hastened to a compound at Orba Road in Nsukka Local Government Area, upon receiving a distress call alleging the murder of a 4-year-old girl. 

The Operatives consequently arrested one Nweke Chukwuemeka “m” aged 30, alleged to have gruesomely murdered the female child, Zinachukwu Ugwu, in cold blood while she...

The police in Enugu State, Sunday, said they are on the trail of the armed assailants that shot and murdered the President General of Ogbete Market Traders Association (OMATA), Mr. Stephen Aniago.

Afriqucast recalls that Aniagu was killed on September 14, 2024 at Topland, along Amechi Road, Enugu, around 8:20 p.m.

A statement by the Police Public Relations Officer, Daniel Ndukwe, explains that preliminary investigation reveals that the unknown armed hoodlums, operating in...

The police in Enugu, Saturday, confirmed the arrest of Abuchi Kenneth and Ifeanyi Odu for allegedly breaking and stealing a Samsung Galaxy and Infinix smartphones from a car parked along the road at Rangers Avenue, Enugu.

The command spokesperson, Daniel Ndukwe, a deputy superintendent of police, confirmed this in a statement made available to newsmen in Enugu.

Ndukwe said, Police operatives of the command, serving in the New Haven Division, on September 24, 2024, around 4...

The police in Enugu State have arrested one Innocent Ishaku “m”, aged 22, for vandalising cables at a telecommunications mask at Naira Triangle, Abakaliki Road, Enugu. 

The command’s spokesman, Daniel Ndukwe, said on Thursday in Enugu that the suspect was arrested the by command's operatives serving in Thinker's Corner Division.

He stated, "His arrest led to the recovery of some lengths of vandalised cables, the value of which is yet-to-...

The police in Enugu State, say they have arrested one Dr. Emmanuel Ugwumba, 52, of Ezimo-Agu community in Udenu Local Government Area over alleged child trafficking and forgery.

The police spokesperson in the state, Daniel Ndukwe, made this known in a statement made available to newsmen in Enugu on Wednesday.

Ndukwe said that the Command’s operatives serving in the Anti-Kidnapping Tactical Squad apprehended the suspect on September 28, 2024.

According to th...

The police in Ogun State say they have arrested 41-year-old Ibrahim Aliu in Papa Olosun, Oja Odan in the Yewa North Local Government Area of the state for allegedly defiling his 12-year-old daughter (name withheld).

Aliu was arrested after his estranged wife, Temitope Egbebi, lodged a complaint against him at the Oja Odan Divisional Police Office.

Egbebi alleged that Aliu had carnal knowledge of the victim every time she visited him for the holidays.

She told the...

A man who tried to make peace has been punched to death while trying to separate a fight in Adamawa State.

The peacemaker, Markus Dali, had stepped between Barka Yama and Alex Tari who were exchanging fisticuffs, seeking to make them stop the fight, only to become the victim as Barka Yarma allegedly gave him the blow that proved fatal.

The three are of Sina Kwande community in the Michika Local Government Area of Adamawa State.

The Adamawa State Police Command, a...

Enugu State Police Commissioner, Kanayo Uzuegbu, has directed the Deputy Commissioner of Police, State CID, to launch a comprehensive investigation into the alleged shooting of Smith Odinaka.

Odinaka was murdered on October 13, 2024, around 1 a.m., near the Mercedes-Benz Company along the Enugu/Port Harcourt Expressway, Enugu.

The Police commissioner assured the public that no efforts would be spared  to identify and apprehend the perpetrators and to ensure that justi...

The operatives from the Enugu State Police Command's Anti-Kidnapping, Distress Response and Special Intervention Squads, have raided a kidnappers' hideout in Nokpa-Nike, Enugu East Local Government Area.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Enugu State Police Command, Daniel Ndukwe, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) in a statement made available to newsmen on Friday said the raid followed a diligently gathered actionable intelligence.

He said upon the operati...