POLICE QUELLS CULT CLASHES AT ISASHI, ONIREKE; ARREST 5 SUSPECTS
Efforts are being intensified to apprehend other members of the cult still at large, while the police patrol teams and tactical squads have been deployed to the affected area.
Efforts are being intensified to apprehend other members of the cult still at large, while the police patrol teams and tactical squads have been deployed to the affected area.
NDLEA spokesman, FEMI BABAFEMI, said operatives uncovered one hundred and seventy-four parcels of cocaine, weighing thirteen-point-four-zero kilograms.
Unless the state takes concrete steps to institutionalize accountability, improve police welfare, ensure operational independence, and rebuild public trust, Nigerians’ dream of an effective, democratic, and humane police force will remain an elusive aspiration.
"Civil society and the media must keep this case alive in public consciousness to prevent it from being buried by delay and complicity."
The Rivers State PPRO said a further search of the apartment of Police Corporal ONWUKWE GODSWILL, who is said to be the cult leader, turned up additional exhibits, including a locally made pistol and two machetes.
The suspects include VICTOR NWOSA and FELIX CHIKA OBIEGBU, who were arrested after operatives of the NDLEA’s Special Operations Unit raided their homes and recovered consignments of hard drugs that were being prepared for export to Europe and other parts of the world.
The Abuja-Kaduna passenger train involved in the accident on August 26, 2025, had six hundred and eighteen people onboard, with twenty-one injured, but no fatalities.
The convicted soldiers who bagged the life sentence are Sergeant RAPHAEL AMEH, Sergeant EJIGA MUSA, and Lance Corporal PATRICK OCHEJE.
OLADITI, also known as SHAMELON, is being detained at State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti-Yaba, for discreet investigation.
Narcotic Commander UZOMA slumped and died in a hotel where he had taken up temporary residence, one month he resumed duty in Calabar on August 18, 2025.
This comes about three months after of the Senior Pastor of House on the Rock Church, with headquarters in Lekki, turned himself in at the Lagos State Police Command Headquarters, Ikeja, for interrogation over the incident in the Lekki axis of Lagos.
SP ABIMBOLA ADEBISI replaces CSP BENJAMIN HUNDEYIN who was recently elevated to the position of Force Public Relations Officer and transferred to the Force Headquarters in Abuja.
Justice MUSA LIMAN of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja made the decision based on an application by KANU’s lawyer, UCHENNA NJOKU; Senior Advocate of Nigeria, as the annual vacation by judges came to an end today, September 15.
The DSS told the court that USMAN used proceeds from his illegal mining activities to acquire arms for terrorism and kidnapping purposes.
"Intelligence available to the Command indicated that the group had finalized arrangements to unveil a prototype of a purported ₦1.5 billion “Palace of Obi of Lagos State” on Saturday, September 13, 2025, at Apple Hall, Amuwo Odofin."
The attack on worshippers at the Saint Francis Catholic Church in Owo on June 5, 2022, claimed the lives of more than forty persons.
The DSS had in a letter dated September 7, 2025, accused SOWORE of making criminal and derogatory remarks against President TINUBU in a post on X on August 26.
The Deputy Police Public Relations Officer, DSP BABASEYI OLUSEYI, disclosed in a statement that CP JOMOH had to order the use of minimal force to disperse the protesters, clear the barricades on the expressway and restore free flow of traffic on the bridge.
The Ogun State Police Command PPRO said with the Gateway Shield, Ogun State becomes a model for citizen-centric security, driven by innovation anchored on trust.
Until his present appointment, he was the Police Public Relations Officer for the Lagos State Police Command.
The police spokesman said the Commissioner of Police also approved the redeployment of some Divisional Police Officers in the affected area, to bring new driver towards curtailing crime in the area.
A Finnish newspaper reports that the court also found EKPA guilty of aggravated tax fraud in a ruling delivered earlier today, Monday, September 1, 2025.
The PPRO said members of the public are notified that blast sounds would be heard during the exercise, but there would be no shrapnel or associated danger.
The Police spokesman said that the incident at the Balogun Market, which occurred at about 11am, had nothing to do with tribe or ethnicity.
The Police Public Relations Officer, CSP BENJAMIN HUNDEYIN, disclosed in a statement that the detained policemen will face orderly room trial, while ABIODUN ORIORIO has been declared wanted.
NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, FEMI BABAFEMI, paraded the suspects before newsmen at the agency’s headquarters in Abuja, joined by the Director of Assets and Financial Investigation, ABDUL IBRAHIM, and the Director of Prosecution and Legal Services, THERESA ASUQUO.
The summit aims to provide a high-level platform for African defence chiefs to deliberate on pressing security challenges, enhance military cooperation, and advance regional stability.
The NDLEA spokesman said during interrogation, IFEOMA HENRIETTA EZEWUIKE claimed she inherited the drug trade from her husband who died two years ago.
The PPRO, CSP BENJAMIN HUNDEYIN said after the driver fled with the vehicle documents and key, officers searched the vehicle and discovered an Army jungle hat, two ATM cards, and two bags containing cannabis.
The PPRO said ONAMADE KAYODE is currently cooperating with ongoing investigations to apprehend other cult members and recover weapons in their possession, after which he will be prosecuted accordingly.