Category: General News
An 18-year-old undergraduate of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), has told SaharaReporters how he was beaten by operatives of te Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), who also extorted N5,000 from him in Ado-Ekiti, the capital of Ekiti State. The student was in the Ekiti State capital to visit his brother, an undergraduate of the […]
One Ifeanyi Okafor, said to be a 20-year-old boy, yesterday, met his untimely death, as a Police Sergeant, Mr. Abu Itam, was said to have shot him (Okafor), dead. The incident took place, at Okigwe-Owerri expressway, close to Okwelle Police Divisional headquarters. The incident which was said to have happened around 5 am generated demonstrations […]
Pandemonium broke out at Agulu, in the Awka area of Anambra State on Tuesday after a bribe-seeking policeman shot dead a businessman, Chinonso Onyeme. PUNCH Metro learnt that the 30-year-old was with his friends in a Toyota Sienna when the incident happened around 1pm. A family member of the father of four, who spoke to our […]
Policemen attached to Operation Burst, the Oyo State anti-crime outfit, have allegedly killed a man at Pete’s Bar and Lounge of the Trans Amusement Park, Bodija Area of Ibadan, during an argument. The man, Taye Adeleke was allegedly shot dead on Monday during an argument over a parking space at the park. PM NEWS gathered […]
A petrol attendant, Chibuisi Okameme, was on Sunday shot dead allegedly by a policeman, Inspector Stanley Asu. The incident occurred opposite the Greenmac Energy Limited filling station on the New Umuahia Road, Ogborhill area of the Aba North Local Government Area of Abia State. PUNCH Metro gathered that a diabetic patient was on his way to […]
14-year-old Tina Ezekwe was shot dead by a trigger-happy police officer at the Iyana-Oworo area of Lagos State. The incident happened as the police officer tried to arrest a bus driver for defying curfew time and lockdown rules. One Yakubu Musa was also injured by the stray bullets fired by the erring policemen. Action Taken […]
A team of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigeria Police allegedly killed a young man on Saturday. The incident occurred in front of Wetland Hotel, Ughelli in Delta State. The operatives allegedly shot the citizen and left the scene. A trending footage shows them speeding off in the victim’s vehicle – a white […]
A mobile police officer shot a yet-to-be-identified woman in the mouth at Salvation bus-stop, Opebi area on Thursday. In a video shared by a Twitter user @abba_kanselem, the bullet went through the young woman’s mouth, tearing her cheeks. The victim was rushed to a nearby hospital by passersby and the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA). […]
Some teachers at the Federal Government Girls’ College, FGGC, Calabar, yesterday, got the beating of their lives when men, suspected to be officials of the Department of State Service, DSS, stormed the school because a student was flogged. The said student, who is in senior secondary class, reportedly took some junior students to sweep her […]
A 22-year-old 200-level undergraduate, John Ekefre, is currently battling for his life at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital after policemen from the Iponri division brutally tortured him and damaged his intestine in the process. The Punch Newspaper reports that the young man had to be operated upon to rectify the internal injury he sustained and […]