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TRAGEDY was averted in Apapa, Lagos, after a team of policemen from Area Command, Apapa and officials of Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, succeeded in chasing away some residents of the area and onlookers that gathered to scoop diesel from a fallen tanker at Liverpool area of Apapa.  The tanker fully loaded with diesel had fallen off the bridge at Liverpool, mid day, spilling its content on the road and blocking easy flow of traffic, which resulted in a gridlock that lasted for some hours.  The incident saw residents of the area and passersby rushing to the scene to scoop the inflammable contents without considering the associated risks. It was gathered that soon after the incident, a detachment of policemen and officials of LASTMA  arrived the scene and on seeing the large number of people scoping the inflammable content, descended on them and succeeded in chasing them away.   Confirming this in a statement via X, LASTMA said traffic has been d...

  ANGRY mob, weekend, set  ablaze an unidentified suspected killer of a Police Constabulary and a complainant in Evwreni community, Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State, while on mission to recover a stolen vehicle. It was gathered that the deceased Constabulary Policeman, Solomon Ughere, allegedly attached to the JWC section of the Nigeria Police at the Ughelli Area Command was detailed among other officers to recover a suspected stolen vehicle parked on the premises of Living Faith Church, aka Winners Chapel, located at Evwreni community. A security source from Delta State Police Command said: “The deceased complainant, identified as Mr. Lucky Aki, a senior member of the church was sent by church authority to incident the case of the suspected stolen car parked on the church premises at the Ughelli Area command. “After registering the incident, some Police officers were detailed to retrieve the car from the church premises but on getting to the scene, they saw th...

...As many killed, others injured Police operatives in Zamfara State, weekend, engaged bandits in a gun battle at Gada community in Bungudu Local Government Area of the state, where many of the hoodlums were killed and several others ran away with gun shot wounds.   The bandits, wielding dangerous weapons, rode on several motorcycles, invaded Gada community, killed eight locals and rustled many cows. Spokesperson of the Zamfara State Police Command, Yazid Abubakar said they were able to chase the bandits, killed many while several others ran away with gun shot wounds.   He said they retrieved 10 rustled cows and some sheep, adding that only six locals were killed by the bandits. According to him, “When we got the information, the DPO of that area mobilised his men and the vigilantes, who engaged the bandits in a gun battle. Unfortunately, six vigilantes died during the encounter and seven sustained injuries. But praise be to Allah, we killed many of the bandits and m...

THE Social Reform Group, SRG, has condemned Monday's outcome of a protest by Yoruba Nation agitators in Ojota, Lagos, reinstating the need for a state policing system, as a way of curbing excesses from federally controlled security agencies. National Coordinator/Convener of the group, Dr. Charles Oludare , in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kayode Fasua, condemned the use of gunshots to disperse peaceful protesters by policemen, as reported, saying such should be condemned by all peoples of good conscience.  The statement reads: "The police standing between us and chaos should not be landing all of us in chaos. "This is a sad reminder of the refusal of the Nigerian state to adopt the state police architecture for interior security, long advocated by the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. "If we had operated Local/State Police in concert with other federal investigative and intelligence agencies, a peacef...