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16 hours ago
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Adegoke Fayoade, yesterday paraded 63 suspects arrested for sundry crimes, including armed robbery, cultism, sexual assault and drug trafficking.
22 Mar
The Imo State Police Command, in line with directives of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Olukayode Egbetokun, has organised a one-day workshop targeted at enhancing security and tackling cultism and other social vices in education institutions in the state.
15 Mar
The police in Osun State, yesterday, arraigned three men, Idowu Adetunji, 30, Ayomide Damilare, 35 and Gbolahan Ajayi, 25, in an Ile-Ife Magistrate’s Court on allegations of cultism.
14 Feb
Justice Olubunmi Abike-Fadipe of a Lagos Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja has remanded four men in a correctional facility for engaging in cultism and armed robbery.
Professor. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello
25 Jan
Vice chancellor, Lagos State University (LASU), Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, has urged new and old students to support the management by abstaining from indecent dressing, cultism, drugs, and other vices.
15 Jan
Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command have neutralised Silas Oderereke, a wanted armed robber and leader of the Greenlanders cult in Ahoada West Local Council.
14 Jan
The Ibassa/Ijegun-Egba Youth Association in Oriade Local Council Development Area of Lagos on Sunday decried the high rate of cultism in the area.
29 Dec
When I accepted the invitation to guest-speak at the Summit, this Summit, of the Edo Zone of the Neo-Black Movement of Africa (NBM) I must admit straightaway that I did not really know what to say
22 Dec
Two suspected cultists reportedly abducted a 14-year-old girl and defiled her in an apartment, at Mile 3, Diobu, Port Harcourt City Council, Rivers State.
12 Dec
The Police Command in Edo says it has arrested 80 suspects for various criminal activities as part of efforts to reduce crimes and ensure a peaceful yuletide in the state. The Edo Police Commissioner, Muhammed Dankwara, said the suspects were arrested in the ongoing clampdown against criminals, which began on December 1. The Commissioner, who…
25 Nov
For more than four months since the Lagos State Police Command declared an emergency on cultism, residents in some affected parts of Lagos have called on the state government to tackle the menace.
10 Nov
A Magistrate’s Court sitting in Port Harcourt, yesterday, remanded a former Caretaker Committee Chairman of Khana Local Council of Rivers State, Dr Sunny Bekanwa...

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The Federal Government said the first phase of the Lagos-Calabar highway will be completed within the next three years. This was disclosed on Thursday in a statement by Ben Bem Goong who is the spokesman to the Minister of Works, Engr. David Umahi. Goong made this announcement following Umahi's inspection of the Lagos-Calabar coaster highway…
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