ASP engages in gunfight with NSCDC while attempting to escape with stolen fuel

                       

Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Lagos State Command have shot an Assistant Superintendent of Police attached to the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Charles Achidika, during a gun fight between the corps and suspected oil thieves which he was alleged to be a part of.

It was learnt that men of the NSCDC had on December 2 at about 2 am shot Achidika alongside two others, yet to be identified, on the Badagry waterways during a gun duel after the suspects attempted to transport 12,400 litres of petrol, believed to have been stolen from a vandalised pipeline, in Seme, a Lagos border town.

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Source: Daily Post

FCT Police begins investigation into death of hawker allegedly killed by AEPB officials

                        

The Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Police Command has commenced investigations into the death of an unnamed teenage hawker in the territory, who reportedly lost his life on November 13 after scaling a bridge around Bolingo Hotel, Abuja, while allegedly evading arrest by officials of the Abuja Environmental Protection Board, AEPB.

The management of the board had earlier denied being responsible for the death of the hawker.
The FCT Police Commissioner, Mr Wilson Inalegwu, addressing journalists in Abuja on Sunday, said some arrests have been made and investigation was ongoing.

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Source: Daily Post

Nigerian Senate tries to cut itself off from the web, attempts to clamp down on internet freedoms.

The Senate President Bukola Saraki and  a dozen other senators led by Dino Melaye and one Bala Ibn Na’allah has run tests to find out whether it can cut the country off from the World Wide Web,  Per Second News gathered Sunday evening in Abuja.

In a repressive mood the group intend to propose that communications hubs run by the country's internet providers be ordered to block some news websites and foreign communications channels.

Per Second News can confirm that some consultants working for someone in Abuja said that a traffic control system called DPI was used and the aim was to find out whether the internet in the country could work separately from the World Wide Web.

Western countries and the international community over the week-end has expressed concern over the Anti-Media Bill proposed by All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator, Bala Ibn Na’allah.

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Source: Per Second News