The Delta State Commissioner of Police, CP Yemi Oyeniyi, has commenced enforcement of the ban on vehicles without registration number plates, as well as those using concealed, obscured, altered, defaced, or otherwise unreadable number plates, within Asaba and its environs.

The police say the exercise is part of efforts to strengthen public safety, enhance crime prevention, and improve vehicle identification for security.

Following the operation, 26 vehicles found to be operating in violation of extant vehicle registration regulations have been impounded. 

The offending motorists were subsequently arraigned before a Mobile Court sitting in Asaba for the relevant offences.

Speaking during the exercise, Oyeniyi urged vehicle owners to comply with vehicle registration requirements and ensure the proper display of approved number plates.

He stressed that the enforcement is aimed at enhancing security and promoting compliance with the law.

Oyeniyi also warned that the Command would sustain the operation across Delta State and directed the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Operations to ensure strict compliance with the directive across all Area Commands, Divisions, and tactical formations.  

 An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ogba, Lagos, on Friday remanded two men over alleged cultism and attempted murder.

The defendants, Olayemi Abdulquadri, 22, and Kelechi Olisemeke, 28, face a five-count charge of alleged criminal offences.

They were charged with conspiracy, membership of an unlawful society, attempted murder, possession of live cartridges and criminal charms.

The prosecutor, Josephine Ikhayere, told the court that the offences occurred on May 26.

She alleged that the defendants and others still at large committed the offences at the Lagos State University, Ojo Campus.

According to the prosecutor, the men belonged to the Neo Black Movement of Africa, also known as Black Axe or Aye.

The group is listed as a proscribed organisation under Lagos State’s Unlawful Societies and Cultism Prohibition Law.

Ikhayere alleged that the defendants invaded the university premises with others while armed with dangerous weapons.

She said the group attempted to kill an unidentified person during the alleged attack.

The defendants were also accused of unlawfully possessing two live cartridges in a public place.

They were further alleged to have been in possession of criminal charms during the incident.

The charges were said to contravene relevant sections of Lagos State criminal and anti-cultism laws.

The defendants were arraigned before Magistrate Lateef Owolabi on Friday.

Following their plea, the magistrate ordered their remand in a correctional facility.

The court adjourned the matter until July 1 for mention and further proceedings.

Operatives of the Adamawa State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have rescued two children allegedly abandoned by their parents.

The children, aged one and two years respectively, were said to have been left at an uncompleted building in Wuro Hausa in Yola South Local Government Area of the state.

The Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSC Nyako Amidu Baba, who disclosed this during a press briefing with journalists in Yola, said the children were discovered crying in the middle of the night after they were reportedly brought into the building and left there alone.

According to Baba, a concerned resident who observed the situation raised the alarm, prompting NSCDC operatives to swing into action and rescue the children.

Nyako said the children have been taken into protective custody while efforts continue to locate their parents.

He added that the state NSCDC commandant, Idris Bande, has directed officers to intensify efforts to trace the parents and ensure their safe reunification.