Good Morning,
Kindly find below the State-by-State Executive Summary of @policeNG Operational Successes for 27th September, 2026:
1. KATSINA STATE (25th September, 2026): FOILED KIDNAPPING / INJURED VICTIM EVACUATED
✅ Police operatives and tactical teams successfully responded to an attempted kidnapping operation at Sabon Gari Maikomo Village.
✅ The operatives successfully engaged the suspected bandits in a gun duel, forcing them to flee into the bush.
✅ One injured victim was successfully evacuated to General Hospital for medical treatment.
🔹 Status: SCID Katsina Investigating.
2. BENUE STATE (26th September, 2026): ARREST OF TWO SUSPECTED CULTISTS / RECOVERY OF FIREARM
✅ Police operatives successfully responded to a distress call concerning two individuals brandishing a firearm at a youth executive election meeting.
✅ Two suspects were successfully arrested.
✅ One locally fabricated pistol was successfully recovered from their possession.
🔹 Status: SCID Makurdi Investigating.
3. EBONYI STATE (26th September, 2026): ARREST OF TWO SUSPECTS IN ABDUCTION AND SEXUAL ASSAULT CASE
✅ Police operatives successfully arrested two suspects linked to the abduction and sexual assault of two female victims.
✅ The suspects were transferred alongside the victims and case file to the State CID for discreet investigation.
🔹 Status: SCID Abakaliki Investigating.
4. OYO STATE (25th September, 2026): ARREST OF SUSPECT / RECOVERY OF FIREARM AND AMMUNITION
✅ Police personnel on routine stop-and-search operations along the Ibadan/Ife Expressway successfully intercepted a commercial vehicle.
✅ One suspect was successfully arrested following the recovery of a locally-made pistol and one live cartridge from his possession.
🔹 Status: SCID Ibadan Investigating.
5. OYO STATE (25th September, 2026): ARREST OF TWO SUSPECTED ELECTRICAL CABLE VANDALS / RECOVERY OF EXHIBIT
✅ Police operatives successfully intercepted and arrested two suspects along the Igboora-Eruwa Expressway.
✅ Electrical aluminium conductor wire suspected to have been vandalized from electricity poles was successfully recovered.
🔹 Status: SCID Ibadan Investigating.
6. OYO STATE (23rd September, 2026): ARREST OF SUSPECT IN ATTEMPTED MURDER CASE
✅ Police operatives successfully responded to an attempted murder incident at Balose Village.
✅ One suspect was successfully arrested and is currently in custody.
✅ The injured victim was successfully evacuated to Bowen University Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, for medical treatment.
🔹 Status: SCID Ibadan Investigating.
7. KANO STATE (26th September, 2026): RESCUE OF POLICE OFFICER / RESTORATION OF NORMALCY
✅ Police patrol operatives successfully mobilized to Kofar Mata following a mob attack.
✅ An ASP was successfully rescued from the mob and evacuated for medical treatment.
✅ Normalcy was successfully restored, with the area placed under close police monitoring.
🔹 Status: SCID Bompai Investigating.
8. KEBBI STATE (26th September, 2026): RESPONSE TO KIDNAPPING / ONGOING RESCUE OPERATION
✅ Police tactical units and vigilante operatives successfully mobilized to Dadin Kowa Village following an attack.
✅ Manhunt and bush-combing operations are ongoing to rescue the abducted victims and apprehend the perpetrators.
🔹 Status: SCID Birnin Kebbi Investigating.
9. KWARA STATE (24th September, 2026): RESCUE OPERATION FOR ABDUCTED VICTIM
✅ Police operatives, vigilantes and forest guards successfully mobilized to the area following an abduction incident.
✅ Bush-combing operations are ongoing to rescue the abducted victim and apprehend the perpetrators.
🔹 Status: SCID Ilorin Investigating.
🚨 NIGERIA POLICE FORCE WEEKLY OPERATIONAL BRIEFING 🚨
From September 19–25, 2026, under the strategic leadership of IGP Olatunji Rilwan Disu, PSC(+), NPM, the Force delivered decisive blows against criminal networks nationwide.
Here's what one week of intelligence-led, community-collaborative policing achieved:
✅ 455 criminal suspects arrested: kidnapping, armed robbery, homicide, banditry, cultism, terrorism, cattle rustling & more
✅ 27 kidnapped victims rescued
✅ 15 firearms recovered
✅ 413 rounds of live ammunition recovered
✅ 5 vehicles recovered
✅ 4 armed suspects neutralized
But these aren't just numbers. They represent lives saved, networks disrupted, and communities made safer.
TOP OPERATIONAL WINS THIS WEEK:
🔹 Benue: 8 kidnap victims rescued after commercial bus attack
🔹 Anambra: Suspected child trafficker arrested, stolen 6-month-old reunited with mother
🔹 FCT Abuja: Coordinated raids across 16 divisions: 334 suspects arrested, illicit drugs recovered
🔹 Adamawa: Kidnappers' den raided in Shako Forest: 2 victims rescued, ammunition recovered
🔹 Delta: 20 suspected cultists arrested in hotel raid
🔹 Anambra: 4 suspected IPOB/ESN members arrested over IED manufacturing
🔹 Katsina: Bandit attack foiled: 7 victims, including 6 female university students, rescued unhurt
🔹 Kaduna: Gun-running syndicate busted: 300 rounds of live ammunition recovered
🔹 Abia: Wanted serial armed robber and kidnapper arrested
🔹 Lagos: Armed robbery gang busted: 4 suspects arrested, 2 firearms recovered
The message is clear: The Nigeria Police Force is not relenting.
Under IGP Disu, the Force will continue to deepen intelligence-led policing, strengthen community partnerships, and sustain pressure on criminal networks.
To the brave officers on the frontlines, we see you. To the communities partnering with us, we thank you. To the criminals, there is no hiding place.
The fight against crime continues, with determination, with intelligence, and with the support of the Nigerian people.
God bless the Inspector-General of Police.
God bless the Nigeria Police Force.
God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria. 🇳🇬
#NigeriaPoliceForce #NPF #PoliceNG #IGPDisu #OperationalBriefing #CrimeFreeNigeria #CommunityPolicing #IntelligenceLedPolicing #SaferNigeria #NigeriaSecurity #EndKidnapping #EndBanditry #EndArmedRobbery #NationalSecurity #NigeriaNews #SecurityUpdate #PoliceUpdate #RescueOperations #NigerianPeople #FederalRepublicOfNigeria #GodBlessNigeria
Good Morning Esteemed,
Kindly find below the State-by-State Executive Summary of @policeNG Operational Successes for 24th September, 2026:
1. KADUNA STATE (22nd September, 2026): ARREST OF GUN-RUNNING SYNDICATE / RECOVERY OF 300 LIVE AMMUNITIONS
✅ Police detectives, acting on credible intelligence, successfully intercepted and arrested two suspected gun runners en route to a bandits’ camp.
✅ A total of 300 live rounds of ammunition were successfully recovered from the suspects.
✅ The suspects are providing useful information to assist in apprehending their accomplices and tracing the source of the exhibits.
🔹 Status: SCID Kaduna Investigating.
2. BENUE STATE (23rd September, 2026): ARREST OF SUSPECTED GUN RUNNER / RECOVERY OF 45 LIVE AMMUNITIONS
✅ Police operatives, while conducting routine patrol and stop-and-search operations, successfully arrested a suspected gun runner.
✅ Forty-five assorted rounds of live ammunition were successfully recovered from the suspect.
✅ The suspect confessed to the crime and provided information on his accomplices.
🔹 Status: SCID Makurdi Investigating.
3. DELTA STATE (22nd September, 2026): ARREST OF MURDER SUSPECT / RECOVERY OF WEAPONS
✅ Police detectives, acting on intelligence, successfully arrested a fleeing murder suspect.
✅ The suspect confessed to the crime during interrogation.
✅ A search of his apartment led to the recovery of four cutlasses and one shovel.
🔹 Status: SCID Asaba Investigating.
4. DELTA STATE (22nd September, 2026): ARREST OF FOUR SUSPECTS / RECOVERY OF FIREARM AND VEHICLE
✅ Police operatives successfully responded to a violent clash between rival cult groups during the Eku Festival.
✅ Four suspects were successfully arrested in connection with the incident.
✅ One locally-made cut-to-size gun and one vehicle were successfully recovered.
🔹 Status: SCID Asaba Investigating.
5. ADAMAWA STATE (23rd September, 2026): ARREST OF FOUR SUSPECTS IN HOMICIDE CASE
✅ Police operatives successfully arrested four suspects linked to the death of a victim following an alleged assault.
✅ The suspects have provided useful statements to assist the ongoing investigation.
🔹 Status: SCID Yola Investigating.
6. KADUNA STATE (20th September, 2026): ARREST OF TWO ARMED ROBBERY SUSPECTS / RECOVERY OF EXHIBIT
✅ Police operatives, in collaboration with local security personnel, successfully arrested two suspects linked to an armed robbery along the Zaria-Kano Expressway.
✅ One suspect confessed to the crime and identified himself as a member of a robbery syndicate.
✅ A bow and arrow were successfully recovered from one of the suspects.
🔹 Status: SCID Kaduna Investigating.
7. EKITI STATE (23rd September, 2026): ARREST OF SUSPECT / RECOVERY OF WEAPON
✅ Police operatives on routine patrol successfully arrested a suspect linked to a public disturbance and assault incident at Oke-Ila, Ado-Ekiti.
✅ A dagger used in the incident was successfully recovered from the suspect.
✅ The injured victim was successfully conveyed to a medical facility for treatment.
🔹 Status: SCID Ado-Ekiti Investigating.
8. LAGOS STATE (21st September, 2026): RECOVERY AND RETURN OF STOLEN TRICYCLE
✅ Police patrol operatives successfully recovered an abandoned tricycle suspected to have been stolen.
✅ The rightful owner subsequently identified the vehicle and provided proof of ownership.
✅ The recovered tricycle was successfully released to the owner on bond.
🔹 Status: SCID Panti Investigating.
9. ANAMBRA STATE (22nd September, 2026): RECOVERY AND SAFE CUSTODY OF ABANDONED INFANT
✅ Police operatives successfully recovered a six-month-old female infant abandoned at Ire Village, Abba.
✅ The infant was safely taken into police custody, while arrangements were initiated for her transfer to the appropriate government agency for necessary care and protection.
🔹 Status: SCID Awka Investigating.
#PoliceIsYourFriend #CitizensAreTheBoss
Good Morning Esteemed,
Kindly find below the State-by-State Executive Summary of @policeNG Operational Successes for 23rd September, 2026:
1. BENUE STATE (22nd September, 2026): NEUTRALISATION OF SUSPECTED BANDIT / ARREST OF TWO OTHERS
✅ Police operatives successfully responded to an armed bandit attack at Abeda Market, Logo LGA.
✅ One suspected bandit was successfully neutralised, while two others were arrested.
✅ No casualty was recorded on the police side.
🔹 Status: SCID Makurdi Investigating.
2. KATSINA STATE (21st September, 2026): FOILED BANDIT ATTACK / RESCUE OF SEVEN VICTIMS
✅ Police operatives successfully engaged armed bandits who intercepted a vehicle conveying six female students of the Federal University Dutsin-Ma along the Kankara-Dutsin-Ma Road.
✅ The bandits were successfully repelled and forced to flee into the bush with gunshot injuries.
✅ All seven occupants of the vehicle were successfully rescued unhurt.
✅ The rescued victims were medically evaluated, discharged and reunited with their families.
🔹 Status: SCID Katsina Investigating.
3. ANAMBRA STATE (22nd September, 2026): ARREST OF FOUR SUSPECTED TERRORIST GROUP MEMBERS
✅ Police operatives, in collaboration with local vigilantes, successfully arrested four suspects during patrol operations in Okija Community.
✅ The suspects confessed to membership of an outlawed terrorist group and provided useful information on the activities of the group.
✅ Efforts have been intensified to apprehend fleeing members of the group.
🔹 Status: SCID Awka Investigating.
4. NASARAWA STATE (21st September, 2026): ARREST OF SUSPECTED KIDNAPPER
✅ Following a citizens’ arrest, police operatives successfully took custody of a suspected kidnapper.
✅ The suspect confessed to involvement in several kidnapping incidents and is assisting ongoing investigation.
🔹 Status: SCID Lafia Investigating.
5. KATSINA STATE (21st September, 2026): ARREST OF THREE SUSPECTED BANDITS
✅ Police operatives successfully arrested three suspects linked to an armed bandit syndicate.
✅ An attempted escape by the suspects was successfully foiled.
🔹 Status: SCID Katsina Investigating.
6. DELTA STATE (21st September, 2026): ARREST OF SUSPECTED GUN-RUNNER/ RECOVERY OF FIREARM AND AMMUNITION
✅ Police operatives successfully re-arrested a suspect found in possession of an illegal firearm.
✅ One locally-made cut-to-size gun and one live cartridge were successfully recovered.
🔹 Status: SCID Asaba Investigating.
7. CROSS RIVER STATE (21st September, 2026): ARREST OF SUSPECT IN SUSPECTED MURDER CASE
✅ Police detectives successfully tracked and arrested a principal suspect in connection with the suspected murder of a 22-year-old woman.
🔹 Status: SCID Calabar Investigating.
8. ANAMBRA STATE (22nd September, 2026): ARREST OF THREE MURDER SUSPECTS
✅ Police detectives successfully arrested three suspects in connection with the death of a 34-year-old man at Ojoto, Idemili South LGA.
✅ The victim’s remains were recovered and deposited at the morgue for autopsy.
🔹 Status: SCID Awka Investigating.
9. OYO STATE (22nd September, 2026): ARREST OF MURDER SUSPECT
✅ Police detectives successfully arrested a suspect in connection with the death of a 30-year-old man at Iwere-Ile.
🔹 Status: SCID Ibadan Investigating.
10. OGUN STATE (22nd September, 2026): ARREST OF DEFILEMENT SUSPECT
✅ Police detectives successfully arrested a suspect in connection with an alleged defilement case.
✅ The victim was successfully conveyed to a medical facility for examination.
🔹 Status: SCID Eleweran Investigating.
#PoliceIsYourFriend
#CitizensAreTheBoss @PoliceNG@TunjiDisu1
CSP ANI INIEDU, ANIPR
FORCE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER
THE NIGERIA POLICE FORCE
FORCE HEADQUARTERS, ABUJA
Happy birthday to you my good brother, diligent, responsible, and reliable officer, Rainbow of our time, CSP DOPs, Department of Operations, Delta State Police Command, CSP Adekunle Yinka, omo oni'fe abure, omo a d'ade nla lowo, omo a d'ade nla re'mo... igba odun odun kan nio lase Eledua. Waa gbo, waa to, waa f'erigi jobi. OA!!!
Ire oo❤️❤️❤️
@DeltaPoliceNG@Delta_PoliceCRU
@GToffice7 But wait ooo what lead to this level of anger? That lady must have say something to provoke the police officer. let us treat people the way, we want to be treated.
Happy new month, September, to you all. September signifies the beginning of the Ember-Month period which is generally characterised with "perceived" dangers, and unforseen incidences. May the Lord in his infinite mercies protect us against all evils and dangers in the period. Osù bàbàbà kò ní gbé'wa lo o láse elédùà. We shall see the end of this month and the year 2026, and beyond in peace and good health.
Ire oo.
@Obiyahon1@TheDamiForeign Am telling you, people are busy inventing gadgets, all we do is to wait for the latest one hmmmm
What if that's the design the guy love to buy?
The guy fit guide pass all those one there bcuz phone is not wealth
@simpulawrence@djspeakz_ent@Odunayo2612 It no longer illiteracy but contentment and determination to do the right thing. How much is that rice now ? But people will still embrace it as if it enough for 4yrs again. BLACK WILL ALWAYS BE BLACK NO MATTER THE CONDITION
DELTA STATE POLICE COMMAND
PRESS RELEASE
POLICE ARREST SIXTEEN SUSPECTED CULTISTS, RECOVER FOUR FIREARMS, SIX LIVE CARTRIDGES, EIGHT ROUNDS OF LIVE AMMUNITION, TWO AXES AND OTHER EXHIBITS
The Delta State Police Command has recorded another breakthrough in its sustained crackdown on cultism and other violent crimes across the State, with the arrest of twelve suspected cultists and the recovery of firearms, ammunition and other incriminating exhibits in separate intelligence-led operations.
1. ARREST OF EIGHT SUSPECTED CULTISTS; RECOVERY OF THREE LOCALLY FABRICATED PISTOLS, LIVE AMMUNITION AND OTHER EXHIBITS
On 17 July 2026 at about 0200hrs, operatives of the Command's Violent Crime Response Unit (VCRU), acting on credible intelligence, raided a suspected criminal hideout at Amukpe, Sapele Local Government Area, where they arrested Lucky Naset (30), Ochuko Midwest (27), Samuel Oghene (29), Michael Mmadu (35), Dennis Philip (28), Goodluck Onujenya (30), Ovie Royal (25), and Divine Otemu (22), all suspected members of the Aiye Confraternity.
A thorough search of the hideout led to the recovery of three locally fabricated pistols, six live cartridges, eight rounds of live ammunition of different calibres, two axes, two suspected cannabis grinders, one bottle containing a suspected illicit substance, and other incriminating exhibits.
Preliminary investigation indicates that the suspects are linked to cult-related activities within the Sapele axis. Investigation is ongoing to apprehend other members of the syndicate and recover additional weapons.
2. ARREST OF EIGHT SUSPECTS OVER ALLEGED CULT-RELATED ATTACK
In a separate operation on the same day at about 1130hrs, operatives arrested Ifeanyi Emeka (25), Hope Sunday (24), Francis Onyechiwalla (23), and Chinedu Joseph (25), in connection with the alleged attack on a male victim (name withheld) from Illabor Community, Ika North East Local Government Area, with a cut-to-size gun.
During preliminary investigation, the suspects allegedly confessed to being members of the Eiye Confraternity. Suspects are in custody while investigation continues to determine their involvement in other cult-related crimes and apprehend other members of the group.
The Commissioner of Police, Delta State Command, CP Yemi Oyeniyi, psc, acipm, mnips, commended the operatives for the successful operations and reiterated the command's unwavering commitment to dismantling criminal gangs and cult groups across the State. He urged members of the public to continue providing credible and timely information to the Police, assuring residents that the command will sustain intelligence-led operations to ensure the safety and security of all.
SP. BRIGHT EDAFE, ANIPR, FCIA, FIPMD
POLICE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER,
DELTA STATE COMMAND,
ASABA
18th July, 2026