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Insecurity: Three Arrested For Killing NSCDC Officer In Kano State
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Kano State Command, has arrested three armed men allegedly responsible for killing an officer, AbduRauf A. Shariff, while trying to prevent a criminal act.
Confirming the incident, the Kano Command Public Relations Officer, SC Ibrahim Idris Abdullahi, said the 29-year-old officer was on duty at the Court Road outpost in Kano when the attack occurred.
He said, the mob actions who came in numbers, carrying Arms were undertaking their Criminal dastardly act of Phone Snatching and other Crimes when the Officer attached to the Court Road outpost tried to stopped.
“Unfortunately, the Criminals were carrying Weapons which they used in killing him after causing serious injuries on him”.
He said their Men who arrived at the scene they were able to arrest three of the Criminals with their Weapons and already they have been taken to custody.
SC Abdullahi noted that the corps is working in conjunction with the police to track down other fleeing suspects who participated in the attack.
The officer, AbduRauf A. Shariff, has since been buried according to Islamic rites following medical examination.
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has announced Morocco as winners of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations.
The CAF Appeal Board ruled in favour of Morocco, declaring that Senegal forfeited the AFCON final by walking off the field during the game.
Morocco were awarded a 3–0 walkover victory.
This decision upholds Morocco’s appeal following the chaotic events in the match.
DAILY POST recalls that the Senegal team briefly walked off the pitch in protest after a controversial penalty was awarded to Morocco late in regulation time.
They were called back to the field by their captain, Sadio Mané, and later won the game 1–0.
CAF determined that this action constituted a violation of Article 84, or the equivalent regulations concerning refusal to play or abandoning the field.
Under AFCON rules, a team that refuses to continue playing or leaves the field without authorization faces elimination and forfeiture of the match.
A total of three operatives of different security agencies in Anambra State collapsed during the inauguration of Anambra State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, on Tuesday.
The incident happened during the parade at the Dr Alex Ekwueme Square in Awka.
The three operatives are one male police operative, another male operative of the Directorate of State Services (DSS) and a female operative of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC.
The police operative collapsed first, followed by the NSCDC operative, who slumped towards the end of the event and was later escorted to an ambulance, after she refused to be moved in a stretcher.
A source said the police operative was later resuscitated, but was still not stable, and was taken in an ambulance to Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, Amaku Awka.
The collapse of the service officers was attributed to fatigue and the long period of parade under harsh sunny weather.
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