The inspector-general of police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, has deployed special teams comprising of intelligence response team (IRT), the special tactical squad (STS), five armored personnel carriers (APCs), and three police mobile force units (PMF) to Plateau state. This is in response to an attack on Gashish district of Barkin Ladi local government area of the […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari is meeting with 10-man senate delegation raised to address the ongoing impasse between the Senate President Bukola Saraki and the Inspector-General of Police over a criminal case involving some suspected cultists. Members of the senate delegation included former governors of Nasarawa (Abdullahi Adamu), Gombe (Danjuma Goje) and Akwa Ibom, Mr Godswill Akpabio. […]
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A video trending online shows Ibrahim Idris, the inspector-general of police (IGP), struggling to read a speech. In the video, Idris finds it difficult to pronounce the words, as he constantly repeats the words “I mean” and “transmission”. Idris was said to have been caught in the “embarrassing” video tweeted by Voice of Liberty, on […]
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The Nigerian Police High Command has promptly debunked the alarm raised by the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, that the police were about to implicate him using ‘‘coerced’ cultists”. The Police said the alarm was a ruse, misleading and amounted to an obstruction of justice. Saraki raised the alarm on the floor of the Senate […]
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While presiding over plenary on Wednesday, the President of Nigerian Senate, Bukola Saraki has alleged that Mr. Ibrahim Idris, inspector-general of police (IGP), is planning to implicate him. Saraki said Abdulfatah Ahmed, Kwara governor, called him him Tuesday night to give him the information. His statement “Last night, my state governor, revealed to me an […]
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The Senate on Thursday said that the Inspector General of Police Ibrahim Idris was holding on to a straw with regards to his refusal to honour the invitation of the upper legislative chamber. In a statement issued by the spokesperson of the senate, Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, he said that the excuse given by the IGP […]
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Following the failure of Ibrahim Idris, inspector-general of police (IGP) to appear before the Senate after repeated summons, the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki says he is not surprised. Last week when the IGP was first summoned, he informed the lawmakers that he accompanied President Muhammadu Buhari to Bauchi. He was re-summoned on Wednesday […]
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After a debate that lasted over one hour on Wednesday, the Senate resolved to step down all the items on the order paper and adjourn plenary. The senators also resolved that the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, be summoned to appear before the lawmakers at the plenary on Thursday (today) over Melaye’s case and the […]
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Ibrahim Idris, the inspector-general of police, has ordered the deployment of three units of police mobile force, high powered police investigation team and armoured personnel carriers to Kwara. Armed robbers attacked five commercial banks in Offa, Kwara on Thursday, killing 30 persons. Jimoh Moshood, force spokesman, in a statement in Abuja on Sunday said anti-robbery […]
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The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has seriously warned all police unit commanders against flouting the order to withdraw personnel from VIPs as well as political and public office holders. The was given at a meeting with the police mobile force (PMF), special protection unit (SPU) and counter-terrorism unit (CTU) commanders in Abuja on Tuesday. […]
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