The police on Tuesday said seven people were wounded by a roadside bomb in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Islamist group al Shabaab carries out frequent bombings in their bid to topple the western-backed government. The bomb had been placed at Mogadishu’s Benadir junction, police officer, Abdullahi Hussein, told Reuters. […]
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The Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Police Force has arrested a landlord in Onipanu, Ota, in the Ado Odo/Ota Local Government Area of the state, Sunday Omosule, for alleged killing a son of one of his tenants with a pestle. The deceased was four-year-old Joseph Akpan. The landlord had allegedly gone berserk and started […]
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday met with the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, behind closed doors at the Presidential Villa. The purpose of the meeting was not disclosed but there are speculations that the meeting is connected with the protests by some policemen in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital earlier in the day […]
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Mobile policemen on Monday in Maiduguri staged a protest over non-payment of their allowances. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the protesting policemen barricaded the command headquarters located on Maiduguri-Kano expressway. The protest disrupted traffic on the road. One of protesting policemen who pleaded anonymity, said they were angry over non-payment of their […]
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Nigerian rapper, Olanrewaju Ogunmefun aka Vector, in his recently released single ‘SARS Is Around’ has addressed the brutality of the Nigerian police. Operatives of the special anti-robbery squad, SARS, have been making headlines for negative reasons of late, and rapper dedicated to the discourse. In the song titled ‘SARS Is Around’, Vector raps about reasons why […]
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The Police in Lagos State have arrested three suspected members of the O’odua Peoples Congress, OPC, and raided a shrine allegedly used to extort members of the public. The Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Imohimi Edgal, who led detectives on Tuesday to the shrine, ordered for its destruction. Edgal told newsmen at the scene […]
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The Plateau state command of the Nigeria Police Force has been given a new commissioner has, two days after many were killed in the state. A statement issued Tuesday from the state police command said Bala Ciroma, the new commissioner, will be taking over from Undie Adie with immediate effect. Suspected herdsmen had attacked three […]
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The Nigeria Police on Monday directed the Afrobeats star, Oladapo Olabanji, “D’banj’’, to make a formal report on the circumstances that led to the death of his son. Mr Edgal Imohimi, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, said that the family should report the incident to the police after the period of mourning. D’banj lost […]
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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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The Nigeria Police Force has released phone numbers and email addresses for the public to lodge complaints against personnel of the special anti-robbery squad (SARS). In a series of tweets on Thursday, the police said the public could report any incident for “investigation and further actions”. “Aggrieved members of the public who have any complaint […]
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