The acting inspector-general of police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba has ordered the withdrawal of senior police officers from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). This directive was according to reports contained in a letter dated April 15, 2021 and addressed to the chairman of the anti-graft agency, Abdulrasheed Bawa. In the letter signed by […]
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The Lagos State police have poured accolades on some of its men (officers) for rejecting a N500,000 bribe offered to them during an operation and arresting the suspects with stolen construction materials. This was contained in a statement issued by Muyiwa Adejobi, the Lagos police spokesperson on Tuesday. Mr Adejobi said the police operatives, who […]
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There was panic on Thursday night in Imo state as hoodlums set the Aboh Mbaise Divisional Police Headquarters ablaze. The Nation gathered policemen on duty fled as the hoodlums who were mobile carried out the arson on the facility. On arrival, the hoodlums who, according to sources were carrying inflammable objects, threw them at the […]
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A dismissed soldier identified as Johnson Godday, has been arrested by operatives of the Lagos Police Command for alleged robbery. Godday, the police alleged, attacked one Onyebuchi Nwanga, a resident of 24, Bayo Oshinowo Street, Ogudu on Sunday and took his mobile phone, the natoon reports According to a statement last night by spokesman, Olumuyiwa […]
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Some suspected hoodlums have killed two police officers in Essien Udim Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. The criminals also set ablaze a Hilux van the policemen were riding in. The incident happened in the early hours of on Monday, The Nation was told. One of the policemen was according to reports burnt beyond recognition. […]
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An Igbo socio-political group with the name World Igbo Peoples Assembly, (WIPAS), has requested President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government to appoint an Igbo man as the next Inspector General of Police, IGP. This is as the tenure of the incumbent IGP, Mohammed Adamu comes to an end gradually. The group also lauded the appointment of […]
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Mohammed Adamu, the Inspector-General of Police, has ordered the redeployment of 21 Commissioners of Police to new commands and formations. This was revealed in a statement by Aremu Adeniran, Deputy Force Public Relations Officer, on Tuesday. It added that the redeployments are with immediate effect. Those affected include CP Adeleke Bode who was posted to […]
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Olamide Erinfolami, the widow of a police inspector who was shot dead during the #EndSARS protest, has accused her late husband’s colleagues of killing him. When she appeared before the Lagos state judicial panel on Friday, the widow said Ayodeji Erinfolami, a police inspector, was shot dead while trying to quell the #EndSARS protest at […]
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The inspector-general of police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, has tackled a retired major general of the Nigerian Army, who accused him of not being in control of the police. While featuring on a Channels Television programme last week, Garba Wahab had reportedly said: “rather than improving the improvement (sic), the IGP is sitting down there with […]
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A top British official has revealed that the government of the United Kingdom trained the operatives of the disbanded special anti-robbery squad (SARS) for four years. In a letter dated October 29, 2020, James Duddridge, UK minister for Africa, said the former operatives of SARS participated in a training “designed to improve human rights.” The […]
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