•Women in Police House of Representatives Speaker Tajudeen Abbas has said the National Assembly is poised to address the challenges women face in their efforts to join the Nigeria Police Force. The Speaker and the Ministry of Police Affairs said it has become imperative to amend the Police Act so that more women could be […]
•INEC chairman, Prof. Joash Amupitan The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has given Prof. Joash Amupitan, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) seven days to urgently refer the allegations of vote buyÂing and undue influence during the just concluded governorship elections in Anambra State...
•Police The Imo State Police Command has dislodged kidnappers’ hideouts in Owerri-West, recovering a decomposed corpse suspected to be that of abducted lawyer, Barrister Jeffery Ucheagwu. The operation, coordinated by ACP Oladimeji Odeyeyiwa, led to the recovery of a decomposed corpse from one of the hideouts located in an abandoned livestock ...
•Lagos CP Olohundare Jimoh and activist Omoyele Sowore Legal counsel to human rights activist and former presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has said that the police acted outside the law by declaring his client wanted. Speaking on Channels Television today, the counsel, Tope Temokun, stated that “there is no law in Nigeria that empowers t...
•Nigerian soldiers The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) has cautioned the police and the Army against militarising the Anambra governorship election or issuing threats capable of scaring voters ahead of Saturday’s poll. Intersociety warned the Nigerian Armed Forces — including the Anambra State Police Co...
•IGP Egbetokun and activist Sowore The Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, has restrained the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Moshood Jimoh, from declaring human rights activist and African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, wanted. The order came today following a suit filed by Sowore, who accused the Ni...
•Sowore Activists and politician, Omoyele Sowore, today confirmed he was aware that the Lagos Police Command declared him wanted for alleged disturbance of public peace. Commissioner of Police (CP) Olohundare Jimoh in the early hours of the day made the declaration following plans by Sowore and his followers to block the Third Mainland Bridge ...
•Omoyele Sowore The Police command in Lagos State has declared activist, Mr Omoyele Sowore, wanted for allegedly planning to incite public disorder and obstruct major roads in the state. Commissioner of Police, Mr Olohundare Jimoh, disclosed this to journalists today at the Iyana-Oworo section of the Third Mainland Bridge. He said the command ...
•Masquerades Police in Akwa Ibom State have arrested a leader of a masquerade group and one accomplice for allegedly attacking members of the public and forcefully extorting money during an unapproved cultural display in Essien Udim Local Government Area. LThe suspects, identified as 45-year-old Uwem Umanah and 34-year-old David Michael, were ...
Aggrieved landlords of Cinnamon, Lemon, and Iroko Drives within Cedarwood Garden Estate in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, have raised alarm over an alleged illegal demolition threat of their properties from the Chief Executive Officer of Delta Technology and Property Limited, Mr. Stephen Nyegwa. The landlords insisted that Nyegwa’s actions ...

