•Police operatives The Nigerian Police Force has launched a School Protection Squad to protect schools, students, pupils, and teachers in the Ekiti state from kidnapping and other security threats. Speaking during the opening of the Strategic Stakeholders Forum on School Security and training of the Schools Protection Squad in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti...
•Speed Darlington and Burna Boy A singer and social media influencer, Darlington Okoye well known as Speed Darlington is reportedly being detained by the police in Abuja, days after he was declared missing. This was revealed today by a human rights activist and lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, in a post on his X handle. A social […]
•Briggs, Tinubu and Egbetokun Rivers-based environmentalist and human rights activist, Ann-Kio Briggs, has knocked the Nigeria Police Force for its “unacceptable” and “dangerous” operations in the oil-rich state. “If nobody is not going to defend us, we are very likely going to be left to have to defend ourselves,” Briggs said on Channels Tele...
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu has ordered the Nigeria Police Force to protect local government secretariats in Rivers State against incursion by arsonists and vandals. Presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga made this known in a statement today after rampaging hoodlums aggrieved with the outcome of Saturday LG poll burnt down some council secretar...
•Sheikh Gumi and bandits Popular Kaduna-based Islamic cleric Sheikh Gumi, while speaking with Sunday PUNCH, addresses issues of banditry and terrorism. The rate at which bandits and terrorists kill and kidnap Nigerians is on the increase, particularly in the northern part of Nigeria. In an attempt to combat this, the federal government has spe...
•Some Policemen Officials of the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC and voters ran for their lives when police officers stormed Elekahia Primary School in Port Harcourt City local government area, yesterday. About 21 Hilux patrol vans with heavily armed officers drove into the school which has 10 polling units, reports Daily ...
The local government election has commenced in Rivers State, despite the absence of police to man the process. Our correspondent reports that sensitive materials have been distributed across the local government areas. The state governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has vowed to conduct the local government election amid tensions in the state. &...
•IGP Kayode Egbetokun, Femi Falana and Governor Siminalayi Fubara A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Femi Falana has written to the police authorities over the local government election scheduled to be held in Rivers State tomorrow, Saturday, October 5, 2024. The Rivers State Government and the police command in the state have been at loggerhe...
The Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara said he stormed the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) at 1am today, to stop the Rivers State Police Command from taking over the premises. A video showed the governor in the company of his team, entering the premises of the RSIEC, while some men were seen alleging that […]
•Police fire teargas at protesters in Abuja Some protesters against bad governance had a raw deal in the hands of the army, police, other security agents and even political thugs, yesterday, in Rivers, Kano and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja. As the protesters actualised their vow of going ahead with the October 1 action […]...
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