•IGP Egbetokun The Nigeria Police Force has said that crowdfunding for kidnap ransom on social media is an illegal and punishable offense. The Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, stated this yesterday while speaking on Channels TV. Adejobi said such actions demoralise police personnel, stressing that paying a ransom is criminal ...
•Police There is an atmosphere of fear in Akwa Ibom State as hoodlums last night beheaded a police inspector identified simply as Osang. Our correspondent gathered that the victim was attacked by over 10 assailants at his private residence around Enen Afaha and Afaha Ube, a suburb within Uyo metropolis. An eyewitness said that there […]...
•PSC chairman, Solomon Arase The Police Service Commission has approved the appointment and posting of Police Commissioners for ten State Commands of the federation. This is coming on the heels of the promotion of 14 Deputy Commissioners of Police to the Substantive rank of Commissioners, reports Daily Sun. PSC Head of Press and Public Relatio...
•Arase The Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Dr Solomon Arase, says Nigeria needs the right police personnel officers with ”mental mobility and fertile minds” to relate effectively with the public. This is contained in a statement made available to newsmen by the Head of Press and Public Relations of PSC, Mr Ikechukwu Ani, [&hel...
•Dismissed policemen The Ogun State Police Command yesterday paraded three police officers who had been subjected to orderly room trial for alleged involvement in armed robbery in Ijebu-Ode after which they were dismissed and would soon be charged to court. The dismissed officers are Inspector Taiwo Kolawole with force number AP/No 341113, Ins...
•IGP Egbetokun In a move suspected to be informed by the need to curtail the deteriorating security situation in the country, the Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, has ordered the redeployment and posting of no fewer than 35 senior police officers in the country. This was disclosed in a statement issued by Force […]
Operatives of Imo State Police Command today raided a suspected hideout of kidnappers, situated at Okohia Forest in Owerri West council area of the state. The police during the raid arrested seven suspected members of the kidnappers gang as well as recovered four decomposing corpses, suspected to be that of their victims, reports The Guardian....
•Bello Mohammed Operatives of the Nigerian Police Force have arrested a deadly kidnapper, suspected to be involved in the abduction and murder of Nabeeha, daughter of a Bwari lawyer. Nabeeha, her father, alongside her sisters were abducted in the Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), on January 9,reports Channels TV. The k...
•Philip Aivoji Following the abduction of the Lagos PDP chairman, Mr Philip Aivoji by some gunmen, the spokesperson of the Ogun State Police Command, SP Omolola Odutola, in a chat with our Correspondent, said she was not aware of the kidnap incident. Odutola said: “For now, I don’t have any information about the person who […]
•Olumuyiwa Adejobi The Nigerian Police Force (NPF), today, Thursday January 25, asserted while citing some sections of the Nigerian laws that same-sex marriage and unnatural offences are illegal in the country. The police said the enlightenment followed a recent trend on social media where some individuals who identify as queer were visibly en...

