•Lagos State Police PRO, SP Benjamin Hundeyin AyBenson, who tweets as @AyBenson, has narrated the alleged ill-mannered acts of some operatives of the Lagos State Police Command attached to the Ogombo Division. He stated these while reacting to the “illegalities” of the operatives when they allegedly beat up a security man at the entrance of [&...
•Yahaya Bello and IGP Kayode Egbetokun The Inspector General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, has withdrawn all police officers attached to the embattled former Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello. The order for the withdrawal is contained in a police wireless document with reference number: “CB:4001/DOPS/PMF/FHQ/ABJ/VOL.48/ 34 which reads in ...
•IGP Kayode Egbetokun. The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, has announced that nine persons have been arrested in connection to the killings of police officers in the Ughelli area of Delta State. The police boss, disclosed this today, at a management meeting of the Force, reports Channels TV. He said those arrested are [&he...
The bereaved families and friends of some of the police officers who were ambushed and killed while investigating the disappearance of three colleagues by unknown persons in Delta State have demanded justice for their loved ones. The spokesperson for the Nigeria Police Force, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, had disclosed the killing of the six police offic...
•Policemen The Commissioner of Police, Akwa Ibom State, Waheed Ayilara, has deployed 3,200 police officers across the State after a meeting with the State Chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress ( NLC ), affiliate bodies and other stakeholders given the planned protest by the labour Union. Police Public Relations Officer for the State SP Odiki ...
•Policemen in training A former Governor of Kano State, Ibrahim Shekarau, has lamented that Nigeria with a population of over 200 million people doesn’t have up to a million policemen, suggesting the recruiting of about 50,000 policemen every year. Shekarau, who was a guest on Channels Television last night, spoke on the heels of the […...
•Gunmen Bandits have killed two policemen, and two other residents and abducted about forty persons in an attack on Kasuwa-Daji Town under the Kaura-Namoda Local Government Area in Zamfara State. Residents said the bandits invaded the town early hours of today and started shooting indiscriminately to scare residents, reports Channels TV. A res...
•Police Men of the Abia State Police Command were said to have invaded the ABN TV in Umuahia on Tuesday and forcibly arrested a guest, Mr. Udensi Donald, during a live programme “Youth Rendezvous,” anchored by Grace Onyekachi. The Director, ABN TV/Radio, Ifeanyi Okali, made this known in a statement posted on his Facebook page […]
•CP Abiodun Alamutu The Ogun State Police has arrested officers caught in a viral video assaulting and extorting a 24-year-old lady, Soyemi Funmilola, at a checkpoint in Ijagun Junction, near Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijebu-Ode. It was learnt that the victim had, on January 23, 2024, reported a case of assault and extortion to [&hel...
•CP Fayoade Adegoke The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fayoade Adegoke, has said that no police officer is permitted to search the phones of any Nigerian. He noted that the Police Force had a cyber section responsible for that, adding that if a police officer suspected anything, they would take the person to the station […]