Okitipupa (Ondo State) – A legal luminary, Chief Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), has urged the Federal Government and the National Assembly to effect a constitutional change that would allow a decentralised police force to effectively address the insecurity challenges confronting the country. According to him, the country is in dire need of an upgraded security arrangement […]
The Borno Command of the Nigerian Police Force is currently mourning the loss of three of its officers during an encounter with the Boko Haram terrorists in the state on January 6. Three of the command’s personnel died in the attack launched by Boko Haram insurgents who stormed Kundori village in Konduga LG along Maiduguri/Damaturu […]
Senator, Fidelis Okoro who represented Enugu North Senatorial District between 1999 and 2007, has slammed a N3billion suit against the Nigerian Police Force over the alleged killing of his son. The suit filed at the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja marked FHC/ABJ/C5/1165/2019, through Mr. Mbanefo Ikwegbuehe prayed the court to award N3billion against the […]
The Nigeria Police Force, Akwa Ibom Command, said the command had arrested five suspects in connection with recent robbery attacks in Uyo metropolis. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP Odiko Macdon, disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen in Uyo on Saturday.According to him, last week, some hoodlums went about […]
The Police Coedmmand in Rivers says it intercepted and arrested two fake soldiers allegedly involved in a robbery operation within new Port Harcourt GRA on Wednesday. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Nnamdi Omoni, disclosed this in a statement in Port Harcourt. Omoni said that the Anti Crime Patrol Team of the Abacha Police Station, […]
The Police Command in Enugu has arrested Moses Eze, a 75-year-old man accused of defiling a five year-old-girl. The command’s spokesperson Ebere Amaraizu, in a statement on Saturday in Enugu, said that the incident happened on Sept. 12 in Eha Alumona community in Nsukka Local Government Area of the state. Amaraizu said that operatives of […]
The Oyo State Police Command has confirmed the abduction of the Chairman of Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics of the college, Mr. Opadijo Olujide and some lecturers of the College of Agriculture, Igboo-Ora, Ibarapa. Others abducted include, his secretary, Gbenga Alayande; and three others who were kidnapped on their way from Saki after attending a […]
Biodun Fatoyinbo, Senior Pastor and founder of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA) is currently being detained at Nigerian Police Force Headquarters in Abuja after he surrendered himself for questioning over rape allegations levelled against him by Mrs Busola Dakolo. Mrs Dakolo, wife of Nigeria’s inspirational singer Timi Dakolo had accused Fatoyinbo of raping her […]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday said, the entire structure of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, was being overhauled, re-positioned and primed with modern technological gadgets, to meet rising challenges across the country, as an intelligence loop among all security outfits has been created. In a statement signed by his media aide, Femi Adesina in a […]
The Nigerian Police Force is the worst in the world according to the World Internal Security and Police Index (WISPI). This comes as no surprise to me, some of us already knew this. The Nigerian Police Force is pitiful, incompetent, ineffective, inefficient and corrupt as is. Our Government both past and present should take full […]
Nigeria actor cum lawmaker, Desmond Elliot, alongside Segun Arinze are some of the notable faces that will feature in the first ever police TV series, an initiative of the Nigeria Police Force which will be based on the activities of the force. Speaking at the gathering, the spokesperson of the Force, Mrs. Olabisi Kolawole, revealed […]
The Bauchi State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) on Friday said it constituted a seven man standing committee for the safety of journalists during and after the elections. According to the council Chairman, Dahiru Mohammed, said the committee would ensure that the security of journalists was safeguarded at all times. “The […]
Adamawa state police spokesman, Othman Abubakar has said that a truck carrying fresh human head in a bag. The truck was intercepted at a check point close to the Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola, formerly, Federal University of Technology Yola in collaboration with local vigilante in the state. The Police Public Relation Officer, Mr. […]