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Abiodun Ladepo, Boko Haram, Ebonyi, Headlines, National Politics, Nigerian Police, State News
Wednesday, August 10th, 2016
By Peter Okutu ABAKALIKI—Three police officers indicted in the stripping and battering of a 15-year-old Uzoamaka Chukwu in Umunaga Uburu, Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, are currently undergoing orderly room trial. Uzoamaka was stripped naked and beaten with cables and canes by some persons in the area with the pictures and video of […]
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Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, Nigerian Police, NNP Columnists
Monday, July 25th, 2016
By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | July 25, 2016 – At last, the federal government’s promise it made in August, 2015, to recruit 10,000 Nigerians into the Nigeria Police Force to boost its workforce and reposition it for greater effectiveness, is being realized. This move is commendable and will address the dearth of personnel […]
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Latest Politics, Nigerian Police
Tuesday, July 19th, 2016
A The acting Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, says his predecessor, Solomon Arase, went away with 24 police vehicles while the seven Deputy Inspectors-General of Police, who retired alongside him, also carted away between seven and eight cars each. Idris stated that he had written Arase to return the cars, which included two official bullet-proof […]
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Akwa Ibom, Headlines, Nigerian Police, State News
Tuesday, July 19th, 2016
Etim Ekpimah, Uyo A police inspector attached to Mkpat Enin Police Division in Akwa Ibom State has allegedly raped a 15-year-old girl at gunpoint. The victim, a senior secondary pupil of Community Secondary School in the area, on Tuesday said she was returning from church on Thursday, last week, when a police team accosted her. […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police
Tuesday, June 21st, 2016
Olalekan Adetayo and Adelani Adepegba president Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday appointed an Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, as the acting Inspector-General of Police. The appointment was contained in a statement made available to journalists by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina. Idris succeeds Solomon Arase who proceeds on […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police
Sunday, June 19th, 2016
JUNE 14, 2016. Being a Press Release by FORUM OF CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS IN NIGERIA [FCSON] in response to Civil Society Network Against Corruption [CSNAC] petition against Sir Mike Okiro to President Muhammadu Buhari [PMB], published in some online newspapers and national dailies on June 12/13, 2016 . TITLE: CIVIL SOCIETY NETWORK AGAINST CORRUPTION […]
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Abia, Headlines, Nigerian Police, State News
Wednesday, June 1st, 2016
BY UGOCHUKWU ALARIBE ABA- Unknown gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have shot dead two policemen in Aba, Abia State, as they made to escape with a businessman they had abducted in the city. Police Area Commander in charge of Aba, ACP Peter Wagbara, had mobilised his men to block suspected escape routes that the kidnappers […]
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General Politics, Headlines, Nigerian Police
Wednesday, April 27th, 2016
By Isaac Ikpa Coming on the heels of the rescue of the three abducted secondary school girls in Lagos, the Inspector General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase’s demand for update on stolen Zamfara and Bauchi girls marks a new high in police responsiveness to public mood. IGP-Solomon-Arase We are finally seeing a police that gets […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police
Friday, April 15th, 2016
Ikenne Police DPO Patrick Onwu Demoted To The Rank Of DSP For Beating Up Female Traffic Officer In Abeokuta Ogun State. IGP Arase has ordered the immediate demotion of Patrick Onwu, the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Ikenne who beat a traffic warden to coma on Monday.As it stands, the DPO has been demoted […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police
Friday, April 1st, 2016
delani Adepegba, Abuja The recruitment of 10, 000 policemen by the Police Service Commission begins nationwide on Friday (today). President Muhammadu Buhari had last year at the National Security Summit in Abuja directed the Force to recruit 10,000 Nigerians into the service to address the obvious shortfall in the manpower need of the police. Speaking […]
