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Watch out for explosive laden hampers, police warn Nigerians

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Monday, November 30th, 2015

By Kingsley Omonobi Abuja – The Police High Command Monday joined other security agencies in calling on Nigerians to be security conscious and vigilant during the Yuletide season and warned all citizens to be extra alert while receiving gifts from unknown persons that may pose as friends during the season, to avoid explosive-laden hampers as […]

Arase sends DIG, helicopter to Kogi

Posted by admin Headlines, Kogi, Nigerian Police, State News Thursday, November 19th, 2015

Adelani Adepegba and Olusola Fabiyi The Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, has sent the Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of Operations, Wakama Sotonye, to take charge of security for the Kogi State governorship election holding on Saturday. Arase also ordered the deployment of the Marine Police, Anti-Bomb, Counter-Terrorism Units, Police Mobile Force, Force Intelligence […]

Police may reopen Dele Giwa’s murder case

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Monday, November 2nd, 2015

Late Dele Giwa John Alechenu and Adelani Adepegba THE Nigeria Police on Sunday said they might reopen investigation into the 1986 murder of famous journalist and founding Editor-in-Chief of Newswatch Magazine, Dele Giwa. Giwa was murdered by parcel bomb delivered to him in his Oduduwa, Ikeja, Lagos residence in the morning of October 19, […]

No arrest warrant for Saraki — Police

Posted by admin Legislature, Nigerian Police, Senate Sunday, September 20th, 2015

By Kingsley Omonobi & Ikechukwu Nnochiri Amid the controversy generated by the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) order for the arrest of Senate President Bukola Saraki, the police said, yesterday, they were yet to receive a bench warrant to effect it. “I am yet to see one”, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. Solomon […]

Extra-Judicial Killings in Abuja, Benin: ASP kills senator’s son

Posted by admin Headlines, Legislature, Nigerian Police, Senate Sunday, September 20th, 2015

Force CID arrests officers BY KINGSLEY OMONOBI, ABUJA The Force Criminal Investigations Department (FCID) of the Nigerian Police force has arrested and detained an Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP, and six other Police officers over allegations of extra-judicial killings in separate incidents that occurred in Abuja and Benin, the Edo State capital. The first case […]

Ohanaeze slams Buhari for Biu’s reinstatement

Posted by admin Latest Politics, Nigerian Police Monday, September 7th, 2015

The youth wing of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has condemned the reinstatement of the dismissed Commissioner of Police, Mr. Zakari Biu. Biu was on Friday reinstated and statutorily retired by the Police Service Commission, nearly three years after he was dismissed for allegedly aiding the escape of Boko Haram mastermind, Kabiru Sokoto. […]

IGP redeploys Mbu, 18 AIGs, 49 CPs

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Friday, August 28th, 2015

The Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, has approved the redeployment of 19 Assistant Inspectors General of Police (AIGs) and 49 Commissioners of Police. This is contained in a statement issued by the Deputy Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Abayomi Shogunle on Friday in Abuja. Among those redeployed are AIG Joseph Mbu, who was posted as […]

Mob attack DCO in Aba over killing of trader

Posted by admin Abia, Headlines, Nigerian Police, State News Monday, August 3rd, 2015

Abia State Commissioner of Police, Joshak Habila The Divisional Crime Officer of the Ariaria Police Division, Aba, Abia State, identified simply as Mohammed, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, narrowly escaped lynching by an irate mob, who were protesting against the killing of a trader. The incident which occurred on Friday reportedly caused disrupted business […]

NASS crisis: Police deny inviting Ekweremadu

Posted by admin General Politics, Latest Politics, National Politics, Nigerian Police, Top Stories Monday, July 6th, 2015

From MOLLY KILETE, Abuja The Police Force Headquarters in Abuja, yesterday, denied reports that it summoned Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, for interrogation over alleged forgery of the Senate Rules on election of its principal officers. It however, said it wrote a letter to the clerk of the National Assembly, to facilitate a meeting between police investigation […]

IG redeploys Lagos, Ogun, Rivers CPs

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, Nigerian Police, Ogun, Rivers, State News Friday, July 3rd, 2015

Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase | credits: http://www.thescoopng.com Following a rise in the crime wave, the Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, has redeployed the Commissioners of Police in Lagos, Ogun and Rivers states and replaced them with new hands. Lagos had last week recorded a violent bank robbery during which millions of naira […]