Nasarawa State Governor, Tanko Al-Makura, and his counterpart in Benue, Gabriel Suswan, on Thursday briefed the Presidency on the precarious security situation in their states. While Al-Makura briefed Vice-President Namadi Sambo on the killing of over 20 policemen by members of a cult group in Alakyo Village, about 10 kilometres from Lafia, the state capital, […]
Two journalists with the Leadership Newspapers, detained by the police on Monday were released on Tuesday evening. The Group News Editor of Leadership Newspapers Group, Mr. Tony Amoekedo, and correspondent, Chibuzo Ukaibe, were detained alongside two others at the Force Headquarters following a story their newspaper published on a “presidential directive” to attack key opposition […]
THE police in Bayelsa State on Tuesday recovered 10 decomposing bodies said to be those of the policemen killed in an ambush on Saturday night. Twelve policemen on escort duty were murdered in the attack along the Azuzama waterways of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state which the Movement for the Emancipation of […]
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta on Sunday claimed that its fighters killed the 12 policemen whose boat was ambushed in Azuzama, Southern Ijaw, Bayelsa State, on Saturday and that the deaths were to teach the security forces a lesson for scorning its warning. The militant group had last week announced that it […]
By TAYE OBATERU, SAMUEL OYADONGHA & UMAR YUSUF It was a black weekend in Bayelsa State as 13 policemen were feared dead in a boat attack along the creek of Azuazuama in the Southern Ijaw local government area of the state. 26 others were killed in separate attacks in Adamawa, Plateau and Borno States. The […]
BY ANAYO OKOLI THE new Assistant Inspector General of Police [AIG], Zone 9, Umuahia, Abia State, Mr. Tambari Yabo Muhammad, has called on the governors in the zone to set up security trust fund to assist in providing logistics for security agencies in the zone. Muhammad, who spoke to journalists shortly after meeting with police […]
From TONY OSAUZO, Benin Heads may roll at the Abraka Police Division, following the rape of a female suspect, Mrs. Ese Isaiah in police cell, where she was detained. The woman was arrested and detained in the cell along with men, following a fight she had with a neighbour. Two men were said to have […]
By John Egbeazien Oshodi, Ph.D. | NNP | March 27, 2013 – Mr. IGP, remember the Emergency declaration on Police training Colleges? Mr. Mohammed Dahiru Abubakar after being appointed by President Jonathan as the Acting Inspector General of Police made an open declaration about police training institutions in January of 2012. At which time he […]
There was pandemonium at the Yenizue-Gene area of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, after armed policemen stormed the area, beating and arresting jobless graduates, who assembled to begin a protest against unemployment. The security operatives were said to have thrown caution to the wind as they injured the aggrieved graduates and arrested over 30 of them, including […]
BY KINGSLEY OMONOBI-ABUJA Indications have emerged that President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered Service Chiefs and the Inspector General of Police to put a stop to illegal oil bunkering, pipeline vandalization and other maritime incidents that have drastically affected the nation’s revenue base. Failure to tackle the challenges before the third quarter of the year, according […]
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