New salary scale for police (for efficiency in taking bribes?)

The Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of zone 9, Mr. Solomon Olusegun has revealed that a new salary scale is being worked out for the  police  to boost the morale of policemen and officers in the country.  He spoke on Wednesday  in Awka, when he visited the Anambra state command but warned that the […]

Police, Nigeria’s number one bribe-takers – Report

Men of the Nigeria Police have been named the number one bribe-taking public officials in Nigeria. A report presented by the CLEEN Foundation in Abuja on Tuesday also said corruption was on the increase in the country. The report, which was presented by the Head of Foundation, Mr. Innocent Chukwuma, said apart from the Police, […]

Picture: End of the road for fake superintendent of police

THE end of the road came for Adewole Femi, a civilian who has been parading himself as a senior police officer when he was arrested by men of the Lagos State Police Command. ‘Officer Femi’ as he was fondly called by unsuspecting Nigerians, who hails from Ilolufu Village in Ondo State, had been parading himself as a […]

South Sudan begs Nigerian Police for training

South Sudan Police authorities has pleaded with the Nigeria Police Force to urgently come to their aid in the area of training of their own manpower and capacity building especially as they have seen from the performances of the Nigeria Police contingent in the newly independent country, that Nigeria Police officers are ‘top class’ comparable […]

Kogi: Police recover 46 bombs from building housing church, mosque

AFTER a car with registration number Kogi LKJ 919 AA, rigged with explosive devices, exploded in Okene on Sunday, a bomb and explosive factory has been discovered in an apartment in Kogi State. The building also houses a church and a mosque at Okaito, a remote village in Okehi LGA of the state. On the […]

Abubakar confirmed Police IG

The Police Service Commission, PSC, Thursday, confirmed Mohammed Abubakar as the Inspector General of Police. It will be recalled that Abubakar was appointed Acting Inspector General of Police on January, 2012 by President Goodluck Jonathan. MD Abubakar, Police IG   In a statement issued then by Dr Reuben Abati, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity,  […]

Picture:Police recover human skulls, arms

Police recover human skulls, armsJuly 12, 2012 by Mudiaga Affe, Calabar The Cross River State Police Command has recovered human skulls, charms, assorted rifles and ammunition used by cult members and armed robbers in terrorising the state in the last few months. Displaying the items at the command’s headquarters in Calabar on Tuesday, the state […]

Police arrest suspects in killing of Oshiomhole’s aide

Acting Inspector- General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, on Wednesday said four persons had been arrested   in connection with the killing   of Mr. Olaitan Ojerinde. Ojerinde, who was the Principal Private Secretary to Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole and Deputy National Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress, was killed in his Benin residence by gunmen […]

Police foil armed robbery in Jigawa

THE Jigawa State police command at the weekend foiled arm robbery attempt targeted at a prominent GSM dealer in Dutse. Reports from the state indicated that one of the suspects had been arrested. Two others were said to have escaped. Confirming the incident to Nigerian Tribune, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Kayode Theopholus, said […]

Police, SSS close ranks on Lawan’s $3m bribery scandal

  The Police and State Security Service have closed ranks in the former’s bid to crack the $3m bribery case that involves a former chairman, House of Representatives Ad hoc committee on subsidy, Mr. Farouk Lawan, it was authoritatively gathered on Friday. Lawan and the Clerk to his committee, Mr. Boniface Emenalo, had collected a […]

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