May 4, 2012 by Mike Odiegwu, Yenagoa Leave a Comment Leaders of cult groups in Bayelsa State have threatened to attack the state Commissioner of Police Mr. Chris Olakpe, if he refuses to halt continuing arrest of their members. Following the incessant killings in parts of the state in recent times by suspected cultists, Olakpe […]
May 4, 2012 by Eniola Akinkuotu No fewer than six journalists were locked up in the office of the Police Public Relations Officer of the Special Fraud Unit in Lagos on Thursday when former Kwara State Governor Bukola Saraki visited the unit to respond to allegations of a N9bn loan scam levelled against him. Saraki, […]
A former governor of Kwara State, now senator representing Kwara Central senatorial district, Dr Bukola Saraki, has honoured the invitation extended to him by the Special Fraud Unit (SFU) of the Nigeria Police. But instead of doing so at the Lagos office of the SFU, which issued the invitation, Saraki went to its Abuja office. […]
The Enugu State Police Command yesterday said it has commenced investigations into the killing of a Divisional Police Officer (DPO) and a Superintendent of Police, Okey Ofoedu by gunmen last Saturday. The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Ebere Amaraizu, a deputy superintendent of police, who disclosed this in a statement said Ofoedu who was […]
A bomb blast outside a military base on Wednesday in the city of Kano caused panic but no injuries, while police earlier in the day discovered a large cache of explosive materials. The homemade bomb planted in an open sewer across from Bukavu military barracks caused people to flee and businesses to shut, a military […]
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Dikko Abubakar has said the police authority under his leadership was working toward evolving a force with disciplined and incorruptible men and officers. Abubakar told journalists in Maiduguri yesterday at the commencement of his tour of police formations in the state that he was trying to build a […]
The Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Chief Godswill Akpabio has condoled with the Acting Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mohammed D. Abubakar on the demise of his mother, Hajiya Aishatu Abubakar. Chief Akpabio who paid a condolence visit to Mr. Abubakar in Abuja described the death of Hajiya Aishatu as a “tragic, painful and unfortunate […]
April 14, 2012 by Eniola Akinkuotu Lagos State Police Commissioner, Mr. Umar Manko | credits: File copy A police corporal, Mr. Innocent Yusuf, with force number 362920, on Tuesday allegedly assaulted a commercial motorcyclist, popularly known as okada rider, on Ikosi Road, Ketu, Lagos. Our correspondent learnt that the victim, Mr. Raphael Omorodion, had just […]
April 12, 2012 by Kunle Falayi The police officer investigating the murder of Abiodun Ademola, the 26-year-old youth, allegedly shot by the Divisional Police Officer of Pen Cinema during the fuel subsidy removal protests in Lagos, has said about 200 youths hurled stones and bottles at the police team on the day of the incident. […]
By Arnold Alalibo | NNP | April 7, 2012 – Soon after he assumed office, the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, undertook to reform the police force and take it to an internationally- acceptable standard. Abubakar has since then taken a number of steps to effect this. One of the measures he took was the […]
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