Efforts of the Acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Alhaji Mohammed Dikko Abubakar to transform the force to a modern day crime-fighting agency, has once again received a boost from one of his predecessors. Speaking to Daily Sun in Abuja last week, a former IGP, Sir Mike Mbama Okiro, said that Abubakar is very much on […]
The acting Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, has thrown his full weight behind the special task force on security being proposed by Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson. Abubakar gave his support to the task force yesterday when Dickson paid him a courtesy visit in his office at the force headquarters, Louis Edet House, […]
Wale Sokunbi ( 08056180228 walesokunbi2003@yahoo.co.uk ) Wednesday, March 21, 2012 The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, was on the front pages of some national newspapers last week, decked in military-style camouflage uniform that he introduced to the nation as a new operational uniform of the police. The police top boss said the idea for […]
The newly promoted Assistant Inspectors General of Police (AIGs) have not assumed office, hence there is no basis for their predecessors staying away from office, Force Headquarters said yesterday The police headquarters’ pronouncement was a reaction to our lead story yesterday entitled: Confusion at Police HQ (Retired AIGs order newly promoted officers to quit). In […]
March 21, 2012 by Jude Owuamanam 157 Comments Two riot policemen attached to the Special Task Force in Jos have been killed by unknown gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen. Corporals Safiyanu Suleman and Thomas Kozah were said to have been killed in Palang, Bachict, Riyom Local Government Area on Sunday. Also, two policemen were […]
A Briton, Mr. Khomeini Bukhari, who was allegedly dispossessed of his property by two policemen, has demanded N1bn from the Nigeria Police for defamation of character. He claimed that the police breached their statutory duty by not investigating the incident he said had left him traumatised. In a letter to the acting Inspector-General of Police, […]
The Inspector General of Police, Alhaji M. D. Abubakar, has said his appearance in the new police camouflage is a process of mock display of the uniform, as one of the operational outfits of the Nigerian Police. The president, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, has approved a mock display of a camouflage dress for the police as […]
Newly promoted Deputy Inspector General of Police, John Haruna was among several other senior police officers confirmed dead in a Surveillance helicopter that crashed at noon today in the crisis ridden Jos, North Central Nigeria. The police helicopter which crashed into four houses in Kabong on a security facility occurred just as it was conveying […]
Mubi – A police inspector, a soldier and four other persons were killed in a Monday night attack by unidentified gunmen in Mubi, Adamawa. Eyewitnesses told journalists in Mubi that a unit of military patrol team were also attacked by the gunmen, injuring the men on duty. The witnesses said that unidentified gunmen attacked a military patrol vehicle […]
March 13, 2012 by Kunle Falayi As the three-day funeral of Abiodun Ademola, who was allegedly shot by a Divisional Police Officer, Mr. Segun Fabunmi, commenced at Yaya Abatan in Ogba area of Lagos on Monday, policemen stormed the venue of the event. The policemen, our correspondent learnt, were from the Pen Cinema Police Station, […]
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