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Articles, Columnists, John Egbeazien Oshodi, Nigerian Police, NNP Columnists
Monday, March 12th, 2012
By Dr. John Egbeazien Oshodi, Abuja, Nigeria, March 12, 2012 – The Nigeria leadership, institutions and the public in general need to realize fully that in spite of whatever attitude we have about our police men and women, police work in general is highly demanding and remains a stressful job. In our current society, we […]
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Nigerian Police
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
A police inspector, Ahamba Njoku, has been shot dead by robbers in Aba, the commercial hub of Abia state , the police said. Mr Geoffrey Ogbonna, the Police Public Relations Officer in Abia, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Aba on Saturday. He said that Njoku was killed at Omuma […]
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Adamawa, Boko Haram, Headlines, Nigerian Police, Raw Politics, State News
Friday, March 9th, 2012
By SaharaReporters, New York Unknown gunmen opened fire at a car dealership in Yola, Adamawa state on Friday afternoon killing the police officer in charge of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in the state. Eyewitnesses told Saharareporters that the assailants might have trailed the senior police officer to the scene. The officer, Mohammed Ali, was a […]
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Boko Haram, Headlines, Nigerian Police
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
By Segun Awofadeji A Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Mr. Abbubakar Sadiq, three other policemen and a civilian were Thursday feared dead, while another Police Inspector was short on the leg by unknown gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram, during a night attack on a police station and two new generation banks in Ashaka-Bajoga, […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
No fewer than 38 policemen and eight Federal Road Safety Corps officials are facing orderly room trial for defying acting Inspector-General’s directive for the dismantling of roadblocks across the country. Mr. Mohammed Abubakar on February 14 ordered that all intra-state checkpoints be removed, regretting that they were being used by many policemen to […]
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Enugu, Nigerian Police, State News
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
By Tony Edike ENUGU—THE Enugu State Police Command has commenced investigations into the mysterious death of three young men suspected to be cable vandals inside a NITEL underground pit within the Ogbete Main Market in Enugu, the state capital. Some traders at the market reportedly discovered the decomposing corpses of the three men inside the […]
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Headlines, Niger Delta, Nigerian Police
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
Emma Amaize WARRI- THE people of Kalafiogbene community in Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta State, the country-home of Francis Osuwo, alias General Gbokos, the alleged October 1, 2010 Independence Day bomber, who died in detention at Kuje Prisons, Abuja, Thursday, called on the Inspector General of Police to probe the death of their son, […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
THERE is an uneasy calm in the Nigeria Police as a result of speculations of a mass retirement, following the recent promotion of some officers above their senior colleagues. Sources revealed to Saturday Tribune that some Commissioners of Police were promoted to the rank of Deputy Inspector General (DIG) over Senior Assistant Inspectors General of […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
ACTING Inspector General of Police [IGP] Mohammed Dikko Abubakar, yesterday decorated the newly promoted Deputy Inspectors General of Police [DIGs] and Assistant Inspectors General of Police with their ranks, stating that a new era in the policing of the country has come. Speaking shortly before the decoration, of the seven DIGs and 13 Assistant Inspectors […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
A storm is gathering over the recent promotions of a few senior police officers in the country, writes ADEOLA BALOGUN Consequent upon the promotion of some of its senior officers to the ranks of Assistant Inspector-General and Deputy Inspector-General last month, a cloud of uncertainty appears to overhang the Nigeria Police Force. As […]
