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Articles, Columnists, Nigerian Police, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
IN response to my earlier article, “Dismantle these Roadblocks”, an irate policeman called me on the phone. The article was on the need to dismantle the police roadblocks across Nigeria because they have failed as a crime fighting strategy. They degenerated from their intended role of crime prevention to cesspools of police corruption, harassment and […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police
Saturday, November 12th, 2011
Boko Haram suicide bomb attack on Police Headquarters By Yemi Akinsuyi Barely one week after about 100 people lost their lives in the blasts suspected to have been perpetrated by the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram in Damaturu, Yobe State and Borno State, federal government establishments, including the Force Headquarters in Abuja were yesterday tightly […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
ABUJA — FAMILY of the late Madam Mary Tom Akpan of Ikot Inwang village, Bakassi Local Government Area of Cross River State, has petitioned the Inspector- General of Police, IGP, Mr. Hafiz Ringim, over the cruel murder of their daughter on March 6, 2010. The family is asking that all those allegedly implicated in the […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, Niger Delta, Nigerian Police, State News
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Ijaw Monitoring Group, IMG, has described the failure of Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim, to respond to the killing of 20-year-old Emmanuel Victor by a policeman at a check-point in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, last week, as an embarrassment to Nigerians and the international community. In a statement by Comrade Joseph Evah, the Ijaw group […]
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House, Legislature, Nigerian Police, State News
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Again, the Inspector General of Police, Hafiz Ringim has been summoned by the House of Representatives to explain the circumstances leading to the killing of a 20-year-old man by the Police in Bayelsa State. Ringim would appear before the committees on Police, Human Rights and Justice, and also appear before Human Rights, Justice, Public Safety […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police, Oyo, State News
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
There was pandemonium in Omi-Adio community in Ido Local Government Area of Oyo State yesterday after a mobile policeman allegedly shot a driver for refusing to give N20 bribe. The victim, identified simply as Aminu Mudashiru, who was said to have been wounded by the police bullet was immediately rushed to a private hospital in […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police
Sunday, October 23rd, 2011
By Wole Mosadomi, Minna Police in Niger State have shot dead a suspected armed robber while two other colleagues were arrested along Mokwa-Tegina Road. Four others who sustained injuries during a shootout with the police are said to be at large. It was gathered that nemesis caught up with the suspects while robbing motorists on […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police
Monday, October 10th, 2011
Apprehended suspects with their cache of weapons Men of the Lagos State Police Command have rescued three kidnap victims and arrested two of the kidnappers. The rescued victims are Dr. Godwin Ene, Mr. Rodney Ogagba and Mr. Godwin Okonkwo. learnt that during the rescue mission headed by Mr. Patrick Ejadewe, a Chief Superintendent of Police, […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police
Monday, October 10th, 2011
A nursing mother detained at Soro Police station in Ganjuwa Local Government Area of Bauchi State has allegedly been raped by a police constable. Hafsat Manye was allegedly raped twice by one Constable Halilu attached to the Soro Police Station at the police premises in the dead of night. Narrating her bitter experience, a relative […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
Policemen attached to the Lagos State Command were shocked to the marrows yesterday, as they came back from the public holidays declared by the Federal Government to mark the country’s 51st independence anniversary, only to discover that money meant for their September salary had vanished from the vault of a microfinance bank. Ironically, the bank […]
