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Great Pictures: Crime fighting men of the Nigeria Police in action

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Friday, August 19th, 2011

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Stampede in Onitsha as police kill trader

Posted by admin Anambra, Headlines, Nigerian Police, State News Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

Business activities were, on Wednesday, disrupted in the electronics market in Onitsha, as traders protested the killing of one of their members by the police. The incident, according to eyewitness account, happened when policemen allegedly shot at a trader who was fleeing from police, resulting to his death on the spot, as traders at the […]

Disturbing Picture: Pregnant wife, mother of man murdered by cop beg police – Please give us Onyeka’s corpse for burial

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

• Late Onyeka Photo: THE SUN PUBLISHING More Stories on This Section The sudden death of Mr. Onyeka Agupugo, a brick layer and mason, who was allegedly killed by a trigger-happy policeman last Saturday has left the family devastated. More devastating is that the corpse of the murdered man has been deposited at an unknown […]

Zamfara govt donates 20 operational vehicles to police

Posted by admin Governors, Headlines, Nigerian Police, State News, Zamfara Monday, August 8th, 2011

Zamfara State government has donated 20 operational vehicles, bought at the cost of N101million to the police in its efforts to help the security outfit to combat crime. Presenting the 20 pickup vans equipped with modern communication gadgets to the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Alhaji Hafiz Ringim, at the state police headquarters, Gusau, the […]

4 policemen arrested for robbery• Several millions recovered from gang leader’s account

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Thursday, July 28th, 2011

Four policemen attached to one of the Mobile Units of the Lagos State police command have been arrested for armed robbery. However, the Force has declared a manhunt for one other, who is currently on the run. Recovered from the alleged gang leader, Eboma Onyeka’s account was money running into several millions of naira. Daily […]

‘Inadequate funding of police, bane of criminal justice’

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

The Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Ondo State, Eyitayo Jegede SAN, on Tuesday, identified lack of adequate funding of the Nigeria Police as one of the major problems facing administration of criminal justice in the country. He also advocated the construction of more prisons as a panacea for de-congestion of prisons across the […]

Police recruitment: ‘Why the North is gaining the edge

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

’INVESTIGATIONS have revealed reasons the authorities of the Nigeria Police are giving preferential treatment to indigenes of northern states, who are already enlisted in the rank and file of the force, as it is aimed at given the regions of the North an edge in the establishment. Nigerian Tribune gathered that though the force planned […]

Govt adopts fresh options to tackle insecurity

Posted by admin National Politics, Nigerian Police Monday, July 18th, 2011

AS part of efforts to rise to the security challenges in the country, the office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) has adopted fresh options even as the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Hafiz Ringim, disclosed yesterday that the police were not contacted by the military when the latter intercepted some explosives recently in the […]

Police ban movement of explosives (duhhh!)

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Monday, July 18th, 2011

Amidst increasingly eroding confidence, lack of synergy and discordant tunes emanating from the core security agencies and the military in the wake of rising insecurity, especially in the northern part of the country, the National Security Adviser, General Owoye Azazi, has initiated steps to harmonise and effectively co-ordinate operational activities of the various agencies. This […]

Shortage of Funds Grounds Police

Posted by admin Latest Politics, Nigerian Police Saturday, July 9th, 2011

With the high rate of insecurity of lives and property in the country, the agency empowered with the maintenance of law and order in the country, the Nigeria Police is said to be broke and lacks adequate fund to operate. The fund for the day- to-day running of the force and fuelling of patrol vehicles […]