The police in Bayelsa State have arrested twelve persons suspected to be pirates allegedly involved in the attack on a marine police team along the state waterways in which two officers lost their lives. The state command however denied the alleged loss of five service rifles to the suspected pirates during the Monday morning attack […]
ABUJA – The Police Service Commission, Wednesday, announced the promotion of two senior officers, CP John O. Morenike and CP (Dr.) Stephen D. Hart, to the rank of Assistant Inspectors General of Police. Both Promotions are with effect from August 3, 2011. Also, the Commission considered and approved the Inspector-General’s recommendations that Deputy Commissioner of […]
Jonathan summons IG, officers shelve parley N’Assembly co-opts ballistic experts into security checks THERE was an uneasy calm yesterday at the Police Force Headquarters in Abuja as foreign and local security experts intensified the search for persons involved in last Thursday’s bomb blast at police prime office. Even police officers in the premises looked worried […]
At least four persons, including a Divisional Police Officer and an Assistant Superintendent of Police, were feared dead, yesterday, after some workers suspected to be from Niger Dock attacked a Police post on Snake Island, shooting sporadically. The workers it was gathered, were protesting the death of three of their colleagues in the hands of […]
Kunle Akogun and Paul Obi in Abuja and James Sowole in Akure Nine of the victims of the Thursday suicide bombing that took place at the Police Force Headquarters in Abuja who were receiving treatment at the Asokoro General Hospital have been handed over to police authorities. The handover of the injured victims coincided with […]
The ‘boast’ of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Hafiz Ringim, that he would wipe out the dreaded Boko Haram sect from Nigeria within 10 days, beginning from last Tuesday, may have necessitated last Thursday’s attack on the Force Headquarters in Abuja by the Islamic fundamentalist group, Sunday Sun has learnt. The group has therefore […]
Getting survivors of Thursday’s bomb explosion at the Force Headquarters in Abuja to recount their gory experience has been difficult, but emerging facts indicated that the late Assistant Superintendent of Traffic (AST), Mangor Dangton, one of those killed in the blast, had expressed his desire to be redeployed from the Louis Edet House three weeks […]
The Nigeria Police has resolved to go all out in its crackdown on Boko Haram. This is coming at a time a team of experts from the United States, United Kingdom and Israel have been approached by the Nigerian authorities for assistance in unravelling the power behind the group and spate of bombings in the […]
BARELY nine months after the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja was thrown into confusion, fear, mourning and bewilderment following the bomb explosions that erupted October 1, 2010 when Nigeria was marking its 50th anniversary, the nation’s capital city was on Thursday, June 16 thrown into a similar situation. This time, it was not a public place, […]
Forty eight hours after giving conditions for ceasefire, Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, yesterday bombed the Louis Edet House, Force Headquarters of the police in Abuja. The attack claimed two lives with about 35 vehicles destroyed in the incident that occurred at 10.58 am. The Police High command confirmed the casualty figure. The victims, according […]
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