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Lagos, Nigerian Police, State News
Thursday, January 6th, 2011
THE fear of bomb explosion swept through a section of Lagos State yesterday. But the police dismissed the panic as baseless. The bomb scare at Motorways complex, opposite 7Up, old Toll Gate, threw residents of the area into pandemonium. The complex has offices of some financial institutions and agencies including Lagos Metropolitan Transport Agency […]
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Latest Politics, Nigerian Police
Tuesday, January 4th, 2011
THE Police has said yesterday that they have uncovered clues that would lead to arrest of the perpetrators of the New Year eve bomb blast at the Mogadishu Barracks which killed 4 persons including a pregnant woman and injured 26 others including a five year old irl. Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) in-charge of […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police
Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
The crime prevention efforts of the police has started to pay off, as over 35,000 criminals were arrested and charged to various courts across the country in 2010. The Inspector-General of Police, Hafiz Ringim, who disclosed this in his New Year message to officers and men of the force, saluted the courage with which the […]
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Latest Politics, Nigerian Police
Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
Two former Inspectors General of Police (IGP) said yesterday, that the rising spate of criminality and terrorist activities across the country ahead of the April 2011 general elections was not unexpected, as there had been signs that all was not well with the nation’s security system and the polity. Speaking with Daily Sun on telephone […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police
Saturday, January 1st, 2011
Area ‘O’ Police Command, Olaniyan Street, Oke-Ira, Ogba, Lagos For many commercial motorcyclists, popularly known as okada riders, who operate in the Ogba area of Lagos, these are certainly not the best of times. The source of their woes are unknown policemen, who extort money from them daily by imposing sundry charges. The same people […]
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Nigerian Police, Oyo, State News
Saturday, January 1st, 2011

SECURITY was yesterday beefed up in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, by men of the State Police Command for fear of reprisal attack by supporters of the murdered National Union of Road Transport Workers, Alhaji Lateef Salako (a.ka. Eleweomo). This came as the police authorities announced the arrest of two persons in connection with the […]
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Armed Forces, Borno, Latest Politics, Nigerian Police
Friday, December 31st, 2010

SUSPECTED members of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, who on Tuesday killed a policeman and two others in a teaching hospital in Maiduguri, Borno State, renewed their offensive on Wednesday in the state capital. Wherever they struck, either a resident or a security officer was brought down in cold bold. Embattled residents in the scenes […]
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Abia, Nigerian Police, State News
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
Abia State police command has arrested one Chukwuma Ajapere, alias Barewa, the second-in-command to the late kidnap kingpin in the state, Obioma Nwankwo, alias Osisikankwu. Speaking with journalists in Umuahia, the acting state Commissioner of Police, Mr Kingsley Omire, said the suspect was nabbed in a hideout at the outskirts of Aba, adding that he […]
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Headlines, Legislature, Nigerian Police
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
OVER 2,000 men of the Nigerian Police Force have petitioned the Presidency and the National Assembly over what they described as alleged discrimination in the promotion of officers of the force who have acquired additional educational qualifications while in service to the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP. The officers in the petition which […]
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National Politics, Nigerian Police, Plateau, State News
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010

Tension heightened in Jos, Plateau State on Tuesday as youths mobilised to protest the killings of two of their colleagues by soldiers . At Jenta Mangoro area of the city where one of killings took place, the police averted a bloodbath by dispersing the youths. But in Gada Biu, where the second killing allegedly occurred, […]