The Nigeria Police Force Thursday night acknowledged receipt of allegation and indictment processes from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) against DCP Abba Kyari, juts as the the Inspector General of Police IGP Usman Baba has ordered an internal review of the allegations. A press statement by the Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), CP Frank Mba, Thursday in Abuja, said: Read More
The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Lucky Irabor, has said the current agitations in the South-east zone makes security situation in the region very peculiar, saying that a good number of those who are in support of such agitations have wrong understanding of the realities on ground. According to a statement by Deputy Director Defence Information, Defence Headquarters Air Read More
To rid Imo state of all forms of crimes and criminality, the Imo state Police command has smashed a notorious kidnap syndicate that has been terrorising the state lately. In a press statement issued by the command through the media aide to Commissioner of Police, CSP Mike Abattam, it said ” On 3/7/2021 at about 0430 hours, one Cornelia Oluebube” Read More
The Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba has charged officers and men of the Nigeria Police to exhibit high sense of professionalism and shun all forms of abuse. The IGP gave the charge while addressing officers and men of the Kano state Command of the Nigerian Police Force at the headquarters in Bompai, Kano Wednesday. He described Kano Read More
A group of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on the aiges of APC-Legacy Awareness Campaign (APC-LAC) has said that Nigeria recently acquired its first new Landing Ship Tank (LST) since 1979 under President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration. The APC group also said the Nigeria Air Force (NAF) received anout 23 new aircraft since 2015 as part of commitments of Present administration Read More
Usman Alkali Baba, the inspector-general of Police, IGP, narrowly escaped death as a canopy nearly collapsed on him during an official function on Wednesday, June 9, 2021. The incident took place at the Lagos State Police Headquarter Ikeja when the newly confirmed IGP, who was on his first official visit to the state, was about to address senior police officers. Read More
The #StateofEmergencyGBV Movement has called on the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) to implement well-resourced functional Family Support Units and Force Gender Units of the Nigeria Police Force to address Gender Based Violence (GBV) cases in collaboration with and at the state level. According to the movement, there should also be public disciplinary measures against officers of the Nigeria Police Force Read More
Osun State Command of the Nigeria Police has confirmed the death of four policemen and three civilians in the bank robbery that took place at Apomu/Ikire on Wednesday evening. According to the spokesperson of the command, SP Yemisi Opalola, armed robbers numbering about 35 stormed the towns around 6:10pm in attempt to rob banks. Opalola explained that four policemen, ASP Read More
A legacy group of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) under the aegis of APC Legacy Awareness and Campaign (APC-LAC) has said President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration has been laying foundation for the greatness of the country which ought to have been done long ago. The group said a lot of the investments and reforms being made currently should have been Read More
The vice-chairman, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Gwagwalada branch, Barrister David E. Aigbefoh, has facilitated a parcel of land at Tungan Maje community in Gwagwalada area council to the Nigeria Police. The land was handed over during a brief ceremony to the representatives of the FCT Police Command on Thursday. Speaking during the land inspection, the police officer in charge of Read More
The nation’s capital is at the risk of both security and transport disorders if nothing is done to address the menacing incursion of commercial motorcycle riders as known as Okada plying unapproved routes. ELEOJO IDACHABA takes a look at the initial ban and why their return to the city centre is not checked. Until 2006, when it was first banned Read More
Let us begin by stating the obvious, the very obvious. Presidents are busy, very busy people. They have to think and plan for the lives of millions of their people and, of course, the next level in the social, economic and political development of their countries. In addition, they are bombarded with requests from contractors and others who rely on Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari has been called upon to avoid the embarrassment of being documented as a law breaker in the court records with the appointment of Mr Usman Alkali Baba, as the acting Inspector-General of Police. Barrister Maxwell Opara, a legal practitioner based in Abuja, appealed to the president to act in accordance with the law he assented to in Read More
Unknown gunmen early hours of Thursday invaded Obiozara police station in Ohaozara local government area of Ebonyi state and killed one inspector on duty. The gunmen were said to have invaded the station at about 3am, burnt offices of the director of Police Divisional Police Officer (DPO) and that of the administrator. A source within the area noted that the main police Read More
As part of efforts to improve security agencies’ response to various threats to public peace and safety across the country, the federal government has flagged-off an inter-agencies training on Nigeria Internal Security and Public Safety Alert System (NISPSAS). Declaring open the training Thursday in Abuja, Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola said the ministry charged with responsibility of ensuring internal Read More
In my life, there are three people that I call Chairman, and they are related in more ways than one. First, all three happened to come from Niger State. Two of them are Nupe, so those are my “Katsina slaves”. But all three were my masters, on a serious note. Why? They employed me at one time or the other. Read More
There are indications that a militia commander with Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) simply identified as Ikonta has been killed. Unconfirmed report revealed that the commander and some members of his group were killed on Saturday morning in Imo state. Neither the Nigeria Police, nor any other security agency have confirmed the latest development. There have been series of attacks Read More
Operatives of Operation Puff Adder II, attached to Iyara Division of the Nigeria Police in Kogi state have arrested three suspected armed robbers. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Kogi state police command, DSP William Ovye Aya, said in a statement issued Wednesday in Lokoja.Aya said the command received a report on 13/4/2021 that at about 2200hrs, three armed men Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari has officially appointed a new Inspector General of Police to replace the former IGP Mr Mohammed Adamu as the number one Cop of the nation. Mr Adamu whose tenure formally ended on February 1st, 2021 was extended against public outcry in view of public service rules and the provisions of the Police Act of 2020. That extension Read More
Outgoing Inspector – General of Police, IGP Adamu Mohammed, Tuesday, directed officers and men of the Nigeria Police to use brute force against members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) and Eastern Security Network (ESN)whom he described as outlaws. This is even as he assured that “the attackers (of Imo Correctional Centre) have no hiding place as they will Read More
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) under the Joint Boarder Patrol Team (JBPT) said it has intercepted no fewer than 391,631 contraband goods smuggled into the country through south-south and south-east states’ boarders between September, 2020 and February 2021. The Sector Coordinator 1 in charge of South-South and South-East zone, Comptroller Shehu Abubakar, made the disclosure in a statement signed and Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned attack on Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state, saying the string of brutal attacks on individuals and communities in the state, with the latest one targeting the governor, was unacceptable. The president also welcomed the dispatch of a high level team of crack investigators to the state from the police headquarters in Abuja, urging the Read More
The Inspector General of Police, IGP Mohammed Adamu, has ordered full-scale investigation into the circumstances surrounding the attack and attempt on the life of the governor of Benue state, Dr Samuel Ortom, at his farm in the outskirts of Makurdi, the Benue state capital, on Saturday, March 20, 2021. A press statement by the Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), CP Read More
Some unknown gunmen, Thursday, attacked police and military posts across different locations in Anambra state, killing some numbers of officers. Sources told Blueprint that the hoodlums attacked a checkpoint at Okacha junction, Neni in Anaocha Local Government Area (LGA) during which they killed about two policemen, while some soldiers at an outpost in Awkuzu, Oyi LGA, were equally shot dead. According Read More
The Police Service Commission (PSC) has pledged to partner with SERVICOM Office of the Federation in its determined effort to sanitize operations in the federal bureaucracy.The Commission, Wednesday, hosted an advocacy visit of the Agency and the inauguration of its Inter-Ministerial Committee.A press statement by the PSC, Head, Press and Public Relations, Ikechukwu Ani, said while speaking at the Advocacy Read More
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