Tag: Nigerian Police
Police Bar Kwara PDP, APC Members From Secretariat
The Nigerian Police Command in Kwara State on Tuesday barred members of the PDP and the All Progressives Congress (APC)…
APC begs Jonathan to stop Gestapo-style policing in Rivers
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to urgently put an end to the worsening reign of…
Police kill 5, Senator Abe and Tony Okocha shot at APC rally
The Rivers State Chapter of Nigeria’s All Progressives Congress (APC) has reported the shooting this morning by the police of…
Chidi Lloyd released on bail
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Nigerian Police Command in Rivers State has released the Leader of the House of Assembly, Chidi…
IGP Orders Tight Security at Places of Worship
Ayorinde Oluokun/ Abuja As churches and other religious groups are getting ready for special programmes to usher in the new…
Police: Primate Akinola rescued
Most Rev. Peter Akinola, retired primate of the Anglican Church of Nigeria, kidnapped Tuesday by an armed gang, has been…
2 Nigerians shot dead by kill-and-go cops
Stephen Oni/Ilorin Two persons have been killed by stray bullets from a team of Police officers on patrol around the…
Nigeria: Police formations on red alert
With few days to Christmas, Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, has put the entire police formations in the…
19 pregnant girls freed in latest baby factory bust
Nigeria’s police said Friday they had raided a home in Umuahia, capital of Abia state where 19 pregnant women were…
Police Commission Promotes 2 AIGs, 3 CPs
The Nigerian Police Service Commission has announced the promotion of two Assisatnt Inspectors-General of Police, Messrs. Michael Zuokumor and Jonathan…
Police teargas Rivers State lawmakers
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Nigeria’s Rivers State Police Command today freely used teargas to disperse 22 lawmakers, who had come to…
Suspicion of Murder: Housewife, pastor Arrested
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Nigerian police detectives from the Edo State Police Command have arrested and detained a housewife and her lover,…
Nigerian police busts another baby factory
Nigerian police said on Wednesday that they raided a home, in the south eastern Nigerian city of Owerri and freed…
Sex worker arrested for stealing gold chain and hiding it in her vagina
Dedeigbo Ayodeji\Emmanuel Udom Police detectives attached to the anti-robbery squad of the Lagos State Police Command, western Nigeria, have arrested…
Police confirm attack on aviation minister’s car
The Nigerian Police Command on Monday in Abuja confirmed that gunmen fired shots at the car of the Minister of…
DIG Leha commends police in Anambra
Seun Bisuga/ in Awka Philemon Leha, Deputy Inspector General, Operations have commended the efforts of the Nigerian Policemen that participated…
Whereabouts of kidnapped Sokoto bizman unknown
The Nigerian police in the northwestern state of Sokoto on Sunday declared that it had yet to ascertain the whereabouts…
2 cult members confess being hired assassins
Ayodeji Dedeigbo & Sulaimon Mojeed-Sanni Two suspected members of Eiye Cult group have been arrested by a team of policemen…
Police dismiss cop charged with rape of minor
Jamiu Yisa The Nigeria Police Headquarters has denied complicity and bias in the case of a rape allegation against one…
Oduahgate: Police Arrest Melaye, search office
Ayorinde Oluokun/ Abuja Dino Melaye, a former member of the Nigerian House of Representatives and executive secretary, Anti-Corruption Network, ACN,…
Court orders police, bank pay for torture, unlawful arrest
A Nigerian High court in Oyigbo, Rivers state, has ordered the police and Main Street bank to pay N5 million…
Police stop Abuja Meeting of PDP Governors
Ayo Oluokun/Abuja A detachment of policemen from the Asokoro, Federal Capital Territory of the Nigeria Police on Sunday evening barged…
Police stop another ASUU rally, teargas lecturers
The Nigerian police on Wednesday disrupted a peaceful rally by members of Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU), University of…
Police stop ASUU protest in Abia
A detachment of anti-riot policemen on Friday halted the planned public demonstration by lecturers at the Michael Okpara University of…
Nigeria: Rape victim commits suicide
The Nigerian police in the southern state of Bayelsa has confirmed that an 18-year-old girl committed suicide after a gang…
BMW scandal: Campaigner for aviation minister’s resignation arrested
Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent Nigerian activist, Dino Melaye has been arrested by the Nigerian police in Abuja as he led a…
Oshiomhole accuses police of aiding electoral fraud
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of the southern Nigerian state of Edo has accused the Nigerian police of aiding ballot box snatching,…
Police Boss Orders Tight Security During Sallah
As Muslim faithful in Nigeria mark the 2013 Eid-el Kabir, the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, has ordered tight security…
Police foil robbery attempt in Iseyin
The Nigerian police on Saturday foiled a robbery attack on a commercial bank on Oluwole road in Iseyin, in the…
Female teenager found dead in hotel room
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin An 18-year-old girl, Chinyere Onorfue, was found in a hotel room in Benin City, capital of Edo state,…