Tag: police
Police, NSCDC to hold grounds in liberated areas – Minister of Defence
The Nigeria Police Force and Nigeria Security and civil Defence Corps will henceforth hold ground in the areas that have…
Dambazau praises Lagos over N4.8bn security equipment for police
Kazeem Ugbodaga Nigeria’s Minister of Interior, Lt. General Abdulrahman Dambazau (retd.) on Wednesday described the security equipment purchased by the…
Police boss, NOA, NDE agree to collaborate in Lagos
Cyriacus Izuekwe The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, has assured two Federal Government agencies, National Orientation Agency, NOA,…
Police officers to be accountable for their actions, says IGP Arase
The Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, has restated his commitment to make officers and men of the Nigeria Police…
Police arrest 4 suspects, recover 5 AK-47 rifles
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Detectives from the Rivers State Police Command Tuesday at about 5 am stormed the criminal hideout in…
Police rescue 2 kidnapped victims, nab six suspects
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Rivers State Police Command successfully rescued Mr. Austin Ajah and Mrs. Winifred Frank in the early…
I had never wanted to be a police officer— Lagos PPRO Badmos
Dolapo Opeyemi Badmos, a Superintendent of Police (SP) who was recently appointed as the new Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO)…
Perm. Sec. in Police net over alleged attempt to sell baby
A serving Permanent Secretary in Bayelsa, Dr Wisdom Sawyer, has been arrested by the Police over alleged attempt to sell…
Police shoot doctor during peaceful protest in Owerri
A member of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Imo State branch, participating in a peaceful demonstration against the concession of…
Deployment of policemen to North-East underway – Arase
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase has said that the deployment of policemen to liberated communities to re-establish civil…
Police detain officer for defiling girl, 7
The Ebonyi Police Command says it has detained an officer, Ndubisi Ewerem for allegedly defiling a seven-year-old girl. Commissioner of…
Police arrest 2 over fire at media centre
Two middle-aged men were on Sunday arrested over a fire that affected a thatched hut at the Media Centre of…
Police arrest traffic robbery suspect
The Lagos Police Command Rapid Response Squad (RRS) on Sunday said it had arrested a traffic robbery suspect whose gang…
Remains of late I-G Adewusi arrive Ogbomoso
The remains of former Inspector-General of Police, Chief Sunday Adewusi, arrive Ogbomoso, his country home on Friday. NAN reports that…
46 suspected cultists arrested in Benin
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Forty-six members of seven cult groups who have been on the rampage in Benin City, capital of…
Army, Customs boss visit Lagos CP
Yusuf Muhammed The Brigade Commander 9th Mechanize Brigade of the Nigerian Army, Brigadier General Bulama A. Biu paid a working…
We didn’t arraign Biafra protesters half-naked – Police
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Rivers State Police Command has denied the arraigning 10 pro-Biafra protesters half naked in court as illustrated…
Police foil bullion van robbery
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Several persons were injured and vehicles parked in front of an old generation bank branch at Mile…
Police arrest pipeline vandals
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Two suspected pipeline vandals were arrested by the police detectives attached to Ogijo Division of the command on…
Police to restore civil authority in Northeast
The police force management team has taken a step towards the restoration of civil authority in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe,…
Rivers police arraign 10 suspected pro-Biafran agitators
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Rivers State Police Command has arraigned 10 suspected pro-Biafran protesters arrested between January 16-18, 2016. They…
Police kill 2 suspected kidnappers, arrest 11 others
The police in Akwa Ibom say they have killed two of a three-man suspected kidnap gang in a gun battle…
Oyo police recover 16 exotic cars
The Oyo State Police Command says it has recovered 16 exotic cars stolen by suspected armed robbers. The Commissioner of…
Police foil robbery attack, kill two in Ogoniland
The Rivers State Police Command has foiled an armed robbery attack at a petrol station along East-West road by Etohu…
Rivers Police in gun battle with robbers, kill two
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Rivers State Police patrol team Wednesday had a gun duel with suspected armed robbers, killing two while…
Police offer scholarship to four children of woman killed by cop
The Nigeria Police Force on Monday offered scholarship to four children of a woman, Comfort Idongesit Udoh, who was murdered…
AIG says police winning war against cultism
Bala Hassan, the Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) in charge of Zone 2 Police Command, Lagos, says the police are…
Police recover prohibited drugs worth N1.2bn in Kano
Kano state Police Command recovered prohibited drugs worth N1.2 billion from dealers between October 25 and December 31, 2015. DSP…
#BayelsaDecides: Police confirm arrest of ballot box-snatching suspects
The Police in Bayelsa said it had commenced investigation on the alleged snatching of ballot box during Saturday’s supplementary governorship…
Mum of Nigerian tennis player killed by police for burial Friday
Taiwo Adelu The remains of Beauty McLeod, mother of Nigerian tennis junior champions, Angel, will be laid to rest Friday…