PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has extended the tenure of the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Adamu for three months. The Minister of Police Affairs, Maigari Dingyadi disclosed this on Thursday while briefing State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He said that the decision of the President to extend the IGP’s tenure for another […]Read More
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EndSARS: Sanwo-Olu Fulfils Promise, Pays N60 Million Compensation To Families
•Governor Receives Lagos Crime Reports At LSSTF Town Hall Meeting •CP: ‘Kidnapping Cases Have Gone Down’ The six police officers lynched in Lagos State in the wake of the violence that trailed the recent nationwide EndSARS protests may not have died in vain. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu compensated their family members with N10 million each […]Read More
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the arrest of the Senator Elisha Abbo and his orderly for allegedly attacking a sales girl in Abuja. Investigations are currently ongoing at the Federal Capital Territory police by an investigative team set up by the Police Force headquarters in Abuja. The news of the […]Read More
The police in Lagos State, on Wednesday, said they arrested three suspected traffic robbers in two separate operations around Ayobo/Ipaja areas of the state, less than 24 hours to Sallah holidays. Spokesman for the command, DSP Bala Elkana, confirmed the arrests in a statement on Wednesday, saying the suspects usually pretended to be commercial motorcyclists […]Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari said he would make police and judiciary more efficient in his second term in office. Buahri said this in Abuja in an NTA special interview with him. According to the president, such effort is needed to properly reform the sectors to ensure effective administration. “Police and judiciary are to be in frontline […]Read More
The acting Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the immediate deployment of the Kaduna State Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Abdulrahaman, to the Force Intelligence Bureau, Force headquarters, Abuja. This was sequel to the rising incidences of banditry and kidnapping along the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway and the failure of the Kaduna Police Command under Abdulrahman to […]Read More
The Chairman of the agency, CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi, confirmed the arrest in a statement issued on Sunday by the Head, Public Affairs Unit of the Task Force, Mr Adebayo Taofiq. Egbeyemi said that that the suspects were arrested at their usual base in Agege. No fewer than 100 “Awawa boys’’ had been arrested and charged […]Read More
The Kaduna State Police Command, on Sunday dispelled rumours of ethnic and religious crisis in the state. The Commissioner of Police, Malam Ahmad Abdurrahman, said at a press briefing in Kaduna that the state was peaceful and calm. Abdurrahman explained that the stampede which occurred in Sabon Tasha and Mararraban Rido areas of Kaduna metropolis […]Read More
The MoU under West African Police Information System (WAPIS) platform will strengthen exchange of information and coordination among countries in West Africa – Minister of Interior, Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (Retd) signed for the government at the ceremony in Abuja The federal government and International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL) on Tuesday, April 16, signed a Memorandum […]Read More
Ajegunle killing: Police declare Inspector wanted, arrest 5
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested and detained five police officers who allegedly shot dead a 20-year-old woman, Ada Ifeanyi, in Ajegunle, on Saturday. The Command’s spokesman, Bala Elkana, said in a statement, yesterday, that the incident happened at No. 4b, Amusa Lane, off Ojo Road, Ajegunle. The policemen also allegedly shot one Emmanuel […]Read More