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Why Buhari Extended IGP’s Tenure – Police Affairs Minister

4Feb

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security

Why Buhari Extended IGP’s Tenure – Police Affairs Minister

Following the extension of Mohammed Adamu as the Inspector-General of Police for three months, the Minister of Police Affairs, Mohammad Dingyadi has said the decision was reached to allow for a robust and efficient process of appointing a new IGP. He stated this on Thursday in an interview with State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Adamu’s tenure was supposed to have expired on Monday when he attained 35 years in service. However, the president kept mute on the issue, rather than naming a successor so that Adamu could hand over. The silence by the president and the presidency on the matter prompted speculation that the IGP’s tenure could have been extended secretly as he remained in office since Monday. The development prompted a lawyer, Maxwell Okpara...

Uncertainty Greets Police Hierarchy as IGP’s Tenure Ends Today

1Feb

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Safety, Security

Uncertainty Greets Police Hierarchy as IGP’s Tenure Ends Today

There is palpable confusion among the Hierarchy of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, as the tenure of the Inspector-General of Police, Abubakar Adamu expires on Monday (today) while President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to convene a meeting of the Nigeria Police Council for the past 21 months. Though Adamu who has reached the mandatory retirement age is billed to leave office, the silence from the Presidency and failure of the council to meet are giving confusing signals in the police. Punch reports that council last met on May 23, 2019, when it ratified the appointment of Abubakar Adamu as the substantive Inspector-General of Police at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The President had on January 15, 2019, appointed Adamu as acting IGP following the retirement of IGP Ibrahim Idris. ...

South-West Governors Have No Business Going To Abuja To Beg Buhari – Falana

30Jan

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Safety, Security

South-West Governors Have No Business Going To Abuja To Beg Buhari – Falana

Femi Falana, SAN, a human rights lawyer has lampooned Governors Seyi Makinde of Oyo State and Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State for paying a visit to President Muhammadu Buhari in an attempt to find ways to address the herdsmen crisis rocking both states. He disclosed this on Friday during a Punch virtual interview programme, The Roundtable. Falana said that as chief security officers of their respective states as well as members of the Nigeria Police Council, both governors should make demands for security reinforcements from the council other than seeking same from the president. Earlier, The PUNCH had reported that after the meetings at the Presidential Villa on Wednesday, Akeredolu did not speak with State House correspondents while Makinde said he seized the opportunity of the m...

IGP Orders Strict Security Nationwide for the Yuletide

24Dec

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Religion, Security

IGP Orders Strict Security Nationwide for the Yuletide

The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu has ordered tight security arrangement and strict patrols across the country as Nigerians mark the Christmas and New Year celebrations. The IGP issued the order issued to all the Assistant Inspector-General of Police and Commissioners of Police in charge of zonal and state commands nationwide. He gave the directive to ensure a peaceful celebration and to guarantee the safety of lives and propery. Adamu also instructed the key officers to ensure massive deployment of intelligence and other operational assets of the police to strategic places including highways, airports, railway stations, recreational centres, motor parks, places of worship, financial institutions, etc. The IGP urged the officers of the Police to imbibe optimum profes...

Gov Ugwuanyi Advocates Citizen Engagement to Build Trust Between Police, Nigerians

16Dec

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security

Gov Ugwuanyi Advocates Citizen Engagement to Build Trust Between Police, Nigerians

Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has called for citizen engagement and robust communication strategies to build mutual trust and confidence between the police and the policed to facilitate the healing of all wounds after the EndSARS protests. Gov. Ugwuanyi who said that security provision has been a major plank of his administration added that the state government has established and resourced the Enugu State Forest Guard Security outfit as well as the Neighborhood Watch groups and went further to legislate the State Security Trust Fund to provide adequate resources for maintenance of security of lives and property. The governor made this known when declaring open the 4-day Intensive Capacity Building Workshop for all Police Spokespersons in Nigeria, holding in Enugu, with the ...

IGP Disowns Suit Challenging Judicial Panels, Orders Investigation

3Dec

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Judiciary, News, Nigeria, Security

IGP Disowns Suit Challenging Judicial Panels, Orders Investigation

The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu has launched an investigation to unravel the circumstances behind a suit allegedly filled at a Federal High Court in Abuja seeking to stop the various panels probing allegations of rights abuses against police officials. Reports had emerged of a suit seeking to among others, an order restraining the Attorney-General of the 36 states and the panels of inquiry they constituted, from continuing with investigations of the activities of the disbanded Special Ant-Robbery Squad (SARS). Judicial panels of inquiry have been sitting in most states in the country probing allegations of police misconduct following nationwide #EndSARS protests by youths. Reacting to the development, the IGP in a statement issued by DCP Frank Mba, Force Public Rel...

EndSARS: Anambra Police Commissioner Visits Vandalised Police Formations, Urges Officers to Remain Steadfast

7Nov

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Armed Forces, News, Nigeria, Security

EndSARS: Anambra Police Commissioner Visits Vandalised Police Formations, Urges Officers to Remain Steadfast

The Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Mr John Abang has visited the different police offices destroyed by hooligans during the violent era of the #EndSARS protests that rocked the country. CP Abang who went on the visits with high ranking members of the police force in Anambra State, urged the affected police officers not to play into the hands of the hoodlums by losing hope and to also know that their services to their host communities and the nation at large remain invaluable. The Police Commissioner stated that while ñary operational base would be immediately set up in affected Area Commands, as directed by the Inspector General of Police, stating that work must continue despite the recorded tragedies. He said that the force would remain committed to its security responsibi...

Police Release 11-year-old Boy Detained for Alleged Involvement in Edo Police Attack

1Nov

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Crime, News, Nigeria, Security, Violence, Youths

Police Release 11-year-old Boy Detained for Alleged Involvement in Edo Police Attack

The Police force in Edo State has freed an 11-year-old boy identified as Gift Osayuhi who was arrested last week over alleged involvement in the attack of a police station in the state. Osayuhi was arrested for taking part in the attack of Oba Market Police Station at Evbuotubu area of Benin City by hoodlums. He was accused to have put on the uniform of a police sergeant and proclaimed the Inspector-General of Police after the attack on the police station. Kola Edokpayi, coordinator of a Benin-based human rights group, Talakawa Parliament, who secured the released of the minor said they were disturbed when the police paraded the boy. Edokpayi said Osayuhi’s aspiration was to join the Nigeria Police and eventually rise to the position of the Inspector-General of Police in the fu...

Return to Duty Post or Risk Dismissal, PSC Warns Policemen Reluctant to Return to Post

31Oct

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Crime, News, Nigeria, Security

Return to Duty Post or Risk Dismissal, PSC Warns Policemen Reluctant to Return to Post

The Police Service Commission (PSC) has sounded a note of warning to some officers of the force who are reluctant to return to their duty posts following the violence which erupted during the aftermath of the #EndSARS protest resulting in the killing of over 22 officers. The PSC while urging the officers to put the killing behind them, stated that Public Service Rules which also applies to officers of the Nigeria Police Force, stipulates dismissal for any officer that absconds from duty. The Police hierarchy reiterated that officers of the force should be protected at all times as fellow human beings, hence did not deserve to be killed. It however, added that the attack by thugs should not serve as justification to shy away from their responsibility. Mr. Ikechukwu Ani, PSC spokesp...

Inside Story: How Plainclothes Policemen Wounded, Abandoned a Commercial Motorcyclist in Kubwa, Abuja

19Oct

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Safety, Security, Youths

Inside Story: How Plainclothes Policemen Wounded, Abandoned a Commercial Motorcyclist in Kubwa, Abuja

At a time when thousands of youths have taken to the streets to protest police brutality and alleged extrajudicial killings of the now-disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), it appears the infamous unit does not have autonomy of dishing out violence to the citizens it ought to protect. African News Today has gathered a story of how men of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), in plainclothes, chased a commercial motorcyclist popularly known as "okada" into a life-threatening road accident that led to severe injuries in Shelter Farm Byazhin, Kubwa, a suburb in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, last week. The FCT administration had announced a ban on okada in Kubwa area due to alleged reckless driving and reported cases of some heinous activities allege...