Tag: NPF

<strong>Police Officer Shoots Lagos Lawyer Dead On Christmas Day</strong>

26Dec

By Mary UgwuanyiNo Comments

Crime, News, Nigeria, Safety, Security

Police Officer Shoots Lagos Lawyer Dead On Christmas Day

A policeman whose identity wasn't disclosed attached to the Lagos police command has shot dead a female lawyer identified as Bolanle Raheem. The incident reportedly took place on Sunday morning in the Ajah area of the State. Reports say the incident took place when the deceased and her family were on their way back from Christmas service. The car conveying them was stopped by some officers attached to the Ajiwe police station in Ajah. One of the officers reportedly shot at the car and the bullet hit the lawyer. The police officers were reported to have fled the scene immediately after the incident. The lawyer was allegedly rushed to a hospital where she was pronounced dead. See Also: Police Nabs Man Bathing With Blood In Ogun The incident was confirmed by the Lago...

<strong>Ogun Police Arrest Two Brothers For Car Theft</strong>

2Dec

By Mary UgwuanyiNo Comments

Crime, News, Nigeria

Ogun Police Arrest Two Brothers For Car Theft

The Nigeria Police, Ogun State command has nabbed two brothers for stealing a Toyota Camry in Lagos State. Officers of the force nabbed the suspects on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway while attempting to escape with the stolen car to Imo State. This was contained in a statement issued by SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, Police Public Relations Officer in the state on Thursday. Oyeyemi said that the suspects who were workers at a car wash, stole the car from a customer who took his car to them for washing. He said, “Police in Ogun State on the 30th of November 2022 arrested two brothers, Emanuel Nwachukwu 28 years. and Sunday Nwachukwu 24 years, for stealing a Toyota Camry with registration number JJJ 661 GJ while on their way taking the said vehicle to Imo state. See Also: Polic...

Why We Negotiate With Kidnappers, Bandits To Free Hostages – IGP

10Nov

By Mary UgwuanyiNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security, Terrorism

Why We Negotiate With Kidnappers, Bandits To Free Hostages – IGP

Usman Alkali Baba, the Inspector General of Police, has explained by security operatives sometimes go into negotiation with non-state actors in order to secure the safe release of hostages. He explained that it would be risky to apply extreme force in a bid to free hostages abducted by armed terrorists. Alkali Baba disclosed this when he appeared at the weekly briefings coordinated by the Presidential Media Team in Abuja on Thursday. The Police Chief stated this against the backdrop of more than 80 Chibok girls still in the captivity of Boko Haram, including 29 students of FGC Birni Yauri who remain in captivity several years after their kidnap. He said, “You see, the issue of kidnapping is an issue that borders almost all the security agents, including the military, it is...

IGP Working On New Police Salary Structure – AIG

22Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Finance, News, Nigeria

IGP Working On New Police Salary Structure – AIG

The Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 2 Command, Adeyinka Adeleke, has said the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, is working on the implementation of the increment in the salaries and allowances of the police in line with the approval of the Federal Government. Reports say that a group recently threatened that police personnel would embark on a two-week strike starting from March 26, because the approved salary increment had not been implemented. Nigeria Police Reacting to the development, Adeleke, while delivering a lecture to police officers and men of the Ogun and Lagos commands, described the strike threat as fake. He appealed to the police personnel to be calm, law-abiding, steer clear of mutinous action, be focused on their duties and maintain the integ...

Implication Of Abba Kyari’s Probe On Buhari Administration – Former US Ambassador, Campbell

8Aug

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Corruption, Crime, News, Nigeria

Implication Of Abba Kyari’s Probe On Buhari Administration – Former US Ambassador, Campbell

John Campbell, a former United States of America Ambassador to Nigeria, has said the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s probe of suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, and the ongoing probe by the Nigeria Police Force indicated some hope of police reforms under the Muhammadu Buhari's administration. Campbell, who is now the Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow For Africa Policy Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, Washington D.C., wrote his reaction to the FBI’s probe of Kyari in relation to the police officer’s cozy relationship with serial internet fraudster, Ramon Abbas, also known as Hushpuppi. The former ambassador to Nigeria between 2004 and 2007, stated in an article published by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), that the probe of Kyari also showed a “hopeful ...

Gov Ugwuanyi Commiserates with Victims as Trigger Happy Police Officer Kill 5, Injure 4 in Enugu

21Jun

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security

Gov Ugwuanyi Commiserates with Victims as Trigger Happy Police Officer Kill 5, Injure 4 in Enugu

Following the unfortunate incident at Golf Estate, GRA, Enugu, on Sunday, involving a Police Inspector attached to Special Protection Unit (SPU) Base 9, Umuahia, Abia State, who started shooting sporadically, leaving five victims dead and four persons with gunshot injuries, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State visited the victims at ESUT Teaching Hospital Parklane, Enugu, where they are receiving treatment. Gov. Ugwuanyi who was received at the hospital by the Commissioner of Police, Enugu State Command, CP Mohammed Ndatsu Aliyu and the Chief Medical Director, Prof. Hyacinth Onah, in a statement by the State Commissioner for Information, Nnanyelugo Chidi Aroh, expressed shock over the dastardly act. The governor empathised with the victims and wished them a quick recovery. He als...

BREAKING: One Dead as Security Operatives Foil Unknown Gunmen Attack on Imo Police Command Headquarters

6Jun

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security

BREAKING: One Dead as Security Operatives Foil Unknown Gunmen Attack on Imo Police Command Headquarters

Gallant security operatives repelled an attempted attack on Imo State Police Command headquarters and other public infrastructure in Owerri, on Sunday morning. Residents were left scampering for safety as gunshots were fired sporadically. One of the assailants was killed by security operatives during the attack, Punch reports. Worshippers who were on their way to early morning church services sought safety as security personnel occupied almost all the streets and roads in the Imo state capital. African News Today gathered that gunshots rent the air in World Bank Area, Amakohia – Akwakuma Area, Government House axis, Control Post Area, Wetheral, Ikenegbu and Bank Road axis. The development led many of the residents to unleash their anger and frustration over the spate of atta...

29May

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security

Gunmen Attack Kwara Police Headquarters

The Kwara State police command have repelled a reprisal attack by suspected cultists who invaded the formation on Friday. According to the spokesperson of the police, the assailants attacked the command after the force had intervened in a situation earlier around Surulere, Babobo and Oja Tuntun areas of the state capital. He said two tricycles attacked the police headquarters in Ilorin, firing sporadically but were resisted by men and officers of the command. He said, “We had gone to put a situation under control this morning involving two cult groups and we made some arrests. “These boys mobilised themselves and began to attack the police because one of them jumped inside a canal in Surulere while trying to evade arrest. “We called the Fire Service to retrieve the body but ...

Gov. Ugwuanyi Commissions 272 Special Constables for Community Policing

13Feb

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Safety, Security

Gov. Ugwuanyi Commissions 272 Special Constables for Community Policing

Enugu State Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, has commissioned 272 Special constables drawn from the 17 Local Government Areas, LGAs, of the state recently recruited for Community Policing. This was contained in a statement issued on Friday by an aide to the governor on media, Amoke Louis. Governor Ugwuanyi had on July 9, 2020, commissioned the 17-man Enugu State Community Policing Advisory Committee (SCPAC), under the Chairmanship of the State Commissioner of Police with the Chairman of the State Traditional Rulers’ Council, HRH, Igwe Amb. Lawrence Agubuzu, as co-chairman. The novel Community Policing programme, which is an initiative of the Nigeria Police Force, as communicated by the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu Abubakar, is saddled with the responsibility of deep...

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...