Friday, April 26, 2024

Police Headquarters

March 20, 2024

House committee urges IGP Egbetokun to address kidnapping, banditry, other security challenges

Mr Egbetokun said the police were collaborating with other security organisations to address the challenges.

Inspector-General of Police, Olukayode Adeolu Egbetokun (Credit: @policeng)
February 22, 2024

Distressing watching police officers humiliate Labour Party chairman Abure: Obi

“This act is undesirable and unequivocally intolerable and must be condemned by any decent and civilised mind,” said Mr Obi.

ABURE, OBI
April 29, 2023

Lagos couple plans self-kidnap, demands N5 million ransom

He said the couple, who admitted to the crime, claimed they planned the self-kidnap to raise N3 million to buy back their house in the Badagry area of Lagos.

SP Benjamin Hundeyin
February 7, 2023

Lawyers protest, boycott courts for three days over killings in Imo

The lawyers were protesting the killing of Nnaemeka Ugboma, chairman, Customary Court, Ejemekwuru in the Oguta LGA, on February 2, while presiding over a case.

Nigerian Bar Association
February 2, 2023

Cross River commissioner’s aide regrets plotting kidnap; says boss owes many months’ salary

Making his confessions while being paraded in Calabar on Thursday, Mr Ibangha, 22, said he planned to commit the crime out of greed and frustration.

Mr Ibangha and his conspirators
December 13, 2022

Buhari regime lambasts Atiku over Boko Haram comments

Mr Mohammed said Mr Abubakar should throw the question to his party, PDP “under whose watch the Boko Haram insurgency started in 2009 and festered.”

Atiku Abubakar and Lai Mohammed
September 20, 2022

Lagos police launch investigation into alleged violence against family, their 11-month-old baby by its officers

A woman said she and her husband, his siblings, their children, including an 11-month-old baby, were assaulted and illegally detained by officers of the Igando division.

SP Benjamin Hundeyin
September 13, 2021

#EndSARS: Canadian court slams Nigerian police as murderous, corrupt; denies ex-MOPOL sergeant asylum

Charles Ukoniwe left Nigeria for the United States on March 5, 2018. He arrived in Canada on June 6, 2018, and subsequently filed a claim for refugee protection.

Force Headquarters
May 28, 2021

Daredevil cultists open fire on police headquarters in Ilorin

“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.”

Kwara Commissioner of Police (CP), Mohammed Bagega and Cult symbol used to illustrate the story
April 26, 2021

Traffic gridlock as government beefs up security in Owerri

The police command urged residents not to panic but remain law-abiding, saying that the situation was under control.

Imo State Governor Hope Uzodinma