Mobile policemen in Maiduguri, Borno State, yesterday, staged a protest over non-payment of their allowances. The protesting policemen barricaded the command’s headquarters located on Maiduguri-Kano Expressway. The protest disrupted traffic on the road. One of protesting policemen, said they were…
FG mulls State Police to end killings (Leadership)
The latest mass killings on the Plateau and the unrelenting spate of kidnappings in parts of the country may have caused the federal government to rethink its opposition to the issue of state police, with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo yesterday…
Police arrest 21 persons over killing in Lagos (Guardian)
The police in Lagos have arrested 21 persons over the killing of a man at Alapere-Ketu, following a clash by two cult groups. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Alapere Police Division had raided some cultists’ hideouts…
Mob sets police van ablaze in Lagos over killing of Okada rider (Guardian)
A mob yesterday set ablaze a police patrol van in Ikorodu area of Lagos State to protest against the alleged killing of a commercial motorcycle operator at Ipakodo. It was gathered that some policemen attached to Ipakodo Division allegedly chased…
Extortion: Police arrest SARS operative in Lagos (Nation)
The Police Command in Lagos has arrested one Insp. Charles Omotosho, an operative of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) for allegedly extorting N5, 000 from a hapless citizen in Ikorodu, near Lagos. The Head of Public Complaints Rapid Response Unit…
Armed policemen take over Kano State Assembly complex (Guardian)
Armed policemen on Monday took over the Kano State House of Assembly complex over alleged plan by some legislators to cause trouble in the House, reports the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). NAN correspondent who visited the Assembly at 11am…
Abductors of Abuja police detectives demand N30m (Punch)
Abductors of two police detectives with the Force Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Abuja, have demanded N30m ransom The two officers, Sgt. Haladu Mohammed and an unidentified colleague were reportedly kidnapped on Wednesday last week on Port Harcourt while on…
2 killed as police, task force clash with Lagos residents (Punch)
There was pandemonium at Ori Oke community in Makoko, Lagos State, on Thursday as armed policemen and officials of the Lagos State Special Task Force on Land Grabbers clashed with some youths in the neighbourhood during which two residents were…
Buhari condemns attack, approves new battalion, Police Command (ThisDay)
Following the killings of 45 persons in Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Sunday, President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday approved the establishment of a new Battalion of the Nigerian Army, and a new Police Area Command, in the…
