The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, has approved a N10 million payment to the families of five police officers who died in a motor accident on the Zaria-Kano Expressway. The accident occurred on September 24, 2024, while the officers…
Police commissioner orders trial of officers after assault on colleagues
In a swift response to a viral video showing police officers assaulting a suspect, the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, CP Adegoke Fayoade, has mandated the immediate commencement of an orderly room trial for the involved officers. The officers…
Force PRO condemns officer assault in viral video
Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, has condemned the physical assault of a yet-to-be-identified man by some police officers in a viral video. He made this known on X.com on Tuesday. The viral video shared on social media on…
IGP warns police officers against lobbying for promotion
The Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has read the riot act to policemen engaging external forces to lobby for promotion as he vowed to deal with such erring personnel. Egbetokun gave the warning while speaking in Abuja at the…
Court remands suspect over killing of 14-year-old Daniel Anjorin
A Spanish-Brazilian national was remanded in custody on Thursday by a London magistrates’ court on murder and other charges, following a sword attack in the city which killed a 14-year-old boy. Marcus Arduini Monzo is accused of a violent rampage…
School mourns 14-year-old British-Nigerian killed in London sword attack
Bancroft’s School on Wednesday mourned 14-year-old British-Nigerian boy, Daniel Anjorin, who died from injuries sustained during a sword attack in London. The United Kingdom Metropolitan Police released details of the boy killed in the sword attack on Tuesday and explained…
Fulani kidnappers spread, abduct, kill cops, residents in Delta
On January 24, rampaging gunmen\kidnappers suspected to be Fulani herders abducted three police officers detailed to respond to a distress call in Delta State. The authorities drafted the police officers at a nipping point in Ohoror community, Ughelli North Local…
Policemen not permitted to search citizens’ phones – Lagos CP
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fayoade Adegoke, has said that no police officer is permitted to search the phones of any Nigerian. He noted that the Police Force had a cyber section responsible for that, adding that if a…
Gunmen kill 2 Anambra cops, police hunt suspects
The Anambra State Police Command has launched a manhunt for some yet-to-be-identified assailants who were said to have come from a neighbouring state to kill two police personnel. It was gathered that the incident happened at Uga Roundabout in Aguata…
Woman killed as police embark on enforcement of okada ban in Lagos
The residents of Santos, a suburb community in Lagos were on Tuesday agitated over the death of a yet to be identified woman who was said to have been crushed by a truck in the Abule- Egba Area of Lagos.…