Category: Investigations

Cases of police harrassment, extortion and killing of commercial motorcyclists over refusal to offer bribe still rampant across the country.

Network on Police Reform in Nigeria (NOPRIN) is constrained to bring to the attention of the Inspector General of Police and the National Human Rights Commission the increasing number of reports and complaints it has received across the country concerning…

Preliminary Report on the extra-judicial killing of Mr. Samuel Imaikop and four others

‘Extrajudicial Killing in the Police Remains a Shocking Common Occurrence’ NOPRIN CALLS ON EDO POLICE COMMAND TO ACCOUNT FOR THE KILLING OF THE ‘EDO 5’ KILLED UNDER SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES. Introduction NOPRIN has received disturbing information concerning yet another extrajudicial killing in Edo State…

Occupy Nigeria Protest killings, Nigeria’s worst since military dictatorship

  The fatality figures are wide-ranging, depending on the source, and events leading to the deaths. While labour unions and civil society blame state-related killings of fuel subsidy protesters for more than a dozen deaths, authorities have placed the figure…

Horrible working conditions at nyanya police station

THE Station Officer at Nyanya Police Station in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, is sure of his responsibility. “After the DPO (Divisional Police Officer), the station is mine. Anything you want to know about the station, I handle it,” the…

Nigeria police officers face terrible work conditions in Abuja

(ph: Three years after it became a division Mpape Divisional Headquarters remains the worst station in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital) Nigerian authorities are insincere about Policing within the country. When Chief Superintendent of Police Musa Garba said the challenges facing the…

Nigerian Police Inspector Investigated For Allegedly Raping 15-Year Niece

  Police authorities in Zamfara State have commenced investigation into an allegation of rape levelled against a police officer, Abdullahi Ibrahim, attached to the Maradun police division. A police source who craved anonymity told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the suspect…

Nigeria Police opens up: “We lack training, bomb dogs, explosive detectors to check terrorism”

    The Nigeria Police  lack the capacity to check the current wave of terrorist bombings across the country, the top hierarchy of the force has admitted to American officials in Abuja. A recently leaked US diplomatic cable, made available…