The Nigeria Police have released a dedicated email address through which citizens could report crimes and police conducts directly to the office of Inspector General Mohammed Abubakar, Premium Times is reporting. The release of the address, policemonitor@npf.gov.ng, came few weeks after…
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Nigeria Police hopefuls charged with certificate forgery
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They had high hopes of joining the police force to “hunt down criminals,” but police authorities say they will not because they are criminals themselves. 23 of them, “unlucky,” face jail terms for forgery.
Nigeria Police commissioners get new postings
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The Acting Inspector-General of Police Mohammed Abubakar, has approved a major transfer of senior police officers – mostly commissioners. The posting was approved on Saturday. Read more to learn the commissioners’ new postings.
Occupy Nigeria Protest killings, Nigeria’s worst since military dictatorship
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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…
Trigger-happy Nigeria police officer to die by hanging
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The Supreme Court has ordered the execution of a policeman, Emmanuel Ochiba, who killed a passerby, Godwin Momoh, along Tafawa Balewa street in Jos, Plateau State, on September 12, 2001. Five justices of the court while dismissing the appeal filed…
Horrible working conditions at nyanya police station
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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 caught on camera sorting bribe proceeds
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It is an open secret that officers and men of the Nigerian police are terribly corrupt. And almost everyone in the force is on the game. Citizen Adekunle Alli was able to catch a team of corrupt officers on camera…
Horrifying chronicle of Nigeria Police murders since September
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Nigeria has become one huge killing field of defenceless citizens. The killing machine is the Nigeria Police, who think it is no big deal shooting and killing the same people they are paid to protect. This absurd indulgence has existed…
Activists to scrutinise services in Nigeria’s filthy police stations
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By Peter Nkanga Hundreds of activists in Nigeria are gearing up to fan across Nigeria to visit select 265 police stations in six Nigerian states to assess the quality of services the Nigeria Police renders to the public. Most police stations…
Three Nigeria Police officers on trial for murder of Bayelsa’s Victor Emmanuel
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Three police officers attached to the Bayelsa state command have been arrested and given an orderly room trial in connection with the last Sunday murder of Victor Emmanuel in the state. Victor was on Sunday murdered in cold blood before…
Ijaw group berates Nigeria police IG’s silence on murder of Victor Emmanuel
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Ijaw Monitoring Group, IMG, has described the failure of Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim, to respond to the killing of 20-year-old Emmanuel Victor by a policeman at a check-point in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, last week, as an embarrassment to…
Reps’ committees to investigate extrajudicial murder of Victor Emmanuel
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By Victor Oluwasegun and Dele Anofi, Abuja Members of the House of Representatives yesterday expressed their displeasure at the interception and arrest of some indigenes of Osun State from gaining access in to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) by men of…