Category: Abuja Headquarters

Police abandon trigger happy cop’s victim in hospital – Daily Trust

Family members and friends of Joseph Martin, a man allegedly shot on the leg by a mobile police officer, Oludare Ariyo, on October 19, 2013, complained yesterday that he has been abandoned at the Nigerian Air Force Hospital along Airport…

How We Run Police Stations With Bribes Due To Lack Of Money-DPO

 “…Nigerian police officers and men are suffering in silence and yet we are expected to do some magic”—Senior Police Officer Meager allocations from the Federal Government that has refused to decentralize the Police is putting Nigeria police stations at the…

Indiscipline: 195 senior Nigeria Police officers face disciplinary panel

Three Nigeria Police officers fighting

Four Assistant Inspectors General of Police and 191 other senior police officers are facing charges before the Force Disciplinary Committee for various cases of misconduct. The Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of Administration, Suleiman Fakai, who heads the…

Nigeria Police release dedicated email address for whistle-blowing, crime reporting

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…

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…

Trigger-happy Nigeria police officer to die by hanging

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

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…