Category: South-East

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…

Trigger happy Nigerian police kill Onitsha driver over N20, spark flash riots

By Emmanuel Ogala The Police in Onitsha, the commercial capital of Anambra state, say they have arrested the killer cop responsible for the murder of a bus driver in the city Thursday. The murder, which happened at midday in the…

Police deny authenticity of online video of varsity student being raped

By JON GAMBRELL, Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — In the grainy video, a Nigerian woman repeatedly asks her attackers to kill her as they take turns raping her at a university dormitory. The five men only promise to drive…

Police in blame game, fail to investigate rape of Abia varsity student

The Imo and Abia States Commands of the Nigeria Police are busy passing the bucks and engaging each other in heated arguments over whose territory the alleged rape of the Abia State University student took place. Lagos-based THE PUNCH reports…

Police kill two in Governor’s hometown

  Two persons were  reported killed at the weekend by men of the Nigeria Police Force in Agulu community, Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State. About four others were also said to have sustained various degrees of injuries as a result of sporadic shooting…

Activists demand sack of police boss over illegal detention of citizens

A human rights group, the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law ( a.k.a Intersociety) has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to terminate the appointment of Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police, Hafiz Ringim, for detaining, without trial, two…