The Police Service Commission has dismissed Olusegun Fabunmi, a Chief Superintendent of Police who shot and killed one Ademola Aderinto in Ogba, Lagos during the January 2012 fuel subsidy protest, the Punch Newspaper is reporting.
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.
By Olatunde Vincent There is an increasing involvement of Nigerian police officers in crime in the country. January 3rd, two corporals attached to the Abattoir police division in Lagos were reportedly arrested for masterminding armed robbery in the state. Their…
Olumide Aderibigbe was on his way to buy food with of a friend when armed policemen in mufti robbed them at gun point. He reported to the police authorities but they are not acting on it. Read Olumide’s story: “Around…
Officers of the Lagos State Police Command today brutalised defenceless citizens protesting the introduction of a toll gate along the Lekki expressway in Lagos. Eyewitnesses say the police threw caution to the wind as they tear-gassed, pushed, shoved,…
It is time the Inspector General of Police calls the deputy commissioner of police, operations, of the Lagos State Police Command to order as he continues to damage the already damaged reputation of the Nigerian Police. Tunde Sobulo is responsible…
When Suzie, a Lagos-based lady and her two friends were bullied by a 52-year old man, they ran to the Area F Police Command in Ikeja for help. But in a narration of the incident sent to us, Citizen Suzie…
Wasiu Adesina, the police officer charged with the murder of an Ikorodu chief, has been remanded into custody by an Ebute Metta Magistrate Court in Lagos, the Vanguard reported. According to the reports, Adesina will be kep in custody, pending…
The Lagos State police command on Wednesday failed to live up to its statutory responsibility as its men failed to respond to distress calls from citizens who were being robbed by dare devil armed robbers in Nigeria’s commercial capital. A…
It happened right in front of me. A police officer in uniform and one in mufti , stopped the taxi in the picture and asked to see the receipts for the goods in the booth of the cab. One…
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…
I like to report the flagrant manner in which our Policemen, especially at Okokomaiko area of Ojo Division is putting on mufti. One can hardly spot them. Only on Thursday, two men believed to robbers attacked a supermarket with a…