Tag: police

3 dismissed Nigerian police officers arraigned for illegal possession of firearms, N105,000 bribe

The officers were dismissed from the force in November 2012. Three dismissed policemen on Thursday appeared at the Federal High Court, Jos, on charges of illegal possession of firearms and accepting N105,000 bribe from an arms dealer.

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 Watch demands sack of police officer who threatened to murder airport official

Police brutality

The Nigeria Police Watch, an NGO policing the Nigeria Police Force by crowd-sourcing information on the activities of the Force, has called on the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, to immediately sack the officer who publicly threatened to “gun…

Nigerian student body demand police boss resignation over extrajudicial killings

Sixteen Nigerian students from various tertiary educational institutions in the country were killed in the past three months by trigger-happy Nigeria police officers, the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has said. It asked the inspector general of police, Mohammed…