Akinola Kabiru This website is a good initiative and I hope it will be used to assist the police in improving its image. We should not also forget to use the medium as an advocacy forum to persuade the government…
Author: nigeriapolicewatch
Nigeria Police Watch is a crowd-sourcing platform that enables citizens challenge and publicize indiscretions by police personnel.
Court awards N20m against police for parading suspect in public
A Federal High Court in Calabar has ordered the Nigeria Police to pay the sum of N20 million as general damages to Citizen Ottoh Obono for parading him in public before the press on allegations bordering on armed robbery. Delivering…
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…
Understanding Nigeria Police parlance
By John Ukah The Nigeria Police has the primary responsibility of protecting life and property. Undoubtedly and in the light of the rising state of insecurity, the agency needs to be restructured or reformed to meet present-day challenges. The rising…
Police sergeant charged to court for bank robbery, another on the run
The suspected members of a killer-gang arrested early in the week by detectives attached to the Special Anti-Robbery unit, SARS, Ikeja, over series of bank robbery operations in Lagos metropolis have been charged to court and remanded at the maximum…
Four Policemen Arrested For Bank Robbery
The police in Lagos have arrested four men suspected to be policemen on suspicion of armed robbery, Lagos-based THE PUNCH is reporting this morning. The suspects, the newspaper gathered, were arrested on Monday after successfully robbing a commercial bank at…
The Sorry State Of Our Police
By Nwachi Odommiri If I were to reform the Nigeria Police Force, I would start from their uniform. In secondary school, uniforms were the pride and pageantry. Most students could be defined by the shape their uniforms were in. There…
Policeman runs amok, kills colleague
It was a bizarre spectacle in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, on Monday as a police officer went berserk and shot his colleague at close range, killing him instantly. Clement Amachi, a police corporal from Ohanku in Ukwa East Local…
Nigerian police plead not guilty to killing Boko Haram leader – AFP
ABUJA — Five Nigerian policemen pleaded not guilty Tuesday to killing an Islamist leader following a 2009 uprising by his group, a case some say is aimed at persuading militants to halt a wave of attacks. The officers, arraigned at…
How a top police officer bullied and victimized me after I offered him service – Citizen Gabriel
By Onifade Gabriel Some police officers are bullies. They don’t pay for goods they procure and services rendered to them. They rather threaten their victims (civilians – whose interest I believe they are paid to protect) and intimidate them with…
Police extortion and illegal roadblocks in Port Harcourt
By Ukari Obene Some members of the Nigeria Police Force have continued to mount illegal road blocks on the streets of Port Harcourt with the sole purpose of collecting N50 from innocent and law abiding motorists. These policemen do not…
Police brutality, bribery caught on camera
This video provides concrete evidence of the brutality and corruption for which men and officers of the Nigeria Police are notorious. The cop in this clip was just busy extorting monies from motorists and brutalising those who failed to pay…