Soldiers attached to a military barracks in Badagry, Lagos, yesterday shot no fewer than three police officers dead in retaliation for the killing of one of their colleagues, local newspapers are reporting today. NEXT, which put the number…
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263 police officers gunned down in 2009, official says
A total of 263 Nigeria police officers died in 2009 while at their duty posts or performing official duties, an official of the Police Service Commission has said. Receiving a team from the Harvard-Kennedy Criminal Justice Programme and CLEEN…
Nigeria Police plots to cover up murder
The Nigeria Police Force won’t prosecute a police officer who recently killed a personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC). Family members and colleagues of the deceased, NEXT reported on Sunday, believe the police high command…
Nigeria Police UN peacekeepers grumble over unpaid allowances
Members of the Nigeria Police contingent to Liberia, Haiti and Sudan on United Nations’ Peacekeeping Missions, have discreetly protested the failure of the Police High Command to pay their duty tour allowances running into billions of naira, months after…
Court orders police to pay N.3 million to victim of unlawful arrest – Vanguard
Abakaliki — EBONYI State High Court, yesterday, ordered two constables, Uchenna Onwe, Obinna Igwe and an Inspector, Alex Elekwachi, of the State Police Command to pay N320,000 as damages to one Mr. Samuel Egbunne, a landlord, for their role…
Immigration service says Police lied about intercepted truck
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has described as “outright falsehood” the claim by the Nigeria Police that they intercepted a truck-load of suspected hoodlums with dangerous weapons purportedly travelling from the Republic of Niger through Katsina to Nasarawa…
Nigeria police, troops ‘abused rioters’ in north – AFP
KANO, Nigeria — Rights groups on Friday accused Nigerian troops and police of abuses, including extra-judicial killings, as they sought to quell deadly riots in northern Nigeria after the April 16 presidential poll. Police and military officials could not…
Court slams 15million naira fine on police for detaining 100-year-old unjustly
The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting in Abuja has delivered a landmark judgement that should be useful lesson to security agencies that employ arbitrary powers to intimidate hapless citizens on flimsy grounds. Justice MM Dodo last week…
This cop is supposed to secure the ballot, but he is in deep sleep
During the April general election, officers and men of the Nigeria Police were massively deployed in the 120,000 polling booths in the country to check vote rigging, ballot snatching and other forms of electoral irregularities. In the above picture, snapped…
In Gestapo style, Nigeria Police invade firm over report on Otedola’s indebtedness
By Proshare The Nigerian Police Force has invaded the offices of Proshare in Omole area of Lagos with members of the Force CID from Abuja under CP Ahmadu Ali who ordered the move based on a ‘petition’ received from…
Police raid newspaper plant in Akwa Ibom
The police in Nigeria’s South-south state of Akwa Ibom have raided a private printing press in Uyo, the state capital, carting away production materials and several copies of some local newspapers being produced, sources said. During the Sunday night…
Police officers arrested for robbery
They are paid to watch over citizens, to protect lives and property. But three police officers in Lagos are accused of turning against citizens they are paid to watch, and transforming to robbers who dispossess citizens of their property.…