Category: Extortion

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…

Nigeria police increase bribe fees as Christmas approaches

Thursday evening on my way home at Akanimodo going to Ikorodu road Lagos. The police men at the junction stopped my bus drive and ask him for the money: POLICE:   Oya wa the money DRIVER:   Take The driver now brought out fifty…

Police officers attached to bank in Nigeria extort money from motorists

I will like to appeal to my country (Nigeria) police officers to please stop extorting the commercial vehicles and okadas. Any of them found wanting should face the music than taking money from them. The other day, I was going…

Ijaw group berates Nigeria police IG’s silence on murder of Victor Emmanuel

Ijaw Monitoring Group, IMG, has described the failure of Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim, to respond to the killing of 20-year-old Emmanuel Victor by a policeman at a check-point in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, last week, as an embarrassment to…

Reps’ committees to investigate extrajudicial murder of Victor Emmanuel

By Victor Oluwasegun and Dele Anofi, Abuja Members of the House of Representatives yesterday expressed their displeasure at the interception and arrest of some indigenes of Osun State from gaining access  in to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) by men of…

Nigerian government under fire for not acting on extrajudicial murder of boy who questioned police extortion

  The Federal Government has come under intense criticism for refusing to take action on the reported killing of a 20-year-old Emmanuel Victor by a police officer at a checkpoint in Yenagoa, Bayelas State recently. Victor was shot dead after…