Break Any Law During the Sallah and be Crushed – Police
Police in Plateau State have warned that lawlessness will not be tolerated during Sallah in Jos.Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Emmanuel Ayeni, stated this at a meeting with stakeholders in Jos on Tuesday, adding that, the police were prepared to arrest any person or group of persons planning to foment trouble during the festive period (Thursday and Friday).He also warned worshipers to steer clear of the Rukuba Road and Polo Field prayer grounds during the period, saying they are still under ban. Full story...
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Posted by Amaka, 24 October 2012
Lagos Police in Massive Arms Haul
By Patience Ogbo
The Lagos State Police Command has recovered some weapons including over 10,000 rounds of ammunition in the state.Parading three armed robbery suspects in connection with the discovery on Tuesday, Umar Manko, State Police Commissioner, described it as the biggest cache recovered from criminals in the history of the state.The items recovered include nine AK 47 rifles, two GPMG (General Purpose Machine Gun), one RPG launcher, also known as rocket propel grenade launcher, 225 AK 47 live ammunition, 260 rounds of GPMG live ammunition and five dynamites with detonators. Full story...
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Posted by Amaka, 26 September 2012
Ozuah: Police Maintain Innocence as Principal Witness Flees
By Chiemelie Ezeobi
In the face of mounting public outcry against the alleged murder of 36-year-old Ugochukwu Ozuah, the Lagos State Police Command has maintained its stance that the deceased was shot by suspected armed robbers in police uniform and not police officers as alleged.This came as the principal witness in the entire saga, Omene Irikefe, the deceased’s friend who was also with him on that fateful night was alleged to have fled to safety following purported attempts to arrest him.It would be recalled that the deceased was killed last Thursday by gunshots allegedly fired by some police officers at Gbagada barely five days after his wedding ceremony with his heartthrob, Joan. Full story...
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Posted by Amaka, 25 September 2012
Police Record Major Breakthrough in Fight Against Crime •Smash 3-Man Syndicate, Recover 19 Stolen Vehicles
By Chris Agbambu
The Nigeria Police said on Sunday, that they had, in the renewed determination to rid the society of crimes, recorded a major break-through between August 22 and 28, saying operatives of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP)’s special task force on heinous crimes successfully raided some notorious criminal hide-outs in Kaduna.A statement from the Force Headquarters on Sunday said, “the special task force, working on a tip-off and in reaction to the upsurge in incidents of car theft in some parts of the country, proceeded to Kaduna State on August 22, 2012, where it smashed and arrested a three-man syndicate that specialised in car theft. Full story...
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Posted by Amaka, 10 September 2012
Nigeria Police Launches Gender Policy
By Damilola Oyedele
The Nigeria Police Force has launched a gender policy for its rank and file as part of efforts to stop the discrimination against female police officers and enhance the capacity of its officers in handling gender-based violence matters.Speaking at the launch of the document in Abuja Thursday, Inspector General of Police (IG), Mohammed Abubakar, said the policy aligns with relevant regional and international protocol and instruments on gender equality and women empowerment principles. Full story...
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Posted by Amaka, 7 September 2012
Nigeria/South Africa: Our Police; Their Police
BY EMMANUEL ONWUBIKO
Most people would rank the operatives of the Nigerian Police Force as some of the most brutal and notorious human rights violators in the world given the fact that several internationally acclaimed reports of assessment conducted by independent body of panelists have turned up with extensively damaging scorecard of the involvement of the operatives of the Nigerian police in several cases of forced disappearances of suspects in custody and extra-legal executions of suspects. Full story...
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Posted by Amaka, 5 September 2012
Ahmed Worried Over Police Funding
By Hammed Shittu
Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, at the weekend said there was a huge gap in previous and present funding system for the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) to enable it discharge its duties effectively.Ahmed said there was need for more funding for the Force in order to put a stop for the ongoing agitation for the creation of state police in the country.Full story...
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Posted by Amaka, 27 August 2012
Nigeria: State Police! to Be or Not to Be?
BY GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE AND ONYEKA OBETTA
The clamour for State Police now a central issue in the counrty have continued to draw interest from all segements of the society.The amber first fired by the Northern Governors had since earned the agitation of the Southern Governors. The heavy onus on everyone who care is, should Nigeria go for state police or not?Mr. T.C. Ezeiro, a legal practitioner in Ikeja says agitation for state police was informed by Governors who want more powers for political needs. He says state police are prone to abuse as the police personnel
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Posted by Amaka, 26 August 2012
Nigeria: State Police Debate - Canadian, Better Than American Model
BY OKEY NDIRIBE
Mr Mike Okiro has seen it all in the Nigerian Police Force. He retired after occupying the exalted office of Inspector-General of Police in 2007. Under his tenure as the nation's police boss, he piloted the affairs of Nigeria's top-most law enforcement agency through several storms.In this interview with Saturday Vanguard, he bared his mind on the raging controversy over decentralization of the police force.Full story...
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Posted by Amaka,26 August 2012
Crisis Among Govs, Meeting on State Police, Constitution Stalls
By KARLS TSOKAR , ALI GARBA , JOHN OGIJI AND ISAAC TAIWO
• Amaechi, others mute on parley
• Aliyu, IG list dangers of state police
ONCE it was a cohesive house, but it is now clear that the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) is a divided body. Twice it has fixed a meeting in a week but without adequate representation from the 36 states of the federation to discuss critical issues facing the country.
While 27 states were represented at the NGF’s meeting last Tuesday, only 17 states showed up for yesterday’s parley.Full story...
Source:http://www.ngrguardiannews.comPosted by Amaka, 24 August 2012
Nigeria: The Quest for State Police
The clamour for the establishment of State Police reached fever pitch last week when unclear conclusions emerged from several meetings of the Nigerian Governors' Forum. While some of them pronounced a resolution seeking legal backing for the establishment of State police, others among them, mostly those whose tenures were coming to an end, counselled against it. Former Inspectors General of Police it was, who made the most emphatic case against the establishment of state police.Fullstory...
Posted by Amaka, 22 August 2012
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Nigeria: Salami Vs ACN Chieftains - Police Secures MTN's Flash Drive
BY KINGSLEY OMONOBI
INDICATIONS have emerged in Abuja, yesterday, that the National Judicial Council has released the flash drive containing the call logs of alleged conversations between suspended President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Ayo Salami and Action Congress of Nigeria chieftains and party's legal representatives, among others. Vanguard learnt that the release followed demand made to the Chairman of the National Judicial Council and Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar, by the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar.Full story...
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Posted by Amaka, 22 August 2012
Nigeria: Police Defuse 963 Bombs in Kano, Arrest 86 Suspects
BY ABDULSALAM MUHAMMAD
Kano — Kano Police Command, yesterday, said it uncovered and defused no fewer than 963 Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs, picked randomly from various parts of Kano from January till date.Similarly, 86 suspects, known as Yandaba, were apprehended by police authorities from several black spots across the state.
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Posted by Amaka,15 August 2012
Policeman, Robbers Kill Driver, Inspector in Bayelsa, Lagos
by SUNDAY ODITA AND WILLIE ETIM
A TOYOTA Hilux vehicle driver, Mr. Godday Umoren, on the employ of Azikel dredging and construction company, was yesterday evening allegedly shot dead by a trigger-happy policeman at the Swali Market junction in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.Meanwhile, a police inspector attached to one of the new generation banks on Warehouse Road, Apapa, Lagos, was yesterday killed during a shoot-out with a five-man robbery gang who invaded the bank.Full story...
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Posted by Amaka, 15 August 2012
Advocates of State Police Are Anarchists - Rep Irona
Anyone canvassing for the establishment of state police was an anarchist, Rep Gerald Irona, who is the Vice Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Gas, said on Sunday. Full story...
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Posted by Ufuoma, 30 July 2012
650,000 Policemen Required for Security Challenges
About 650,000 police officers would be needed to adequately confront the security challenges facing Nigeria, a university lecturer, Prof. Kunle Ajayi, said in Ado Ekiti on Thursday. Ajayi, a Professor of Political Science, Ekiti State University, (EKSU) gave the figure in a paper he delivered at the annual Michael Opeyemi Bamidele Lecture Series, held at Christ School, Ado-Ekiti. The paper is entitled: ``Legislating in a Troubled Times: National Assembly and the Challenges of Legislating for Good Governance in Nigeria''.
The don, who is also the Head the institution’s Department of Political Science, said that shortage of personnel had been the major constraints militating against effective policing in the country. Full story...
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Posted by Ufuoma, 27 July 2012