Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Usman Alkali Baba, has directed the express prosecution of a legal practitioner and human rights activist, Prof. Zainab Duke Abiola, for the brutalisation of her police orderly, Teju Moses, a police inspector. To be arraigned along with her are her domestic staff comprising the house maid, one Rebecca Enechido, and…
Kyari: Some tears for Nigeria Police
(Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 21 February, 2022) There was a man in London 300 years ago called Jonathan Wild. He lived at a time robbery and violent crimes were rampant in the city – day and night. The people were helpless and the police were largely absent. And because nature abhors a…
Military, Police Personnel Involved in Oil Theft – Wike
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has said that people who break oil pipelines and steal crude oil should be treated as treasonable offenders. The governor, who stated this in Port Harcourt on Monday, when he hosted the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Isiaka Oladayo Amao, also stated that the fight to stop oil theft…
Police Arrest Killers of Delta Prince, 2 Cops
The police in Delta State have arrested six people in connection with the murder of the Prince of Orhuwhorun community in Delta State, Eric Takerere, and his two police guards last week. A statement by the Police Public Relations Officer in Delta State, Bright Edafe, which said the suspects were arrested after a painstaking police…
Police, Assassins, Kidnappers on the Prowl in Port Harcourt, Kill 4 Abduct 2
[responsivevoice] At least four persons had been killed at the last count in a new wave of killings and assassinations sweeping through Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State. Four people were gunned down in different parts of the city since Thursday last week when residents of the city began to notice the strange killings.…
Bayelsa Boat Mishap: Police yet to Inform Families of Deceased Officers
[responsivevoice] Bayelsa State Police Command is yet to inform families of the six police officers that died in last Friday’s by-election eve boat mishap off Oporoma in Southern Ijaw local Government Area. The Bayelsa State Police Public Relations Officer, Asinim Butswat, told the magazine that the command was wrapping up investigations into the incident and…
Suspected Cultists Shoot Police Area Commander, 2 Senior Police Officers as Killings Continue in Benin
As insecurity escalated in Benin City, Edo State, on Friday consequent upon raging cult war and banditry, an Area Commander and two other senior police officers have become the latest victims of the rampaging armed gangs as they were shot in the early hours of the morning when they responded to distress calls from Upper…
Benin Residents Take to Jungle Justice… As Policemen Continue to Stay Away (Photo)
In the absence of the police to call or report to, some residents of Benin, Edo State capital, may have resorted to serving jungle justice on suspected armed robbers. On Monday alone, over 12 cases of carjacking were reportedly recorded in various parts of the state capital, most of them in broad day light. Four…
NUJ Bans Media Coverage of Delta State Police Activities
Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Delta State Council, has placed a ban on the coverage of all police activities in the state over the unwarranted attack and brutalization of Akpokona Omafuaire, Vanguard Correspondent. In a statement signed by Mike Ikeogwu the chairman of the council, and Patrick Ochei, the Secretary, , the NUJ said:”We are…
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