Nigerian Police
After months of respite, high-profile kidnappers relaunch attack on Ogun State, seize Swiss expatriate, driver, kill staff.
The several months of breather enjoyed by residents of Ogun State, gunmen appear to have resumed their dastardly attacks in the state...
Acting IGP Alkali Baba confirmed
Barely two months after his appointment as the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr Usman Alkali Baba, was on Friday confirmed. The Police Council presided over...
Corruption allegation: International human rights groups condemn detention of Nigerian anti-corruption crusader
The arrest and detention of a leading Nigerian anti-corruption activist, Olanrewaju Suraju of HEDA, one of the first non-governmental groups to expose corruption...
Gunmen ravage Owerri prisons, state police headquarters, free hundreds of prisoners
Unidentified gunmen have launched a devastating attack on a correctional facility (prisons) in Owerri, Imo State Capital, torching it and freeing about 1,...
Chinese national escapes domestic servants’ attack in Lagos, forced to transfer huge sums to their accounts
A Chinese national living in Lagos has escaped death by a hair’s breadth when two of his domestics held him hostage in...
Man tortured to death in Benue over missing goat
By Ajuma Edwina Ameh A man identified as Ordue Akume, was tortured to death on Tuesday over a missing goat in Lessel...
Man stabs ex-lover for failing to refund money spent during dating
By Ajuma Edwina Ameh In Adamawa State, a man, Enoch Adamu, has stabbed his ex-lover over failure to refund N85,000 expenses he...
Hunter becomes the hunted: Notorious Abuja kidnapper kidnapped by another kidnapper
By Ajuma Edwina Ameh Even among criminals they get masters and superiors. This played out in a case of an Abuja notorious kidnapper,...
Dare-devil hoodlums ambush, shoot DPO, abduct four policemen
For a dare, some hoodlums in Ogun village have shot a Divisional Police Officer (DPO) and also abducted four policemen after a...
Police backtrack, withdraw suit against #EndSARS panels in 36 states
Following the reactions that trailed its suit against the state judicial panels on police brutalities, the Nigeria Police has applied to withdraw...
Threat of fresh #EndSARS protests: IGP to police: Use legitimate force
Amid threat of fresh wave of #EndSARS protests across the country, the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Mohammed Adamu, has directed his officers and...
Just in: At least 20 bus passengers kidnapped on notorious Akure-Owo-Benin road
More than 20 bus passengers including market women leaders have been kidnapped at Ogbese on Akure-Owo-Benin highway in Ondo State by...
In River State, vigilance group commander gunned down at motor park
By Boye Ajayi Report from Rivers State says some yet-to-apprehended gunmen have killed one of the commanders of a local vigilance group,...
Post-#EndSARS protest: IGP Adamu to policemen: Defend yourselves against attacks
By Boye Ajayi In what looks like reinstalling confidence in policemen after the #EndSARS protests, the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Mohammed Adamu,...
United Nations bestows award on Nigerian policewoman for stellar peacekeeping efforts
A Chief Superintendent of Police, Catherine Ugorji, currently serving with the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), has been selected...
Babangida critically injured in spousal knife attack to chop off his dick
Livid with rage and jealousy, a woman almost severed her husband’s sexual organ in Taraba State for allegedly impregnating his secret lover,...
