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Nigeria Police Force Suspends POCACOV Operations for Holistic Review and Revitalization

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 09:00:35 +0000

The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has announced the immediate suspension of the operations of the Police Campaign Against Cultism and Other Vices (POCACOV), a community policing initiative and public relations tool within the Force Public Relations Department. This decision, communicated through a statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, Olumiyiwa Adejobi, is part of a [...]

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Lagos Police requests the public to report police officers on duty with mufti

Temitope Nlewemchi — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 20:10:46 +0000

The Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Abiodun Alabi, has reiterated the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) ban on the practice of police officers carrying out their official duties while on mufti and called on members of the public to report any officer violating this directive to enable the command take appropriate disciplinary action. The commissioner [...]

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Police Arrest Woman for Alleged Murder of 49-Year-Old Man

Abiodun A. — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 20:21:36 +0000

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested one Ms. Tina Essi, for the alleged murder of a 49-year-old man, Christian Akparie of No 26 Orijamogun Street, Oreyo, Ikorodu, Lagos. The police preliminary investigation revealed that on January 31, 2021, there was an argument over the payment of Nepa Bill, ensued between the Landlady’s daughter, Ms. [...]

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Police Arrests 10 Suspected Robbers,Promises to Eradicate Robbers and Cultists in Lagos

Abiodun A. — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 21:23:46 +0000

The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, has again reiterated his commitment to getting Lagos rid of armed robbers and cultists with the adoption of Community Policing strategies. The police chief made the assertion today Saturday 2nd January 2021, while dishing out instructions on Police Communication Network to officers and men of the [...]

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Nigerian Police Force Prepares to Extradite Maina from Niger Republic

Abiodun A. — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 20:17:10 +0000

The Nigeria Police says the fugitive former chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT); Abdulrashid Maina would be extradited to Nigeria soon. This was disclosed by spokesman of the Nigeria Police, DCP Frank Mba, in a statement on Tuesday. Specifically, the Police disclosed that it had commenced the process of extraditing the former [...]

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Police Fires at 17-Year Old Trader, 2 Others in Bayelsa

Abiodun A. — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 20:08:25 +0000

Policemen on routine patrol along the Tombia/Etegwe axis of the Yenagoa metropolis have shot a 17-year-old trader and two other residents of Bayelsa State who went to the Tombia market for regular shopping. The unprovoked shooting enraged some residents of the state on Wednesday who called for steep disciplinary measures to be meted to the [...]

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Police IGP Reports Over 1,500 Suspected Hoodlums Detained Nationwide

Abiodun A. — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 20:28:08 +0000

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, on Tuesday, November 3, said that 1,590 suspects have been arrested across the country in respect of the #EndSars protest which turned violent after it was hijacked by hoodlums. Adamu said this while addressing police officers and newsmen at the Lagos State Command Headquarters, Ikeja, during a courtesy [...]

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Police Parades 144 Suspects Amid Endsars Protest in Kwara

Abiodun A. — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 15:57:59 +0000

The Kwara state police command Monday paraded no fewer than 144 persons in connection with the last week Friday violent attack and looting of both public and private property in Ilorin, the state capital. Hoodlums under the guise of EndSARS protesters laid siege on Ilorin metropolis on the fateful day by attacking government warehouses, office [...]

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Police Begin Search into Mysterious Death of Officer

Abiodun A. — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 01:48:35 +0000

An inquiry into the death of a policeman attached to the Aramoko Division was initiated by the Police Command in Ekiti after he was allegedly smashed by a vehicle on his way to work. Mr. Sunday Abutu, Public Relations Officer of the State Police (PPRO), said this while speaking to newsmen in Ado-Ekiti on Sunday, [...]

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Chaos as Chief Priest Murdered for Impregnating Muslim Lady

Abiodun A. — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 20:26:56 +0000

A Chief Priest has been stabbed in the Delta State for impregnating a Muslim woman. The Chief Priest of the Igbudu group in the Delta region of the Warri South Council, known as Victor Alawuru, was stabbed to death for allegedly impregnating a Muslim lady in the group axis of the Hausa Quarters on Degbori [...]

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Nigerian Police Arrests Bandits, Kidnappers in Abuja

Abiodun A. — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 11:00:04 +0000

On Wednesday, September 30, the Nigerian Police Force paraded several alleged kidnappers, robbers and armed bandits detained at the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) office in Abuja in various states. Among those paraded were seven armed robbery suspects connected to a deadly assault on a bullion van in the state of Ebonyi that claimed the lives [...]

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