The Nigeria police is yet to receive the directive to arrest Senate President Bukola Saraki, Olabisi Kolawole, acting commissioner of police and police spokesperson, has told TheCable.The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) sitting in Abuja on Friday specifically ordered the inspector-general of police to arrest the senate president and bring him before the tribunal on Monday.Saraki had failed to appear [...]
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A statement issued by Abayomi Shogunle, deputy force public relations officer, said the IGP charged the officers to ensure that their policing activities were in conformity with the strategic policing plans of the current leadership of the force, which he said was aimed at ensuring adequate security of lives and property.S/NORANKNAMEPOSTING1AIGTAMBARI Y. MOHAMMEDAIG ZONE 1 KANO2AIGBALA A. HASSANAIG ZONE 2 [...]

The Nigeria police on Monday in Abuja paraded 11 suspected kingpins of cult groups unleashing mayhem on Edo state.The suspect cultists are David Olukoga (36, engineer, Eiye confraternity), Salako Adebowale (43, doctor, Black Axe confraternity), Osunde Aigbedo (48, Black Axe confraternity), Ahunwan-Id (39, Black Axe confraternity), Uche Chukwuka (36, Eiye confraternity), Adebo Eguaoja (46, Buccaneers), and Totti Omonuwu (42, Eiye [...]

The Nigeria police on Friday foiled a suicide bomb attack at a school in Potiskum, Yobe state.The police said that at 8:15am, three suspected suicide bombers entered the College of Arts and Business Studies, Potiskum."Due to security arrangement on the ground, one of the attackers blew self up. He died on the spot injuring six other persons," a message on [...]

Suleiman Abba, the inspector-general of police, (IGP) on Tuesday donated the sum of N500, 000 to families of deceased and missing officers.According to Emmanuel Ojukwu, police spokesman, the donation was part of efforts to ease the pain of the families.He said N200, 000 was from the police reward fund; N200,000 from the Nigeria police welfare insurance and N100,000 from the [...]

The Nigeria police have alerted residents of the Federal Capital territory (FCT) on the vehicular complications likely to arise from President Goodluck Jonathan's political declaration scheduled for Tuesday.The president will formally declare his intention to contest the 2015 election at a ceremony billed for the Eagle Square in Abuja.On October 30, Jonathan obtained the presidential nomination form of the Peoples Democratic Party [...]

Outgoing president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Aminu Maigari, and other top soccer officials have secured a court order against the State Security Service (SSS) and the Nigeria police for “incessant invitation and unlawful detention”.Through their lawyers, Festus Keyamo Chambers, Maigari, Chris Green, Musa Amadu, and Shehu Dikko filed a case at the federal high court Abuja, accusing the [...]

The Nigeria police will train more officers on conflict resolution, mediation and negotiation, police spokesman, CP Emmanuel Ojukwu announced on Sunday.According to Ojukwu, the police has a resolve to enthrone genuine peace, hence the need to train more men in areas of maintaining and managing peace.“As Nigeria joins the rest of the world in marking World Peace Day on September [...]

The Nigeria police have dismissed the report of human rights watchdog, Amnesty International, saying the group wants to "earn relevance and bread".On Thursday, Amnesty International launched a damning report chronicling gross human rights violations involving torture and extra-judicial killing by the Nigeria police and the military.But reacting to the report, police spokesman CP Emmanuel Ojukwu described it as “blatant falsehood [...]

Assistant commissioner of police, Frank Mba, has bowed out as public relations officer of the Nigeria police force, a position he held for two years.In a letter of appreciation on Thursday, Mba expressed gratitude to the media for the cooperation and warm relationship “that formed part of the success stories of the Nigeria police force and the force public relations [...]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has claimed that security operatives arrested Alhaji Lai Mohammed, its national publicity secretary in Osogbo, capital of Osun state very late on Friday.The party, which had raised series of alarm in the buildup to the gubernatorial election in the state, earlier released a statement, saying that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was collaborating with the [...]

The Nigeria police on Tuesday denied that it banned peaceful rallies anywhere in the country.Rather, it said it only issued an advisory notice to protesters to “reconsider their position”.Explaining the position of the police, Frank Mba, the force public relations officer, said that “the force has not issued any order banning peaceful assemblies/protests anywhere in Nigeria”.“Against the backdrop of current security challenges [...]