A dismissed police inspector in Zamfara State, Abdullahi Ibrahim, will soon face court trial for allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl at gun point in Maradun Local Government area of the state during the last Eid-el-Kabir celebration. The Police Public Relations…
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Nigeria Police Watch is a crowd-sourcing platform that enables citizens challenge and publicize indiscretions by police personnel.
Horrifying chronicle of Nigeria Police murders since September
Nigeria has become one huge killing field of defenceless citizens. The killing machine is the Nigeria Police, who think it is no big deal shooting and killing the same people they are paid to protect. This absurd indulgence has existed…
Police in mufti abuse at Okokomaiko area of Ojo Lagos
I like to report the flagrant manner in which our Policemen, especially at Okokomaiko area of Ojo Division is putting on mufti. One can hardly spot them. Only on Thursday, two men believed to robbers attacked a supermarket with a…
12-year-old orphan raped by Nigerian police officer gives birth
A 12-year-old (name withheld), who was allegedly raped by a police officer in Ekiti State Police Command has been delivered of a baby boy. The wife of Ekiti State governor, Mrs. Bisi Fayemi, said this in Ado-Ekiti on Thursday during…
Police corporal rapes 3-year-old
Irmiya Musa, a police corporal serving with Dakatsalle Police division in Bebeji Local Government area of Kano State, Irmiya Musa has raped a three year old minor at Sabon-Gari quarters of Dakatsalle, Daily Trust newspaper is reporting. A reliable source…
Police officers attached to bank in Nigeria extort money from motorists
I will like to appeal to my country (Nigeria) police officers to please stop extorting the commercial vehicles and okadas. Any of them found wanting should face the music than taking money from them. The other day, I was going…
Activists to scrutinise services in Nigeria’s filthy police stations
By Peter Nkanga Hundreds of activists in Nigeria are gearing up to fan across Nigeria to visit select 265 police stations in six Nigerian states to assess the quality of services the Nigeria Police renders to the public. Most police stations…
Three Nigeria Police officers on trial for murder of Bayelsa’s Victor Emmanuel
Three police officers attached to the Bayelsa state command have been arrested and given an orderly room trial in connection with the last Sunday murder of Victor Emmanuel in the state. Victor was on Sunday murdered in cold blood before…
Ijaw group berates Nigeria police IG’s silence on murder of Victor Emmanuel
Ijaw Monitoring Group, IMG, has described the failure of Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim, to respond to the killing of 20-year-old Emmanuel Victor by a policeman at a check-point in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, last week, as an embarrassment to…
Reps’ committees to investigate extrajudicial murder of Victor Emmanuel
By Victor Oluwasegun and Dele Anofi, Abuja Members of the House of Representatives yesterday expressed their displeasure at the interception and arrest of some indigenes of Osun State from gaining access in to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) by men of…
Police extrajudicially kill seven in Akwa Ibom
The police in the Eket Division in Akwa Ibom State today shot and killed seven kidnap suspects in circumstances that remain unclear, according to our sources. Reports by SaharaReporters, a New York-based news portal, indicate that the suspected kidnappers…
Abuja police molest female journalist over photos
Men of the Nigerian police force attached to the task force of the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) on demolition exercise at Wuse area of the city on Wednesday molested a female journalist for taking photos of the demolition exercise.…