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Nigeria Police Watch is a crowd-sourcing platform that enables citizens challenge and publicize indiscretions by police personnel.

Police fail to patrol street with incessant robbery incidents

“Police fail to patrol our street despite incessant robbery incidents” Please do probe the incessant armed robbery incidents that have been happening in Orile Iganmu, Lagos, (Alhaji Ajala Street), within 2 a.m. & 4 a.m. on week days. We have…

Police in blame game, fail to investigate rape of Abia varsity student

The Imo and Abia States Commands of the Nigeria Police are busy passing the bucks and engaging each other in heated arguments over whose territory the alleged rape of the Abia State University student took place. Lagos-based THE PUNCH reports…

 Help! Nigeria Police extorting young men in Ijebu Ode Please sir; we want you to help us to talk to the Inspector General or the commissioner of police to please help us to call the policemen in Igbeba police station…

Nigeria Police Officers can’t survive without bribes, commissioner confesses to US officials

  Nigerian police officers cannot survive without bribe money from roadblocks to supplement their income, a Wikileaks cable quotes the commissioner in charge of Operations Force Headquarters, John Haruna as saying. The leaked United States cable quotes John telling US…

Nigeria Police Watch road trip exposes police officers’ intense corruption

  In Nigeria, it is a public secret that the police mount roadblocks daily to extort drivers and other road users. Police authorities in the past accepted it is a menace and attempted to cub it, but till date it…

Nigerian Police Inspector Investigated For Allegedly Raping 15-Year Niece

  Police authorities in Zamfara State have commenced investigation into an allegation of rape levelled against a police officer, Abdullahi Ibrahim, attached to the Maradun police division. A police source who craved anonymity told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the suspect…

Strange but true: honest policeman returns N7 million paid into his account in error

      In Nigeria where statistics show almost 90 percent of police officers will request a bribe from you before any form of service is rendered, Oyibo Shuaibu, a Superintendent of Police in Akure, the capital city of Ondo…

Nigeria Police opens up: “We lack training, bomb dogs, explosive detectors to check terrorism”

    The Nigeria Police  lack the capacity to check the current wave of terrorist bombings across the country, the top hierarchy of the force has admitted to American officials in Abuja. A recently leaked US diplomatic cable, made available…