Submitted via phone number +234706130…. Good day Nigeria Police Watch. I am writing to report an unfortunate development in a particular community in Abuja to you. There is this guy who sells indian hemp in a community in Mararaba, on the…
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Police kill okada rider over traffic offence
By George Onah Port Harcourt – One person was shot dead and another critically injured, yesterday, by policemen in Ikom Local Government Area of Rivers State over traffic offence. The incident resulted in widespread protest and restricted the movement of…
100,000 police officers carry handbags for wives of moneybags and politicians
Over 100,000 out of the 330,000 police officers in Nigeria are attached to “few fortunate” individuals – to carry handbags for their wives, chairman of Police Service Commission has revealed. The chairman, Police Service Commission (PSC), DIG Parry Osayande…
Nigeria Police boss, Ringim, says bail fees charged at police stations are illegal
The Inspector General of Police, Hafiz Ringim, has stated that it is illegal for police officers to demand and collect money from families of locked up suspect for their bails. Police officers frequently demanding bail fees to release locked up…
Court Remands Nigerian Police Constable In Prison For Alleged Murder
An Akure Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday ordered the remand of Police Constable Igodih Gbefamoghan in prison over an alleged murder charge brought against him. The 26-year old police constable was arraigned before Chief Magistrate Johnson Adelegan for the offence…
Police kill another person in Bayelsa
By Oluwole Ige, Yenagoa Incessant accusations of alleged extra-judicial killings trailing the Nigeria Police continued, on Sunday, in Bayelsa, as another unidentified person was allegedly shot dead by the police around 1.30p.m along the popular Gen Sanni Abacha expressway, in Yenagoa,…
Police extortion goes on unchecked on Oshodi Road
It is still business as usual (for police collecting bribes and extorting motorists) along Oshodi Road, Lagos Nigeria. As I was coming to my office this afternoon, the (thieves) wearing Police uniform were busy extorting N100 from danfo drivers. Some…
Pandemonium as police kill two brothers in Okitipupa
By Sunday Aborisade Social and economic activities were paralysed for many hours in Okitipupa, a coastal community in Ondo State on Friday following a violent protest that greeted the death of two brothers allegedly shot by the police. The two…
Collecting bribe is in my blood, says dismissed policeman caught impersonating
By Oluwatoyin Malik Call him Sergeant Mathew Julius or Inspector S. Edo, you will be still be speaking about one and same person. The man in question, whose real names are Timothy Adigun and who was dismissed from the Nigeria …
Nigerian bullied by a top police officer is seeking your advice
Gabriel Onifade rendered computer repairs services to a police Supritendent at Area D (Olosan) police station at Mushin in May this year. His services were worth N21, 000 but the police officer paid him on N10, 000 at the time and…
Police ransack The Nation’s Abuja office
Police detectives Wednesday morning ransacked the The Nation’s Abuja office following the arrest of four editors of the paper on Tuesday. Two of the arrested editors, Managing Editor, Northern Operations, Yusuf Alli and Head of Abuja Bureau, Yomi Odunuga…
Police raid Nigeria newspaper, arrest 4 journalists over story on Obasanjo’s letter to President
LAGOS, Nigeria — Police in Nigeria raided a newspaper office Wednesday after detectives arrested four journalists over the publication of a purported letter from the nation’s former president instructing its current leader to fire government officials. Police descended on…