Family members and friends of Joseph Martin, a man allegedly shot on the leg by a mobile police officer, Oludare Ariyo, on October 19, 2013, complained yesterday that he has been abandoned at the Nigerian Air Force Hospital along Airport…
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How We Run Police Stations With Bribes Due To Lack Of Money-DPO
“…Nigerian police officers and men are suffering in silence and yet we are expected to do some magic”—Senior Police Officer Meager allocations from the Federal Government that has refused to decentralize the Police is putting Nigeria police stations at the…
Nigeria police fingered in Abuja “mystery” killing
A “mystery” shooting that left one person dead and others injured at a council election in an Abuja suburb has remained unresolved three months after, with police denying knowledge of the attack and the attacker.
Indiscipline: 195 senior Nigeria Police officers face disciplinary panel
Four Assistant Inspectors General of Police and 191 other senior police officers are facing charges before the Force Disciplinary Committee for various cases of misconduct. The Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of Administration, Suleiman Fakai, who heads the…
Nigeria Police release dedicated email address for whistle-blowing, crime reporting
The Nigeria Police have released a dedicated email address through which citizens could report crimes and police conducts directly to the office of Inspector General Mohammed Abubakar, Premium Times is reporting. The release of the address, policemonitor@npf.gov.ng, came few weeks after…
Nigeria Police hopefuls charged with certificate forgery
They had high hopes of joining the police force to “hunt down criminals,” but police authorities say they will not because they are criminals themselves. 23 of them, “unlucky,” face jail terms for forgery.
Occupy Nigeria Protest killings, Nigeria’s worst since military dictatorship
The fatality figures are wide-ranging, depending on the source, and events leading to the deaths. While labour unions and civil society blame state-related killings of fuel subsidy protesters for more than a dozen deaths, authorities have placed the figure…
Trigger-happy Nigeria police officer to die by hanging
The Supreme Court has ordered the execution of a policeman, Emmanuel Ochiba, who killed a passerby, Godwin Momoh, along Tafawa Balewa street in Jos, Plateau State, on September 12, 2001. Five justices of the court while dismissing the appeal filed…
Horrible working conditions at nyanya police station
THE Station Officer at Nyanya Police Station in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, is sure of his responsibility. “After the DPO (Divisional Police Officer), the station is mine. Anything you want to know about the station, I handle it,” the…
Nigeria police officers caught on camera sorting bribe proceeds
It is an open secret that officers and men of the Nigerian police are terribly corrupt. And almost everyone in the force is on the game. Citizen Adekunle Alli was able to catch a team of corrupt officers on camera…
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…
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…