“…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…
Category: South-East
Trigger happy Nigerian police kill Onitsha driver over N20, spark flash riots
By Emmanuel Ogala The Police in Onitsha, the commercial capital of Anambra state, say they have arrested the killer cop responsible for the murder of a bus driver in the city Thursday. The murder, which happened at midday in the…
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…
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…
Police in deceitful arrest over Abia gang rape
The police in Abia State said it is interrogating two students of the Abia State University in respect of the widely reported gang rape of a woman believed to be a student of the university. A knowledgeable source within the…
Police kill boy, injure others at naming ceremony
By Emma Ugwueze Enugu — THE mood of joy and celebration during a naming ceremony at Joseph Akpoko Street, Udi-Side, Enugu, yesterday gave way to tears as men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, (SARS) allegedly stormed the occasion and shot…
“Owerri police saved me from kidnappers”
By Patrick Isip I want to use this medium to commend Nigeria Police for the help they rendered to me at Owerri, Imo State, last month, when I travelled to Port Harcourt. The story goes like this. I boarded…
Police deny authenticity of online video of varsity student being raped
By JON GAMBRELL, Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — In the grainy video, a Nigerian woman repeatedly asks her attackers to kill her as they take turns raping her at a university dormitory. The five men only promise to drive…
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…
Police kill two in Governor’s hometown
Two persons were reported killed at the weekend by men of the Nigeria Police Force in Agulu community, Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State. About four others were also said to have sustained various degrees of injuries as a result of sporadic shooting…
Activists demand sack of police boss over illegal detention of citizens
A human rights group, the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law ( a.k.a Intersociety) has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to terminate the appointment of Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police, Hafiz Ringim, for detaining, without trial, two…
Policeman runs amok, kills colleague
It was a bizarre spectacle in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, on Monday as a police officer went berserk and shot his colleague at close range, killing him instantly. Clement Amachi, a police corporal from Ohanku in Ukwa East Local…