The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba has ordered the review of police personnel and operational assets deployments to schools and colleges around the country. The deployments are to ensure the protection of schools and colleges, particularly boarding schools, tertiary institutions, and its campuses in areas prone to security breaches around the country. This…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday urged Nigerians to get more interested in working with security agencies to tackle myriad challenges facing the country, extoling the courage and bravery displayed by security agencies and service chiefs in promoting peace and order. The President in an address at the opening ceremony of Alumni Association of the National…
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Tuesday fully intervened in the Magodo Phase II land tussle by restoring peace to the estate. Governor Sanwo-Olu, who called on all the parties involved to stand down pending when the matter is completely resolved, invited affected families, residents and other stakeholders to a meeting in his office…
Rivers State governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has charged the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba to unravel the real motive behind the recent invasion of the residence of Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Mary Odili. The governor said it is curious that weeks’ after the obnoxious invasion of Justice Odili’s residence, the…
Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force in collaboration with the military and other security forces have arrested one 22-year-old female suspect, Gloria Okolie for providing information for violent attacks in the South-Eastern part of the country. Okolie was arrested for her complicity in the series of deliberate and well-coordinated attacks on security formations, other critical…
Following the recommendation by the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, the Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the suspension of DCP Abba Kyari, from the Nigeria Police Force, over his indictment by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The police agency said Kyari’s suspension took effect on Saturday, July 31, 2021 and the…
The Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) on Thursday filed a law suit against President Muhammadu Buhari challenging his decision to extend the tenure of Mohammed Adamu, the inspector-general of police (IGP). Adamu was supposed to have retired in February after completing the maximum 35 years in service but was given a three month extension by the…
The Inspector General of Police IGP M.A Adamu has directed his legal team to commence legal actions against Sahara Reporters over report that he paid over N2 billion for his tenure extension. The IGP was due to retire from the police on February 1, having spent the maximum 35 years in service but President Muhammadu…
The former chairman of the pension reform task team Abdulrashid Abdullahi Maina has been extradited to Nigeria. Maina was extradited by the Nigeria Police Force today, 3rd December, 2020, to Nigeria from Niamey, Niger Republic, where he was arrested having been declared wanted by a court of competent jurisdiction over a pending criminal trial against…
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Mohammed Adamu, has said ‘Enough is Enough’ to all acts of lawlessness and brigandage going on in some parts of the country. The police boss on Saturday ordered the immediate mobilization of all police operational assets and resources to bring an end to the wanton violence, killings, looting and destruction…