Hundreds of protesting women on Thursday stormed Bayelsa state police command in Yenagoa demanding the resignation of the state Commissioner of Police Tolani Alausa. The protesting women carrying placard with different inscriptions says the removal of the police commissioner will ensure the neutrality of the police during this weekend’s governorship election in the state The…
The Edo State Police Command says it has arrested the husband of Mrs Toluige Olokoobi, mother of “mummy calm down” boy, days after news broke that she committed suicide. Olokoobi was the mother to Oreofeoluwa Lawal-Babalola, the little boy whose video went viral after begging his mother with “Mummy, calm down” in 2020. Oreofeoluwa became…
On Friday, Oyo Police Command paraded a 45-year-old suspected ritualist identified as Hassan Kolawole with a fresh human head in Ibadan. Kolawole was strutted close by nine different suspects who were captured for different wrongdoings at various areas at the Command Headquarters Eleyele, in the Ibadan Northwest Local government. The suspect, as advised by the…
A new Commissioner of Police has been appointed for Imo state. The appointment of Danjuma Aboki as the new Imo CP comes just two days to the governorship election in the state In a statement released on Thursday, Force spokesman Olumuyiwa Adejobi said Danjuma Aboki had been deployed as the new police commissioner in Imo…
Enugu state Commissioner of Police Kanayo Uzuegbu, has warned criminals in the state to go elsewhere and practice their trade. He said this while parading over 53 hoodlums suspected to be members of secret cults fueling incidents of abduction in the state. He used the occasion to assure those planning to return for Christmas that…
Following the rise in indiscriminate killings in Kogi state, members of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, on Tuesday stormed the Police headquarters in Abuja protesting the killing of three policemen and some members of the party at Anyigba, Kogi State. The protesters who were led by the Governorship candidate of the party in the November…
The Nigeria Police Force has bowed to pressure from the Nigeria Labour Congress, the Trade Union Congress, the Labour Party, and Civil Society Organisations by redeploying the Imo State Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Barde out of the state. Egbetokun announced the redeployment of the commissioner on Sunday night He said the police were not unaware…
A magistrate Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers state has granted bail to the chairman of Rivers state Chapter of the National Youth Council of Nigeria Chijioke Ihunwo and 120 other on five count charge preferred against them Ihunwo, who was arraigned alongside 120 others, were all present at the Rivers Magistrate Court 22 on Wednesday…
The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has accused Imo State Police Command of brutalising its President, Joe Ajaero which has left him hospitalised. Ekwe Anaedo had reported that Ajaero was picked up from the NLC State Council Secretariat by heavily armed policemen in Owerri and taken to an unknown destination. In a statement on Wednesday, the…
The Imo State Police Command, on Wednesday, said the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, is in protective custody According to reports earlier on Wednesday Ajaero was picked up from the NLC State Council Secretariat in Owerri, the state capital, by heavily armed policemen and taken to an unknown destination. Following his…
