The wife of Vijah Opuama, the Liberation Movement candidate in the last Bayelsa governorship election, Cherry Opuama, has asked the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu to release her husband, according to a report by SaharaReporters. It was gathered that Opuama was arrested within the premises of the election petition tribunal in Abuja, on August
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Police Recruitment: IGP Removes Entry Requirements For Candidates
Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, on Monday, ordered that entry requirements be waved for applicants into the constable cadre of the Nigeria Police, according to a report by The Nation The police, yesterday, commenced the screening of candidates for 10,000 slots nationwide. Earlier, the President, Muhammadu Buhari, had announced that an additional 40,000 policemen would
Read moreALBON laments security agencies’ extortions, harassment, petitions IGP
Association of Luxury Bus Owners of Nigeria (ALBON) has decried alleged extortions of its members by security agents on road blocks and check points on highways across the country. The group accused the security agents of extorting between N2,000, N5,000 and N10,0000 from their members despite their compliance with COVID-19 protocols and reduction of number
Read moreIGP Adamu visits Zamfara, promises to end banditry
Following the ultimatum by President Muhammadu Buhari to the Inspector General of Police, IGP Mohammed Abubakar to put an end to banditry in Zamfara State the IGP today Thursday July 16 paid a visit to the state to assess things for himself. And as part of effort to end activities of armed bandits and other
Read moreSenator Shehu Sani mocks suspended EFCC Acting Chairman, Magu
Radical human rights lawyer and former Senator representing Kaduna central, Shehu Sani, has mocked the embattled suspended Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu. Senator Sani says Magu’s demand for bail last Friday, has remind him of the frustration Magu subjected him too recently. How will this man who denied
Read morePolice Rejig: IGP posts, redeploys senior officers
….Names new Heads for the Dept. of Research & Planning, the Directorate of Intelligence, the five (5) newly created Zonal Commands and the four (4) annexes of the FCID. Following the recent presidential approval for the re-organization of the Nigeria Police Force which included the creation of an additional Department – the Directorate of Intelligence,
Read moreCall sponsors of terror in Rivers to order – PDP tells IGP, DSS
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has charged the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, as well as the Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Yusuf Magaji Bichi, to without further delay, take decisive action against threats by feuding factions in the unsettled All Progressives Congress (APC) to unleash terror in Rivers state.
Read more[BREAKING] APC National Secretariat sealed
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has sealed off the National Secretariat of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The IGP directed the FCT Commissioner of Police, to seal off the APC secretariat over the leadership crisis rocking the ruling party. Adamu also directed the APC Chief Security Officer that members of that National Working
Read moreCHRSJ drags Lagos divisional Police Station before nation’s Police authority
By: CHRSJ A Police station in Lagos State, Meiran Divisional Police Headquarters in Alimosho Local Government area of the State have been dragged before the police authority over incessant illegal arrest of Nigeria citizens, particularly, the drivers and Okada riders plying the area by the Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ). Forwarding the
Read moreHURIWA urges President Buhari to declare State of Emergency on Nigerian Police Force
…Deplores professional misconduct of officers and deviation into land related disputes in Enugu by Police A civil society organisation-: HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has warned that the Nigerian police Force must be comprehensively and surgically reformed and re-oriented fundamentally to embrace the traditional constitutional mandate of enforcement of law and order, prevention
Read moreCHRSJ Petitions Police over threat to life of a night watchman in Osun
A human rights organization, the Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ) has forwarded a Petition Letter to the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIGP) in-charge of Zone X1 comprises of Osun and Oyo States and Osun State Commissioner of Police, calling for an investigation over a threat to
Read moreHURIWA tasks IGP Mohammed Adamu on petition against SP Ijomah
…says Police should fight crimes and terrorism rather than ‘assist’ land speculators in Enugu The Prominent Civil Rights Advocacy group HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has drawn the attention of the Inspector General of Police Mohammed Adamu to the subsisting petition from a law firm representing Amaechi Awkunanaw and Obeagu communities of Enugu
Read moreIGP Adamu Ignores Aisha Buhari, Refuses To Release Her Aides.
In spite of cries by Aisha Buhari, wife of President Buhari for the release of her aides, the IGP has shunned her. The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ignored cries by the wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, to release her aides who are in custody. This is just as children of President
Read moreHold IGP, Oil Mogul responsible if anything happens to our kinsman – Anambra community warns
Abba community in Njikoka local government area of Anambra State has raised the alarm over the alleged abduction of one of a billionaire businessman in the area, Chief Pius Nweke by unknown persons. The kidnap of the victim, a new twist to the protracted communal clash between Ukpo in Dunukofia local government area and Abba,
Read moreKogi Police Station attack, Bank robbery – IGP orders manhunt for perpetrators
…Reviews Security Architecture in the State The Inspector-General of Police, (IGP) Mohammed Adamu, has ordered a full-scale manhunt for the perpetrators of the attack on Isanlu Police station and a commercial bank in Yagba East LGA of Kogi State on 4th June, 2020. The IGP while condemning the incident, has deployed a team of crack
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