The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, said on Wednesday the lingering banditry in the North-West and North-Central parts of the country had international dimension. Adamu stated this during a town hall meeting on peace and security held in Zuru, headquaters of Zuru local government area of Kebbi State. He said: “We have realised that most
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Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the Ondo State Police Commissioner, Bolaji Salami, to restore the security details of the state’s deputy governor, Agboola Ajayi, with immediate effect. The directive came through a letter issued to the Police Commissioner and obtained by SaharaReporters on Monday morning, with Ref. No CB:2002/DOPS/FHQ/ABJ/VOL/77/168; signed on behalf
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The Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari is presently in a closed-door meeting with the Inspector-General of Police, Muhammed Adamu, the Director-General, Department of State Services, Magashi Bichi, the National Security Adviser, Babagana Mungono, and the Katsina State Commissioner of Police, Sanusi Buba. The team arrived at the Katsina Government House on Wednesday. According to sources
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…opposition coalition (CUPP) described ruling as victory for Democracy and rule of law, right of free speech and deadly blow to tyranny. The move by the Nigeria House of Representatives engineered by the Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila to use the Police and DSS to arrest the opposition coalition CUPP Spokesperson Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere suffered a major
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  …Seeks State government, IGP intervention over alleges DPO complicity A human rights organization, the Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ) has exposed an alleged violation of social distancing law of Ogun State government nay Federal Government of Nigeria over the outbreak of the global Pandemic Coronavirus code named COVOD-19. The group in
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The Inspector General of Police, IGP Mohammed A. Adamu has ordered the posting and redeployment of some senior police officers. THE DAILY VENDOR can confirm that the new commissioner of police for Rivers State is CP Joseph Gobum Mukan. The deployment is with immediate effect. This development was announced in a statement by DCP Frank
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The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu has advised Nigerians not to defy the COVID-19 stay at home and social distancing order during Easter celebration. Adamu in a statement said all preventive measures against the spread of coronavirus by states and the federal governments are still in effect regardless of events. He directed the commissioners
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The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has directed zonal Assistant inspectors-general of police and state police commissioners to strictly enforce the directives in their respective jurisdiction. Adamu in a statement in Abuja on Sunday, by the force spokesman, Frank Mba, enjoined Nigerians to voluntarily adhere to the orders. The IG asked the senior officers not
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An Abuja Federal High Court has on Friday ordered the release of the dethroned Emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi, who was banished and detained in Awe, a town in Nasarawa State. Sanusi, a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria was dethroned on Monday. Justice Anwuli Chikere granted the interim order following an ex
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Former Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi, on Thursday instituted a suit before the Federal High Court in Abuja seeking an order for his release from the post-dethronement detention and confinement. According to a report late on Thursday that former Emir’s preliminary ex parte application seeking an interim order for his release had been assigned to Justice
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The Ohanaeze Ndigbo yesterday raised the alarm over what it described as acts of provocation allegedly being perpetrated by armed herdsmen to cause disaffection and derail the peace in parts of Igboland. The group, in an open letter addressed to the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Adamu Mohammed yesterday, claimed that the way the gun-wielding
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In Nigeria, the Senate and the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, met on Thursday to harmonise positions on the implementation of a community policing policy that would involve governors, traditional institutions and groups in the provision of security. The Police IG in an interview with journalists after the meeting confirmed that the police was convinced
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The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, has placed police commands and formations nationwide on red alert. This follows intelligence report that some “domestic interests” are planning to embark on massive public disturbances and sabotage to protest the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in an airstrike by the United States. Soleimani, who headed Iran’s
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