President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Deputy Inspector-General of Police (I-G) Usman Alkali Baba as new Acting Inspector-General of Police with immediate effect. Minister of Police Affairs Maigari Dingyadi confirmed the appointment when he addressed State House correspondents in Abuja on Tuesday. Usman Baba replaces Mohammed Adamu who was appointed on Jan. 15, 2019 to...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of the Deputy Inspector-General, DIG, Usman Alkali Baba as the Acting Inspector-General of Police, IGP. This was announced to correspondents by the Minister of Police Affair, Muhammad Maigari Dingyadi, at the presidential villa, Abuja on Tuesday. He replaces Mohammed Adamu whose expired tenure was extended recently. More details later ...
President Muhammadu Buhari has described the attacks on the Correctional Centre and Police Command Headquarters in Imo State as an act of terrorism. He condemned the incidents which he said were insurgent attacks on the facilities in Owerri Imo State capital on Monday. Channels Television had reported that a total of 1,844 inmates were released during the...
IMO ATTACK - IGP DEPLOYS SECURITY REINFORCEMENT SQUADS, SETS UP SPECIAL INVESTIGATION TEAM (SIT) Directs CP Imo and the Special Investigation Team to Fish-Out and Bring Perpetrators to Book. The Inspector-General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu, NPM, mni has ordered the immediate deployment of additional units of Police Mobile Force (PMF) and other Police Tactical Squads to...
ANTI CULTISM FIGHT: LAGOS POLICE ARREST SERIAL KILLER CULTIST, SUSPECTED ARMED ROBBERS *Nabs Man, 43, for Defiling Wife's Niece, 15* The Police detectives attached to Sagamu Road Division, led by the Divisional Police Officer, Sagamu Road, Ikorodu, on Sunday, 4th April, 2021, at about 10am, apprehended one wanted serial killer cultist, Segun Agodo, m, in Odongunyan area...
Not less than 2,000 inmates escaped on Monday morning in Owerri, the Imo State capital when suspected hoodlums attacked the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCS) Facilty in Oweri Imo State. The gunmen also attacked the nearby office of the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) of the state Police command, also freed about 600 suspects in custody. They set...
POLICE ARREST AIYE CONFRATERNITY LEADER FOR KILLING RIVAL EYE LEADER, NEUTRALISE ARMED ROBBERY GANG *Recover Arms and Ammunition, House Breaking Tools* The Police operatives attached to Bariga Division of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested one Segun Ezekiel, m, 24, leader of Aiye Confraternity in Bariga Area, on 31st March, 2021, for firing and killing one...
The Publicity secretary of the pan-Yoruba political group Afenifere Yinka Odumakin, is dead. Odumakin died at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital after a brief illness. The Afenifere spokesman allegedly died from covid-19 complications. The activist, who had been on a ventilator at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) isolation centre, died on Saturday morning. According to reports gathered,...
LAGOS CP, DIGNITARIES LAUNCH POCACOV IN LAGOS Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Hakeem Odumosu and other dignitaries today, Thursday, 1st March, 2021, launched the Police Campaign Against Cultism and other Social Vices at the Parade Ground, Police College, Ikeja. The event was chaired by His Excellency, Ambassador Aminu Wisdom. Other dignitaries that were present at the...
LASTMA OFFICERS APPREHENDS ONE-CHANCE ROBBERS AT LEKKI-AJAH AXIS. Today, Thursday, 1st of April, 2021 at around 11.30pm to 12.00noon the officers of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) apprehended an unnumbered, wine coloured Toyota Camry Sedan vehicle at Ikate, Lekki-Ajah axis of the State. In a statement by the Assistant Director of Public Affairs (LASTMA), Filade...
