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The Inspector General of Police, IGP, Olukayode Egbetokun, on Friday, January 3, vowed that any assault on police officers will receive a calculated and well-deserved response .   Egbetokun who was in Enugu police headquarters on a one-day official visit, said that the police would not tolerate any form of assault or killing of police personnel any longer.   “We’ll …

Three police officers will face trial in Paris for the involuntary homicide of Cedric Chouviat, a man who repeatedly said “I’m suffocating” during his arrest in January 2020, a source close to the case confirmed to AFP on Friday.   At least two of the officers have already lodged appeals against the decision to prosecute. The de@th of 42-year-old Chouviat, …

The Enugu State Police has reacted to claims made by a lawyer that its officers asked the distraught father of a missing University of Nigeria Nsukka undergraduate, Flourish Nkwachi Uzodimma to pay N25,000 for tracking.  A Nigerian lawyer, Barr. Ege Obetta made the claim on social media on Friday, December 27. Reacting to the allegation, the spokesperson of the state …

Some officers of the Ogun State Police Command have been arrested for allegedly demanding money from the family of a missing girl before taking action on the case.   Muyiwa Adejobi, the Public Relations Officer for the Nigeria Police Force, revealed the development on Saturday, December 28,   “Otta missing girl: The policemen who demanded money before they could attend …

The Ogun State Police Command has reacted to reports alleging that its officers in the Sango police division demanded N40,000 from a complainant to investigate a suspected kidnapping case.   An X-user had cried out over the abduction of a 7-year-old girl identified as Mercy Akande, allegedly by a customer at her mum’s shop in Sango Ota where she runs …

Police have arrested a 48-year-old Nigerian man and his 33-year-old South African girlfriend on charges of unlawful possession of drugs and dealing in drugs.    The duo was nabbed on Wednesday, December 18, 2024, by South Africa’s Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, also known as the Hawks, in collaboration with the North West provincial drug task team and Lichtenburg K9 …

The spokesperson of the Nigeria Police Force, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, has countered an x user who criticized police officers for stopping and searching a man who recently returned to Nigeria from Canada   The returnee had recorded police officers who stopped to search him. He felt violated and in the video he shared online, he expressed his anger and even …

A Nigerian US-veteran has recounted how he was allegedly rough handled by some police officers after struggling with one of them who pointed a gn at him.  He said he had gone out last night when he encountered a police officer who accosted him, pointing his gun at him, He said as a soldier, his immediate reaction was to protect himself …

The Anambra State Joint Security Team on Thursday, December 5, intercepted armed men sighted on Umuchu- Amesi-Uga Road and recovered one branded blue Hilux vehicle with  Plate Number: GDD 440 TJ and a car suspected to have been snatched from an unsuspecting member of the public.   Confirming the incident to newsmen, the command’s spokesperson, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, said during …

The Rivers State Police Command has successfully neutralized a notorious kidnap kingpin and cult leader, Nkem ThankGod, a.k.a. “2man,” who allegedly k!lled four police officers, a couple, and a youth president.      The 42-year-old murder suspect from Ogbologbolo Community, Ahoada West Local Government Area of the state, was also fingered in the m8rder of two Shell staff, a spare …