A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt has ordered the Nigerian Police to pay N3 billion in damages to a spare parts trader, Victor Ogbonna, who was tortured by members of the disbanded Eagle Crack unit in 2019. The court, presided by Justice Stephen Daylop-Pam, ruled in Ogbonna’s favour after he filed a fundamental human rights suit against the Inspector …

Nemesis has caught up with two graduates of Educational Technology of Benue State University arrested by the Niger State police command over an alleged ATM scandal. The duo, Aver Wese, 31 years from Obudu, Cross River State and Godwin Deor, 30 years from Ankpa, Kogi State, were arrested last Thursday by Police operatives attached to Suleja Area Command while trying …

No fewer than four suspects have been paraded by the Gombe State Police command over the murder of 16-year-old Alamin Ahmadu. The suspects include 25-year-old Ahmadu Ibrahim and 35-year-old Babuka Abubakar. Others are Abdulsalam Mohammed, aged 28 years, and Muhammadu Abubakar, aged 28 years, all of Liji quarters in Yalmatu Deba Local Government Area of Gombe State. Parading the suspects …

The Minister of State for Police Affairs, Hon. Imaan Suleiman-Ibrahim has said that the police high command would execute President Bola Tinubu’s directive for the withdrawal of police personnel from VIP security duties, and developing a community policing strategy, amongst others. During a two-day management retreat at the Ministry of Police Affairs in Abuja on Monday, she noted that the Nigeria …

The Nigeria Police Force has revealed that deployment of 40,000 operatives of the Special Intervention Squad (SIS) who are currently undergoing training, will begin with Katsina and nine other states. The Force Headquarters also revealed that the proposed Commanders that will be in charge of the squad will be trained in Mexico while noting that the deployment to the 10 …

No fewer than 18 under-aged girls and others used for prostitution and sex slavery have been rescued by the Anambra State government, in collaboration with security operatives from the state police command, during a raid of a hotel in Oba community, Idemili South Local Government Area of the state. The raid was a follow-up to a tip-off from a whistleblower …

No fewer than 40,000 security personnel will be mobilised to give coverage to the 11 November governorship election in Kogi State, the Commissioner of Police, Bernard Onuoha, has said. The Commissioner told The PUNCH in an exclusive interview in his office at the state command headquarters in Lokoja that although he would not be able to give the exact figure …

Senior police officers and allied security chiefs are gathering in Owerri, Imo State from Monday, 30th October till 1st November to bounce ideas on enhanced security mechanism, also predictably to sharpen skills. But it is more. It is not just a retreat for strategic and senior police officers from the ranks of Commissioners and Assistant Inspectors-General to Deputy Inspectors-General, it …

The Kaduna State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of the Principal and Vice Principal of Al-Azhar School in Zaria, Kaduna State for their alleged involvement in corporal punishment, which resulted in the death of a student of the school. Marwanu Nuhu Sambo, a JSS 3 pupil, was allegedly brutally beaten by the Principal, the Vice Principal and some prefects …

The Police in Lagos have uncovered a factory in Idata Community, Ibeju-Lekki area of Lagos, where arms are fabricated. Arrested were two blacksmiths: Musiliu Gbenga, 21, and Owolabi Azeez, 22. They were paraded alongside 30 other suspects for various crimes ranging from cultism, stealing and illegal possession of firearms. They were alleged to be selling the fabricated arms to criminals. …