IGP Warns Police Officers Against Lobbying For Promotion
The Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has read the riot act to policemen engaging external forces to lobby for promotion as he vowed to deal with such erring personnel. Egbetokun gave the warning while speaking in Abuja at the decoration ceremony of a new Deputy Inspector General of Police and twenty-six other senior […]
Police Nab Suspect With 7 Pump Action Shotguns, 1000 Bullets
The Nigeria Police Command in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, said its operatives have arrested Ikechukwu Didi, a suspected gunrunner. Commissioner of Police Benneth Igweh made this known on Thursday while parading several suspected criminals arrested for various offences. Igweh said the suspect, an indigene of Enugu State, was nabbed at the popular Dutse Junction […]
Manpower Distress: Lagos In Deficit of 30,000 Medical Professionals – Health Commissioner
…As LASUCOM Inducts 18th set of medical doctors Shortage of manpower is posing more distress to the health sector in Nigeria, Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi has said, noting that Lagos particularly is affected with the trend with a deficit of 30,000 medical professionals. Amidst a growing population of over 20 million […]
NSCDC Arrests Suspected Electricity Cable Vandals In Katsina
The Katsina State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has arrested two suspects for separate incidents of vandalism of public infrastructure. In the first incident, the command’s Public Relations Officer, DSc Buhari Hamisu, disclosed that the NSCDC anti-vandal team, acting on a tip, apprehended Ma’aruf Yusuf, 20, of Makudawa Quarters, Katsina […]
Ogun Woman In Police Net For Inserting Firewood Into Girl’s Private Part
A 25-year-old woman named Temitope Adetanju has been arrested for allegedly inserting a piece of firewood into the vagina of a 12-year-old girl (name withheld) for stealing in Isewo, Obada Oko, Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State. It was gathered that the victim had stolen a biscuit worth N200, Milo worth N150, and Mr. […]
Three Dead As Gunmen Attack Abuja Police Station, Bank
Gunmen suspected to be bandits have attacked the Abaji Divisional Police headquarters in Abuja and robbed a branch of a commercial bank in the area. The assailants, numbering about 15, invaded the bank and the police facility simultaneously on Thursday evening at about 5:00 PM. Recall that a police officer and two of the suspects […]
