The Ogun State Police Command will try three police inspectors serving in the state for their alleged involvement in extorting motorcyclists around the Maawu bus stop, Agbado in the Ifo Local Government Area of the state. This was disclosed in a statement on Sunday by the State Police Public Relations Officer, Omolola Odutola, identifying […]
Spokesperson of the Nigeria Police Force, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, says police personnel who trot guns at Nigerians in order to extort them are not different from armed robbers. A crypto trader and influencer on X, had dragged the police after his house was allegedly broken into and he was arrested forcefully. The man claimed the […]
Imo lawyer, Chinaka Chigozie has narrated how he was tortured untill he fainted and then detained on the orders of ACP David Ogenyi after he came to secure bail for one Wisdom Mmaduka over failed marriage promise at the Fire Service police station Owerri on Monday last week. For many months now in Imo […]
Some armed police officers have been filmed assaulting a yet-to-be-identified woman in Anambra State. A human rights activist, Harrison Gwamnishu, petitioned the Nigerian Police Force via his X handle (formerly Twitter) on Saturday over the alleged assault of the woman. Mr Gwamnishu uploaded on the microblogging platform a video clip of the incident. He […]
Imo Police Command has arrested six Security Operatives of Joint Task Force (JTF), deployed on Operation Search and Flush in Imo State, for extortion in Tuesday. According to a statement by the Police Public Relations Officer in the State on Tuesday, Henry Okoye said the operatives include three NDLEA personnel, a Police Inspector, and […]
The Nigerian police have refused to free Chinonso Uba, a journalist who was arrested in Imo State, South-east Nigeria, after a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja, on Friday, ordered his release. Mr Uba, otherwise known as Nonso Nkwa, was whisked away on 27 July by the police, after he finished anchoring his […]
Human Rights Lawyers under the aegis of Lawyers in Defence of Democracy (LIDD) have berated the Director General of Department of State Services (DSS), Yusuf Bichi, over the alleged assault on judiciary, lawyers, prison officials, and media by DSS operatives in a bid to stop prison officials from carrying out their job of taking […]
The Police Service Commission (PSC) has frowned at the action of Seun Kuti, son of Afrobeat maestro, Fela Kuti. In a video that has gone viral, the musician wearing a red shirt atop a white pair of trousers was seen slapping an officer standing by a police van. “You dey mad?”, he repeatedly asked […]
More testimonies have continue to be heard from the military, even as the Special Independent Investigative Panel probes into the alleged Human Rights Violations by officers of the Armed Forces during counter-insurgency operations in the North East. At its resumed hearing on Friday, May 12, the Chief of Staff of the Nigerian Army Amour […]
A female rights group, Sisters With A Goal Initiative, SWAGI, has petitioned the Imo State Commissioner of police over assault by IMSU lecturer on female student. While protesting at IMSU administrative building on Tuesday, the group lamented that many female students in the varsity are victims of abuses and intimidations by lecturers but remained […]
