Any Nigerian child with a fair level of social-awareness can tell you one or two negative things about the Nigerian police. The Nigerian Police Force is perceived as the primary symbol of corruption, administrative inefficiency, and state brutality in Nigeria. Bribery is seen as the official language of the uniform; investigative procedures are often dismissed as…

The House Of Representatives Committee on Police Affairs says it is worrisome that the Nigerian Police Force is not well-funded despite the security challenges the nation is faced with. Members of the committee who condemned the act, said it was high time that the Police Trust Fund Bill currently before the Senate was passed and…

The Acting Inspector General, Adamu Mohammed, has appointed Frank Mba as the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Nigeria Police, replacing the former spokesman DCP Jimoh Moshood. Mba, who is an Assistant Commissioner of Police served as the PRO of the Police Force between 2012 and 2014 when he served under former IGP Mohammed Adamu.…

The Nigerian Police Force, yesterday, said operatives who laid siege at the residence of Senator Dino Melaye were there to effect his arrest. The decision, Force Public Relations Officer, Jimoh Moshood, clarified, was in connection to the attempted culpable homicide in the shooting of a Police Officer, Sgt Danjuma Saliu, attached to 37 Police Mobile Force…

Worried that the increasing rate of cultism and drug abuse among youths could pose grave danger, security agencies in Lagos State have engaged in road walk campaigns to promote awareness against the menace.

Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari has assured the Nigerian Police Force that his government will work towards restoring its "lost primacy" in the country. The president's spokesman Garba shehu said Buhari made the promise during a “Thank You” visit by the members of the Nigeria Police Service Commission and the leadership of the force. "President Muhammadu…

Nigeria Police Force on Friday announced it has deployed eight of its commissioners to oversee security functions at the forthcoming governorship election in Osun State. The election is slated to hold on September 22. Before the police announced eight commissioners will be at the elections, some sections of the media had reported that 30 Commissioners…

Nigerian lawmaker senator Dino Melaye on Monday said that the Nigerian Police and Kogi State government were in a fresh plot to kill him. "Nigerian police working with Kogi State Govt is trying to frame me up again with culpable Homicide and illegal possession of firearm. This is going to be the 6th arraignment of…

Nigerian Police Force has paraded eight persons suspected to be kidnapper's of 276 Chibok school girls in Maiduguri Borno State. The girls were abducted from their school hostels on April 14, 2014. A total of 57 students escaped in the immediate aftermath of the kidnapping. Since then, 107 have either been found or released as part…

It seems like every week, or at least every other week, there’s a new picture or video floating around exposing the latest act of Nigerian Police brutality.

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris had on Tuesday set up a team of investigators to unravel the killers of seven policemen in Abuja within 21 days. The 7 police officers were killed by unknown gunmen at the Galadimawa roundabout area of Abuja during a stop and search on Monday night. The cracks…

A former Inspector General of Police, Mr Suleiman Abba said on Sunday that what men and women of the Nigerian Police Force urgently needed was more than their remuneration. Abba told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the payment of the salaries of the Nigerian Police Force should not be allowed to…