CRIME
Police Beat, Arrested Me In A Pool Of Blood While Trying To Secure Bail For My Client – Lawyer Tells Judicial Panel
A lawyer, Ekpagu Chikadibia-Christian says he was mercilessly beaten and arrested by police officers while trying to secure bail for a client. He narrated his ordeal during the second sitting of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry set up by the Ebonyi state government to look into police brutality, human rights violations, and related extra-judicial killings in Abakalliki, the Ebonyi state...
Police Killed My Sister A Day Before Her NYSC Passing Out Parade, Lady Tells Panel
It was a tearful day as more petitioners in Abuja gave various testimonies at the Independent Investigation Panel set up to look into the allegations of brutality and highhandedness by personnel of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). While the session is ongoing in some states, that of the nation’s capital continued for the second day on Thursday at the...
We’re Making Efforts To Fish Out Rogue Police Officers – Buhari
The president spoke during a meeting with a delegation of the National Council of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria in Abuja on Thursday. He said the effort is in compliance with the demands of #EndSARS protesters. For 13 days, youth under the #EndSARS campaign protested against police brutality and demanded police reform. Buhari said the voices of youth have been heard and...
Registrar Who Stole N80m From Abuja Court Jailed For Four Years
A federal high court in Kaduna has sentenced Joseph Etefia Udoh to four years in prison for stealing the sum of N80 million. The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) arraigned Udoh and his wife, Grace in December 2019, on a 12-count charge for converting N80 million deposited in the court by a litigant to personal use. According...
#EndSARS: Aba Area Commander, Ibrahim Not Known For Negligence – Abia CP Declares
Abia State Commissioner of Police, CP Janet E. Agbede has absolved Aba Area Commander, ACP Kabiru Ibrahim of negligence. She also stated that ACP Ibrahim is known for diligence, resilience, and proactive in his policing. This is following a newspaper publication on Monday with the title 'POLICEMEN ACCUSE ABA AREA COMMANDER OF NEGLIGENCE' in which ACP Ibrahim was accused of negligence...
#EndSARS: Aba Area Commander, Ibrahim Not Known For Negligence – Abia CP Declares
Abia State Commissioner of Police, CP Janet E. Agbede has absolved Aba Area Commander, ACP Kabiru Ibrahim of negligence. She also stated that ACP Ibrahim is known for diligence, resilience, and proactive in his policing. This is following a newspaper publication on Monday with the title 'POLICEMEN ACCUSE ABA AREA COMMANDER OF NEGLIGENCE' in which ACP Ibrahim was accused of negligence...
Gboah TV Confirms Death Of Reporter Reportedly Arrested By Lagos Task Force
The management of an online channel, Gboah TV, has confirmed the death of one its reporters, Onifade Pelumi, who has been missing since Saturday, October 24, 2020. In a statement, the medium said young Onifade was covering the scene of a mob attack at a government facility in the Oko Oba axis of Agege Local Government Area when operatives of the...
DPO Slaps Tailor, Charges Him To Court Over Poor Job
The Divisional Police Officer, DPO in charge of Iyaganku division, Ibadan, Alex Gwazarzah, has taken a fashion designer, Lukman Adeniyi, to court for giving his clothes to an apprentice to sew. Trouble started after the DPO claimed that the tailor damaged the cloths. The Police Public Relations Officer, Oyo State Command, Olugbenga Fadeyi, said, “Information from the DPO Iyaganku, Alex Gwazarzah,...
SARS Threw Me Off Three-Storey Building, Broke My Spine – Trader Tells Lagos Judicial Panel (Photos)
A trader, Ndukwe Ekekwe, Tuesday told the Lagos State Judicial Panel of enquiry and restitution for victims of SARS related abuses relived the harrowing details of how he broke his spine in 2018 when policemen threw him off a three-storey shopping complex at Alaba Market. Ndukwe, 34, said he was unlawfully arrested on February 16, taken to the Special Anti-Robbery...
Salami Panel Conclude Magu Probe, Wants Police Out Of EFCC
After about five months, Justice Isa Ayo Salami Judicial Commission of Inquiry is set to wind up an investigation into the activities of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). It was learnt that the panel plans to conclude its assignment this week. Its report will then be sent to President Muhammadu Buhari. It was gathered that one of the recommendations...
