A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, has slammed a ₦20m fine against the Nigerian Police and former chairman of the Host Communities Association of Nigeria (HOSTCOM), Professor Jasper Jumbo, for harassing and intimidating a legal practitioner, Emmanuel Asido. Asido had filed a Notice of Application for an Order enforcing a fundamental right, ...

    Security operatives have arrested a legal practitioner, Femi Oniyide, in connection with the alleged publication of a malicious story against the Secretary to the Ogun State Government (SSG), Mr Tokunbo Talabi. Oniyide was arrested on Friday at Alagbado, Ogun State, based on a petition written against him by solicitors to the SSG, alleging ...

Police authorities in Abia State have confirmed the arrest and detention of the General Overseer of Agape Evangelical Ministry popularly called Bishop Timothy Otu over the death of a female evangelist, Happiness Echieze, attached to a Pentecostal church in Aba. The lady evangelist who is a mother of five died during suspected rounds of sex ...

The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has vowed to investigate and possibly prosecute comedian Abdulgafar Abiola, popularly known as Cute Abiola. The NPF accused Cute Abiola of “deliberately desecrating police uniform and accoutrements” in two of his recent skits posted on his social media handles. According to the police in a statement released on Thursday by ...

  The NBA President, Yakubu Chonoko Maikyau, in the company of the 3rd Vice President, Mrs Amanda Demechi-Asagba, General Secretary, Adesina Adegbite, and National Assistant Publicity Secretary, Charles Ajiboye visited the newly appointed Inspector General of Police (IG), Kayode Egbetokun, yesterday. Also in attendance to receive the President and his entourage were some members of ...

A civil society organisation, Initiative for Research, Innovation and Advocacy in Development (IRIAD) and The Electoral Hub, has called on the Nigerian Police Force, the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation, and the Nigeria Judicial Council to take steps towards restoring the trust in the nation’s judiciary. The Director, IRIAD-The Electoral Hub, Princess ...

  Newly appointed acting Inspector General of Police, IGP, Kayode Egbetokun, has assumed office at the Force Headquarters in Abuja. This was after the immediate past IGP, Usman Baba, officially handed over to Egbetokun at about 12noon. President Bola Tinubu appointed Egbetokun as the new acting IGP alongside the Service Chiefs on Tuesday. On Wednesday, ...

A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in the Yaba area of Lagos has dismissed an application by the Nigeria Police Force seeking to arraign Afrobeats singer, Seun Kuti, over alleged assault on a police officer. Magistrate Adeola Olatunbosun adjourned till July 3 to await legal advice from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) ...

      Following the appeal made by the Head of Chambers of the Nigeria Police Force, DCP Simon Lough, SAN urging them to desist from media trial/defence of their client, Seun Kuti’s defence team led by Mr Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika, SAN have replied the police. In a statement sighted by The Metro Lawyer (TML), Olumide-Fusika, ...

A lady has been remanded in Kirikiri prison after allegedly assaulting a police officer in the Ogombo area of Ajah, Lagos state. The incident was revealed by the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, on Tuesday, May 16. In a tweet accompanied by a picture showing the lady grabbing a police officer by ...

Criminals said to be responsible for the gruesome murder of an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) along East Street, Ndiegoro, Aba, Abia State has threatened to sack residents of the area. The ASP popularly known as “Agbalagba” and hailed from Ebonyi State was gruesomely murdered with his head cut off along East Street on Tuesday ...

The Force Headquarters on Tuesday confirmed the arrest of the Adamawa Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Barr. Hudu Yunusa-Ari who declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of the gubernatorial elections during the recently concluded supplementary elections. A statement in Abuja by the Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi said: “The Nigerian ...

  The President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Yakubu C. Maikyau, OON, SAN was today the 26th of April, 2023, a guest at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNODC/OHCHR) joint project meeting on “Strengthening the Oversight and Accountability Mechanisms ...

    The Nigeria Police Force, NPF, has declared the Chief Executive Officer of Chinmark Group, Ijiomah Marksman Chinedu, wanted for alleged investment fraud. Chinedu was asked to appear before the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Interpol, at the Force Headquarters in Abuja. A special police gazette bulletin announced that a warrant of arrest was ...

Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba disclosed this on Monday during a meetin According to the IGP, the exact figure of those arrested currently stands at 781. Giving more details regarding the arrest, IGP Alkali Baba said 185 cases of electoral infractions were recorded during the presidential election with 203 arrests made. For the ...

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Idowu Owohunwa has said that an investigation has been launched into the alleged threat issued against Igbo by the Lagos State Parks Management Committee Chairman, Musiliu Akinsanya popularly known as MC Oluomo. Owohunwa made this known while featuring in an interview with TV Arise News on the preview of ...