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BREAKING: Police Chief Egbetokun To Hold Zoom Meeting With Falana, Adegboruwa, TIB Movement, NBA, Others Tuesday Over #EndBadGovernance Protests

10 months ago1324 min

The Inspector General of Police Kayode Egbetokun will hold a virtual meeting with prominent human rights lawyers Femi Falana (SAN) and Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN), representatives of the Nigerian Bar Association, and various civil society organisations on Tuesday afternoon.  The meeting, scheduled for 3:30 pm via Zoom, aims to discuss the planned #EndBadGovernance protest.  Earlier on Tuesday, SaharaReporters reported that the Take-It-Back Movement, a pro-democracy group, had proposed a Zoom conference with police authorities to facilitate...

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Nigerian Police Deny Imposing 4pm Curfew Ahead Of #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria Protest

10 months ago1204 min

The Nigeria Police Force has refuted recent claims that the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, mandated a strict 4pm curfew for all protests across the nation.   The denial comes amidst growing concerns and widespread speculations on social media platforms regarding the imposition of the curfew.   Nigerians are mobilising for a nationwide showdown with the President Bola Tinubu’s government over the biting hardship and hunger, tagged #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protest slated for August 1...

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BREAKING: Nigerian Police Withdraw Operatives Attached To VIPs Over #EndBadGovernance Protest

10 months ago5463 min

A memo signed by SP Anas Mohammed, S/O DOPS (Department of Operations, SHQ Owerri on July 29, 2024 with reference number AB:  4087/IMS/DOPS/SO/VOL.1/443 said the posting is in view of the upcoming nationwide protest. The Nigeria Police Force has withdrawn 30 inspectors and rank and file personnel attached to Very Important Personalities (VIPs) to boost its operations ahead of the planned #EndBadGovernance protests. A memo signed by SP Anas Mohammed, S/O DOPS (Department of Operations,...

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BREAKING: Nigerian Police Chief, Egbetokun Requests To Meet Take-It-Back Movement Leaders And Their Lawyer, Adegboruwa Tuesday Over #EndBadGovernance Protest

10 months ago1178 min

The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun has requested to meet representatives of the Take-It-Back Movement and their lawyer, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN) on Tuesday, July 30, 2024 at the Force Headquarters in Abuja. The meeting is over the planned protest against the economic hardship in the country tagged #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria. The letter dated July 29, 2024 with Ref. No CJ: 2400/IGP.SEC/ABJ/VOL.1/10, obtained by SaharaReporters, was addressed to Adegboruwa and signed by the Principal Staff Officer to the...

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Gunmen kill four police officers, PoS operator in Imo
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Gunmen kill four police officers, PoS operator in Imo

10 months ago1514 min

Gunmen on Monday evening killed four police officers at stop and search checkpoint along Owerri-Onitsha road in Imo state. An eyewitness, who claimed to be a resident of Irete in Owerri-west Local Government Area of the state, said fear couldn’t allow him and others to ascertain how many civilians were also shot. He said, “The gunmen stormed one of the popular hotels where the police checkpoint was mounted at Irete around 6:30 pm and shot...

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Police arrest 32 suspects after violent attack in Lagos college
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Police arrest 32 suspects after violent attack in Lagos college

10 months ago1375 min

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, has confirmed that 32 suspects have been arrested following a violent attack on a Ministry of Education team at the Federal College of Education (Technical) in the Akoka area of the state. According to Hundeyin, the team had been sent to mediate a three-month-long impasse between staff and the Provost, who had been locked out of his office. However, the situation escalated when staff and...

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20 arrested as police, Ogun youths clash over traditional festival
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20 arrested as police, Ogun youths clash over traditional festival

10 months ago1156 min

The Ikenne township in the Ikenne Local Government area of Ogun State was for a better part of Saturday engulfed in a crisis as some youth insisted on celebrating the annual Oro festival despite the government’s ban. PUNCH Metro gathered that the crisis had been building for some days now with the youths holding protests in the town and telling whoever cared that they would celebrate the annual festival with or without the government’s approval....

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Victim under pressure to drop police station rape case — Family
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Victim under pressure to drop police station rape case — Family

10 months ago2517 min

A relative of the 17-year-old girl who was allegedly raped by a police officer at the Ogudu Area H Command, identified only as Anderson, has accused the suspect’s family of pressuring the survivor’s mother, Aramida Olupona, to forgive the accused officer.  Anderson revealed this information to our correspondent during a phone interview on Saturday. Recall that during a telephone interview with City Round on Friday, the mother of the teenager, Olupona, said, “Officer Owolabi is...

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Gunmen kill inspector in Borno police station attack
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Gunmen kill inspector in Borno police station attack

10 months ago1393 min

Some unknown gunmen in the early hours of Sunday, July 28, 2024, killed an Inspector of Police (name undisclosed) during an attack at the Jakaan Police Station, Konduga Local Government Area of Borno State. “We recorded a foiled attack by unknown gunmen at the police base in Jakana town. The gunmen tried to infiltrate into the police parameters but the efforts of the Police Mobile Force attached to the police station in Jakana were able...

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Nigerian Police Arrest Man In Suleja Over Facebook Post Supporting #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria Protest

10 months ago1344 min

Sardauna Walin Wasa, a resident of Suleja in Niger State, was arrested by the Nigerian police on Friday, July 26.    SaharaReporters gathered that the arrest followed Wasa’s Facebook posts advocating for protests, which read, “Protesting is possible in Nigeria. We support the motion. Let’s go ahead.”   His post, also written in Hausa as “Zanzo zanga wajibine a najeriya,” quickly attracted attention.    Authorities acted swiftly, detaining Wasa and transferring him to Minna, the...

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