by Admin | Oct 30, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A human rights group, Resource Centre for Human Rights and Civic Education (CHRICED), has accused the Nigeria Police Force of an attempt to cover up the rape of a 14-year old girl, Maryam Yusuf, by a Mobile Policeman, Corporal Barau Garba (Police Service Number: 275601). The allegation was contained in a statement signed by Dr. Ibrahim Zikirullahi, the group’s Executive Director. In the statement, CHRICED said it has received credible information that the Corporal abducted Maryam and raped her repeatedly. “According to information reaching us, the young Maryam, who lives with her parents at the Hausa Quarters in Asaba, Delta State, traveled to Onitsha to buy some items for her father. Unfortunately, Maryam lost the money for the items she was meant to purchase. It was while frantically searching for the vehicle she boarded in a bid to recover the money that Garba approached her,” said the group. It added that Garba promised to help her find the money and show her the way back home. In desperate need of help and lured to think she was safe with a policeman, Maryam took the offer of assistance from the officer, who took her on his. motorcycle to his room at the Police Base. “Pleas by the young girl to Garba to take her home to her parents fell on deaf ears. The bubble burst when the young girl was able to take her captor’s phone while he was asleep, and placed a call to her father to come and rescue her. Hospital tests subsequently showed that Maryam was raped with all brutality, and her vagina had been...
by Admin | Oct 25, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Nigeria Police Force says it has sanctioned 20 personnel involved in corruption between January 2016 and June 2017 in four states. A report obtained from the Public Complaints Rapid Response Unit by the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, indicated that those sanctioned served in Enugu, Abuja, Ogun and Lagos commands. It indicated that 10 police officers were dismissed during the period, one given severe reprimand, one demoted, and eight given other forms of punishment. The report showed that 4, 342 complaints were received by the unit during the period under review, out of which 3,602 were amicably resolved and 318 pending. It added that 422 complaints received by the unit were discovered to be false. According to the report, the 106 distress calls received by the unit during the period under review were not part of the complaints captured in the report. The unit was established in November 2015 to receive and resolve cases of professional misconduct brought against police personnel. (NAN) See graph...
by Admin | Oct 25, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Borno State governor, Kashim Shettima has flagged-off food distribution in five local government areas of the state. The food items were donated by the Federal Government to cushion the effect of the Boko Haram insurgency. The Governor also used the opportunity to inspect various ongoing projects in the health and education sectors in the local government areas. Governor Kashim also visited troops of the the Multi national joint task force in Baga, who are fighting the Boko Haram insurgents around the Lake Chad general area. Addressing the displaced persons in Baga, governor Shettima assured them of government efforts towards ending the Boko Haram crisis and promise to ensure that, their wellfare remained paramount in his administration’s goal. Shettima also urged the internally displaced persons to continue to pray for the state and northeast in general, stressing that, “prayer is the weapon that can help our gallant soldiers to have total victory over the insurgents.” SOURCE: DAILY...
by Admin | Oct 25, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A former Divisional Police Officer (DPO) and Superintendent, James Omafuaire, has been kidnapped along with his wife and a customer at his Ikpeshi quarry site in Akoko Edo Local Government Area, Edo State. The retired police officer is an octogenarian and a native of Akperhe-Olomu in Ughelli South LGA of the state. His younger brother, Akpokona Omafuaire, is a senior photojournalist at Vanguard Newspaper. Mr. Omafuaire was kidnapped along with his wife, Victoria Omafuaire, and a customer at the site, but his wife was released shortly after her kidnapping. Our correspondent gathered that the kidnappers have established contact with the victim’s son, Charles Omafuaire, and have demanded a ransom of N25 million. Confirming the N25 million ransom, a family member of the victim, Christy Omafuaire Atie, said “Pa James Omafuaire was supervising his workers at his quarry site in Ikpeshi near Auchi when the Fulani herdsmen with guns kidnapped him, his wife and a customer.” She said that the kidnapping has caused severe panic in the family and she urged the police to rescue her father or to appeal to the kidnappers to lower their ransom demand. Source: Sahara...
by Admin | Oct 24, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Niger State Police Command on Monday arrested one Abubakar Suleiman with 88 bundles of fake dollars, the News Agency of Nigeria reported. The command’s spokesman, SP Abigael Unaeze, while parading the suspect before newsmen in Minna, said Suleiman and three others at large conspired and took his father-in-law to an unknown place in Kogi State under the pretext of curing him of his sickness. The spokesperson said the suspect, who was arrested with a bag containing 88 bundles of fake dollar notes, confessed to the crime. She said that the command had commenced an intensive investigation into the matter. In a related development, Unaeze said the command had arrested six suspects with 86 wraps of dried leaves suspected to be marijuana, 11 Diazepam packs, one packet of big bond and a box of matches. According to her, detectives attached to the command also recovered one AK47 rifle with 25 rounds of 7.62 ×39mm live ammunition abandoned by a gang of armed robbers. She added that this followed a distress call that robbers numbering five were operating in the residence of one Dr. Amandi Akorbumdu of Bosso area of the state. Unaeze explained that the police detectives attached to the Bosso division swung into action and gave them a chase; as a result, the robbers fled and abandoned the items. The police spokesperson said that all the suspects would be charged to court after investigation. She appealed to the members of the public to assist the command by providing useful information about the movement of criminals to the nearest security office for prompt...
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