LAGOS APRIL 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The police have no money for its operations despite the serious security situation in the country, Acting Inspector-General of Police Alkali Usman Baba said on Wednesday. Without funding, yet faced with attacks on its assets and killing of its officers and men in parts of the country, the police have become “Miracle…
LAGOS APRIL 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali, has ordered an immediate withdrawal of senior police officers attached to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The development signals a simmering hostility between the two law enforcement agencies with a longstanding history of collaboration that has helped the anti-graft agency to meet its personnel needs…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Acting Inspector-General of Police, Alkali Baba, has ordered the immediate disbandment of the IGP Monitoring Satellite Offices in Lagos and Port Harcourt over complaints of harassment and operating beyond their briefs by Nigerians. Speaking at his maiden meeting with Command Police Commissioners and zonal AIGs, in Abuja , Baba said the IGP…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has appointed a Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, as the acting Inspector-General of Police with immediate effect. The Minister of Police Affairs, Maigari Dingyadi, disclosed this to State House correspondents in Abuja on Tuesday. Baba is taking over from Mohammed Adamu, whose tenure Buhari…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector-General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu has ordered immediate deployment of additional units of Police Mobile Force (PMF) and other Police Tactical Squads to Imo State to strengthen security in the State and prevent further attacks on security formations or any other critical national infrastructure in the State. The IGP gave…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has filed a suit to challenge the extension of the tenure of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Mohammed Adamu by President Muhammadu Buhari. The suit was filed against Buhari, the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the Police Service Commission, and Adamu. “The NBA’s position in the Suit is…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ekiti State Government has filed a lawsuit against the Inspector-General of Police Mohammed Adamu over the dismissal of an unmarried policewoman resident in Ekiti State for being pregnant. Omolola Olajide was discharged from the force in compliance with Section 127 of the Police Act and Regulations Cap. P19, Laws of the Federation…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has extended the tenure of Mohammed Adamu as the Inspector General of Police (IGP) by three months. Mr Adamu was due to retire from the police last Monday having spent the maximum 35 years in service. The extension to his tenure was announced on Thursday by the Minister of…
