LAGOS FEBRUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Service Commission has suspended Assistant Commissioner of Police, ACP Sunday Ubua and Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP James Bawa from the exercise of the powers and functions of their respective Offices with effect from Monday, 14th February, 2022. The two Police Officers were working under the suspended DCP Abba Kyari…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Service Commission (PSC) has emphasised immediate dismissal and prosecution of besmirched officer Abba Kyari over his involvement in the international online fraud syndicate led by Ramon ‘Hushpuppi’ Abbas, Peoples Gazette has learnt. Two sources and internal memos outlined how the police regulatory body placed the interest of the Nigeria Police…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Service Commission has directed the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, to deepen investigations into the connection between the suspended erstwhile head of the Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari, and an internet scammer, Abbas Ramon, commonly known as Hushpuppi. The commission, it was learnt, gave the IG two weeks to turn…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Service Commission has directed a Commissioner of Police and former Chief Security Officer to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, CP Abdulkarim Dauda, to tender his letter of retirement from the Police Force with immediate effect for breach of due process/illegal extension of tenure. The PSC took the decision at its 13 plenary…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Service Commission on Tuesday approved the promotion of two Assistant Inspectors-General of Police to the next rank of Deputy Inspectors-General of Police. The two AIG’s promoted to DIGs are AIG Zaki M. Ahmed and AIG Johnson Babatunde Kokumo. A statement by Ikechukwu Ani, head of Press and Public Relations noted…
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector-General of Police, Alkali Usman, has submitted the probe panel report on suspended Head of the Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari, to the Police Service Commission (PSC). Kyari was investigated over his alleged role in a $1.1m internet scam by an Instagram influencer, Abbas Ramon, aka Hushpuppi, and four others. The…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Service Commission, PSC has set up an in-house panel to study in details available documents related to the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police DCP Abba Kyari, former head of the Intelligence Response Team, IRT, of the Nigeria Police Force indicted by a Report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of…
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…