It is alleged that he and his armed thugs attacked police personnel, shot and wounded Sergeant Danjuma Saliu on stop-and- search duty along Aiyetoro Gbede, Mopa Road in Kogi State.
Force spokesman, Jimoh Moshood, claimed Melaye was moved to a health facility of the Department of State Services (DSS) following complaints that his condition was not improving.
The Nigeria Police Force wishes to categorically state that all the allegations in the statement of the Senate President are incorrect, misleading and false and should be disregarded and discountenanced by the general Public.
Usually, lawmakers have privileges of raising a “point of order” in consonance with Senate rules on issues considered personal, particularly as it affects their colleagues.
After weeks of being hungry and jobless, the 25-year-old says he reached breaking point after a security guard pushed him to the ground while he was searching for work at a building site.
Politicians would rather shield individuals from investigation (who is to say whose turn it will be next if one case is successfully tried) but one of the strangest customs in Nigeria has to be the repeated denial of guilt based on the following w...
Ahead of his appearance at the tribunal, The Guardian reliably gathered that Onnoghen was on Friday, at his official residence served with charges of refusal to declare his assets in breach of the provision of the Code of Conduct Bureau Act, and t...
Meanwhile, people are aware that Idris and his principal are actively involved in this sensitive election period and so as some citizens have noted, succession politics and bureaucracy, in this regard, could be a source of distraction for them and...
President Buhari manifested an unbecoming peevishness when at the peak of the Benue massacre he disclosed that he never knew Idris failed to carry out his directive to relocate to the embattled Middle Belt state to arrest the herders-farmers’ skir...
From inside the residence, he granted an electronic interview to Channels TV, informing the public that he was not in Abuja at all but that he would report himself to the police as soon as he returned.
About 20 minutes later, along Lasu-Igando Road, Lagos State, a few kilometres away from his residence in the neighbouring Ijanikin, the 26-year-old truck driver and his conductor, Endurance Omonyahuy, met their tragic end in the hands of a trigger...
The former Chairman, Ifedayo Local Government Area of Osun State and ex-member, House of Representatives tells FEMI MAKINDE that Nigeria will not have been spending so much on importation of petroleum products if oil is controlled by the families ...
But the average Nigerian government institution does not glean wisdom in the idiom that a stitch in time saves nine, so, the failure to address this issue in years’ past has brought about the needless fiasco that the nation has on its hands.
Even on short time basis, police officers on clearly illegal assignments accompany those who can afford it to navigate dangerous highways or simply join the travelling convoy of a private individual for protection against armed robbers or indeed j...
Because the first group was driven by love for Nigeria, immediately Buhari was inaugurated as President on May 29, 2015, they started gauging his words and actions to see how they conformed to their expectations of him.
“The leaders then resolved I should alert the public on the alarm that came to us upon which I recalled the media crew that just took our communique to release to them the information at our disposal that there was a cordon around the CJN residenc...
“We are concerned that if pump action rifles and AK47 can be used as though they were hand fans without consequences, the actors of last night could be emboldened to resort to IED’s, dynamites or even recruit suicide bombers to commit mass murder.
A constitutional lawyer and human rights activist, Chief Mike Ozekhome SAN, has accused the Federal Government of engaging in unnecessary political witch-hunt.
‘The attention of the Nigeria Police Force has been drawn to a statement in the media credited to the Senate President on the recent political development in Kwara State where he raised allegations that “…the entire world to hold the IGP responsib...
There are parallels in Erdogan in Turkey, Orbán in Hungary, Maduro in Venezuela, Modi in India (to name but a few): they all deride their opponents as criminals, show contempt for their critics in the media, stoke conspiracy theories about opposit...
Force spokesman, acting DCP Jimoh Moshood, in a statement on Friday night, stated that all the statutory security protection on the person of the Senate President are also accorded him all the time.