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The Lagos State Command of the Nigeria Police Force has ordered the immediate removal of the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) Okokomaiko for his lack of supervision of his men. The removal order came less than 24 hours after SaharaReporters reported that policemen attached to the division of the Lagos Command, forcefully extorted a mobile phone dealer at the Alaba International Market, the sum of N100,000 without committing any offence.

  A group of senior police officers in the Nigeria Police Force have called on President Muhammadu Buhari, the National Assembly, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and other regulatory agencies to immediately launch an investigation into the Police Service Commission (PSC) monumental bribery allegation.

Some senior officers of the Nigeria Police Force have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to look into the promotion exercise going on in the force. The aggrieved officers alleged that the Police Service Commission gave special promotion to the junior officers above senior ones after allegedly collecting bribe of a sum of $10,000.

Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force, Lagos State Command have busted a kidnappers’ den in the Ikorodu area of the state. The policemen during the operation on Thursday night rescued two kidnapped victims. It was gathered that the police operatives engaged in a fierce duel with the kidnappers during which, one of the kidnappers was killed. The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, who confirmed the incident, also confirmed the rescue of the two abducted victims, add...

The Commandant, Ishaq Alfadarai, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos Friday that the operatives would provide protection for critical national assets and infrastructure before, during and after the celebrations.

The Nigeria Police Force, Lagos State Command has arrested Fredrick Nwajagu, the Eze Igbo of Ajao Estate in Lagos State, who vowed to invite members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to Lagos State in order to secure Igbo properties in the state. A source in the police who preferred anonymity confirmed that the Igbo leader was arrested on Saturday morning by a joint team of policemen and operatives of the Department of State Services.

The Commissioner of police, Lagos State Command, CP Idowu Owohunwa, said that some weapons, ballot boxes and sensitive materials snatched by some suspected thugs were recovered during the gubernatorial election in Lagos state.

After 22 years, a Lagos High Court sitting in Yaba, Southwest Nigeria, has indicted the police for the extrajudicial killing of four Igbo traders in Ladipo market in 2001.   The victims are Anthony Ezenwafor, Chukwuemeka Ezeofor, Izuchukwu Ezeama, and Aloysius Osigwe, all from Ekwulobia, Anambra State, Southeast Nigeria. They were traders at Ladipo International Auto Spare Parts Market and were extrajudicially killed by the police attached to the Surulere Division of the Lagos State Command on ...

Dr Ahmed Audi, the Commandant General, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), has ordered the immediate surgery of one of the Corps' personnel

Assistant Superintendent of Corps II Ibrahim Adam is currently receiving treatment at National Hospital in Abuja.