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The recruitment process should be rigorous and thorough Three policemen in the Ogun State Command were last week dismissed from service for forcefully extorting the sum of N153,000 from a man travelling from Abeokuta to Lagos. “The money was recovered from them and returned to the victim,” said the Commissioner of Police, Edward Awolowo Ajogun. “They were subsequently arraigned for departmental orderly room trial on a three-count charge of corrupt practices, discreditable conduct and disobedience to lawful order.” This is a recurring problem that needs to be addressed more holisticall...

Usaini Nebianet   Updated April 27, 2021 A file photo of a police officer displaying the crest of the Nigeria Police Force. PHOTO: Sodiq Adelakun/Channels TV     Three policemen in the Ogun State Command have been dismissed from service for extorting money forcefully from a traveller en route to Lagos from Abeokuta. The culprits, Inspector Sunday John, Sgt Jimoh Asimiya, and Sgt Solomon Adedapo were said to have forcefully extorted one hundred and fifty-three thousand Naira (₦153,000) from the victim while he was traveling from Abeokuta to Lagos. The Commissioner of Police, CP Edward Awo...

Views: Visits 16 Three policemen in the Ogun State Command have been dismissed from service for extorting money forcefully from a traveller en route to Lagos from Abeokuta. The culprits, Inspector Sunday John, Sgt Jimoh Asimiya, and Sgt Solomon Adedapo were said to have forcefully extorted one hundred and fifty-three thousand Naira (₦153,000) from the victim while he was traveling from Abeokuta to Lagos. The Commissioner of Police, CP Edward Awolowo Ajogun in a statement issued said he “ordered the immediate arrest and detention of the officers involved” after being made aware ...

The Yoruba Leadership and Peace Initiative (TYLPI) has hailed the recent arrest by the police, of three kidnapping suspects along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, and stressed the need for more work by the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) to free that strategic corridor of miscreants and violent criminals. The group in a statement issued yesterday by its Director of Publicity, Mr. Tunde Ipinmisho, said it was noteworthy that the arrests were made few days after the assumption of office by the Acting Inspector-General of Police (IG), Usman Alkali Baba. The suspects were arrested at the Fidiwo axis of t...

By James Ogunnaike, Abeokuta The Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), on Friday, said it intercepted and impounded a petroleum tanker used by vandals to siphoned 45,000 litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), at Ifote village near Ipara in Obafemi Owode local government area. Disclosing this to newsmen in Abeokuta, the State Commandant of NSCDC, Mr. Hammed Abodunrin, said the command got information around 12 midnight that some vandals were stealing fuel from the pipelines and immediately swung into action. Abodunrin explained that immediately the vandals ...