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Before We Ask the Police to Die for Us

 By:  Lanre Olagunju  There is something curious about the Nigerian relationship with the police. We complain about them. We criticise them. We film them. We sometimes mock them. But when the armed robbers arrive, we call the police. When kidnappers invade a community, we call the police.  When violence breaks out at night, when a missing child needs to be found or when an armed criminal is on the loose, the same institution many Nigerians love to hate suddenly becomes the institution we expect to save us. But what do we owe those we ask to protect us? Nigeria has lost police officers repeatedly this year while they were doing the job we expect them to do. Since March, publicly reported incidents alone show at least 21 police officers killed in eight separate operational incidents that I could verify.  Two officers were killed at a border checkpoint in Kebbi in March. Four died while repelling a terrorist attack in Borno in April. Three Explosive Ordnance Dispos...
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Mother, Four Children Burnt To Death In Rivers State

  By: Awajis Josiah-Chijindu  A mother and her Four children were burnt to death in a fire incident that engulfed their house in Okochiri community, Okirika Local Government Area of Rivers State in the early hours of today Friday, September 18, 2026. We gathered that the fire was put out through the efforts of community youths. According to sources,the fire was caused by petrol which was ignited by a spark. Confirming the incident in a telephone interview with our correspondent, the Commander of the Civilian Joint Task Force in Okirika, Mr. Igwe Godswill, said the details of the incident were still sketchy. He said, “We just heard the news this morning about the fire. There are no proper details as to what happened, but when we got there this morning, we saw that about four children and their mother, a total of five persons, were burnt and had died. “But the police had already arrived and taken proper details of what happened. It is so disheartening that this is happening agai...
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2027 AHIAZU/EZINIHITTE MBAISE FEDERAL CONSTITUENCY; 17 CANDIDATES, ONE FEDERAL CONSTITUENCY — THE CHOICE BEFORE THE PEOPLE - NDUKA V. A. ANYANWU — THE HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT ADVOCATE AND PEOPLE’S SERVANT

  By NDUKA V. A. ANYANWU MEDIA CAMPAIGN TEAM The 2027 General Election is fast approaching, and the people of Ahiazu Mbaise and Ezinihitte Mbaise Federal Constituency are once again faced with an important decision concerning who will represent them in the Green Chamber of the National Assembly. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released its candidate information for the 2027 Presidential and National Assembly elections, including the House of Representatives contest for Ahiazu Mbaise/Ezinihitte Federal Constituency. According to the campaign's presentation of the list, seventeen (17) candidates are contesting the Federal Constituency seat. That is no longer news.  *BUT WHAT REALLY MATTERS?*  It is not simply about the number of candidates. It is about capacity, antecedents, accessibility, vision and the development agenda each candidate brings to the table. The candidates listed by the campaign are: 1. NDUKA VALENTINE, ALOYSIUS ANYANWU — APGA 2. ON...
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Inspector General of Police Proposes Security, Intellectual Property Desk For Creative Economy

 By: Awajis Josiah-Chijindu  The Inspector-General of Police,  Olatunji Rilwan Disu, yesterday , 16 September 2026, delivered a lecture to participants of the Most Senior Executive Course 48, 2026, at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Plateau State. At the lecture the Inspector General of Police proposed the establishment of an Orange Economy Security and Intellectual Property Coordination Desk within an appropriate existing structure of the Nigeria Police Force. The lecture, titled “The Orange Economy and Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development in Nigeria: The Role of the Nigeria Police Force,” examined the relationship between security, entrepreneurship and the growth of Nigeria’s creative industries, with emphasis on the role of law enforcement in protecting intellectual property, businesses, digital platforms and other assets that support the sector. A statement by the Force Public Relations Officer,CSP Ani Iniedu, the  I...
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Stakeholders Unite to Smash GBV Barriers In Rivers State

By: Raphael Ekwe In a bid to crush gender-based violence in Rivers State, stakeholders from government ministries, security agencies, civil society organizations, Religious and traditional institutions gathered in Port Harcourt to brainstorm on a unified Standard Operating Procedure. (SOP) Speaking at the event, the Permanent Secretary Rivers State Ministry of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation, Mrs Lauretta Dimkpa-Davies, declared the meeting a decisive step forward after years of scattered efforts. “A lot of work has gone into this Gender Based Violence sensitization, seminars and all that. And gathered here are some of the stakeholders in the fight against gender-based violence,” she said. Mrs Dimkpa-Davies stressed that the Violence Against Persons Prohibition Law 2020 already exists, yet coordination remains the missing link. “What we have gathered here to do is to put up a standard operating manual. Because we have a lot of stakeholders when it comes to VAPP law and GBV,” she expl...
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Opinion: The police, The public And The Phone Camera

by Lanre Olagunju A few days into the administration of Olatunji Rilwan Disu, Inspector General of Police,one sentence from his inaugural address appeared to stick in the national memory: impunity is over. Many Nigerians understandably heard that as a warning to policemen. But perhaps the more interesting interpretation was that the warning was broader: impunity, whoever wears it, has no uniform. That distinction matters. In April, when 28-year-old Mene Ogidi was shot dead in Effurun, Delta State, after police operatives reportedly intercepted him over a parcel containing a Beretta pistol and four rounds of ammunition, the response from the Force was unusually swift.  The principal officer, ASP Nuhu Usman, and other members of the team were removed from the command and subjected to disciplinary proceedings. The Force Disciplinary Committee found Usman had acted in gross violation of the rules governing the use of firearms.  He and four others were subsequently dismissed, with ...
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Police Denies Directive To Commence Training Of 50,000 Newly Recruited Constables

  DISCLAIMER: The Nigeria Police Force disclaims the purported Press Release titled, “IGP OLATUNJI RILWAN DISU DIRECTS COMMENCEMENT OF TRAINING FOR 50,000 NEWLY RECRUITED POLICE CONSTABLES,” currently in circulation and bearing the name and designation of the Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Ani Iniedu, anipr. The document is false and was neither issued nor authorised by the Nigeria Police Force.  Members of the public, particularly Police recruitment candidates, are advised to disregard its contents and rely only on information published through the official Police recruitment portal and verified NPF communication channels. The Force is currently on the trail of the persons responsible for generating and circulating the false document and will take appropriate legal action against those found culpable.
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