Tag: IGP
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BREAKING: IGP orders reversal of shift duty structure in police
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu has ordered the immediate reversal of the shift duty structure of the Nigeria Police Force. The shift structure, which is currently a 12-hour, 2-shifts system has been changed to the traditional 8-hours, 3-shifts duty standard. He said this while declaring open the conference of heads of Police…
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#ENDSARS: IGP visits Lagos, vows to prosecute officers involved in extra-judicial killings
The Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. Abubakar Mohammed Adamu on Monday vowed to prosecute operatives involved in extra-judicial killings. He spoke during a courtesy visit to his office at the Lagos House, Alausa. He said he came to Lagos State to talk to his men about good behaviour and adherence to the ethics…
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How politicians, party agents sabotaged 2019 polls – INEC chairman, IGP
Politicians and their agents should carry the can for the malpractices and violence that characterised the 2019 general elections. This was the submission of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman Mahmood Yakubu; Acting Inspector-General of Police Mohammed Adamu and Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) President Ayuba Wabba as well as other stakeholders. They spoke on…
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Operation Puff Adder: Sultan of Sokoto Pledges to Support IGP
From Jonas Ike, Abuja. Efforts by the Inspector General of Police, Ag. IGP M.A Adamu towards galvanizing broad-based support in the fight against armed banditry and other crimes in the country received a comprehensive boost with the Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III CFR pledging an unalloyed support to the Police and…
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Kidnapping: IGP launches Operation Puff-Arder
The Inspector-General of Police, Ag. IGP Mohammed Adamu has launched Operation Puff-Arder to curb the rate of kidnapping. The operation was launched to tackle the increasing rate of kidnapping along Abuja-Kaduna highway and neighbouring communities. The Police chief while launching the operation at the Divisional Police Headquarters Katari in Kaduna State on Friday also disclosed…
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Human Trafficking: IGP Calls for Inter-Agency Collaboration to Tackle Menace
From Jonas Ike, Abuja The Inspector General of Police, Ag. IGP M.A Adamu, NPM, mni has called for local and global collaboration in the fight against human trafficking in Nigeria and around the world. The IGP made the statement while declaring open a capacity building training workshop on ‘’Countering Trafficking in Human Beings and Migrant…
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Presidential poll: APC Presidential campaign petitions IGP, DSS over PDP’s ‘illegal access’ to INEC server
The presidential campaign of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has written the Inspector General of Police and Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS) over the alleged access to the server of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) by leaders of the opposition, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The presidential campaign team which managed…
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IGP orders immediate probe of alleged police involvement in NSCDC official’s death
From Jonas Ike, Abuja. …insists there’ll be no cover up The Inspector General of Police, Ag. IGP M.A Adamu has ordered a comprehensive and speedy investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of the late Mr. Ogar Jumbo, an Assistant Superintendent of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) who died recently in Abuja.…
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BREAKING: Tribunal orders IGP to arrest suspended CJN Onnoghen
…to be arraigned on Friday The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) has ordered the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to arrest and produce before it on Friday, the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Walter Onnoghen. CCT Chairman, Danladi Umar gave the directive on Wednesday while granting the prosecution’s request that Onnoghen must be…
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Why we posted Tinubu’s former CSO to Kwara few days to general elections – Acting IGP
The acting Inspector-General of Police,Mohammed Adamu, has explained that the posting of Kayode Egbetokun, a former chief security officer to the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, to Kwara State as Commissioner of Police was only based on merit. Adamu stated this at a one-day summit organised by the Vanguard for Transparent…