Tag: NPF
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E-banking fraud: NCC wants better authentication processes for mobile apps
As fraudsters continue to exploit the weaknesses of mobile apps, especially mobile banking apps, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said putting better authentication processes in place has become vital. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports Executive Vice Chairman, NCC, Prof Umar Garba Danbatta stated this during a stakeholder’s forum on Financial Fraud Using Telecoms Platform the commission…
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New Year shocker: Housemaid, boyfriend connive to use teenage girl for rituals [Video]
By Kehinde Ajose and Ediri Oyibo A domestic worker and her plumber boyfriend have been apprehended and handed over to men of the Nigerian Police Force (NPF), after preliminary investigations revealed that they were involved in alleged kidnap of 15-year-old Bella which they reportedly intended to use for money rituals. TheNewsGuru (TNG) gathered that the…
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Nigeria Police disagree over sex in a car position
Lagos State Police has countered the Head of the Public Complaint Rapid Response Unit of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Mr Abayomi Shogunle, who said having sex in a car in a public place is not a crime in Nigeria. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports Shogunle was responding to a Twitter user when he said sex in…
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Breaking: Buhari approves enhanced salary structure for Police
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved Enhanced Salary Structure for the Nigeria Police Force (NPF). TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports President Buhari made the approval on Monday after meeting with Board of Police Service Commission at the State House, Abuja. The Board of Police Service Commission was led by the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris. Buhari assured…
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Update: Police heed Senate order, vacate Akwa Ibom Assembly complex
Men of the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) and other security operatives barricading the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly complex have vacated the premises, following order by the Nigerian Senate. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports the Police on Friday ended their siege on the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, as all entrances to the complex which…
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Police return N11m extorted money, dismiss 10, sanction 81 officers
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) on Tuesday said after two years of setting up Police Public Complaint Rapid Response Unit (PCRRU), it recovered N11.1 million of extorted money and sanctioned 81 of its officers for various offences. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports the PCRRU received 7,216 complaints and resolved 5,927 of them. 560 false complaints were received…
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Force HQ denies Police protest in Maiduguri
The Nigeria Police Force has said no police personnel protested as a result of non-payment of special duty allowance and that police officers and men in the State are on their duty posts ensuring public peace and law and order in the State. Force Public Relations Officers, Ag. DCP Jimoh O. Moshood of the Force…
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Remuneration not a major problem of Police – ex IGP
A former Inspector General of Police, Mr Suleiman Abba said on Sunday that what men and women of the Nigerian Police Force urgently needed was more than their remuneration. Abba told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the payment of the salaries of the Nigerian Police Force should not be allowed to…
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Dino Melaye: Resume plenary on Wednesday even on crutches
Senator Dino Melaye has been charged to resume plenary on Wednesday even on crutches as the National Assembly has been said not to feel the same without him. Senator, representing Bayelsa East in the Senate, Ben Murray-Bruce, who made the charge with an early morning tweet via his official Twitter handle on Monday, said Melaye…
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Again! Police parade over 50 vicious bandits, criminal militias [PHOTOS]
After the arrest and parade of notorious armed gang terrorizing Benue, Taraba and neighbouring States, the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has yet again paraded fifty six vicious bandits and criminal militias. TheNewsGuru reports the fifty six vicious bandits and criminal militias, according to the Police, are responsible for several killings of innocent people, kidnappings and…