Security

Years back when my last child was still in a private primary school, I was a member of the school’s management board and a constant thorn in the flesh of other board members and the […]

After one month of a heartrending experience in Boko Haram captivity, which seemed like an eternity to their parents, most of the latest victims of the terror group’s pastime of mass abduction of schoolgirls are […]

LAGOS —The parents of the Christian girl, Leah Sharibu, who is still being held by Boko Haram because of her refusal to renounce her faith, said yesterday that they had been let down by the […]

The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has shifted the withdrawal of police officers attached to political and public office holders, VIPs, public and private companies to April 20. Mr. Idris had on March 19 ordered […]

John Yusuf, a former assistant director of the federal civil service, whose 2013 sentencing of two years in jail with an option of N750,000 for stealing N33 billion of police pension fund caused widespread outrage […]

Being a journalist in Nigeria is becoming too risky, no thanks to the rising onslaught against media practitioners by overzealous security agents. In a crackdown reminiscent of the brutal era of military dictatorship, the Nigeria […]

Ibrahim Idris, inspector-general of police, has warned all police unit commanders against flouting the order to withdraw personnel from VIPs as well as political and public office holders. The IGP gave the warning at a […]

Even though no society can be said to be free of certain bad elements and security challenges that may be peculiar to it, depending on the level of overall development of such a society, the […]

Lawmakers in the Lagos State House of Assembly, on Monday, cautioned the police to desist from indiscriminate arrests. The legislators spoke against the backdrop of the arrest and detention of an Islamic Cleric and 400 […]

The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, on Monday ordered immediate withdrawal of all police orderlies attached to private individuals and companies. This brings the incumbent police chief up to speed with his predecessors in one […]

The police have strongly denied that President Muhammadu Buhari queried the Inspector-General Ibrahim Idris, following revelations that the police chief ignored a presidential directive to move to Benue State. The police challenged “anyone” claiming Mr. […]

By Evelyn Usman & Esther Onyegbula Lagos— Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Police Command, Imohimi Edgal, yesterday, described cultism as one of the biggest security challenges in the state , calling on leaders in all […]

The mobile phone of one of the female victims abducted by Boko Haram in Rann has been used to send a disturbing message to her contacts. Hauwa Liman, believed to one of the staff of […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday ‎summoned the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to a closed-door meeting. The meeting held on Tuesday morning at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting held about 24 hours after […]

Organised labour, under the auspices of Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN), has insisted that military rule is unacceptable. In a press statement issued in Lagos on Friday, the ASCSN National President, Comrade […]