ABUJA — The Police Service Commission has suspended a Deputy Commissioner of Police and Head of the Intelligence Response Team of the Nigeria Police Force, Abba Kyari, following his indictment by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for alleged involvement in a $1.1m internet fraud. His suspension came a few hours after the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, recommended the “immediate suspension” of the senior police officer from the Nigeria Police Force. The Police commission said...

The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the request of Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba Alkali and suspended Nigeria’s most decorated policeman, DCP Abba Kyari. Abba Kyari’s suspension took effect from Saturday, July 31st, 2021, and would subsist pending the outcome of the investigation in respect of his indictment by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States. The Commission has also directed the Inspector General of Police to furnish it with information...

KANO — A 45-year, Mohammed Aliyu who was parading himself as an Assistant Commissioner of Police in Kano has been apprehended. According to a statement by Kano Police Spokesman, DSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, the fake Assistant Commissioner of Police confessed that he has been arrested as a fake medical doctor. The statement added that “Mohammed Aliyu went to a hotel in the Kano metropolis and requested accommodation in order to lodge some of his guests...

The news of Cynthia Oneche’s corpse being found has thrown the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Benue state command into mourning again as the remains of a female officer who was declared missing 18 months ago have been discovered in a shallow grave in Obi Local Government Area of Benue State. Josephine Cynthia Inalegwu Onche, an Idoma native of Otukpo origin, was serving with NSCDC post in the Otukpo area of the state...

AWKA — Gunmen yesterday evening attacked the Awka Police B division located along Anambra state secretariat road, in Awka the Anambra state capital. The attack which started around 8 in the evening, left the entire capital city deserted, with rumours that the gunmen have overpowered and burnt Police B division, from where they moved to the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission- INEC, which is just less than a minute drive away. However, the...