The Inspector-General of Police, Police Campaign Against Cultism and Other Vices (POCACOV) Team, led by the National Coordinator of POCACOV, SP Orvenonne Ikwen, on Thursday held a stakeholders’ discussion at the Dora Akunyili Women Development Center, Awka, on preventive policing. The exercise is part of ongoing efforts to strengthen preventive policing through strategic partnerships, youth engagement, and community participation. The event brought together government officials, traditional rulers, religious leaders, youth groups, security agencies, educational institutions,...

The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR), has sought a 100 percent upward review of the welfare of military and police personnel. The Committee, in a statement on Thursday jointly signed by its national president, Comrade ‘Yinka Folarin and general secretary, Comrade Idris Afees, expressed concern over the growing complaints emanating from serving personnel of the Nigerian Armed Forces regarding their welfare, conditions of service, and the administration of voluntary discharge requests, stressed that...

Security personnel on Wednesday night, July 1st, 2026, have repelled a fresh attempt by armed assailants to breach security at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Plateau State. This is the second time such an attempted incursion was made by armed gunmen; the first was in the second week of June 2026, in which three people were killed. The Institute’s Head, Public Affairs, Dr Osime Samuel, who confirmed the incident on...