Mohammed Adamu

A Nigerian police officer flags down an on coming vehicle at a checkpoint . PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP

Checkpoints as threat to citizens’ safety

The perennial menace, (it is difficult to not to term it so) of police and military checkpoints on Nigerian roads was brought to the fore by a Southeast group, Cultural Credibility Development
3 years ago
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (right); new Acting Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba and Minister of Police Affairs, Muhammad Dingyadi during the decoration of the new acting IG at the Presidential Villa in Abuja…yesterday.

As new IGP takes rein, decentralisation of policing on front burner

On Tuesday, 58-year-old Usman Alkali Baba was named the Acting Inspector General of Police, taking over from Mohammed Adamu, whose tenure had expired in February.
3 years ago
Willie Obiano. Photo: TWITTER/WILLIEMOBIANO

Obiano declares armed herders as criminals

Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, has declared herdsmen wielding AK-47 in the state as criminals. Obiano, who said this yesterday during a security summit held at Prof. Dora Akunyili Women Development Centre
3 years ago
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