The Commissioner of Police in Ondo State, Wilfred Afolabi, has ordered the immediate redeployment of the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in-charge of Igbara-Oke Division, Ganiyu Dauda, accused of extortion. Olushola Ayanlade, the command’s spokesperson, in a statement on Sunday in Akure, said the DPO was redeployed over allegations of extortion levelled against him by residents…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas “to immediately withdraw the repressive bill for an act to amend the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023, which seeks to regulate the activities of bloggers operating within the ‘territorial boundaries of Nigeria.’” SERAP…
The Nigeria Police Force has ordered the removal of 52 senior officers—retired between May 1, 2018, and April 1, 2025—from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), the federal government’s central payroll platform for public sector workers. In a wireless message dated April 10, 2025, and referenced CH:8400/FS/FHQ/ABJ/VOL.1/78, the police authorities also directed the…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, “to immediately withdraw the repressive bill for an act to amend the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023, which seeks to regulate the activities of bloggers operating within the ‘territorial boundaries of Nigeria.’”…
Police arrested a man who stabbed a 57-year-old woman in the face early Friday morning at the World Trade Center Memorial, cops said. Just before 2 a.m. Amir Thompson walked up to the victim near Liberty St. and Greenwich St. in lower Manhattan and reportedly said, “I know you from somewhere,” before punching her and then stabbing her…
