PRESS RELEASE 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONS: IGP ORDERS RESTRICTION OF MOVEMENT ON ELECTION DAY, REAFFIRMS BAN ON VIP AIDES, ESCORTS, STATE SECURITY OUTFITS PARTICIPATION Urges Citizens to be Law Abiding, Assures of Unhindered Exercise of Electoral Franchise Consequent to the first part of the 2023 General Elections – …
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Court Dismisses Suit Seeking Sack Of IGP Alkali Baba Usman
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday dismissed a suit seeking the removal of Alkali Baba Usman as the Inspector General of Police, IGP. The suit instituted against President Muhammadu Buhari and four others by an Abuja activist, Michael Sam Idoko, was dismissed by Justice John Omotoso. In his …
Read More »IGP To Deploy Over 400,000 Joint Security Personnel Across Polling Units
The Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, has disclosed that part of the measures being taken to ensure hitch free polls on February 25 would involve the deployment of over 400,000 security personnel across the country. The security personnel jointly comprise the police, the Department of State Services, Army, …
Read More »IGP Orders Posting, Redeployment Of Senior Police Officers
Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba on Friday ordered the provisional posting of CP Afolabi Babatola Adeniyi to Adamawa State Command as new Commissioner of Police. This is pending approval of the Police Service Commission, PSC, according to Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Muyiwa Adejobi. Also, CP Adebola A. Hamzat has …
Read More »We Won’t Spare Criminals Hiding Under Agitations – IGP
THE Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mr Usman Alkali Baba warned in Awka Wednesday that the police would not spare common criminals hiding under agitations to attack innocent people. The IGP, who spoke while commissioning a new police formation in the Anambra State capital, observed that agitators for a separate …
Read More »Contempt: IGP Files Motion To Set Aside Proceedings, Committal Order
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Usman Alkali Baba has approached the Federal High Court in Abuja to file a motion to set aside the contempt proceeding and committal order issued by the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday, 29th November 2022. In the motion filed before the Federal …
Read More »Police Bust illegal Petroleum Refining Site, Arrest Two, recover items
Police operatives attached to the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Special Task Force on Petroleum and Illegal Bunkering (IGP-STFPIB) have raided an illegal petroleum refining operation in Edo State. The Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, who announced this in a statement on Sunday, said the development followed the …
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