In Nigeria, the need for police reports prior to providing emergency care for gunshot victims causes major delays in receiving life-saving medical atten-tion, impeding the nation's efforts to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Notwithstanding the Compulsory Treatment and Care for Victims of ...
Nigerian police said two of its officers were killed and three left unconscious after an attack involving knives and explosives by the Islamic Movement of Nigeria in the capital, Abuja, on Sunday. "The proscribed organization attacked the police checkpoint unprovoked, wielding machetes, improvised exp...
“This is not an award from the House alone but an award from the entire people of Nigeria” said Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila to the deputy commissioner of police – one of Nigeria’s most decorated police Understand Africa's tomorrow... today Get full access to The Africa ...
Our correspondent who is at the Lekki toll plaza as of the time of filing this report also did not witness any protest or gathering as police officers manned the toll gate. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, in a statement titled, ‘No Protest, Gathering ...
Several hostages continue to be held by kidnappers, including four government workers for Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA.) There has been no report on the fate of three oil workers — a Briton, a Canadian and a Nigerian — kidnapped from their oil rig on Saturday. ...
A terrorist attack on a police station in Nigeria left two people, including a police officer and the suicide bomber, dead Saturday. The suicide bomber targeted the police station in Potiskum town of the northeastern Nigerian state of Yobe, witnesses said, according to a Xinhua report. ...
There is a long history of secret organisations in Nigeria. Some traditional secret initiation societies served as a counterbalance to royal power and were ad hoc crea- tions of each ruler, while organizing supervision and initiation of youths. This was the case for the Ogboni societies in ...
However, these reforms have had little impact, leading one to ask why disorder in the Nigeria policing sector has been so intractable despite all the support for reforms and international financial assistance. On the one hand, core reforms to the Nigeria public police are believed to have failed...
As a 102-page report by Human Rights Watch documented, police extortion is so institutionalized that Nigerians are more likely to encounter police demanding bribes than enforcing the law. No wonder Nigeria’s police force was ranked as the worst of those included in the 2016 World Internal ...