The Federal Government and the Nigeria Governors’ Forum have proposed to recruit National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members and graduates of the N’Power Programme to beef up the manpower needs of the Nigeria Police Force. The Chairman of the NGF and Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, disclosed this in Abuja
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Banditry: WANEP seeks strengtened community policing in Nigeria’s North West
•Urges stronger inter-agency collaboration Godsgift Onyedinefu The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding, Nigeria (WANEP-Nigeria) has called for the strengthening of community Policing and inter-agency collaboration to tackle the surge in armed banditry across States in the North West Region of Nigeria, particularly, Zamfara, Birnin Gwari axis of Kaduna, Katsina and Sokoto States. This
Community Policing: IGP seeks cooperation of NGOs, CSOs, others
Godsgift Onyedinefu and Nosa Enobhayisobo The Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mohammed Adamu, has called for the support and cooperation of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Human Right Groups and other critical stakeholders to achieve effective and efficient as well as community policing in the country Adamu made this
Video: Nigeria’s worsening security crisis and the way forward–Experts views
Editor's note: These are experts' analysis on the growing state of insecurity in Nigeria with prevalence of Boko Haram and ISWAP in the North East, farmers-herders conflict in the North Central, banditry in the North West and general crimes and criminalities all over the country. The security experts and analysts who
Community policing takes centre stage at River Park Estate
As developers donates Divisional Station, vehicles to Nigeria Police Obasanjo, IGP to commission the smart-city estate today Babatunde Opalana The promoters of the River Park Estate have adopted an effective strategy of security around the Abuja based housing estate through first of its kind community policing. To this end, the developers will