Posts Tagged ‘ Inspector-General of Police (IGP) – Sir Mike Okiro ’

Okiro Is A Forger – Akeredolu

Jul 25th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Front Page Story

“FOR anybody to have stood up before the tribunal and said that the Court of Appeal judgment that ordered the retrial of Engr Rauf Aregbesola’s petition against the re-election of Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola was based on a fraudulent document is a silly statement, I repeat it is a silly statement. Is it because a fraudulent [...]



Court Stops Nigeria’s Police Chief, Okiro, From Arresting Aregbesola’s Lawyer

Jul 2nd, 2009 | By admin | Category: NEWS


The Prejudice Of Half-baked Professionals

May 22nd, 2009 | By admin | Category: FEATURE

IN any democratic setting, there is the freedom of entry and exit. It is only in autocracy that we have only one person ruling; and that with complete power. Also, for any democracy to succeed, the rule of law must be potent while the principle of separation of power is the functional engine for it [...]



Security Report Controversy: Aregbesola Sues Okiro, AGF, Others

May 10th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Front Page Story

.Claims N20Bn Damages Calculating the desperate moves of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Mike Okiro and some agents of ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), spearheaded by his arch-political rival in Osun State, Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola, as touching a ploy to arrest him on trumped-up charges, Osun State Action Congress (AC) governorship flag bearer, Engineer Rauf [...]



Police Report On Osun Election

May 10th, 2009 | By admin | Category: NEWS, X-RAYS

IT is amazing that while the nation is anxiously waiting for the commencement of the retrial of the Osun State governorship election case, a worrisome dimension has been introduced to the legal tussle. In what was claimed to be a reaction to a petition written to the Police and the Presidency by the Osun State [...]



Nigeria’s Police Chief: Unfortunately Partisan

May 9th, 2009 | By admin | Category: NEWS

The nomenclature of Inspector-General of Police is clearly a colonial relic. Bequeathed on the country by the British colonial authorities, it was always going to be a problematic post within the context of a federal state. It is important to note that the British authorities who invented the post have never had any such nomenclature [...]



Nigerian Tribune Newspaper’s Unfortunate Descent

Apr 22nd, 2009 | By admin | Category: Letter To The Editor, NEWS

Gentlemen, I am very sad at writing you on this issue. It is about my observations about the The Tribune Newspapers in recent times which seem to have yielded it’s platform to agents of neo-colonialism and reactionary forces within the Nigeria political space to strut their trade. This is a Newspaper established by the late [...]



IGP Mike Okiro Lied! – AC

Apr 22nd, 2009 | By admin | Category: Front Page Story

Grand Ploy To Tamper With Police Official Records Suspected! Integrity of Nigerian Police Force Is Being Tested! The leadership of the Action Congress (AC) in Osun State, have lambasted Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola and the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Mike Okiro, for lying over the police report on the April 14, 2007 governorship election in [...]



22 Anti-Corruption Activists Remanded In Nigeria, As Another Slipped Into Coma

Mar 24th, 2009 | By admin | Category: NEWS

Another chapter in the diary of fascism was opened yesterday in Nigeria’s South Western State of Osun, as an Osogbo Magistrate Court revoked the bail granted the 24 members of the Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) who were arraigned in July 2008 for protesting against the alleged illegal communing between Otunba Kunle Kalejaye (SAN) and [...]



Aregbesola Awaits Justice, Wont Join Issues With Oyinlola

Mar 13th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Front Page Story

With the conclusion of hearing into the appeal we filed against the judgment of the Justice Thomas Naron led Elections petition Tribunal, we shall not be stampeded into joining issues with Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola henceforth. We, as responsible and disciplined citizens of Nigeria have resolved to make our claims before the Justice Victor Omage-led Appeal [...]