KABOOM!!! Trouble again as 34 Peace Corps officials arrested in Lagos

Nigeria - The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of 34 officials of the Peace Corps of Nigeria, a para-military organisation.

Spokesman of the command, Olarinde Famous-Cole, disclosed this on Friday. Famous-Cole said the officials would be charged to a mobile court on Saturday.

KABOOM!!! See DOCUMENTS as Nigeria Police looses N11.2m to Peace Corps in human rights suit

An Abuja High Court has issued a garnishee order attaching the money belonging to the Nigeria police in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for the purpose of settlement of judgment debt incurred by the police in the judgment against them.

The garnishee order is directing the police to pay the incorporated trustees of Peace Corps of Nigeria and its National Commandant, Ambassador, Dickson Akoh a sum of N11,270,000 from its account with number 0020054161043 maintained at the CBN.

Court grants bail to Peace Corps boss, Dickson Akoh

Nigeria - A Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, has granted the bail application filed by the detained National Commandant of Peace Corps of Nigeria, Amb. (Dr.) Dickson Akoh.

Akoh had, through his Counsel, Chief Kanu Agabi (SAN), filed a bail application, backed by 18-paragraph affidavit, on Monday, 20th March, 2017, urging that he be released from the Police cell.

The Peace Corps boss was detained on 19th March, at the facility belonging to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Abuja, shortly after he turned himself in, having been told that the Police was looking for him.

~KABOOM!~ Police detains Peace Corps boss, Dickson Akoh again

The Nigeria Police, on Sunday, detained the National Commandant of Peace Corps of Nigeria, Amb. (Dr.) Dickson Akoh.

Akoh, who had just arrived Abuja from where he has been receiving traditional treatment for ulcer and pile, decided to turn himself in, at the FCT Command of the Nigeria police, after been told that the police were looking for him.

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Revealed! Peace Corps alleges why some highly placed Nigerians plotted with police& DSS to attack their secretariat

The Nigerian Peace Corps, NPC, has alleged that some highly placed individuals were behind the recent attacks on its Abuja secretariat by operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, and the Nigerian Police Force.

NPC claimed that the move was aimed at scuttling the “much-awaited Presidential Assent to the Bill of the Corps which has been passed by the National Assembly.”

Alas! Nigeria Police Force reveals details of raid on office of Peace Corps, says infiltrated by terrorists. Warns parents...

The Nigerian Police has revealed that it carried out a raid on the office of the Peace Corps of Nigeria as it has no right to parade itself as a security outfit using uniforms.

The raid was carried out on Tuesday, February 28 while the national commandant of the corps, Ambassador Dickson Akoh was also arrested.

Daily Post reports that in a statement released by the police and signed by Jimoh Moshood, it said the peace corp was a threat to national security as there was intelligence report that it has been infiltrated by terrorists.