Nigeria must improve the welfare of its police officers. Adeyinka Yusuf/Getty Images Lanre Ikuteyijo, Obafemi Awolowo University Junior officers of the Nigeria Police Force are planning to embark on a strike in protest against poor welfare. The leadership of the force has denied that conditions are bad and warned against the strike action. Lanre Ikuteyijo, a police affairs expert, speaks ...

By Ikechukwu Amaechi To say that the police have for too long been the people’s bête noire is to say the fact. Yet, if there is any issue the #EndSARS protests which rocked the country in October brought to the fore, it is the other fact, which is, Nigerian policemen hold the wrong end of the welfare stick in the ...