The instruction, dated January 27, 2026, and communicated via a wireless message to multiple commands including Kano, Lagos, Yola, Makurdi, Port Harcourt, Abuja, Enugu, and other major cities, ...

Following President Bola Tinubu’s withdrawal of police escorts from VIPs, some officers of the Department of State Services have started lobbying influential Nigerians to take them on as personal ...

In 2025, the Tshwane council passed a motion to have all VIP protection officers in its metro police department paid a monthly allowance of R35,000 in lieu of overtime.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday reaffirmed his directive that police officers currently attached to VIPs be withdrawn and redeployed to conflict-prone areas, insisting that the nation cannot ...

Durban - Tension is mounting between the metro police unit and their counterparts in the eThekwini Municipality’s VIP security unit over allegations that the metro police are taking over their duties ...

CEO Private Sector Regulatory Authority Fazul Mohammed with Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinnet during the launch of police reforms at the Kenya School of Government. [Standard] The police ...

KENYA: Police chiefs say the National Police Service (NPS) is overwhelmed by a rising demand for VIP protection that may undermine enforcement of law and order. It is estimated about 4,000 officers ...

Nigeria's federal government has reassigned VIP-duty police officers to Kwara and North-Central communities under expanded security operations.