The Inspector-General of Police, MOHAMMED ADAMU, has briefed President MUHAMMADU BUHARI on the activities of members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria.

 

ADAMU disclosed this to State House correspondents when he visited the President at the Aso Villa in Abuja.

 

He said the President directed him to provide security for every Nigerian.

Fifty-four suspects have been arrested in connection to the fracas which broke out yesterday in Abuja between protesting Shiites members and men of the Nigeria Police Force.

 

This was contained in a statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, Force Headquarters, DCP Frank Mba.

 

According to the statement, over three thousand IMN members took part in the protest, defying all sense of decency violently attacked innocent citizens and Police personnel on duty.

 

In the process, the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Operations, FCT Command, DCP Usman A.K Umar, was shot and later died while receiving treatment at the hospital.

The Nigeria Police has clarified the invitation to the popular musician, Timi Dakolo, and wife, Busola, over allegation of rape leveled against Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo, the Senior Pastor of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly.

 

Force spokesman, Frank Mba, in a statement said the Police merely invited the couple to make some clarification.

 

The clarification was made barely minutes after the wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, called the attention of the Inspector-General of Police to the purported attempt to arrest the couple.

 

In a letter of invitation which was posted on his Instagram page, Dakolo alleged that the Police were attempting to arrest him and his wife for making “false allegations” against Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo.

Riot police have fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters in Hong Kong following a large pro-democracy rally in the city.

 

Officers charged demonstrators who threw objects at police lines.

 

The clashes came after marchers ignored a designated finish line, continuing on to China’s central government offices and throwing eggs at the building.