The Nigeria Police Force has trained 192 officers in digital forensic intelligence to boost its fight against cybercrime.
The specialised six-week programme, conducted in partnership with Radio Tactics Group Limited, held between July 9 and August 15, 2025, and drew officers from the 36 states, the FCT and 10 specialised formations.
Force Public Relations Officer, DCP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, in a statement, said the Athena Forensic Intelligence Solution (AFIS) training was designed to “strengthen the digital, forensic and intelligence gathering of officers in efforts to combat cyber-related crimes across the country.”
He explained that experts from the National Cybercrime Centre (NPF-NCCC) and Radio Tactics drilled participants on “threat identification, extracting and processing communication and location data from SIM cards, GPS devices, satellite phones, grey-market phones and other mobile devices.”
Skills acquired include biometric capture and forensic hotlisting to match intelligence and operational data, with the Force saying this would enhance its capacity in complex cyber investigations.
In a related development, operatives of the NPF-NCCC have arrested three suspects — Gbenga Samuel, Dele Titus and Olalekan Oke — in Abuja and Lagos over cyberstalking, identity theft and online fraud.
“The suspects were found to have been involved in large-scale digital impersonation schemes and other cyber-related offences,” Adejobi disclosed.
He said the trio hacked a victim’s WhatsApp account on July 18, 2025, threatened to leak sensitive information and demanded N3 million ransom.
“Detailed forensic analysis led to their arrest, recovery of the account and discovery of an ongoing organised crime,” he added.