Nigeria, Dec. 18 -- A senior police officer, Ogbon-Inu Taiwo Popoola, has died after he slumped during a meeting in Ebonyi State, Nigeria's South-east.

The deceased officer, Mr Popoola, is an assistant commissioner of police in charge of the State Intelligence Department in Ebonyi.

PREMIUM TIMES gathered that the police chief died at about 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday.

The incident happened during a meeting of officers at the office of the Ebonyi State commissioner of police in Abakaliki, the state capital.

Sources told this newspaper that while at the meeting, Mr Popoola suddenly developed breathing difficulty and later slumped.

He was immediately rushed to the Police Medical Centre at the Police Headquarters, Abakaliki, where he was promp...