kidnapping, killings: Wike Orders Profiling Of Vigilance Groups In Abuja
Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Barrister Minister, Nyesom Wike on Wednesday, January 24, ordered full profiling of vigilance groups assisting security operatives in the nation’s capital. Wike directed the six Area Council Chairmen to setup the process and ensure that each member of the group is profiled. Speaking during a strategic security meeting with members of the FCT Council of Chiefs and...
Recruitment: Otti Worried Over Apathy, Begs Abians To Join Police
Worried by the reluctance of youths to participate in the ongoing police recruitment exercise, Abia State Government has directed all 17 Mayors, traditional rulers and Presidents-General of communities in the state to quickly embark on mass mobilisation of their youths to fill the state’s quota. Commissioner for Information, Prince Okey Kanu, in a statement, regretted that the state’s allocation “in...
Wike May Be Summoned By Senate As Insecurity Persists In FCT — Sen. Kingibe
Senator Ireti Kingibe says the Senate will summon the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike and security agencies over the spike in crimes in the nation’s capital. While Abuja has been in the news owing to the rising rate of insecurity in the area, the lawmaker who represents the FCT said upon resumption later in the month,...
NAF Air Strike Kills Notorious Kidnapper Janari In Kaduna
The Nigerian Air Force says air strikes undertaken by the air component of Operation WHIRL PUNCH, on Thursday, neutralized a well-known terrorist and kidnap kingpin popularly known as Janari and several members of his syndicate. Janari and his cohorts have been responsible for several attacks and abductions within Kaduna State as well as along the Abuja-Kaduna highway, a statement by...
Extraditing Nnamdi Kanu Was A Favour To Him, We Would Have Eliminated Him If We Wanted — Buhari
A former Special Adviser to former President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, says Buhari’s government did a favour to the leader of the outlawed and cessationist group – Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, by extraditing him to Nigeria. Kanu, formerly a fugitive was extradited to Nigeria in June 2021 after serially breaching bail conditions by...
FG Reviews Guidelines For Recruitment Into Paramilitary Agencies
The Federal Government has announced the review of the guidelines for recruitment into the Civil Defence, Fire, Correctional, and Immigration Services, saying henceforth 35 per cent of recruitment into the services would be allocated to women. The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, disclosed this on Friday in Abuja at the end of the meeting of the Board of the Civil...
Wike Says Some Informants Of Bandits Have Been Captured
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, on Friday, said arrests have been made of some persons in connection with feeding bandits with information in the area. The minister disclosed this during a town hall meeting with the Gwagwalada area council chairman, traditional rulers, security operatives, and residents of Gwagwalada area council in Gwagwalada, Abuja. Though he didn’t state...
Wike Requests That CP Create More Police Divisions In Gwagwalada Over Insecurity
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has asked the Police Commissioner, FCT Command, to establish two additional Police Divisions in Gwagwalada Area Council of the territory. Wike gave the directive during a security town hall with relevant stakeholders on Friday in Gwagwalada, to find lasting solutions to security challenges affecting the federal capital. The order was...
Halt Deadly, Coordinated Attacks, NADECO Tells Tinubu Over Insecurity
A Nigerian Diaspora group, National Democratic Coalition, NADECO, based in the United States of America, USA, Friday, called on President Bola Tinubu, to halt all deadly and coordinated attacks on innocent Nigerians. In a statement tagged ‘Urgent Call for Action: Addressing Key Issues in Nigeria’, and signed by the Chairman, NADECO USA, Prof Mondy Gold, expressed concern over the impunity...
Bandits On Rampage In Kaduna, Sack Ten Villages
Bandits have displaced 10 communities in Kidandan area under Giwa Local Government Area (LGA) of Kaduna State. Giwa is one of the LGAs that has been badly hit in the ongoing wave of insecurity in the North West. Some of the residents were forced to relocate to Kidandan main town and other safer communities in the LGA, Daily Trust reports. The affected...
