Don’t Allow Extremists Take Over Our Country, Sultan Of Sokoto Urges Leaders, Security Agencies
Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar, has urged security agencies and political leaders to deal decisively with all those who think they can turn the country upside down through misinterpretation of religious teachings. Speaking at the 2nd National Education Summit of the Nigerian Army, holding in Sokoto, the monarch highlighted the problem with extremism. “So many people turn religious upside...
Insecurity Remains Global, Stop Ethnicising And Politicising It – Keyamo
The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, (SAN), has urged Nigerians to stop ethnicising and politicising insecurity in the country, arguing that security threats remain a global issue. Keyamo made this call on Friday, in a brief statement shared on his official Twitter page. While making reference to recent shootings in the US, Keyamo opined that insecurity was...
Police Warn Against Cultism Day Celebration In Osun
The Osun State Commissioner of Police, Olawale Olokode, has warned cultists and unscrupulous elements in the state to put a stop to plans to celebrate cultism. This is as Olokode revealed that intelligence at the disposal of the command availed that ...
Lekki Toll Gate: You Ought To Secure Not Arrest Protesters, Atiku Tells Police
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has condemned the arrest of some protesters by the police in the Lekki area of Lagos State. In a statement on Saturday following the arrest of the youths at the Lekki tollgate, he decried that the police abandoned their responsibility of protecting the protesters. “The 1999 Nigerian Constitution, as amended (Section 40) guarantees the right of...
Police Replace Ene Okon With Adeleke Adeyinka Bode As Zone 9 AIG Umuahia
Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG, Mr. Adeleke Adeyinka Bode, has taken over as the new AIG in charge of the Nigeria Police Command, Zone 9, Umuahia, comprising, Abia, Imo and Ebonyi States. Bode succeded Mr Ene Okon who was redeployed to Zone 17, Akure, Ondo State. The new AIG, according to a press statement by the zonal Police Public Relations...
Kidnapping: Buhari Orders Increased Surveillance, Patrol on Abuja-Kaduna Road
The President, Muhammadu Buhari, has ordered security agencies to intensify surveillance and patrol activities along the Abuja-Kaduna Road. Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, disclosed this to State House Correspondents on Thursday after the National Security Council meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Aregebesola also disclosed that the regime is impressed by the recently concluded governorship elections in Anambra State which saw...
Road Users Decry Inhuman Treatment By Military Along Enugu-Anambra Express
It was a horrible and dehumanising experience for road users on the dilapidated Enugu-Onitsha Expressway following their subjection to a stop-and-search operation by soldiers mounting a checkpoint between Enugu and Anambra states. The inhuman treatment, they said, was akin to the treatment meted to captives from a war-ravaged territory. To cross the Amansea-Awka boundary, passengers are dropped off a few metres...
Troops Retrieve Weapons, Ammo, Destroy Bandit Hideouts In Taraba
Soldiers from the 6 Brigade of the Nigerian Army/Sector 3 Operation Whirl Stroke (OPWS) have retrieved weapons and ammunition and demolished bandit hideouts in Taraba State. Captain Olubodunde Oni, Acting Assistant Director, 6 Brigade Army Public Relations, in a statement, said the troops working under the leadership of Brigadier General Kingsley Chidiebere Uwa engaged the bandits in a fierce firefight,...
Insecurity: I Meant Recruitment Of 50,000 Youths Into Army Not 50 million — Tinubu
Former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said that he made an error while calling for more youths to be drafted into the Nigerian Army in a bid to adequately tackle the nation’s security challenges. In a communique by his media aide Tunde Rahman, Tinubu stated on Tuesday that contrary to comments made at the colloquium in Kano...
Insecurity: Under APC, Nigerians Can’t Go To Farm,Market — Makarfi
Senator Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi has said insecurity has deteriorated under the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC). In an interview with BBC Hausa, Makarfi said when the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was in power, insecurity was only in the North East and yet the country held an election because of the measures taken by the government in power then. Makarfi, who governed...
