Buhari In Fresh Move To Wipe Out Insecurity, To Meet Service Chiefs Thursday
Barely 48 hours after the Presidential Brigade Guards came under attack by terrorists; President Muhammadu Buhari has summoned the Service Chiefs to an emergency security meeting which will hold on Thursday. The Senior Special Assistant to the Presid...
We Can’t Allow Anyone Truncate Democracy, CDS Irabor Warns Troublemakers
The Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, declared yesterday that elections will hold in every part of Nigeria and that the Armed Forces, the Police and other security agencies were ready to defend democracy at all costs. Acting Director of Defence Information, Brigadier General Tukur Gusau, quoted the CDS as urging Nigerians to discountenance any threat that elections would...
Amnesty For Bandits Way Out, Northern Group Insists
Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has urged the Federal Government to support Sheikh Ahmed Gumi’s initiative by granting amnesty to bandits terrorising the region. Spokesperson of the coalition, AbdulAzeez Suleiman, in a statement yesterday, called on Fulani herdsmen living in the southern part of the country to relocate if their safety could not be guaranteed in their host communities. According to...
Securing Nigeria Not Easy Task, Ex-CDS Irabor Says At Pulling Out Ceremony
The immediate past Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, says that providing security for a diverse country like Nigeria is not an easy task, but insists it is not an impossible one to achieve. He said this in his valedictory speech during the pulling-out ceremony organised for him at the Mogadishu Cantonment in Abuja on Friday. According to Irabor, the...
Military Denies Reprisal Attack In Delta After Killing Of 16 Soldiers
The military high command has denied reports that troops went on a reprisal attack after the killing of 16 soldiers in the Okuama community in Delta State. An army commander, two majors, one captain and 12 soldiers were killed in Okuama last week. The deceased officers and soldiers were from 181 Amphibious Batallion in Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta. Chief of...
Nasarawa Under Invasion Of Terrorists From Kaduna, Zamfara, Niger Kebbi, Others — Gov. Sule Weeps
Barely two days after governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State ordered the closure of schools following the wake of insecurity, he has again raised alarm over the inversion of terrorists from Kaduna Zamfara, Niger Kebbi and other states into Nasaraw...
Rivers Police Deputy Spokesman Slumps, Dies While Watching TV
Deputy Police Public Relations Officer, Rivers State Police command, Christian Udogu, is dead. The deceased, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, slumped Wednesday night, while watching television with members of his family at home. He was said to have complained of chest pain and slumped before being rushed to the hospital. Late Udogu had won several laurels in volleyball and had represented Rivers...
Youth Group Seeks Arrest Of EbubeAgu Operatives In Imo Over Unlawful Acts
Following the reports of activities of the Ebubeagu security outfit in some communities in Imo State, youths under the aegis of the Coalition of South East Youth Leaders have called for their arrest describing their actions as wicked and barbaric. The youth group while condemning the overzealousness of the security apparatus, expressed displeasure on the jungle justice on suspects. A statement...
Insecurity: Withdraw Troops From Igboland, Onyeka Onwenu Begs Buhari
Human rights activist and former Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer of the National Centre for Women Development, Onyeka Onwenu, on Thursday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to withdraw the Nigerian troops deployed in South East and dialogue with secessionist agitators in the region. The request was a result of the outcry over alleged extrajudicial killings of Igbo youths by the security...
Military Speaks On How Kaduna Abducted School Children Were Rescued
The military high command, on Sunday gave an insight into how its troops in collaboration with locals rescued over 137 schoolchildren abducted from LEA School Kuriga in the Chikun Local Government Area in Kaduna. The rescue of the Kaduna pupils came less than 48 hours troops also rescued 16 pupils (Almajiris) with a woman taken hostage in Gada LGA of...