Anambra Guber Election: In Addition To 34,587 Police Personnel, NSCDC Deploys 20,000 Officers
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps NSCDC has announced the deployment of 20, 000 officers and men to complement sister-security agencies in ensuring a free, fair and credible election in Anambra State November 6 governorship election. This is in addition to the 34,587 police personnel deployed for the election. Commandant General of the Corps, Dr Ahmed Abubakar Audi disclosed this...
Media Promoting Banditry, Secessionism, DSS Alleges
The Department of State Services (DSS) has accused media organisations of promoting the activities of terrorists and secessionists in the country. This is even as Ekwulobia town in Orumba South local council area of Anambra State was thrown into serious tension yesterday, following the alleged killing of operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) by unknown gunmen. Spokesperson of DSS,...
Chief Of Army Staff Reveals Strategy To End Insurgency, Banditry
Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lt. Gen. Farouk Yahaya, Friday, said the four command pillars of professionalism, readiness, administration and cooperation were his strategy to ensure a discipline and professional Nigerian army that will defeat terrorists and bandits. He also stated that central to the pillars was the welfare of the officers and men of the institution which is geared...
About 17,000 Insurgents So Far Surrendered – Theatre Commander
The Theatre Commander, Joint Task Force, “Operations Hadin Kai”, Maj.-Gen. Christopher Musa, has said that the number of insurgents who have surrendered to the government has now reached 17,000. Musa made this known on Friday in Maiduguri during a courtesy call on the management of North East Development Commission (NEDC). Musa said those that surrendered comprised combatants, non combatants, those conscripted...
Police Not In Rivalry With Military, Lagos CP Odumosu Says
The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, has said that the military, the Police and other security agencies in the country are not rivals. According to a statement issued by the Lagos Police Command’s Spokesperson, CSP Adekunle Ajisebutu, CP Odumosu said the police and the military are members of the same big family pursuing the same goal in...
Fierce Gun-battle In Imo Leaves Soldier, IPOB Member Dead
Troops have neutralised a member of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Eastern Security Network (ESN) and dispersed others engaged in setting homes and businesses ablaze in Imo. The troops, conducting Exercise Golden Dawn, engaged the hoodlums on Monday while responding to a distress call on an attack by the hoodlums in Awo-Mmamma community, Oru East Local Government...
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...
Katsina Governor Urges Youths Not To Be Lazy, Confront Bandits
The teeming youths in the country, especially in the security prone areas, have been challenged to create job opportunities from the current state of insecurity in the nation, rather than being lazy with lamentations of no jobs. Governor Aminu Masari who gave the challenge at the ground breaking ceremony for the N5.8 billion interchange road at Kofar Kaura and Kwaya...
Zulum Finally Reveals Why Repentant Boko Haram Members Will Not Be Prosecuted
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has ruled out the prosecution of repentant Boko Haram fighters. While presenting the 2022 budget at the State Assembly, Zulum said insurgents will not be encouraged to surrender if repentant insurgents are tried in court. He said, “Mr. Speaker, Honourable Members, we need Allah’s guidance and the utmost wisdom to work for an end to...
How We Thwarted ESN’s Plans To Attack Imo Communities For Disobeying Sit-At-Home, Recovered IEDs — Army
The Nigerian Army on Monday said troops conducting Exercise Golden Dawn Sector 3 in Imo State thwarted an attempt by members of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra and its armed wing, Eastern Security Network, to unleash mayhem on residents of Mgbidi and Awo Mmamma communities in the Oru East Local Government Area of Imo State. Director Army Public Relations,...
