Withdrawal Of Security Aides From VIPs: Don’t Single Southeast Out In Your Approach, FENRAD Tells Police
Foundation for Environmental Rights Advocacy and Development, FENRAD has faulted the Nigeria Police Force for singling out Southeast and Rivers state in a recent move directing the withdrawal of all police units and formations attached to governors, senators, and other politically-exposed persons within the two regions. The pro-democracy and human rights advocacy group while expressing its displeasure over the development says...
Southern Reps Back Governors On Open Grazing, Restructuring, Others
Members of the House of Representatives from the 17 southern states have thrown their weight behind the ban on open cattle grazing in the country. The lawmakers also asked the Federal Government to immediately convoke a national dialogue where demand for true federalism through a restructuring that will lead to the devolution of power, creation of state police, review of...
Gov Emmanuel Donates N60m To Families Of Slain Policemen
Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State has announced the donation of the sum of sixty million naira for the bereaved families of Police officers who were killed during recent attacks by gunmen while on duty. The Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Ini Ememobong who disclosed this to newsmen said, the governor announced the donation when he visited the...
Insecurity: Act Like A Commander-In-Chief, NBM Urges Buhari
Neo Black Movement of Africa (NBM) Worldwide has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to live up to his responsibilities as Commander-in-Chief and bring to an end incessant killings and abductions of innocent Nigerians and the escalating insecurity in the country. The NBM Worldwide while condemning the escalating insecurity across the country said the challenge is now evident in all parts...
With ‘Ebubeagu’ Car Theft Will End In Ebonyi — State Govt
The Ebonyi Government has assured residents that the new security outfit in the South-East, called Ebubeagu, will checkmate the rising wave of car theft in the state. The Commissioner for Border, Peace, and Internal Security in the state, Chief Stanley Okoro-Emegha, gave the assurance in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abakiliki on Tuesday. Okoro-Emegha, who spoke...
I Did Not Blame Murtala Mohammed For Spate Of Insecurity – Lai Mohammed
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says the media report that he blamed the regime of Gen. Murtala Mohammed for spate of insecurity in Nigeria is “fake news and disinformation’’. The minister said this on Tuesday in Lagos during a meeting with Online Publishers. Mohammed who expressed dismay over the reports clarified on what he said when he...
Buhari Should Be Removed If He Can’t Guarantee Security ― Baba-Ahmed, NEF Spokesman
The Director of Publicity of the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has asked the National Assembly to remove President Muhammadu Buhari if he cannot guarantee the security of Nigerians. Speaking on Kakaaki, a political programme on AIT, on Monday, Baba-Ahmed charged the National Assembly members to note that the constitution bestowed on them the powers to act in the...
Police Suspend Escorts For Governors, VIPs In South East, Rivers
The Nigeria Police Force has ordered immediate withdrawal of personnel attached to governors, senators, and other public office holders in the South East over nonstop attacks on police officers and formations in the region. It said, “Sequel to the incessant attacks on policemen/ snatching of arms and ammunition by the proscribed IPOB/ESN elements in the eastern states of Abia, Anambra,...
‘This Is Not 1967’, IPOB Denies Planning To Attack Lagos
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB has denied a claim by the police that it was planning to attack Lagos state. Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB leader, said in a statement on Monday that the claim was made to fuel division between the Yoruba and the Igbo. https://twitter.com/MaziNnamdiKanu/status/1392071155335372801?s=20 At a stakeholders’ meeting on Monday, Hakeem Odumosu, Lagos commissioner of police, had said the command is investigating...
Ikpeazu Imposes Curfew On Umunneochi, Bende, Deploys Vigilante Groups In 17 LGAs
Abia State governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu has announced a 6pm to 6am daily curfew on Umunneochi and Bende local government areas of the state. This is squel to the subsisting curfew imposed by Abia State Government between the hours of 8pm-6am in Aba, Umuahia, Ohafia and Arochukwu. Though no reason was given for the extension of the curfew to the two...
