Former President Goodluck Jonathan says the State Police is the only solution to the security challenge facing the country. The former President said this at a Critical National Dialogue on the Establishment of State Police organised by the House of Representatives on Monday in Abuja, with the theme...
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The Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr Olukayode Egbetokun, has hinted on plans to establish N100 billion Police Housing Fund to address the housing needs of personnel of the force. Egbetokuun said this on Monday in Abuja at the opening of a two-day Police Housing Summit with the theme,...
President Bola Tinubu has said Nigeria will continue to strengthen collaboration and lead in taking measures towards countering terrorism in Africa. Tinubu said this at the High-level African Counter-terrorism meeting on Monday in Abuja with the theme: “Strengthening Regional Cooperation and Institution Building to Address the Evolving Threats...
A Federal High Court in Lagos, on Monday, discharged a former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Patrick Akpobolokemi, and one other of alleged N8.5 billion fraud. Akpobolokemi was charged alongside a former Commander of the Joint Task Force Operation Pulo Shield, retired Maj-Gen....
A Kano State High Court presided by Justice Usman Na’Abba on Monday vacated the order he earlier gave suspending Dr Abdullahi Ganduje as a member of the All Progressive Congress (APC). The applicants Haladu Gwanjo and Laminu Sani Barguma, who claimed to be the Chairman and Secretary respectively...
Hearing on the appeal instituted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against an interim order of the Kogi State High Court restraining it from arresting former Kogi governor Yahaya Bello, suffered a setback on Monday as the Court of Appeal failed to sit. The Kogi High...
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr Kayode Egbetokunformer , has advised the Federal Government to merge the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) with the police for effectiveness. Egbetokun said this at the National Dialogue on State Policing, organised...
Justice Jude Onwuegbuzie of a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court on Monday fixed May 15 for ruling on former former minister of power and steel, Olu Agunloye ‘s preliminary objection. Agunloye is challenging the power of the economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to prosecute him regarding...
The 10th anniversary of the abduction of 276 schoolchildren from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Nigeria, has again brought an eerie feeling of despair and panic. The anniversary is a high point as it has again shown the entire security apparatus of Nigeria as gravely inept and...
Two Boko Haram Improvised Explosive Devise (IED) experts, Abubakar Mohammed and Bana Modu, have surrendered to the troops of the Multinational Joint Task Force ( MNJTF) in Borno. Lt. Col. Abubakar Abdullahi, the Chief Military Public Information Officer – Ndjamena, said this in a statement in Maiduguri on...
Each passing day brings to mind evidence that Niger Delta region is on the march to becoming a zone of peace and sustainable development as promised some months ago by Mr. Chiedu Ebie, Chairman, Governing board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Through their actions and inactions so...
By TYAV SAM TYAV, Makurdi – Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Iormem Alia has revealed that the state deserves thirteen percent derivation fund given the mineral resources available in the state Governor Alia disclosed this on Monday while addressing Benue diaspora community on a zoom meeting organised by the...
The Provost of College of Arabic and Islamic Legal Studies (CAILS) in Ilorin, Dr Sa’ad Hadi, has said the institution has no hand in Saturday’s death of 33 cows. Hadi told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that they knew nothing about the predicament of the cows which...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, said on Monday that the Federal Government would consider the possibility of reviewing and pegging the minimum entry age into tertiary institutions in the country to 18 years. The Minister who gave the hint while monitoring the ongoing...
National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu has said terrorism related deaths have drastically reduce in Nigeria from about 2,600 monthly to less than 200 currently. Ribadu made this known in an interview with newsmen on the sidelines of the High-Level African Counter-Terrorism Meeting, which opened on Monday in...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has given political parties the go ahead to start campaigning in public from Wednesday 24th April 2024 and end at midnight on Thursday 19th September 2024 ahead of the Edo state governorship election scheduled to hold...
The Kogi Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, on Monday, ordered the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Olayemi Cardoso, to unfailingly appear before it on Tuesday. The governor is to appear to give some explanations on the role of the apex bank in the...
National Security Adviser (NSA), Malam Nuhu Ribadu has called for more integrated security strategies that combine military, economic and regional cooperation efforts to tackle the menace of terrorism in Africa. Ribadu said this at the High-Level African Counter-Terrorism Meeting with the theme ‘Strengthening Regional Cooperation and Institution Building...
The Speaker of House of Representatives, Rep. Tajudeen Abbas, on Monday urged stakeholders to provide a framework that would dispel the fear of abuse of state police by governors. The speaker said this at a critical national dialogue on state policing, with the theme: “Pathways to Peace: Reimagining...
Gunmen have killed a professor of law at Babcock University, Ilishan, Ogun, Yinka Olomojobi, and abducted two others in the Iperu area of the state. Olomojobi was shot dead on Friday for allegedly refusing to be taken away by the suspected gunmen. While he was shot dead, two...