The Senate has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to declare bandits operating in different parts of the country terrorists and wage a war against them. It also asked the president to approve aerial bombardment of locations of terrorists to annihilate and eliminate them. It further urged the President to declare all … [Read more…]
Labour and Employment Minister Chris Ngige has attributed Nigeria’s worsening insecurity to unemployment and underemployment. He urged the elites, particularly employers of labour, to address the twin problems so that peace and security could prevail across the land. Ngige spoke yesterday in Abuja while hosting the national officers of the Independent Petroleum … [Read more…]
Again, Dan Orbih calls on South-South Govs to establish regional security outfit The wanton killings and general insecurity pervading the country, especially the northern half of Nigeria, have once again forced Chief Dan Orbih, National Vice-Chairman (South-South) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to demand the immediate establishment of a regional security outfit for the … [Read more…]
The attack on the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) in Kaduna by bandits in the early hours of yesterday, which led to the death of two officers and abduction of a Major, has sparked outrage and tension across the country. The bandits reportedly entered the NDA premises disguised in military uniforms and passed through … [Read more…]
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday warned security chiefs that he is not prepared to exit office as a failure and was prepared to make fresh changes if necessary to turn things around in the fight against insecurity. He made this declaration at the presidential villa, Abuja during the National Council on Security meeting, which … [Read more…]
Former chairman, Nigerian Economic Summit Group and president, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), Dr Sam Ohuabunwa is interested in succeeding President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.In this interview, he spoke about his New Nigeria Group Agenda/ movement, the current situation in the country among other topical issues. What is your take on the deteriorating security situation … [Read more…]
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), says insecurity, manifesting as insurgencies, banditry, kidnapping and urban crime of all sorts, is the single most difficult challenge facing the nation He said that his administration is ready to use everything within its powers to end insecurity in the country and bring perpetrators of … [Read more…]
In 1997, General Bashir Magashi was appointed a member of the Provisional Ruling Council headed by General Sani Abacha. It was the Council that was to decide on the fate of General Oladipo Diya, Major General Tajudeeen Olanrewaju alias Jasper, Major General Abdulkareem Adisa, Major Seun Fadipe, Colonel Olu Akiode and others. The 22 members … [Read more…]
Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike, has told Nigerians to reject the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2023 as it has only tales of killings and kidnappings to offer. The governor, who expressed the worry that insecurity is spiralling out of control, gave the charge at the flag-off ceremony for the construction of Etche Campus … [Read more…]
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Tuesday, warned people behind security problems in the country, saying he would soon be hard on them. Buhari also said secessionists were too young to know loss of lives and other tragedies that attended the Nigerian civil war of 1967 to 1970. Buhari said … [Read more…]
Barely twenty four hours after a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Ahmed Gulak, was shot dead in Owerri, Imo state, a former Enugu State High Court Judge, Justice Stanley Nnaji, Sunday evening, was reportedly assassinated by yet to be identified gunmen in Enugu. Confirming the report in a statement, the Enugu State Police Command … [Read more…]
Former presidential candidate, publisher of Sahara Reporters and human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore has been reportedly shot by a police operative in at the Unity Fountain Abuja. Report had it that the 2019 presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), was shot at on Monday by a female police officer at the Unity … [Read more…]