About six persons were injured while traders and motorists scampered for safety after a substance suspected to be dynamite exploded at the popular Mile 3 Park in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Monday. Residents of the area said they heard a loud sound at about 6.20am when traders were bringing in their goods and … [Read more…]
The Acting National President, Committee For Defence Of Human Rights (CDHR), Comrade (Dr) Kehinde Taiga, has urged youths behind the series of attacks on policemen, and other public facilities to desist as there are other civilized and more legitimate ways of realising their self determination and actualization agenda. Making the appeal in Warri at … [Read more…]
Our House is on Fire. As the day goes by we see/hear about serious security issues across our land. The flame of insecurity is gradually and consistently transforming into an inferno that will not blow anyone any good. If police stations and security agents are now a part of the constant targets, then, who will … [Read more…]
Kukah, in his message titled, “Nigeria: Before our glory departs”, obtained by The PUNCH in Abuja, recalled that Buhari, on May 29, 2015, during his inauguration, said, ‘Boko Haram is a typical case of small fires causing large fires.’ The Catholic priest lamented that before Buhar’s watch, “the fires are consuming the nation, … [Read more…]
This is because there are equipment from the surplus power market on the ground that can be deployed as fast as possible once a PPA agreement is executed, and the natural gas infrastructure can also be in place within the above stated period. Not only that, there are capable human resources to operate … [Read more…]
One man, one gun; one woman, one rifle. The above, Professor Itse Sagay appears to be saying, might be the panacea to Nigeria’s seemingly untameable security crisis, as insurgents, bandits and other criminals continue to seize the country by the jugular. Given the worsening insecurity situation in the country, the Chairman of Presidential Advisory … [Read more…]
Ethnicity and religious biases have been blamed for the growing insecurity in the country. According to the Director General of National Assembly’s National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS), Professor Abubakar Suleiman, the distrust among the various ethnic and religious groups as well as refusal to have a common position on issues about security … [Read more…]
Popular Yoruba rights activist Chief Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho has declared he has what it takes to fight against Boko Haram without the government’s support. Igboho made this declaration in a video interview released in 2020. He said: “That which I will use in the fight against Boko Haram, I … [Read more…]
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has rolled out measures to tackle insecurity in seven towns of Ibarapa following the crisis between local farmers and Fulani herdsmen. The governor, on Sunday, met with selected stakeholders, local government chairpersons and political office holders from Ibarapa zone, where he declared the problems of the people … [Read more…]
The Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for appointing new service chiefs to oversee the security of the country. The chairman of the organisation in Anambra, Mr Vincent Ezekwueme, gave the commendation in Enugu. Ezekwueme noted that the appointments of new service chiefs were overdue but they were “a … [Read more…]
The All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party on Friday clashed over the worsening insecurity in Nigeria. This was as the nation marked the 2021 edition of the Armed Forces Remembrance Day. While the APC urged Nigerians to avoid playing politics with the issue of security, the PDP advised the APC to end propaganda … [Read more…]
THE coronavirus pandemic has contributed a lot to the current food inflation ravaging Nigerian families. Coming in February/March, the beginning of the planting season, and forcing a prolonged national lockdown, it prevented many of our farmers from sowing their seeds. Food inflation, according to the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, rose from 16.66 per … [Read more…]