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We Do not Have Chibok Girls with Us —Irabor

1Feb

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Boko Haram, Nigeria, Safety, Security, Terrorism, Violence

We Do not Have Chibok Girls with Us —Irabor

The Chief of Defence Staff, Major-General Leo Irabor, says there are no freed Chibok girls in the custody of Defence Headquarters. He spoke in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, on Sunday when he, alongside, other commanders, paid their first operational visit to the theatre of the Boko Haram war. Boko Haram insurgents had on April 14, 2014, attacked a Government Secondary School in Chibok, Borno, and took away over 276 schoolgirls from their hostels. Rescue efforts and negotiations between the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and the insurgents led to the release of 107 in batches – one in May 2016; 21 in October 2016; and 82 in January 2017 – leaving 112 in captivity. However, there were reports of late that some of the 112 Chibok girls regain...

Uncertainty Greets Police Hierarchy as IGP’s Tenure Ends Today

1Feb

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Safety, Security

Uncertainty Greets Police Hierarchy as IGP’s Tenure Ends Today

There is palpable confusion among the Hierarchy of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, as the tenure of the Inspector-General of Police, Abubakar Adamu expires on Monday (today) while President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to convene a meeting of the Nigeria Police Council for the past 21 months. Though Adamu who has reached the mandatory retirement age is billed to leave office, the silence from the Presidency and failure of the council to meet are giving confusing signals in the police. Punch reports that council last met on May 23, 2019, when it ratified the appointment of Abubakar Adamu as the substantive Inspector-General of Police at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The President had on January 15, 2019, appointed Adamu as acting IGP following the retirement of IGP Ibrahim Idris. ...

Seven to Eight Kidnappers Arrested Are Fulanis – Sultan of Sokoto

30Jan

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Fulani Herdsmen, News, Nigeria, Safety, Security

Seven to Eight Kidnappers Arrested Are Fulanis – Sultan of Sokoto

The Sultan of Sokoto, HRH Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III, has said that though seven to eight kidnappers arrested in Nigeria are Fulani, but that doesn’t mean every Fulani is a criminal. He stated this on Friday at a meeting of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders’ Association (MACBAN), The Nation reports. He said that it was unfounded to label all Fulani criminals because of the acts perpetrated by a few of them. He said, “I am a Fulani, and I am not a bad man. I am also not a criminal. Those engaged in one forms of crimes or another are across the country. It is not proper to refer to any tribe to describe individuals' crime. “For example, when they collected N10m, where and how do you spend this amount in the bush? The money is back in the city. I have told the Inspector General ...

South-West Governors Have No Business Going To Abuja To Beg Buhari – Falana

30Jan

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Safety, Security

South-West Governors Have No Business Going To Abuja To Beg Buhari – Falana

Femi Falana, SAN, a human rights lawyer has lampooned Governors Seyi Makinde of Oyo State and Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State for paying a visit to President Muhammadu Buhari in an attempt to find ways to address the herdsmen crisis rocking both states. He disclosed this on Friday during a Punch virtual interview programme, The Roundtable. Falana said that as chief security officers of their respective states as well as members of the Nigeria Police Council, both governors should make demands for security reinforcements from the council other than seeking same from the president. Earlier, The PUNCH had reported that after the meetings at the Presidential Villa on Wednesday, Akeredolu did not speak with State House correspondents while Makinde said he seized the opportunity of the m...

Sule Lamido Berates Tinubu, Fashola Over Treatment of Fulani

29Jan

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Fulani Herdsmen, News, Nigeria, Safety, Security

Sule Lamido Berates Tinubu, Fashola Over Treatment of Fulani

Sule Lamido, a former Governor of Jigawa State has called out the former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, claiming he has been indifferent over the alleged attack on Fulanis in the Southwestern region of the country. He disclosed this on Thursday in Kano while receiving 27 newly elected local government chairmen of the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP, in Jigawa at his office, Vanguard reports. Lamido expressed displeasure with the treatment of Fulanis in the country, alleging that they are being persecuted, especially in the especially the southwestern because they are Buhari's tribe. He also criticised the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, his counterparts in transportation and labour ministries, Rotimi Amaechi, and Chris Ngige for not defending Fulanis in their...

Makinde Deploys 200 Amotekun Men in Ibarapa

28Jan

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Fulani Herdsmen, News, Nigeria, Safety, Security, Terrorism

Makinde Deploys 200 Amotekun Men in Ibarapa

Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde yesterday released a security strategy to be adopted in fighting insecurity and other security challenges facing Ibarapa zone. The strategies, according to the governor, were arrived at after a meeting with security stakeholders, including representatives from Igangan, Ibarapa land and Police Commissioner Ngozi Onadeko. Makinde, who made the disclosure on his social media handle, said the strategies include deployment of additional operatives of the Amotekun Corps; continuous dialogue; documentation of foreigners, enforcement of existing laws and collaboration with federal security agencies, among others. The governor said additional 200 members of the Oyo State Western Nigeria Security Network code-named Amotekun will be deployed in Ibarapa and Oke...

FFK Warns Against Arrest of Sunday Igboho

24Jan

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Fulani Herdsmen, News, Nigeria, Safety, Security

FFK Warns Against Arrest of Sunday Igboho

Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has said that it would be dangerous, reckless and counterproductive for the President Muhammadu Buhari administration to arrest Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, who issued a quit notice to Fulani herdsmen in Oyo State. The Inspector-General of Police, Adamu Mohammed, had ordered the Commissioner of Police in Oyo state, Ngozi Onadeko, to arrest Igboho with immediate effect. In his reaction, Fani-Kayode in a post on his verified Twitter handle condemned the move to arrest the activist. He wrote, “It would be dangerous, reckless & counter-productive for Buhari to ARREST or KILL Sunday Igboho. When the Northern youths demanded that Igbos should leave the north no-one was arrested. Why should Sunday be arrested or kille...

23Jan

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Fulani Herdsmen, Nigeria, Safety, Security, Terrorism, Violence, Youths

IGP Orders Arrest of Sunday Igboho

The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the arrest of Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho, over an eviction order on Fulanis in Oyo State. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, confirmed this in an interview with BBC Hausa. He told BBC Hausa the IGP told him on the phone order had been given to the Commissioner of Police in Oyo State, Ngozi Onadeko, to arrest Igboho immediately and transfer him to Abuja. Igboho had ordered herdsmen in Ibarapa Local Government Area of Oyo State to leave within seven days, attributing the spate of banditry and killings in the area to them. The activist was in Igangan in the Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo State on Friday when Sunday Igboho and his supporters reportedly stor...

Don’t Rely on Politicians to Defend Your Territories, Kanu Warns S’West Youths

23Jan

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Safety, Security

Don’t Rely on Politicians to Defend Your Territories, Kanu Warns S’West Youths

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has asked Yoruba youths to defend their land and forests against gunmen attacks. Kanu alleged that politicians could not defend the South-west if the youths rely solely on them for security. The IPOB leader in a statement issued by the groups’ Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, reminded the Yoruba youths that southwest governors did nothing when herdsmen kidnapped and killed a Yoruba leader, Pa Fasoranti's daughter on Yoruba soil. He urged the youth to emulate the Eastern youths who formed the Eastern Security Network, ESN, and take their destiny in their hands. Kanu warned the youth that any attempt to compromise would end the Yoruba nation. The statement partly read, “Which one is herdsmen pe...

Akeredolu Orders Massive Amotekun Recruitment

22Jan

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Crime, Nigeria, Safety, Security, Terrorism, Youths

Akeredolu Orders Massive Amotekun Recruitment

Ondo Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has ordered massive recruitment into the State Security Network known as the Amotekun Corps in its second batch recruitment exercise. Akeredolu was the first to launch the Amotekun Corps last year in the South West region to help tackle criminal elements in the state. Categories of officers to be recruitment included regular officers, intelligence Corps and volunteers. Commander of the Corps, Chief Tunji Adeleye, in a statement said interested applicants must be between 20 and 70 years. The Amotekun Corps had helped to stem the tide of kidnapping and other criminal activities in the state.