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Makinde, Akeredolu Meet Ibadan Market Combative Parties, Seek Peace

15Feb

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Safety, Security, Violence

Makinde, Akeredolu Meet Ibadan Market Combative Parties, Seek Peace

Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde and his Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State paid a visit to the crisis embroiled Shaha community in Ibadan, Oyo State on Sunday to sue for peace. The governors urged a return to calm and peaceful coexistence between the Hausa community and their Yoruba hosts. There were reports of an alleged clash between members of the Yoruba and Hausa communities on Friday, resulting in the death of scores and the destruction of properties worth a fortune. Akeredolu and Makinde while addressing the people at the Shasha market and the palace of the Baale Shasha asked residents to desist from taking laws into their hands. The Oyo State governor, Makinde pledged to give palliatives to traders whose wares were destroyed during the crisis, urging the factions t...

Kidnapped Rivers NTA Reporter Regains Freedom

15Feb

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Crime, Law Enforcement, News, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Safety, Security

Kidnapped Rivers NTA Reporter Regains Freedom

The Rivers State Police Command has announced the release of Mrs. Chidiebere Onyia, who was kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Woji, Rivers State last Tuesday, by her kidnappers. Onyia, a nursing mother and an employee of the Nigeria Television Authority, Port Harcourt Zonal office, spent five days in captivity. The kidnappers had blocked her vehicle and taken her away, leaving her colleagues who were with her behind. Confirming the development, the spokesman for the state police command, Nnamdi Omoni, in a statement on Sunday, described Ovia’s release as a Valentine’s Day gift. According to Omoni, the kidnappers abandoned Ovia and fled on sighting the police. He attributed the development to the police, saying the intense pressure mounted by the police paid off eventually. T...

Buhari Won’t Tolerate Ethnic, Religious Violence – Garba Shehu

15Feb

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Safety, Security, Violence

Buhari Won’t Tolerate Ethnic, Religious Violence – Garba Shehu

Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed the President’s resolve not to allow any ethnic or religious group to malign or perpetrate violence against other groups. This was contained in a statement titled, “President Buhari condemns reported cases of ethnic violence in the country.” Shehu issued the statement in the wake of an alleged case of ethnic violence in Shasa, Ibadan, Oyo State. The statement partly read, “President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed that his government will protect all religious and ethnic groups, whether majority or minority in line with its responsibility under the constitution. “In a reaction to reports of the breakout of violence in some parts of the country by some ethnic and sectional groups, President Buhari w...

Lagos CP Condemns Molestation of Lekki Protesters, Orders Probe

14Feb

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Lagos News, Law Enforcement, News, Nigeria, Press Statement, Safety, Security, Violence, Youths

Lagos CP Condemns Molestation of Lekki Protesters, Orders Probe

The Lagos State Police Command has condemned the inhumane act levelled against some individuals arrested during the protest at the Lekki tollgate area of the state on Saturday. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, said in a statement on Sunday that the office-in-charge of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Panti, Yaba, DCP Adegoke Fayoade, had been ordered to analyse a trending video showing the arrested suspects being subjected to dehumanising conditions. He stated that the persons responsible for the act would be brought to book. Adejobi said, “The attention of the Lagos State Police Command has been drawn to a viral video where some arrested “Endsars protesters” were being molested in a bus by some individuals after their arrest....

We Can’t be Forced Out of South-West – Miyetti Allah

14Feb

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Agriculture, News, Nigeria, Security

We Can’t be Forced Out of South-West – Miyetti Allah

Herdsmen operating under the auspices of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore have say they cannot be evicted from the South-West, citing their rights as guaranteed by the Nigerian constitution to live and operate wherever they deem fit. The group promised to avenge the alleged attacks on and loss of herdsmen and their cattle, noting it would never put up with any act of injustice on herders. These were disclosed by the National Secretary of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Mr Alhassan Saleh, in an interview with Sunday PUNCH against a backdrop of the eviction notices issued to criminal herdsmen by some South-West groups and personalities. Saleh condemned the quit notice given to herders to vacate any part of the country and that even if there were criminals among them, it was the function of the ...

FG Deploys Police, Others to Lekki Tollgate Ahead of Today’s Protests

13Feb

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Armed Forces, Human Rights, Justice, Law Enforcement, News, Nigeria, Safety, Security

FG Deploys Police, Others to Lekki Tollgate Ahead of Today’s Protests

The Federal Government has deployed policemen and over 150 operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, to preempt the breakdown of law and order and possibly forestall the protest tagged #OccupyLekkiProtest at the Lekki tollgate in Lagos on Saturday (today). This comes as some individuals under the auspices of #DefendLagos have also promised to organise a counter-march against the #OccupyLekkiProtest demonstrators. Earlier, the Federal Government and the police had warned youths who planned to protest at the Lekki tollgate on Saturday to have a rethink and shelve the protests. However, the protesters under the auspices of #EndSARS Season 2, vowed to remain steadfast. According to them, the planned protest was necessitated by the decision of the Lagos Stat...

Femi Adesina: Ex-Service Chiefs as Ambassadors. Why Not?

13Feb

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security

Femi Adesina: Ex-Service Chiefs as Ambassadors. Why Not?

Almost everything in our country is accompanied by some sort of furore. You do, you are damned. You don’t do, you are damned. No wonder President Muhammadu Buhari often says in private conversations, when some tumults occur on certain issues: “Head or tail, you never win with some Nigerians.” And he then smiles, to show that he has learnt to live with it. That was what happened last week when the nomination of the immediate past Service Chiefs as non-career Ambassadors was announced. The ululation from certain quarters could almost pull down the sky. Some people said: Are they the only Nigerians who can do it? After serving for more than five years in plum positions? They failed, how can they then be rewarded for failure? And then, the most otiose, from a certain political party: ...

Gov. Ugwuanyi Commissions 272 Special Constables for Community Policing

13Feb

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Safety, Security

Gov. Ugwuanyi Commissions 272 Special Constables for Community Policing

Enugu State Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, has commissioned 272 Special constables drawn from the 17 Local Government Areas, LGAs, of the state recently recruited for Community Policing. This was contained in a statement issued on Friday by an aide to the governor on media, Amoke Louis. Governor Ugwuanyi had on July 9, 2020, commissioned the 17-man Enugu State Community Policing Advisory Committee (SCPAC), under the Chairmanship of the State Commissioner of Police with the Chairman of the State Traditional Rulers’ Council, HRH, Igwe Amb. Lawrence Agubuzu, as co-chairman. The novel Community Policing programme, which is an initiative of the Nigeria Police Force, as communicated by the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu Abubakar, is saddled with the responsibility of deep...

12Feb

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Communication, Nigeria, Press Statement, Safety, Security

NBA Faults Extension of IGP’s Tenure

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has faulted the decision by President Muhammadu Buhari to extend the tenure of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu. The association has consequently sued at the Federal High Court in Lagos to compel the a reversal of the purported tenure extension. The suit, marked: FHC/L/CS/214/2021 has as defendants: the President, Federal Republic of. Nigeria; the Police Service Commission (PSC) and Mohammed Abubakar Adamu. The NBA’s contention, in the suit is that the IGP ceased to be a member of the Nigeria Police Force when he attained the milestone of thirty-five years of service. “Therefore, the President’s extension of Mr Adamu’s tenure by three months, in the NBA’s respectful view, is unconstitutional.”

BREAKING: Herdsmen Kill Two, Set Amotekun Vehicle Ablaze in Ondo

12Feb

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Fulani Herdsmen, News, Nigeria, Press Statement, Security, Terrorism

BREAKING: Herdsmen Kill Two, Set Amotekun Vehicle Ablaze in Ondo

No fewer than two persons reportedly lost their lives when some suspected herdsmen attacked the men of the Ondo State Security Network Agency also known as Amotekun Corps. The incident occurred on Thursday in Sanusi Village, in the Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State. It was gathered that those who lost their lives were a farmer and a member of a vigilante group whose identities were yet unknown as of the time of filing this report. The operational motorcycles and vehicle of the Amotekun Corps were reportedly set ablaze by the bandits too. According to a report by the Punch Newspaper, the attack occurred when the Amotekun men and other security agents were carrying out the order of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu to flush out the herdsmen who are illegally occupying the forest re...