The Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG), Zone 5, Mr Rasheed Akintunde says only 20 per cent of policemen are engaged in protecting lives and ensuring peace in the country. “The remaining 80 per cent are just busy providing personal security to some `prominent people’ on guard duties. Akintunde said this on Thursday while addressing officers
The Senate has stepped down a report by its joint Committee on Police Affairs and National Security and Intelligence, saying it is ‘one-sided.’ At the plenary on Wednesday, senators who spoke on the report presented by the chairman of the panel, Senator Abu Ibrahim, said it only had the submissions of the Inspector General of
For allegedly violating the federal character principle in the appointment of key and strategic security, intelligence and law enforcement chiefs, a rights activist and lawyer, Mr Francis Moneke has sued President Muhammadu Buhari and the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami before a Federal High Court, Abuja. Moneke, through his counsel, Mr Ikenna Okoli,
Nigerian Army on Wednesday said its troops destroyed a large scale Improvised Explosive Device (IED) factory and captured several Boko Haram terrorists in Sambisa Forest and Lake Chad region. Col. Onyeama Nwachukwu, the Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, Operation Lafiya Dole, made the disclosure in a statement in Maiduguri. Nwachukwu stated that troops of Operation
Teachers in King’s College, Lagos have urged the Federal Government to provide the school with a well equipped Mathematics laboratory for effective teaching and learning of the subjects. Senior teachers in the department made the appeal while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sideline of a two-day Mathematics exhibition week put
THE Nigeria Movement for Positive Change (NMPC) has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to retire from politics come 2019 and not bother to seek re-election. This advice wa stated in a press statement titled “President Buhari, It’s time to go”, signed and released by the National President, Nigeria Movement for Positive Change (NMPC), Barrister Niyi Aborisade,
Shehu Sani, lawmaker representing Kaduna central senatorial district, has described the statement released by former military president Ibrahim Babangida as “a bullet shot with flowers”. In the statement issued on Sunday, Babangida demanded a generational shift in the country’s leadership ahead of the 2019 elections. “I do not intend to deny President Buhari his inalienable
President Muhammadu Buhari has designated the national leader of APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to lead the consultation, reconciliation and confidence building efforts of the ruling All Progressives Party (APC). Buhari took the decision as part of on-going efforts to improve cohesion within the party. The President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam
The Federal High Court, Abuja has fixed February 28 to rule on a motion seeking to stop a public hearing of the House of Representatives on why a law student was not called to bar. The News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN) recalls that a law student, Ms. Firdaus Abdulsalam, was not called to the Nigerian
AHEAD of the 2019 general elections, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday cautioned the police and other security agencies not to allow themselves to be used by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as instruments of persecution against Nigerians perceived to be unsupportive of the unpopular re-election bid of President Muhammodu Buhari. This is