Category: insecurity
Insecurity: We need prayer to succeed – Defence Minister Badaru
Minister of Defence Mohammed Badaru has urged Nigerians to continue to pray for an end to the security challenges in the country. Badaru made the call on Thursday in Abuja while receiving a delegation from Jigawa State led by Governor Umar Namadi. He said that with the complexities of the security challenges and other aspects of national development, “one could only ask for prayers to…
Insecurity: Zamfara govt gives NGOs without clearance quit notice
Zamfara State government has directed safety operatives in the State to display and prosecute any non-governmental organizations (NGO) that didn’t meet up with due clearance from related authorities. The government ordered such organisations to depart the State over what it described as “illegal activities”. According to the State Commissioner for Security and Home Affairs, DIG Mamman Tsafe, (Rtd.) majority of the NGOs didn’t register with…
Insecurity: Zamfara police parades 16 suspected criminals
Zamfara State Police Command has arrested and paraded sixteen suspects for varied offences, starting from banditry, cattle rustling, kidnapping, culpable murder, armed theft, automobile snatching and different associated offences. The command below the management of CP Kolo Yusuf mentioned it’s working tirelessly to make sure that the imaginative and prescient and mission of the Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba to revive peace…
Insecurity: FG slashes budget of DSS, NIA others by N26 billion
Several intelligence companies just like the Department of Security Services, National Intelligence Agency, and Defence Intelligence Agency have seen their budgets slashed within the 2023 budget. Shabban Sharada, Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on National Security and Intelligence, on Thursday disclosed this throughout a budget defence session. He acknowledged that the budget of the intelligence companies has been slashed from N221.7 billion in 2022 to…
Insecurity: Nigeria reaping what it sowed – Okowa
Delta State governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa has stated that the insecurity at present bugging the nation was a results of the dangerous seed sowed just a few years again. Okowa acknowledged this in Anambra as a particular visitor on the eleventh Zik Lecture Series held at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. The governor described the safety scenario in Nigeria as a hydra-headed monster that has undermined…
Insecurity: I’ll not hesitate to dethrone traditional rulers – Gov Bala Mohammed
Bauchi State Governor, Sen Bala Mohammed Abdulkadir has warned that he’ll not hesitate to dethrone any traditional ruler discovered wanting, particularly when it has to do with the wants of the folks. The Governor was talking in Misau on Sunday in the course of the presentation of workers of workplace and coronation of the eleventh Emir of Misau, Alh Ahmed Sulaiman. He confused that, “cases…