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• Gov seeks more troops for boundary communities • South-West leaders to discuss challenges March 17 The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Lucky Irabor and Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde, yesterday, harped on the need to tackle insecurity in Nigeria and border towns of Oyo State. Irabor, who paid a visit to Makinde at the Executive Council Chamber, Governor’s Office, Agodi, Ibadan, the state capital, assured Nigerians that the military would work assiduously to address prevailing security challenges in the country. Makinde, represented by the Deputy Governor, Rauf Olaniyan, urged the Nigerian Armed Forces to deploy more troops for surveillance…

Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has appealed to the Nigerian army to deploy troops to border towns in the state to check the influx of criminal-minded people into the country. Makinde made the call while receiving the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Lucky Irabor, who led other top military personnel on a courtesy visit to the governor on Thursday in Ibadan. The governor, who was represented by his deputy – Alhaji Rauf Olaniyan, noted that the border towns in Oke-Ogun area of the state were porous. He said the challenge of insecurity was not peculiar to Oyo State alone,…

• Restates order to shoot at sight anyone found with AK-47 • Banditry becoming too much, traditional rulers tell Buhari • We’ll not negotiate with insurgents, NSA says, rules out engagement of mercenaries Despite reassurances by government, the deteriorating state of security in the country, particularly in the northeast, is daily testing the might of security agencies. Criminal gangs have killed over 40 people in three separate attacks in northwest and central Nigeria this week, residents said yesterday. Bandits wreaked havoc in Kaduna communities yesterday, killing seven persons, and leaving many injured after rustling cattle. In Igabi Local Government Area,…

The Court of Appeal in Gombe State has ordered that the case involving a former Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Abdu Bulama and four others should be reassigned to another Federal High Court for retrial. The former minister was arraigned by the Maiduguri Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), on Friday, May 29, 2018, before Justice Isa Hamman Dashen of the Federal High Court, Damaturu, Yobe State, on a seven count charge that bordered on money laundering to the tune of N450 million. Bulama was prosecuted alongside a former Commissioner for Integrated and Rural Development…

The Federal Government has ruled out the possibility of negotiating with terrorists saying doing so will suggest weakness on the part of government. The National Security Adviser to the President, Major General Babagana Monguno (rtd), who stated this Thursday at the weekly Villa media briefing also disclosed that government had no intention of engaging mercenaries in its fight against insurgents and other forms of insecurity in the country. While foreclosing the possibility of negotiating with insurgents and bandits, the NSA however stressed that government will deploy all within its power to flush them out of the country. According to him,…

Erstwhile governor of Cross Rivers State, Sen. Liyel Imoke has called for model leadership from the church which he said will in turn have huge impacts in the polity. He said shortage of good leadership was responsible for the dearth of many things which are beneficial and which includes education and healthcare, adding that good leadership is a rare quality and a global challenge that has affected all. Imoke who made the call on Tuesday in Goshen, Nassarawa state, during the public lecture in honour of Bishop David Abioye in commemoration of his sixtieth birthday, said the country might have…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has gone to the Federal High Court Abuja, seeking to amend the charges it filed against a former Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mr. Andrew Yakubu. The anti-graft agency had dragged Yakubu before Justice Ahmed Mohammed in 2017 on a six-count charge of fraud, after he admitted owning over $9.8 million cash found in a house which also belongs to him in Kaduna State. But at the resumed trial yesterday EFCC’s prosecution counsel, Ms. Halima Shehu, informed the Court of the application for amendment of the charge.…

nadedokun@gmail.com Optics from Monday’s meeting between Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa and workers of the commission aren’t exactly complimentary. Although they are most likely the very opposite of what the chairman and his minders intended, public reactions show why leaders must be circumspect about public perception of their activities. By having staffers of the EFCC stand in the sun while he addressed them from the relative comfort and shade provided by the roof over the veranda of the commission’s offices, Bawa comes across as an overlord, speaking at infidel subordinates who needed a new gospel…

“A challenged world is an alert world. Individually, we’re all responsible for our own thoughts and actions – all day, every day. We can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality. We can all choose to seek out and celebrate women’s achievements. Collectively, we can all help create an inclusive world. From challenge comes change, so let’s all choose to challenge.”  – International Women’s Day 2021. According to the information gleaned from the Internet, the International Women’s Day has occurred for well over a century with the first gathering held in 1911. The IWD as it…

Abimbola Adelakun On Monday, former Vice President, Namadi Sambo, met Nigeria’s President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) at State House, Abuja to be debriefed on his assignment as ECOWAS’ Head of Mission on the election in the Republic of Niger. Given an inconclusive first round in December, where none of the presidential candidates garnered above 50 per cent, a mandatory second round took place on February 21. The winner has been declared. That election is considered remarkable because it was Niger’s first democratic transition of power since they gained independence from France in 1960. Like many African countries, Niger…