A former Director of the Department of State Services (DSS), Mike Ejiofor, has said he used to discourage families of those who were kidnapped from paying ransom until he became a victim of kidnapping.
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The President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Sultan Sa’ad Abubakar has condemned the recent murder of two Ekiti traditional rulers, saying if found, the perpetrators of such act are unfit to remain amidst human community.
The Kwara state Police Command has confirmed the killing of a traditional ruler in the state, Oba Peter Aremu, the Onikoro of Koro-Ekiti in the Ekiti Local Government Area.
The Senate has invited Service Chiefs for an interaction over increasing security challenge in the country.
Former Vice president Atiku Abubakar has chided President Bola Tinubu for enabrking on private visit to France while kidnappers kill a nursing mother and grandmother in Abuja for failing to pay N90 million ransom and two monarchs in Ekiti.
The Nigerian Air force’s component of the Operation Whirl Punch, has eliminated 30 terrorists in an air strike along the Kuriiga-Kampanin Doka axis in Birnin Gwari local government area of Kaduna state.
The Womanifesto, a group of over 500 women organizations , activists, advocates and practitioners, has called on the National Assembly (NASS) members to resume from their extended recess to tackle insecurity in the country.
ASHENEWS reports that President Bola Tinubu has approved the “Pulaaku Initiative”, and allocated the sum of N50 billion to the initiative, in its first instance, as non-kinetic solution to deal with insurgency and banditry in the Northern parts of Nigeria.
Nigeria has not been policed for decades and the evidence to prove it is everywhere. Rural Nigeria and increasingly, urban Nigeria, are mot governed spaces but are continuously rampaged by terrorists, criminals, bandits, kidnappers, secessionists and insurrectionists. No one in this country is safe as even a presidential convoy has been attacked on the road under President Buhari. The one good thing happening currently is that these criminals are encircling and moving into the Nation’s capital, Abuja, and members of the ruling class are beginning to notice that they too are no longer safe. We thank God for his mercies.
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has asked the Police Commissioner, FCT Command, to establish two additional Police Divisions in Gwagwalada Area Council of the territory.