Insecurity: Fayemi suggests recruitment of corps members into police, military

The Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has said the number of the military and the police in the country is grossly inadequate to effectively secure Nigeria which is a large country with a huge population. The governor said this in the lecture he delivered at the Babatunde Oduyoye Annual Birthday Lecture in Ibadan on Tuesday. Oduyoye, a former member of the House of Representatives is a Special Adviser to Governor Seyi Makinde on Politics. Speaking on the topic, “Security and national unity in difficult times,” Fayemi, who is also the Chairman, Nigeria’s Governors’ Forum, said apart from using a

Buhari to military: Don’t spare any bandit, identify and eliminate them

President Muhammadu Buhari has charged the military to be more ruthless in dealing with bandits and thus restore peace to the country The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN reports that he gave the order in Katsina on Saturday while urging them “not to spare bandits’’. A statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu released in Abuja on Saturday, said the order had become necessary in view of the fact that the bandits had been killing, maiming and extorting innocent citizens. Shehu said the president was addressing 15 officers and 160 soldiers of the 17th

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Badeh, Alkali Were Murdered To Hide Details of Corruption In The Military–Report

A Washington-based group, International Strategic Studies Association, has stated that the death of a former Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, and that of a former Chief of Administration of the Nigerian Army, Maj.-Gen. Idris Alkali, was not a mere coincidence. Alkali was allegedly killed by a gang of protesting youths along Jos-Bauchi Road on September 3, while Badeh was gunned down along the Abuja-Keffi Road by suspected assassins on December. Punch reported that ISSA, a non-governmental organisation with a worldwide membership of professionals involved in national and international security and strategic policy, stated in a special report

By |December 31st, 2018|Categories: News|Tags: , , |0 Comments

Military Said They’ve Lost Buhari’s Certificates, Femi Adesina Hinted Nigerians

Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, says the military had admitted losing President Muhammadu Buhari’s certificate. In an interview with The Nation, Adesina was quoted as saying the issue is dead and those still discussing it are “idle”. Buhari had failed to submit his academic certificates to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), claiming it is still with the military. The president’s claim had triggered a controversy on the matter, with some Nigerians insisting he must present his credentials. Adesina, however, said those raising the issue are the opposition parties whose defeat is “imminent” ahead of the 2019 elections. “The certificate saga

By |October 28th, 2018|Categories: News|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

18 Soldiers killed, Scores Missing Over Boko Haram Invasion of Nigerian Military Base

Multiple military sources have separately confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES that a Boko Haram gunfire which erupted at a base of Nigerian soldiers in Borno State on Monday was far greater in severity than the military publicly admitted. At least eighteen soldiers were confirmed killed, eight battling to survive at the hospital after being critically wounded and about 157 feared missing when insurgents raided an outpost of 157 Battalion in North-eastern Nigerian village of Metele, military sources said. Those missing comprised 151 soldiers and six officers. The wounded were evacuated about 115 kilometres from Metele to the 7 Division Medical Services

By |October 12th, 2018|Categories: News|Tags: , |0 Comments
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