Oil theft: Sowore lambasts Tinubu, Buhari, Osinbajo, service chiefs
The 2023 presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, has described President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as a confused man. Sowore made this known in a tweet on Friday, June 2, 2023, while reacting to the President’s directive to service chiefs and heads of security and intelligence agencies on Thursday to deal with perpetrators of oil theft. PUNCH reports that the President had on Thursday, during his maiden official meeting with service chiefs and intelligence heads, led by the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Lucky Irabor, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, directed service chiefs and heads of security and
Elections: You’re being watched, Buhari tells IGP, service chiefs
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Monday, told the leadership of the Nigeria Police Force and military chiefs that Nigerians and the global community are watching them, as they have high expectations of them to provide adequate security in ensuring peaceful conduct of the 2023 general election. Buhari, who spoke at the Force Headquarters, Louis Edet House, Abuja, while unveiling critical operational assets procured by the NPF, commended the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, for advancing the police reform agenda of his administration and for several other initiatives he had brought to the Force. Buhari said, “You should,
House of Reps reiterates calls for sack of Service Chiefs
The House of Representatives has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to give effect to subsisting resolutions of the House bordering on the removal of Service Chiefs. The lawmakers said, “the unjustifiable retention of the service Chiefs may be the cause of the lingering problem as their defensive strategies seem to be obsolete and must have outgrown further learning.” The House also called for the establishment of a permanent military base in Shiroro/Rafi/Munya Federal Constituency of Niger to curb the rising cases of banditry, killing, and kidnapping in the area. Adopting a motion sponsored by Hon. Shehu Barwa Beji and Hon. Saidu
Insecurity: Arewa forum supports sack of Service Chiefs
Arewa Professional Forum (APF) has renewed the call for the sack of the country’s security Chiefs by many Nigerians following rise in the spate of insecurity. The northern group based its decision on the high rate of insecurity in almost every parts of the country. The group, in a statement, appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to allow the Service Chiefs to quit the Centre stage of the nation’s security management, stating that they have exhausted energies, ideas and capacities. In the release signed by its National Coordinator, Dr Ibrahim Nasir at the end of the group’s third annual meeting in
