In the wake of fresh tension in Kaduna town, the Kaduna state government has imposed a 24-hour curfew on the city and environs. Samuel Aruwan, spokesman of Nasir el-Rufai, governor of the state, announced this in a statement. “This is a notice of a 24-hour curfew imposed on Kaduna town and environs, with immediate effect. […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday held National Security Council meeting with the heads of Nigeria’s security agencies to review the country’s security situation ahead of the 2019 election. A statement made available by the spokesperson of the Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, Tukur Gusau, a colonel, said after reviewing the security situation across the country, […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Yusuf Bichi as the new director-general of the Department of State Service (DSS). Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, disclosed this in a statement issued on Thursday. The statement described Bichi as a “core secret service operative”. “The new DSS boss comes to the job with skills in intelligence gathering, research analysis, conflict […]
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The Police Command in the Federal Capital Territory ( FCT) has arrested 22 suspects for various crimes. The suspects are: Michael Okafor, 27, Ogbonnaya Nwosu, 28, Julius Uche, 38, Ike Ugwuke, 36, Christain Nwite,28, Lucky Nwakona,22, Joy Hagba,34, Aliyu Ahmed, 20, Bala Mohammed , 19, among others. The DCP in charge of Criminal Intelligence and […]
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The Police Command in Imo has warned that it will arrest anybody breaking the law in compliance with the sit-at-home order by the proscribed Independent People of Biafra (IPOB) on Friday. The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Dasuki Galadanchi, issued the warning during a joint news conference by heads of security agencies in the state […]
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The immediate past Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, has blamed the excessive overlapping and unhealthy inter-rivalry among security agencies for their inability to combat crimes and criminality in the country. Arase made the assertion while delivering a lecture on the topic: “Strategic Partnership for National Security: Extending the Frontiers of Private Sector Participation Model,” […]
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Edo State Sector Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Anthony Okoh, has called for the enforcement of eye, blood pressure and blood-sugar-level tests for commercial, trucks and other logistics drivers in the country by their employers. Okoh made the call on Wednesday in Benin, during the 2018 Guinness Nigeria Plc, Transport/Safety week, with the […]
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The Department of State Services (DSS) has explained why it complied with the directive to reverse postings of some officials transferred out of the headquarters of the service in Abuja. There were reports that the presidency mounted pressure on Mathew Seiyefa, acting director-general of the DSS, to recall the redeployed officers. In a statement on […]
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The Global Fire Power (GFP), an institution which ranks the military of different countries, has rated the Nigerian military as the 43rd best in the world, in its 2018 survey. This places Nigeria above 18 European countries namely: Denmark, Belgium, Portugal, Bulgaria, Austria, Ireland, Macedonia, Finland, Hungary, Croatia, Slovakia, Serbia, Albania, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Slovenia, […]
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One man was reportedly killed while several others were injured in a bloody clash between rival gangs of miscreants at Ketu Market in Lagos on Monday. A witness, simply identified as Musiliu, told newsmen that the clash followed a disagreement between two groups of hemp smoking miscreants over the death of a member after heavy […]
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