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To ensure effective security nationwide, agencies must avoid inter-agencies rivalries. This was the advice by Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, while receiving the management of the National Defence College, Abuja, in his office on Friday. “I recognize the role of the Nigerian Armed Forces in promoting peace and ensuring adequate security for all Nigerians. However, we must ensure all security agencies in the country which include all branches of the Nigeria military, the Nigeria Police Force and other Paramilitary Security Agencies in the country, must cooperate and see themselves as one and avoid inter-agency rivalry,” he said The minister urged…
The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control on Saturday announced that it saw its lowest cases of infections from the coronavirus in recent time. In its latest chart, NCDC said it recorded only 8 cases from the Federal Capital Territory and two other states. The chart showed that the FCT recorded 4 while Rivers State reported 3 while Kaduna recorded only 1. The chart showed that 253,978 cases are confirmed while a total of 230,323 of cases have been discharged. So far, a total of 3,141 deaths have been recorded.
Notable Nigerian Islamic group, Muslim Rights Concern on Sunday raised concerns over lack of attention to a police corporal Nnaji Ebenezer Chibueze, who bagged a Doctorate degree three years ago. MURIC said on Sunday that it is amazing that three years after Chubueze completed his PhD programme, his attempts to get elevated have met with frustrations. MURIC expressed alarm that the police corporal has remained stagnant on the same rank three years after. MURIC’s statement signed by its leader, Prof Isa’q Akintola. MURIC stated, “Dr. Nnaji Ebenezer Chibueze, a native of Umuezibuoko Umualu in Isiuzor local government area of Enugu…
Mr. Dasuki Arabi, the Director-General, Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR), has identified lack of skilled manpower as a major challenge affecting productivity in Federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs). Arabi, who stated this in Abuja on Saturday said the need for public servants to gain more knowledge through IT-based programmes to meet the needs of the present global standards in delivery of public services must be highlighted. To proffer solutions, the BPSR’s boss, however, disclosed that government had come up with initiatives to improve the quality of services in the MDAs. “One of the things that we have identified…
Barely two days after some security officers were killed in Enugu State, another team of four policemen on stop-and-search duty at the outskirts of Enugu metropolis have been shot dead by armed men. The latest incident happened at about 3p.m. on Saturday, February 12, at Obeagu community along Amaechi-Ekeotu-Agbani Town Road; leaving the road deserted till 7 p.m. The state’s Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Daniel Ndukwe, confirmed the attack but did not give the number of casualties. Ndukwe said: “Police operatives have been duly deployed and are on the trail of the unknown armed assailants. “You will be updated…
A police raid on the bridge blockade at Windsor, Ontario, failed to shut it down. With protesters in Ottawa also digging in, what will it take to get them to budge? They arrived by the bus load – police in balaclavas and carrying long guns, ready to oust dozens of protesters blocking roads leading to the Ambassador Bridge. There were pickups and SUVs festooned with Canadian flags, anti-vaccination slogans and anti-Trudeau epithets, as well as some heavy commercial trucks. About 100 vehicles have been parked along the roughly 2km (1.25 miles) of road leading up to the bridge for almost…
More than a dozen countries have urged their citizens to leave Ukraine amid warnings from Western powers that an invasion by Russia could be imminent. The US, UK and Germany are among those who told their nationals to leave. Moscow has amassed an estimated 100,000 troops along Ukraine’s border but denies any intent to invade. In a phone call, US President Joe Biden again warned Russian leader Vladimir Putin of the costs of any invasion. For his part, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said invasion warnings could stoke panic, which he called “the best friend of our enemies”. The White House…
One more dead body has been recovered from the three-storey building that collapsed in Yaba area of Lagos on Saturday afternoon. This raised the death toll to three, while the number of rescued persons remained two, just as rescue efforts are still on. Mr. Ibrahim Farinloye, Zonal Coordinator, South-West, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), confirmed the development to newsmen on Saturday night. Farinloye said that the building was said to have given signs with rubles falling from it on Thursday. “It was gathered that when one of the neighbours called their attention to it, they told him off that it…
A grandson of the late Sardauna of Sokoto, late Sir. Ahmadu Bello Alhaji Hassan Danbaba has died in Kaduna on Saturday. Danbaba was said to have slumped and died. The Sokoto kingmaker was said to have collapsed in his hotel shortly after checking in. He was in Kaduna to commiserate with another prominent Northern elite , Lt. General Aliu Gusau who lost his brother. The Kaduna state Government according to information available to the NPO Reports has made arrangements to airlift the remains of Danbaba to Sokoto where he is expected to be buried at the traditional cemetery on Sunday.…
Sheikh Gumi’s Kaduna House Gutted by Fire A house belonging to controversial Islamic preacher Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has been gutted by fire on Saturday. Details of the fire incident were not available as at the time of this report. Smoke was said to have been coming out of the house when residents moved to quench it. Details later…