JAJI, (KADUNA) —The Nigerian Army is set to deploy 197 troops for ECOWAS Peacekeeping Mission in The Gambia. Chief of Operations, Army Headquarters, Maj.-Gen. Olufemi Akinjobi, disclosed this on Thursday at the graduation ceremony of Nigerian Company 7 which will soon head for the tiny West African state. The ceremony was held at the Martin Luther Agwai International Leadership and Peacekeeping Centre, Jaji, Kaduna State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that before now,...
African countries’ justifiable disaffection with the West should not override their commitment to Ukraine and liberal values. There is nothing quite like a war when it comes to resurrecting old grudges, and in this regard, the Russia-Ukraine conflict has hardly disappointed. Invoking historical rough justice and persistent infantilization by the West, African countries have, to widespread astonishment, refused to give full-throated backing to Western sanctions against Russia. Seventeen of the thirty-five abstainers from the United...
The Department of State Services (DSS) on Tuesday raised the alarm that suspected criminal gangs want to forge an alliance amongst themselves to launch attacks on critical infrastructure and other public places during and after the public holidays and festive celebrations. The statement said that the targeted places include worship and relaxation centres which were being designed by the criminal elements to return the country to the pre-2015 era reminiscent of IED attacks on soft...
ABUJA — The Senate has passed the Terrorism (Prevention) Act, 2013 bill prohibiting ransom payment to kidnappers in Nigeria. The bill, which seeks an amendment to the 2013 Terrorism Prevention Act, followed the adoption of the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters report at plenary on Wednesday. The proposed legislation outlaws ransom payment to abductors, kidnappers, and terrorists to release persons who had either been wrongfully confined, imprisoned, or kidnapped. Presenting the...
Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the lead counsel to the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, on Monday, said that the legal team was exploring legitimate processes to ensure that the pending seven counts against Kanu were struck out. Kanu was facing trial before Justice Binta Nyako of a Federal High Court in Abuja on charges of terrorism. But Ejiofor, in a statement issued after the routine visit to Kanu in the custody of the...
ABUJA — The Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Femi Adesina, has questioned former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s call for State police and restructuring of the country. Obasanjo had on Wednesday suggested that the creation of State police would be a better option than community policing to help fight insecurity in the country. Adesina, while speaking on Channels Television on Friday over the former President’s belief that the security challenges across the country...
By Emmanuel Chigbata, Anastasia Mbabie (Staff Reporters) AWKA — The Nigeria Police Force has declared wanted twelve suspects in connection with a case of conspiracy, murder, armed robbery, an act of terrorism, kidnapping, cultism and unlawful possession of firearms, housebreaking, burglary, malicious damage, and conduct likely to cause a breach of public peace in Isu-Aniocha, Awka North LGA of Anambra State, Nigeria. The suspects are: Edward Okoye (aka Stone); Donatus Okeke; Onyemazi Ngini; Onyebuchi Nwekeizu...
ABUJA — The Inspector-General of Police, (IGP) Usman Alkali Baba, has ordered the review of police personnel and operational assets deployments to schools and colleges, boarding schools, tertiary institutions, and its campuses in areas prone to security threats across the country. He gave the directive on Tuesday at the management meeting of the Force Management Team at the IGP Conference Hall, Force Headquarters, Abuja directed all State Commissioners of Police, Tactical Commanders, as well as...
While it is important to ensure abusers are brought to book, we might not achieve the goal of ending domestic violence without taking into consideration the root of abuse in the mind of victims The UN defines domestic abuse as a pattern of behaviour in any relationship that is used to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner. It could be physical, sexual, emotional, economic, or psychological actions or threats of actions that...
KADUNA — A Nigeria Air Force Trainer Aircraft has reportedly crashed in Kaduna State, having two pilots on board who were feared dead. According to a security source, the trainer Aircraft crashed at the Air Force training base in Kaduna during a training session on Tuesday. The aircraft reportedly belonged to the 401 flying training school. The 401 flying training school of the Nigerian Airforce has continued to fulfill its statutory role of providing effective...
