MAIDUGURI — The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Lucky Irabor, on Sunday paid his first operational visit to the Theatre Command in Maiduguri. He was accompanied by the Chief of Army Staff, Maj.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal Isiaka Amao, and the Chief of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral Awwal Gambo. Irabor, along with his team, was received by Maj.-Gen. Farouq Yahaya, Theatre Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, Maj.-Gen. Abdul Khalifa, the General...
The Gombe State command, Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) says about 119 inmates have undergone vocational skills training in two custodial centres in the state. There are 1, 260 inmates in the five custodial centres in Gombe, Tula, Billiri, Cham, and Bajoga facilities with 697 inmates awaiting trials. Mohammed Sharu, the state controller of NCS, said in an interview with newsmen that the nine-month training was part of efforts to reform inmates. According to him, Gombe...
KANO — The Kano state Command of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said it arrested 43 suspected drug traffickers in January 2020. Dr. Ibrahim Abdul, the NDLEA Commander in the state, in an interview with newsmen on Friday in Kano, said the suspects were arrested in various locations in the state following intensive operations carried out by the officers of the command. Abdul explained that during their various operations, the command intercepted 581.702...
ABUJA — Amnesty International (AI) has accused Nigeria authorities of brazenly trying to cover the violence launched on #EndSARS protesters rather than bringing the culprit to book. The human rights organization demanded the suspension of officials indicted in the shooting of #EndSARS protesters at Lekki, Lagos state. Last year, Nigerian youths had converged to demand an end to bad governance, police brutality, and the disbanding of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), a unit of the...
ABUJA — President Muhammadu Buhari has written to seek the confirmation of the recently appointed service chief from the National Assembly. A statement signed by the Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Babajide Omoworare, disclosed that Buhari’s letter to Senate President Ahmad Lawan was dated January 27. Femi Adesina, the presidential spokesperson had announced the appointment of the service chiefs on Tuesday. The appointees include Lucky Irabor, a major general, as...
ABUJA — The immediate past Chief of Army Staff, retired Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, says he left the Nigerian Army better than he met. Buratai stated this in his valedictory speech during the Pulling Out Parade by the Nigerian Army on Friday in Abuja. He said that the army under his watch had achieved tremendous feat in the fight against insurgency and other security threats in the country. He added that he ensured adequate training of...
For almost twelve years now, the Military in Nigeria has been fighting Boko Haram insurgents in the Northeast and Northwest and other parts of Nigeria, yet the terrorists continued with their heinous acts on communities. It is against this background that the Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) a non-governmental organization based in Kano conducted research in 2020 in Adamawa, Borno, Yobe, and Kano on how to use non-violent mechanisms to end insurgency in...
ENUGU — The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, the apex Igbo socio-cultural group, has applauded President Muhammadu Buhari for appointing new service chiefs. The President-General of the group, Prof. George Obiozor, gave the commendation in a statement issued to newsmen in Enugu on Thursday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Buhari on Tuesday appointed Maj.-Gen. Lucky Irabor, Chief of Defence Staff; Maj.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, Chief of Army Staff; Rear Admiral Awwal Gambo, Chief of Naval...
In Nigeria, causation of arrests and release are murky, and the rumor mill operates overtime. Some Nigerians are suggesting that Omoyele Sowore was released because the authorities are aware of the stronger human rights emphasis of the Biden administration and wanted to start off on the right foot with the new administration. Sowore is a well-known Nigerian human rights activist and strong critic of the Buhari administration and of Nigeria’s political economy in general. He...
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos State has admitted more exhibits in evidence against Azeez Fashola, popularly known as Naira Marley in the ongoing trial of the hip hop singer. On Wednesday, Justice Nicolas Oweibo in his ruling admitted the Compact Disk containing the phone analysis of the singer, tendered in evidence by the second prosecution witness, Anosike Augustine on the ground that the iPhone which was analyzed has earlier been admitted as evidence....
