Tag: Service Chiefs

Kaduna Insecurity: “Stop using jobless Nigerians to launder image; insecurity still high” – CSOs tell Service Chiefs

Aminu Imam

In the face of growing insecurity across the country, occasioned by kidnapping, banditry, terrorism, and separatist agitations, some prominent civil society organisations (CSOs), and a security consulting organisation have cautioned the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Lucky Irabor and other Service Chiefs against using false narratives on the insecurity ravaging the nation. The groups’ advice came in reaction to last week’s claim by a CSO, ‘National Coalition of Concerned Citizens on Peace and Security’, that the nation’s security situation had greatly improved, even as it thanked the military high…

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Reps summon security agencies Heads over refusal to patronise DICON

Aminu Imam

The House of Representatives Committee on Defence has summoned Heads of security agencies in the country over their refusal to buy arms and ammunition from the Defence Industry Corporation of Nigeria, (DICON). Rep. Taofeek Ajilesoro (PDP-Osun) moved the motion when the DICON’s Director-General, Maj.-Gen. Hassan Tafida, appeared before the committee to defend the 2022 budget performance and 2023 Budget proposal. Tafida had accused other security agencies of not patronising DICON for the purchase of arms and ammunition from the corporation, adding that they rather preferred to go outside to buy.…

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Insecurity: President meets with Security Chiefs, Northern Governors

Aminu Imam

President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, presided over an enlarged meeting of the National Security Council (NSC) attended by no fewer than nine Northern State governors, over the raging insecurity across the country. The meeting, which was held behind closed-doors in the Executive Council Chambers of the State House, Abuja, commenced at about 3 pm and lasted till 5.45 pm. Although details of the ‘crucial’ meeting were not made public, sources, however, told newsmen that the meeting was convened by the President with a view to proffering solutions to security matters affecting…

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PMB directs security agencies to rescue all Nigerians in captivity

Aminu Imam

…’Buhari sad over military inability to end insecurity’ – NSA President Muhammadu Buhari has once again issued fresh directives to security agencies to rescue all those in captivity across the country and advance the acquisition of intelligence. The National Security Adviser, Maj-Gen. Babagana Munguno (rtd) disclosed this to State House Correspondents after the National Security Council meeting, which was held yesterday, chaired by President Buhari. He said President Buhari has remained a sad man as a result of the persistent insecurity in the country which the nation’s security agencies have…

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Insecurity: ‘Stop appointing Service Chiefs based on sentiments’ – CDHR cautions Buhari

Aminu Imam

Concerned over the alarming increase in cases of insecurity, especially the frequency in which communities were been invaded and hundreds of innocent citizens, mostly women and children either being killed or kidnapped on a daily basis, the Committee For Defence Of Human Rights, (CDHR), has faulted the process of Service Chiefs’ appointment by President Muhammed Buhari. Appraising the security challenges in the country while speaking at a one-day in-house workshop on: ‘The Role Of Human Rights Activists In The Pursuant Of Good Governance’, which was held in Warri, National President…

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Worsening Insecurity: Northern Group fumes, urges Buhari to sack Service Chiefs

Aminu Imam

Following the surge in terrorists and bandits’ attacks in the northern region in the last few weeks, a group, the ‘Northern Advocacy for Peace’ (NAP), has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately sack the serving Service chiefs over the resurgence of bandits attacks on communities in the N’East, N’West and parts of the S’East region of the country. Recall that in the past two weeks, terrorists and bandits have continued to attack communities in Kebbi, Niger Sokoto, Zamfara, Kaduna and Imo states leading to the death of uncountable unarmed…

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“Hiring of mercenaries not on the card” – Military Chiefs reply Zulum’s call to FG

Aminu Imam

The Nigerian military chiefs have ruled out the option of mercenaries in the fight against insurgency in the North-East geo-political zone. The military’s top hierarchy said that the clarification had become necessary following the recent outcry by Governor Babagana Zulum, of Borno State, calling on the Federal Government to consider the option of hiring mercenaries to assist the military in putting to rout the Islamist sect, Boko Haram and the advancing Islamic West Africa Province, (ISWAP). Recall that Zulum had made the appeal when a Federal Government delegation visited Borno…

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Insurgency: Defence Minister, CDS, Service Chiefs in Maiduguri on assessment visit

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The Minister of Defence, rtd Maj.-Gen. Bashir Magashi, on Friday arrived in Maiduguri on an assessment visit, accompanied by the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Lucky Irabor and Service Chiefs. Speaking at the Command and Control Centre of the headquarters of Joint Task Force “Operation Hadin Kai” in Maiduguri,  Magashi lauded the successes recorded so far in the fight against insurgency in the north east. “I want to appreciate everyone in the theatre for a job well done. “We are here to put heads together to see how to come…

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Insecurity: “I won’t leave Government as a failure” – Buhari assures

Aminu Imam

President Muhammadu Buhari has assured that his administration would do everything possible to address the security challenges facing the country, expressing his wish not to leave the government “as a failure”. Buhari gave his assurance yesterday, during the National Security Meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The National Security Adviser (NSA), Major-General Babagana Monguno (rtd), who briefed State House correspondents after the meeting, said the President expressed happiness over the success recorded so far by the security agencies in the fight against insurgents, bandits, kidnappers and other criminals in various…

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‘Security chiefs building personal business with arms funds’, Shehu Sani alleges

Aminu Imam

Former Senator Shehu Sani has accused security chiefs of funneling funds meant for prosecuting the war against terrorists, bandits and other criminal elements, into building their personal business empires. The former lawmaker, who stated this when he featured on a teevision programme at the weekend, lamented the lingering security challenges in the country, saying citizens were being massacred daily because security agents and the government of the day had become hopeless and helpless. According to him, the level of killing was too high for government to talk about providing infrastructure…

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