Tag: Service Chiefs

Tinubu writes Senate to confirm Service Chiefs’ appointments

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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has asked the Senate to screen and confirm the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) and other Service Chiefs he recently appointed. The President made the request in a letter addressed to the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio. Akpabio, after reading the letter yesterday during Plenary, said that the request was in line with the Act establishing the Armed Forces. Recall that President Tinubu had, last month, appointed Major General Christopher Musa as the new Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) and Major-General Taoreed Lagbaja as the…

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President Tinubu retires all Service Chiefs, Advisers; appoints new ones

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…Dissolves Boards of Govt. Parastatals, MDAs President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the immediate retirement of all Service Chiefs and the Inspector-General of Police, Advisers, Comptroller-General of Customs from service as well as their replacements with immediate effect. This is according to an issued press statement by Willie Bassey, Director, Information for the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume. The newly appointed Officers are: National Security Adviser – Nuhu Ribadu; Chief of Defence Staff – Maj.-Gen. C.G Musa; Chief of Army Staff – Maj-Gen. T. A Lagbaja;…

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“I won’t tolerate oil theft” – Tinubu tells Security Chiefs

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President Bola Tinubu has instructed the nation’s Security Chiefs to deal with oil theft, saying he won’t tolerate the menace. He gave the charge to the Security Chiefs yesterday, in his first official engagement with the Heads of the nation’s security and intelligence agencies since he assumed office on Monday. National Security Adviser (NSA), Babagana Monguno, disclosed this to State House correspondents after a meeting between the President and Security Chiefs at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Monguno said the President emphasised the need for coordinated efforts to combat terrorism, insurgency,…

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

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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

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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

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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

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…’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

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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

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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

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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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