Tag: National Security Adviser

Tinubu appoints Nuhu Ribadu as new National Security Adviser

Aminu Imam

The pioneer chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu, has been appointed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to serve as National Security Adviser (NSA), a source privy to the development has revealed. The NSA serves as the principal adviser to the President on security matters, coordinating various security agencies, providing intelligence assessments, and formulating policies to address the nation’s security challenges. The position requires an individual capable of navigating complex security issues and providing effective counsel to the President. Ribadu, a retired Assistant Inspector-General of Police,…

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Anambra: INEC, National Sec. Adviser’s office raises alarm over alleged plans to scuttle guber election

Aminu Imam

The Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), said it has received reports that one of the goals of many perpetrators of violence in the south-eastern region is that the November 6 Anambra governorship election 2021 must not hold. Similarly, the Office of the National Security Adviser, (ONSA), said the security threat posed by violent activities of separatist groups in the South-East region are bent on scuttling the election in the State in furtherance of their separatist agenda. INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu and National Security Adviser, Mohammed Babagana-Monguno, made these disclosures at…

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NSA orders immediate dismantling of illegal security outfits

Aminu Imam

The National Security Adviser, (NSA), Babagana Monguno, has directed the immediate dismantling of all illegal security outfits across the country. A statement issued by the Head, Strategic Communication, in the Office of The National Security Adviser, (ONSA), Zakari Usman, yesterday, quoted the minister as warning against the use of these outfits to extort, harass and intimidate Nigerians. The NSA also cautioned individuals, organisations and foreign partners on the activities of NATFORCE, which it said was illegally formed as a task force to combat illegal importation and smuggling of small arms,…

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$1bn Arms Fund: “Apologise or resign”, Northern professionals tell NSA

Aminu Imam

A group of Northern professionals, under the auspices of Northern Nigerian Professionals Forum (NONIP) has lambasted the National Security Adviser (NSA), Major-Gen. Babagana Monguno (rtd) over allegation of missing $1 billion funds released for the purchase of arms.  Recall that Monguno had last week, in an interview on the BBC Hausa Service, alleged that the $1billion fund approved by President Muhammadu Buhari to purchase arms to fight terrorism in the country had been allegedly missing as the consignments are yet to be delivered to Nigeria.  The group, after their 26th emergency national executive session,…

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Missing Arms funds: NSA Monguno makes U-turn, says he was “misquoted”

Aminu Imam

After clearly indicting Nigeria’s former Service Chiefs under Buhari administration in missing arms procurement funds, the National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno, has recanted. The NSA said he did not categorically say that funds meant for arms procurement were missing under the former Service Chiefs as widely reported. Recalk that Monguno had earlier revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari will investigate the strange disappearance of funds released to the military to purchase arms and ammunition. Monguno, in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation, (BBC) Hausa service yesterday, had revealed that the…

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