Tag: Nigeria Insecurity

Insecurity: NLC blames politicians for Nigerias woes and frustration

Aminu Imam

Says despondency of youth cause of crimes The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has blamed the brand of politics the political actors play for the slow development of Nigeria. In its Independence Day message issued in Abuja, yesterday, by its President, Ayuba Wabba, the NLC said instead of building on the zeal and energy of Nigerian workers and people to redeem the image of the black race, which was badly mauled by slave trade and colonisation, Nigerias political leaders shifted their eyes from the dreams of a great country and became…

Read More

Insecurity: Senate urges President Buhari to declare bandits as terrorists

Aminu Imam

The Nigerian Senate, yesterday, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to declare bandits as terrorists, while also calling on the president to wage total war against the bandits. The Senate, which made the call in a resolution following a motion by Senator Ibrahim Abdullahi Gobir (Sokoto-East) and eight others, also asked Buhari to declare all the known leadership of the bandits wanted and track them wherever they are for arrest and prosecution. Gobir had noted that Sokoto-East Senatorial District has now become a safe haven for bandits due to the current onslaught…

Read More

Insecurity in nation: NLC condemns State Govs’ furore over power shift amidst killings, poverty

Aminu Imam

The Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC), has slammed the Southern and Northern governors for fighting over power-shift amidst the bloodshed and rising poverty in the country. The NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, cautioned the State Chief Executives against overheating the polity, while expressing shock over the brickbats by the governors. The  Southern Governors Forum had met in Lagos on July 5 and demanded that power must go to the South in 2023. On September 27, the Northern Governors Forum met in Kaduna and insisted that power must remain in the North. But…

Read More

Navy disowns comment of most senior female officer on Chadian soldiers

Aminu Imam

The Nigerian Navy has disowned a statement made by one of its officers, Commodore Jamila Abubakar Malafa, indicting Chadian soldiers, who she claimed sell arms when broke’. Malafa, an international maritime lawyer and the first female Commodore in the history of the Nigerian Navy spoke on Monday at a public hearing organised by the House of Representatives committee on national security and intelligence on the consideration of four security bills. Representing Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Awwal Gambo, at the public hearing, Commodore Malafa said some of the weapons…

Read More

Insecurity: TUC seeks end to 10m almajirai, orphans roaming Nigerian streets

Aminu Imam

…Says criminals keeping weapons, drugs with them The Trade Union Congress (TUC) Women Commission, has noted that over ten million Almajirai, orphans and vulnerable children are roaming the streets in Nigeria while criminals are keeping their weapons, drugs with them. Chairperson of the TUC’s Women Commission wing, Kebbi State chapter, Comrade Hafsat Abdulhamid Jamoh, stated this during their one-day programme on: Child abuse and Almajiri syndrome, community responsibilities to build a morally sound society . She said, In both Islam and Christianity, a child needs not to beg for…

Read More

FGN issues security safety alert ahead of nation’s 61st Independence anniversary

Aminu Imam

…As IPOB declares ‘total lockdown’ on 1st October The Federal Government has alerted the general public to heighten security activities preparatory to the events marking the countrys 61st Independence anniversary next Friday, October 1, 2021. The alert was contained in a statement issued by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alh. Lai Mohammed, in Abuja, yesterday,  The minister, however, urged residents of the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT) and its environs not to panic and to go about their legitimate activities. “Residents are enjoined to report suspicious persons and movements to the security…

Read More

Only Northern President can guarantee Nigerias security Arewa youths insist

Aminu Imam

The Northern Youth Leadership Forum, (NYLF), has appealed to Nigerians to support northern candidacy for the 2023 presidency in view of ending myriad security challenges bedeviling the nation. According to the group, its only president from the North that has the needed courage to fight insecurity without stepping on toes. Speaking on the state of the nation at a press conference in Yola, the president of the group, Elliot Afiyo, said the southern president may not have the political will and the need courage to fight Boko Haram, banditry and…

Read More

Insecurity: Arewa Youths adopt new strategy against banditry, kidnappings

Aminu Imam

The Arewa Youths Consultative Councils, Kano State Chapter yesterday adopted a sustainable security project to combat banditry and other violent crimes across the 19 northern States. The security strategy tagged: Project SUSPRONS 2021-2031, targets 2,750,000 youths across the region, which centred around rejuvenating the psyche of the Northern youths to resist being used as tools for violent crimes in the region. The National President of the Council, Zayad Ayuba Alhaji, who spoke in Kano during its meetings, said we are here to talk senses to our selves bring about means that…

Read More

Insecurity: 1 million school children afraid to return to school following resumption -UNICEF

Aminu Imam

The United Nations Childrens Fund, (UNICEF), has said at least one million, among more than 37 school children in Nigeria, are afraid to return to school as schools resume. The fears by the children to return to schools, the agency said, is a result of insecurity in the country, especially abductions that had taken place in various schools in some parts so far. UNICEF, in a statement issued yesterday by its Representative in Nigeria, Peter Hawkins, said it was joining in a global digital freeze on 16 September to protest…

Read More

Insecurity: Porous borders, banditry, others overtake Boko Haram, ISWAP in Nigeria – Experts

Aminu Imam

Banditry has become the biggest threat in Nigeria, pushing aside the title hitherto held by Boko Haram and Islamic States West Africa Province, (ISWAP). The recent takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban has raised further concerns that bandits in Africas most populous nation may be nursing an agenda to also dethrone civil authority. The fears are being fuelled by the  Talibans vow to impose Islamic law worldwide. Analysts believe the movement may reach out to armed groups in other countries to actualize their plan of global control. Only a few…

Read More