Tag: Security Agencies

Leave Emefiele alone, Arewa group tells security agencies

Aminu Imam

Members of the Concerned Northern Forum (CNF) have asked security agencies of the federal government to let the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, to breathe after being granted bail by a Federal High Court in Abuja. The groups chairman, Comrade Ali Sani, in an issued statement yesterday, said although the judge exacted a promise from Emefieles lawyers to present him in the court for trial whenever needed and also to deposit his international passport in the court, the condition which was immediately fulfilled by…

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2023: “We are ready for elections”- INEC declares

Aminu Imam

…Security agencies also assures of readiness Amid widespread apprehension and crisis occasioned by the new Naira redesign policy, and insinuations that it is a ploy to prevent vote-buying, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), yesterday declared that it had concluded plans to conduct the general elections beginning next Saturday. In a similar vein, the Nigeria Police, military high commands, other security agencies, and the Federal Road Safety Corps, (FRSC) all reassured Nigerians of their readiness to supervise and ensure a peaceful 2023 elections. During the week, protests erupted across the…

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2023: “Don’t compromise democratic process”, Buhari charges security agencies

Aminu Imam

…Urges professionalism in handling sensitive election materials President Muhammadu Buhari has urged the military and other security agencies to remain apolitical in their involvement in the provision of security during the forthcoming 2023 General Elections. The President made the call yesterday, at the inauguration of the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) Estate at Idu-Karmo, in Abuja. Buhari said that security agencies would be engaged with various support and assistance in the elections, particularly with the distribution and monitoring of classified materials and other logistics. These, he warned, must be done professionally…

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