Sanwo-Olu to flag off 10-kilometre NAF exercise in Lagos 

November 1, 2023 Oguntade Ismaila 0

The Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, is expected to flagg off the conduct of 2023 10 kilometres walk/ jog of the Nigerian Air Force exercise at the logistics command as special guest of honour at Sam Ethnan Air Force base, Ikeja, Lagos. The exercise which is part of the efforts aimed at fostering all round physical fitness of its personnel for Read More

CNG thumbs up Tinubu on Ribadu’s appointment

June 16, 2023 Adeola Akinbobola 0

The Coalition of Northern Groups on Friday, lauded President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for appointing Malam Nuhu Ribadu as Special Adviser on security. The CNG said the appointment is an incontrovertible proof of President Tinubu’s commitment to the discharge of the vital task of providing adequate security to citizens. CNG spokesperson Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, said Ribadu appropriately fits the position as a Read More

Security: Asiwaju centre hails Tinubu

June 2, 2023 Editor 0

The Asiwaju Good Governance and Media Centre (AGGMC) has said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has kept his promise of prioritising the security of the lives and property of Nigerians. President of the group, Hon Ochonu Williams, made this assertion on Friday following a meeting between the President and the nation’s Security Chiefs. Led by the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Read More

2023: Again, FG announces fresh public holidays 

April 5, 2023 Bode Olagoke 0

The federal government has declared Friday, April 7 and Monday April 10, as public holidays to mark Good Friday and Easter Monday celebration. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, announced this Wednesday in Abuja. Aregbesola urged Christians to emulate the virtues of sacrifice, togetherness, forgiveness, kindness, love and patience during the celebrations.  He said they were attributes of Jesus Christ Read More

SFTAS: Buni vows to sustain leading position in accountability, transparency 

April 2, 2023 Yusuf A Yusuf 0

The Yobe state governor, Mai Mala Buni, has said his administration will sustain the leading position in accountability, transparency and public finance auditing as rated by the State Fiscal Transparency Accountability and Sustainability (SFTAS), a World Bank assisted-programme, and the Paradigm Leadership Support Initiative. He stated this while reacting to the Paradigm Leadership Support Initiative report on the performance of Read More

AU Observer Mission visits IGP, commends Police, others on election security

February 28, 2023 Chizoba Ogbeche 0

The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has been commended, alongside other security agencies deployed for election security management in the 2023 general elections, for its commitment to ensuring that the election process in the country was secured.  The commendation came on the heels of the African Union Commission (AUC) Election Observer Mission (EOM) and the Economic Community of West African States Read More

Address insecurity before you leave office, Lamido tells Buhari 

December 26, 2022 Moh Bello Habib 0

The Archbishop Kaduna province and Bishop of Wusasa Diocese, Anglican Communion, Most Reverend (Dr) Ali Buba Lamido, has advised President to address the security challenges in Nigeria, particularly in the northern part of the country. He gave the advice in his message while addressing Journalists shortly after the Christmas service at Saint Bartholomew’s Church, Wusasa in Zaria local government area Read More

Atiku felicitates with Apostle Kure, promises security for Southern Kaduna

December 21, 2022 Abubakar Labaran 0

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has felicitated with Apostle Emmanuel Nuhu Kure of the Throneroom Ministries Kafanchan on his birthday. He has also assured the people of Southern Kaduna of maximum security. Atiku stated this during the 60th birthday anniversary of Dr. Emmanuel Kure, the pioneer of Throneroom Ministry in Kafachan, the headquarters of Read More

Buhari lauds NASENI on inventions, confers national honour on Haruna

December 7, 2022 Abdullahi M. Gulloma 0

President Muhammadu Buhari has  expressed delight at the  nation’s progress in the area of inventions in the last seven and half years with the repositioning of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI). The president, who said the nation will in future maintain and sustain its key infrastructures with less help from outside, also noted that NASENI was  now Read More

Defence space seeks ecological intervention to secure space infrastructure

November 21, 2022 Admin III 0

The Chief of Defence Space Adminstration (DSA) of the Armed Forces of Nigerians Defence Headquarters, Rear Admiral Nnamdi Muogilim has appealed to the Ecological Project Office (EPO) to intervene in the flooding issue threatening its critical space infrastructure situated at the Defense Space School, Orogun, Delta State and the Space Innovation, Assembling and Test Centre, Epe, Lagos, State.  He explained Read More

2023: Only Atiku can address economy, security challenges – US based physician 

July 31, 2022 Bode Olagoke 0

A United States of America based Professor of Medicine in Georgia, Prof. Emeka Umerah, has said based on facts and his antecedents of performance, only the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, among other presidential candidates can address the economic and security challenges befalling Nigeria. Prof. Umerah said but for the intervention of Atiku, Nigeria would have eventually returned to the Read More

No justification for N12trn defence budget in 6 years – Expert

January 2, 2022 Bode Olagoke 0

  A security expert, Olatunbosun Abolarinwa, has faulted what he described as huge budgetary allocations for security and defence in the last six years of the current administration, saying “the results and gain do not justify the expenditures.” Blueprint checks revealed that from 2016 to date, Nigeria had budgeted N12trillion for security/defence to tackle the myriads of security challenges. But Read More

On the human barbecue in the North

December 22, 2021 Admin III 0

President Muhammadu Buhari’s genuine intentions for Nigerians are solidly in mind even with the current predicaments of human barbecue, kidnapping and killing of innocent citizens, particularly in Northern Nigeria. Undeniably, Northern Nigeria has erupted with unprecedented security challenges of various types, including kidnapping, armed banditry, Boko Haram iñsurgency, among others. With the recent merciless human barbecue in Sokoto, the brutal Read More

Breaking: Oyo rep defects to APC

November 9, 2021 Bode Olagoke 0

The All Progressives Congress caucus of the House of Representatives has gained another member. He is Rep. Jacob Ajao Adejumo from Oyo State. Until his defection to the majority party, he was a member of the Action Democratic Party (ADP. The Speaker, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, has, however read his defection letter to members on the floor in Abuja on Tuesday Read More

Desertification: Zamfara to plant 1m trees

November 7, 2021 Sanusi Muhammad 0

In an attempt to fight desertification and soil erosion in the state, Zamfara state governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle said his administration in collaboration with Nigeria’s Great Green Wall will soon plant one million arable trees. The director general public enlightenment media and communications Yusuf Idris has said in a statement Sunday. He explained that the governor made the pronouncement on Read More

BASNEC forms village savings and loans associations for women in Bauchi

November 7, 2021 Najib Sani 0

As part of efforts to mitigate poverty especially among rural women, the Bauchi State Network of Civil Society Organizations (BASNEC) has stated that it formed ‘Village Savings and Loans Associations in some villages in five local governments of the state namely; Bauchi, Misau, Dambam, Itas Gadau and Zaki. Administration officer of BASNEC who is the manager of the project Zainab Read More

Anambra: NYCN commends Corp members, security agencies for peaceful election

November 7, 2021 Bode Olagoke 0

The National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) has commended the National Youth Service Corp members that served as adhoc electoral officials and security agencies in the Anambra governorship election held on Saturday, November 6, 2021 for the role they have played in strengthening democracy in Nigeria.  Vice President of the organisation, Amb. Comrade Akoshile Mukhtar, who gave this commendation Sunday Read More

Insecurity: Indigenous CSOs to stage mass protest against FCT Minister

November 6, 2021 Admin III 0

Indigenous Civil Society Organisation under the auspices of Abuja Grassroots Advocacy Projects (AGAP) has concluded plans to stage a mass protest in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Monday over what they described as gross failure of the FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello. Comrade Yunusa Ahmadu Yusuf, Coordinator of the group, who made this known Saturday said that they Read More

2023: Prevail on Tinubu to back Osinbajo, group lobbies govs, Obas, others

November 6, 2021 Bode Olagoke 0

Governors, traditional rulers, business and political elites in the Yorubaland must carefully weigh various options and seriously consider backing Vice President Yemi Osinbajo in 2023, an All Progressives Congress youth group has advocated. According to members of the South West Movement for Osinbajo (SOWEMOVE) who presented a report and copies of correspondence with several Obas and other eminent personalities in Read More

Group berates Tinubu’s silence over invasion of Justice Odili’s residence

November 6, 2021 Bode Olagoke 0

A political pressure group known as the South-west Frontiers has condemned the prolonged silence of the former Lagos state governor and leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on the invasion of the residence of a Supreme Court judge, Justice Mary Odili by armed security operatives. The group similarly faulted the APC leader’s inaction about the recent Read More

COP26: Nigeria keying into electric, gas-powered vehicle manufacturing – Jelani Aliyu

November 5, 2021 Bode Olagoke 0

The Director-General, National Automotive Design and Development Council, Jelani Aliyu, has asserted that Nigeria’s automotive industry is advancing towards actualizing the manufacturing of electric and gas-powered vehicles, in keeping with the net-zero target by 2060. Mr Aliyu made the disclosure while addressing delegates at the ongoing COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland where close to 200 countries gathered Read More

Obasanjo, Sultan, others converge for Secondary education in Abuja

November 5, 2021 Bode Olagoke 0

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and the Sultan of Sokoto His Eminence Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, will on Monday 8th November, converge in Abuja for issues concerning Secondary Education in Nigeria. The event, according to a statement released to newsmen by the organiser Friday in Abuja, said the conference will also attract academics, politicians and religious leaders, will also feature Read More

Nigeria should be remapped to address challenges — SGoF

November 4, 2021 Tope Sunday 0

The acting Surveyor General of the Federation (SGoF), Surveyor Abduganiyu Adeyemi Adebomehin, has called for the re-mapping for the country, arguing that the exercise would deal with various challenges counting against the genuine commitment and efforts of the Federal Government towards achieving a more effective security network, supportive environmental order, physical infrastructure and socioeconomic system to guarantee sustainable development.  A Read More

Exercise Sky Lock: Group commends DHQ for institutionalizing synergy

November 3, 2021 Benjamin Samson 0

Nigeria Youths for Peace (NYP) a civil society group with interest in peace building in Nigeria, has lauded the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) for organising Joint Operations Planning Exercise (JOPEX) code named Exercise Sky Lock 2021 for the three Services, to enable them effectively respond to contemporary security challenges bedeviling the country using a joint and multi-agency approach. Blueprint reports the Read More