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Alleged criminalities, human rights abuses by Anambra police: Gov  Soludo  Directs Attorney general  to review  files  on alligations of commission of offences handled by RRS By Paulinus Onah Governor Chukwuma Soludo, reacted to several media reports on alleged criminalities involving some police officers in Zone 13 Headquarters Ukpo, Anambra State and the alleged human right abuses by some officers of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), Awkuzu, Anambra State Police command respectively. A statement issued by the chief press secretary to the governor Mr Christian Aburime said Preliminary inquiry has revealed that the Inspector General of Police had already set up a Special Investigation Panel to investigate the allegations . Governor Soludo commends the Inspector General of Police for that timely intervention pointing out that, it has become imperative in the light of the above to await the outcome of the investigations which is expected soonest.  Governor Solu...

THEY DIDN'T SWAP YOUR CURRENCY, THEY GRABBED IT!  They say fortune favours the bold, death comes but once and the man died in he that remained silent in the face of injustice.  I add the following: damned and accursed is he that fears the chains and dungeon in which he is kept or that lives in trepidation and fear of his tormentors and persecutors.  Regardless of the dangers associated with speaking the truth in our country these days and despite the darkness and fear that has enveloped the land, I shall continue to speak that truth.  I cannot be intimidated and I cannot be silenced.  As long as there is life in me I shall speak truth even from the bed of infirmity and despite the strong wind of  torment, persecution and affliction.  And what is that truth? Let us be clear: what we are witnessing and what is unfolding in our country today comes from the pit of hell.  Worse still it is much deeper and more profound in its sheer wickedness and malev...

WE’LL HELP YOUR WORK TO BE MORE EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT IN NIGERIA, PRESIDENT BUHARI TELLS IOM CHIEF Ø  SOMALIA PRESIDENT THANKS NIGERIA FOR PEACEKEEPING SUPPORT President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged Nigeria’s continued support to international organisations working in the northeast region of the country, who are providing humanitarian assistance to citizens impacted by long years of insurgency. The President met with the Director-General of International Organization for Migration (IOM), Antonio Vitorino, on Sunday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on the margins of the 36th AU Summit. Assuring IOM that the Federal Government will continue to partner with them to make their work more effective and efficient, the President lauded the organisation’s humanitarian activities in the northeast and northwest regions of the country. He noted that their staff have often braced the difficult terrain to provide assistance to those in need. He urged the international community not to neglect those l...

IN A VIDEO TO SWAY VOTERS FOR TINUBU, PRESIDENT BUHARI VOWS END TO CURRENT HARDSHIP President Muhammadu Buhari, Sunday sent a message home from Addis Ababa, saying he is fully aware of hardship some policies of government, “which are meant to bring overall improvement to the country” had caused and appealed for further patience as the government takes appropriate measures to ease them.   In a video recording to shore up support for Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the upcoming elections a few days ahead, the President thanked Nigerians for electing him to be President for two terms, and urged them to vote for the APC flag bearer because “he is reliable and I know he will build on our achievements.”   In the campaign message to voters, the President specifically put a call on “our traditional rulers, religious leaders and parents to warn their followers and wards alike, to not allow themselves to be used by a few to foment troubl...

ATTACK ON 3 3 POLICE STATION: POLICE NEUTRALIZE SIX OF THE IPOB/ESN INSURGENTS, RECOVER TWO AK47 RIFLES, OTHERS Police Operatives attached to 3 3 Police Divisional Headquarters, Nkwelle-Ezunaka, Oyi LGA today 19/2/2023 by 5:58 am, foiled an attack by IPOB/ESN Insurgents on the police facility, neutralized six of the Insurgents, recovers two Ak47 rifles, one Toyota Sienna vehicle with Reg No Abuja ABC 848 EQ, charms and other incriminating items.  The outlawed IPOB/ESN Insurgents came in their numbers with two SUV vehicles and one Toyota Sienna, armed with guns, IEDs and petrol bombs, started shooting indiscriminately to gain entrance to the station and were fiercely engaged and resisted by the Divisional Police Officer and his men in a long gun battle before the prompt reinforcement team, made up of the Military and PMF Operatives arrived the scene. During the gun duel, unfortunately, one police operative attached to the station was fatally wounded and an office in the facility was...

AIG  ALABI  RESUMES AT ZONE  2  ONIKAN LAGOS   new Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Nigeria Police, Zone 2 Command today Friday 17th February 2023 assumed office at the Zonal HQ, Onikan, Lagos. He is AIG Sylvester Abiodun Alabi. The professional cop will be leading the Zone which comprises Lagos and Ogun States. Addressing newsmen briefly as he arrived, AIG Abiodun Alabi said: ‘I have worked here before for 2 years when I was CSP. So I am not a new person here. What I achieved in the last 1 year as Lagos CP, we didn’t have any major crisis though we had small challenges which were not insurmountable.’ ‘I am going to replicate the same here. Lagos State and Ogun state under my command will have a new lease of life. On the skirmish occasioned in some parts of Lagos, he told Journalists ‘I don’t see it as special. Occasionally we have to experience such situation where people want to ventilate their anger as far as we are able to manage it ve...

300 Kaduna Teachers Have Not Received Salaries – NUT The Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Teachers, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Syrus Hassan, has said about 300 of their members have not received salaries for several months. He disclosed this in an interview with newsmen at a ‘One Day Conference tagged, “Dignity of a Teacher 2023”, organised by Uncle Focus Educational Consult and General Contract Ltd, on Friday, in Kaduna. Hassan further decried that teachers were still lacking behind in terms of welfare, adding that some of their members had not been getting benefits and incentives like leave grants for months. He said the government had tried its best in educating teachers by making it important for them to improve their knowledge and attend workshops, there was need for them to be paid their wages. “The conference was educative and would add value, dignity and respect to teachers who found their way to the conference,” he said, adding that it was to enlighten and ...

EFCC Did Not Raid Tinubu’s Home The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been drawn to a report circulating in the social media, claiming that operatives of the Commission raided the home of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, standard-bearer of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the forthcoming presidential elections and recovered a humongous sum of N400billion. The Commission wishes to state that no such operation was carried out by the EFCC. The public is enjoined to disregard the report as fake news.  

 In line with the subsisting order of the Supreme Court, the Kaduna State Government has directed its ministries, departments and agencies to ensure that their collection agents continue to accept payments made in all denominations of the naira, old and new.  

KDSG Security Update: Sunday 19th February 2023.  KDSG warns against breakdown of law and order  -Directs security agencies to nip in the bud all threats to peace  The Kaduna State Government has received credible intelligence reports of plans by various groups to deliberately disrupt public peace, by organizing street protests.  The Kaduna State Government hereby reminds citizens that such protests remain strictly prohibited. Citizens are strongly advised to avoid all actions remotely capable of inciting a breakdown of law and order.  The Government continues to empathize with citizens who have been placed in untold distress as a result of the CBN cash swap policy. Residents must shun the baitings of mischievous groups hoping to ride on these hardships and incite violence.  The Government of Kaduna State, and other concerned state governments, are deploying the full instrumentality of the law to attain a proper resolution, and thus bring relief to citizens...

Governor  Soludo appoints 10 member board members  By  Paulinus Onah  Governor Chukwuma Soludo has appointed a ten member board of internally generated revenue and Housing development corporation board A press statement issued by Mr Christian Aburime, chief press secretary to the governor Friday Feb 17,  reads in parts "Governor Soludo has approved the appointment of the underlisted person's into the board of internally generated revenue . They are Mr Richard Nwora Madiebo  as the Chairman while Dr Greg Ugochukwu Ezeilo,  former commissioner for transport Dr Christian Madubuko and Mr Benjamin Anierobi Okafor, are to to serve as Excutive Directors.  Others are members of the  Housing development corporation board.  They are H.E. Mr Emeka Sibeudu, former deputy governor of Anambra State under Peter Obi Chairman, Dr. Obiora Walter C. Walter-Eze: Member . HRH (Arc.) Jonathan O. Okpalaezecha: Member Chief Leon Mezue: Member, Barrister Ikechuk...

TWO COUSINS ARRESTED FOR ARMED ROBBERY AND MURDER.  Operatives of Ogun state Police Command, on the 9th of February 2023 arrested two cousins, Damilola Famoriyo 'm' 34-year old and Akinbayo Emmanuel Abiodun 'm' 31-year old, for robbing one Amos Oyemechi Chuckwuka of his tricycle, killed him and dump his corpse at a riverbank in Ijebu-ode  The suspects were arrested following an information received by policemen attached to Obalende divisional headquarters, Ijebu Ode, on the 13th of December 2022, that a dead body which was later identified as that of a tricycle rider was found on the riverbank at Agoro area of Ijebu Ode.  Upon the information, the DPO Obalende division, SP Murphy Salami led his detectives to the scene, where it was discovered that the deceased was matcheted to death after which his tricycle was taken away. The DPO, there and then detailed his Crack team to embarked on technical and Forensic Investigation of the incident in order to unravel those behind ...

NDLEA intercepts Europe-bound 58kg cocaine, meth at Lagos, Abuja airports . Recovers 2.6million opioids in Adamawa, Kogi, Kaduna; arrests Chadian, others Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted consignments of illicit drugs including cocaine, methamphetamine and its precursor chemical, ephedrine going to the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand and Cyprus at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos; Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja and some courier companies. At least three traders at the Trade Fair Complex in Ojo area of Lagos: Nwudele Basil Christopher; Chiedu Ezenwani Francis and Donatus Nwojiji have been arrested in connection with attempts to export 52.10 kilograms of ephedrine, a precursor chemical and active ingredient for the production of methamphetamine, concealed in bunches of fishing threads and packed among other items in jumbo sacks that were intercepted at the SAHCO export shed of the Lagos airport on...

PRESS RELEASE 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONS: POLICE ORGANIZE ONE-DAY SEMINAR ON CURBING ELECTORAL VIOLENCE FOR OFFICERS, OTHER STAKEHOLDERS  As IGP Assures of Police Readiness to Provide Full Security Coverage  As part of his quest to ensure that officers of the Nigeria Police Force are adequately prepared to effectively police the 2023 General Elections, particularly officers responsible for strategic operational deployments and active field duties across the states of the Federation, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, CFR, has directed the convergence of all Heads of Operations in State and Zonal Commands at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, on Monday 20th February, 2023 at 9am, for a one-day training seminar on practical approaches to curbing electoral violence within the election process.  The seminar to be declared open by the IGP on Monday, will have in attendance Deputy Commissioners of Police in charge of Operations at all Zonal and State C...