The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, on Sunday led thousands of members of church across the country on Sunday to protest the killings of Christians in the North as well as worsening insecurity in the country.
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Reports of renewed attacks at places in Plateau and Taraba states and elsewhere across the country are disturbing just as they remind us of how much work we still have ahead of us to tidy the country’s internal security apparatus.
Civil Society Organisations and the Media in Niger State have called on government at all levels and security agencies to scale up security apparatus at flash points across the state, especially at border towns, to reduce the rate of killing in the country.
A delegation of the Ondo State Government on Tuesday visited the ancient town of Idoani to commiserate with the families of the victims who were killed during an armed robbery incident.
The Peoples Democratic Party has accused the All Progressives Congress of being behind the killings witnessed in the Governorship and States Houses of Assembly elections on Saturday.
The Ebonyi State Government has set up a Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the recent killings across the State alleged to have emanated from some cult and political parties activities.
President Muhammadu Buhari says he is distressed and depressed by the ethno-religious killings in the country, appealing to Nigerians to learn to live together in peace and harmony.
Stakeholders from Iregwe and Fulani communities in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau have advised residents of the area to be tolerant and have mutual respect for one another in order to end the incessant killings in their communities.
The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has urged officers and men of the force to always act within the confines of the law of the nation in carrying out their mandate.
Former Head of State, Retired Gen. Yakubu Gowon, has advocated for more tolerance and understanding among Nigerians to put an end to the spate of killings in the country.
He made the call in a lecture on “National Security, Cultural Values and the Challenges of Contemporary Governance, the Bayelsa Experience” he delivered on Tuesday in Abuja.
Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari, the Chairman of Nigerian Governors Forum and Zamfara Governor, on Thursday, assured increased synergy among leaders to check killings and destruction of properties.
The President, Rev. Samson Ayokunle, made the announcement in a statement signed by Pastor Adebayo Oladeji, Special Assistant, Media & Communications to the CAN president, on Thursday in Abuja.
Adams in a statement he personally signed on Tuesday, said the summit has become urgent in view of the insecurity in the country, especially the killings by herdsmen.
After exhaustive debate on the motion, the Senate directed its ad-hoc. Committee on constitutional review to put in place machinery to amend the constitution to allow for the creation of State Police.
He said that the politicians involved were those who no longer had access loot public treasury.
Consequently, the party directed that its flags at all its offices and formation at all levels across the country be flown at half-mast during the period in honour of the victims.
The CAN president expressed his disappointment in a statement signed by Pastor Adebayo Oladeji, Special Assistant, & Communication to the CAN president, on Monday in Abuja.
According to the former governor, he was quoted out of context in an interview he granted journalists after the South East Zonal Executive Committee meeting of the APC held in Abuja on Wednesday.
In a peaceful protest to the House of Representatives on Thursday, the people urged the government to put an end to the incessant killings and attacks in the community by suspected herdsmen.