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President Muhammadu Buhari has commended the Independent National Electoral Commission and Nigerian security agencies for conducting free and fair general polls in 2019 that brought him to power for second term.

Ahead of the inauguration of the 9th National Assembly, operatives of the Department of State Services and the Police among other security agencies have arrived at the National Assembly Complex in their hundreds.

Wife of Nigeria’s President, Hajiya Aisha Buhari, has challenged security agencies to quickly end banditry and other insecurity challenges in parts of the country.

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed security agencies to stop the flow of illegal arms into the country, Chief of Naval Staff, Vice-Adm. Ibok-Ete Ibas, has said.

The House of Representatives, on Tuesday urged security agencies, particularly the Army to increase its surveillance of Wukari Local Government Area of Taraba to ensure that peace is restored.

The Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Most Rev. Adewale Martins, has told the nation’s security agencies to restrategise in the bid to combat insecurity in the Country.

Governor Umaru Al-Makura of Nasarawa State has tasked security agencies to fish out perpetrators of Sunday night’s killing of 16 persons at Numa village in Akwanga local government area.

The police command in Rivera says it has intensified security and restricted movement in four local government areas of the state where supplementary election will hold on Saturday.

The National Identity Management Commission has called on all security agencies to work in synergy toward curbing the current security challenges facing the country using Data Management systems.

The Kano State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission and security agencies to ensure that the Saturday supplementary election in the state was seamless.

Worried by attacks on non-Yoruba voters during the February 23, 2019 Presidential and National Assembly elections in parts of Lagos State, “particularly at Igbo dominated pulling units”, the South East Revival Group has urged the Federal Government of Nigeria and indeed all security agencies “to ensure no Nigerian got molested for exercising their franchise in accordance with the laws of the land.”

Retired Lieutenant General Abdulrahman Dambazau, the Minister of Interior, has commended security agencies and the electorates on the peaceful conduct of the February 23 Presidential and National Assembly elections.

Lagos PDP governorship candidate, Jimi Agbaje, has called on security agencies to be alive to their core responsibility of ensuring law and order, especially as the Saturday, March 9, 2019 elections draw nearer.

The All Progressives Congress has petitioned security agencies over the alleged attack on Lola Ashiru, its Senatorial Candidate for Kwara South.

The Peoples Democratic Party has accused President Muhammadu Buhari and his party, the All Progressives Congress, of arm twisting security agencies and the Independent National Electoral Commission to rig Saturday’s polls.

The All Progressives Congress has petitioned security agencies over what it termed the gruesome attack on the party’s Kwara South Senatorial District candidate, Hon. Lola Ashiru, allegedly by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Rafiu Ibrahim.

The All Progressives Congress in Makurdi on Wednesday called on security agencies to beef up surveillance in all states to forestall any plan to rig the polls.

The heads of security agencies in Kaduna State have confirmed the killing of 66 persons by yet-to-be-identified gunmen in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

Kaduna State Police Commissioner, Ahmad Abdur-Rahman, says collaborative synergy with security agencies is helping to curb security challenges in the state.

The Nigerian Army says it is collaborating with other security agencies to maintain high standard of professionalism and patriotism, to ensure peaceful conduct of the 2019 general elections.