The governor said on Monday while receiving Sallah homage from the emirs of Kaura-Namoda, Birnin-Magaji and Zurmi, that the emirs should immediately convene stakeholders meeting on the matter.
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The security experts told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that cattle ranching would go a long way in curbing farmers/herdsmen clashes and cattle rustling in the country.
Speaking during a courtesy visit by the newly posted Commissioner of Police, Aminu Pai Saleh, at the Government House, Ilorin, Ahmed said he would not relent his efforts to make sure that security challenges in the state are properly addressed.
He pointed out that the attacks were taking a different dimension now because security personnel too were not spared and all hands must be on deck to end the ugly situation.
He gave the assurance on Tuesday during the inauguration of a Mobile Police Squadron in Takum, Taraba.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the minister spoke after decorating a newly-promoted Deputy Comptroller General of Immigration, Juliet Fariku, at the agency’s headquarters.
Adamu said that over the past decade, Nigeria had grown more insecure, largely due to ethno-religious crisis and Boko Haram insurgency in the north, cultism and ritual killings in the south.
They have, however, called on the nation’s media owners and practitioners to walk the fine balance between openness on the one hand and national security on the other.
The Federal Government had arrested Dan-China and 24 others and charged them before the judge, Justice Musa Kurya, on a four-count offence of illegal mining at Zurak in Wase Local Government Area of Plateau.
Joseph Kwaji, the Police Public Relations Officer, said in a statement in Maiduguri that the incident occurred on Wednesday when two suspected female suicide bombers tried to infiltrate the area in the night.
Commodore Olu Bankole, the Command Operations Officer, who led a delegation to the state, disclosed this in an interview with newsmen shortly after he held a closed-door meeting with Governor Abubakar Bello in Minna on Monday.
Armed security personnel were seen deployed to strategic areas in Makurdi while others were seen patrolling streets in armoured tanks and vehicles as part of measures to boost up security in the state.
The NANS National Public Relations Officer, Bestman Okereafor, in a statement in Enugu, said that it had become imperative that government at all levels take special interest in securing schools.
Wakkala made the disclosure when Maj.-Gen. Muhammad Muhammad, the General Officer Commanding 1 Division, Nigerian Army, Kaduna, paid a condolence visit to the state over recent killings of villagers in Birane village.
Balogun, also a fishing expert, made the appeal while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Wednesday.
Monguno said this in a key note address on Tuesday in Abuja, at the launch of the “Framework and National Action Plan for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism’’.
The Vice President made this known during a security summit organized by the Senate ad-hoc committee on Insecurity, held in Abuja.
Ajefu said: “We the members of CISA have noted with grave concern, the continuous illegal detention of the former National Security Adviser, Col Sambo Dasuki (Rtd). As a matter of fact, Friday, December 29, 2017 will make it exactly two years that he was re-arrested and detained on the orders of the Federal Government and has remained in incarceration since then.”
As you know, I am from the North East of the country which has been devastated by the Boko Haram insurgency in the last few years in what is obviously Nigeria’s longest domestic war. Here in the South East, the Nigerian Army is engaged in what it calls Operation Python Dance II, partly in response to threats to public peace. Both cases, for different reasons and in different ways, have involved threats to the Nigerian state, to the corporate existence of Nigeria.
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