Browsing: Solomon Arase

How much do we celebrate Nigeria as the land of Aliko Dangote, Tony Elumelu, Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Okonjo-Iweala, Akinwumi Adesina, Adebayo Ogunlesi (the investment banker who owns Gatwick Airport in London), Robert Okojie (who was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame of the United States’ National Aeronautics Space Administration, NASA), Olawale Sulaiman, (one of the best neurosurgeons and experts in spinal surgery in America), and Amina Mohammed (our amazon at the United Nations dazzling the world as Deputy Secretary-General)? Or Philip Emeagwali, the Nigerian computer scientist who gave the world its high-performance computing applications? Or Leo Stan Eke, the computer guru who gifted the world with Zinox? Or our gallant policemen flying our flag high in United Nations Peace Keeping Missions abroad? How much do we celebrate them?

Aside from the shortage of personnel caused by such indiscriminate deployments, some of the policemen that should have been distinguished men and women have been turned into servitude. What we see is usually photographs on social media, showing police officers carrying bags for wives of politicians and officers holding umbrellas over foreigners by shielding them from the sun

According to a statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, Olabisi Kolawole, Arase sued for peace among the stakeholders of the party at the meeting held at the Force Headquarters, Abuja, and which was also attended by the Director General of the Department of State Services, Lawal Musa Daura

Usman said Buratai specifically thanked the Inspector General of Police’s Intelligence Response Team and the Kaduna State Command Special Investigation Bureau operatives for their dedication to duty and professionalism, which led to the arrest of the criminals that abducted and killed the late senior officer in Kaduna metropolis, Kaduna State on March 27 this year