President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of DIG Usman Alkali Baba as acting Inspector General of police. He immediately replaces Mohammed Abubakar Adamu. The Minister of Police Affairs, Maigari Dingyadi disclosed this to State House correspondents on Tuesday. The president had on the 4th of February, extended the tenure of Mohammed Adamu as the […]
The telephone numbers and personal data of 533 million Facebook users have been leaked online, Business Insider reported Saturday. Data including phone numbers, full names, location, email address and biographical information have been posted online in a low-level hacking forum, according to the report. The exposed data includes personal information of over 533 million Facebook […]
The Nigerian Air Force has said that the Alpha Jet aircraft (NAF475) that went off the radar days ago may have crashed with the cause unknown. The jet which had two pilots on board was declared missing by the Air Force on March 31. A statement by the Air Force on Friday gave the names […]
Ogun State government on Thursday launched the State Security Network codenamed Operation Amotekun. At the event which was held in Abeokuta, the state capital, the state Governor Dapo Abiodun also decorated Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka as Super Marshal of the corps. The governor also commissioned scores of patrol vans and motorcycles to aid the operations […]
The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has described his comment that 50 million youths should be employed into the Army as “an accidental verbal mistake”. There have been reactions to Tinubu’s comment on the mass recruitment into the army as a result of the rising insecurity. He spoke at […]
Families of those killed during the clash in Orlu, Imo State, between members of the Eastern Security Network linked with the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra and soldiers are still mourning their dead. Some of them lost husbands while others lost wives to the bloody incident. The victims included husband of one Mrs. Eunice Orji […]
The Ogun government said on Saturday that it had commenced collaborative efforts with necessary stakeholders to include security lessons in the academic syllabus to enhance security consciousness its among students. The Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof. Abayomi Arigbabu, made the disclosure at a meeting with the state Commandant of Nigeria Security and Civil […]
Soldiers of an unidentified battalion in Operation Lafiya Dole have protested their posting to a location in the Theatre of Operation. The aggrieved soldiers, according to sources at the Maimalari barracks besieged the headquarters of the Theatre Command in Borno State, shooting sporadically into the air on Thursday night following their deployment. They cited non-payment […]
The House of Representatives is proposing a four-year tenure for the holder of the office of Inspector General of Police, IGP for effectiveness and optimal performances through a Bill which seeks ‘repeal Police Service Commission Act and re-enact the Police Service Commission bill, 2020.‘ Speaking at the Public hearing on the bill to strengthen the […]
Yemi Fasipe, a youth leader in Ondo State, has written a petition to the Assistant Inspector General of Police over the abduction of Temidayo Iluyemi by men of the Intelligence Unit of the Force Headquarters in Abuja. Iluyemi was abducted from his home in Oba-Ile, Akure, the state capital, by five policemen who appeared in […]
