Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to the Senate President, Dr. Ahmad Lawan, urging him to use his leadership position to “ensure that the bill that would allow ‘repentant Boko Haram terrorists’ opportunities to access public funds to enjoy foreign education is immediately dropped, and to sponsor bills that would
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has decried the poor security situation in Nigeria. Obasanjo said it seemed nobody was in charge in the country, especially with the bickering, infighting and confusion in the nation’s security high command. He said: “There has been embarrassing paralysis and ‘katakata’ in the nation’s security house as if we have nobody
Head of Cooperation, Embassy of France in Nigeria, Mr. Ellien Helios, has said that efforts to find sustainable solutions to the spate of insecurity in Nigeria particularly in the North-West is inadequate, tasking all concerned authorities and stakeholders to step up actions to effectively define and tackle the menace. This is just as stakeholders on
As part of efforts to bring to an end, the challenges of insecurity facing parts of Niger state and the country at large, Muslim Ummah in all the headquarters of the Eight Emirates in the State, have held a special prayer session seeking God’s intervention. This is also as Governor Abubakar Sani Bello noted that
A full grown male Hyena escaped from Imo State Zoological Garden and Wildlife Park at the early hours of Monday. The Hyena described by management of the zoo as a ‘giant Hyena’ was however recaptured by wildlife experts from the zoo barely six hours after the endangered animal escaped from the zoo. General Manager of
The Nigerian Army Engineer Corps, Theatre Command of Operation Lafiya Dole (OPLD) has commenced local production of Mines Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles in Maiduguri to enhance their operational capacity. Maj.-Gen. Olusegun Adeniyi, the Theatre Commander OPLD, made the disclosure while briefing newsmen on Friday in Maiduguri. Adeniyi disclosed that with the belief that money
Nigerians under the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum have called for the immediate arrest and detention of the Commander of the National Air Defence Corps, Ikeja, Air commodore U.K Abdullah for alleged national security breach. This is also as the Forum called for the investigation of the reported interception of a weaponized drone at
Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign as president over rising insecurity in the country. Abaribe, a former Deputy Governor in Abia state, in clear terms said the President has failed Nigerians in his primary mandate which is security of lives and properties. Crimefacts.news reports that the Senator made
The USS Bataan strike group and the 2,400-strong 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit are being deployed to the Mid-East ready for unexpected trouble arising from spiraling tension with Iran and potential reactions to the release of Donald Trump’s “Deal of the Century” – a plan for an Israel-Palestinian peace – early next week. On Friday, Jan.
Between 2010 and 2012, four Iranian nuclear scientists were assassinated (Masoud Alimohammadi, Majid Shahriari, Darioush Rezaeinejad and Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan) while another scientist was wounded in an attempted murder (Fereydoon Abbasi) Masoud Alimohammadi. Two of the killings were carried out with magnetic bombs attached to the targets’ cars; Darioush Rezaeinejad was shot dead, and Masoud