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Friday, 06 July 2018 05:06

Senate adopts 20 recommendations to improve security

Senate has received and adopted the report from its Security Summit. The summit, held from February 8 to 12 in Abuja, was organised by the National Assembly with the aim to proffer solutions to the growing rate of insecurity in the country. Senate Leader, Mr Ahmed Lawan (APC, Yobe North) presented the report to the upper chamber after over four months. The report, which has 20 recommendations, called on the federal government to make more recruitments in to the various security agencies in the country as the current personnel are overstretched. In the report, Senate also called for low-interest rate…

Friday, 06 July 2018 04:58

Ex-Finance minister, Adamu Ciroma, dead, buried in Abuja

Former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria from 1975 to 1977, Mr Adamu Ciroma, is dead. He died at 83. Ciroma was buried at Gudu Cementary, Abuja, yesterday evening. Ciroma, also a former Finance minister during former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration, between 1999 and 2003, reportedly died at Turkish Nizamiye Hospital in Abuja, after a protracted illness. Meanwhile, it was beehive of activities and mixed emotions at his Wuse 2, Abuja residence. Aside close family members and friends, three People’s Democratic Party presidential aspirants and former governors; Sule Lamido (Jigawa); Ahmed Makarfi (Kaduna) and Attahiru Bafarawa (Sokoto), were early callers…

Thursday, 05 July 2018 05:38

State police: Reps get bill, Saraki meets speakers

Barely 24 hours after the House of Representatives passed a resolution backing the establishment of state police, Speaker, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, on Wednesday received a bill seeking to amend the 1999 Constitution to accommodate state police. The bill was transmitted to Dogara by the sponsor and Leader of the House, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila. Its key provision is to amend Section 214 (1) of the 1999 Constitution by deleting the phrase “and subject to the provisions of this section no other police force shall be established for the Federation or any part thereof” immediately after the word “force.” New sections 215…

Thursday, 05 July 2018 05:21

Afenifere Oyo says 'no' to cattle ranches

Funmi Olaitan, Ibadan Oyo State chapter of pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government not to use public fund to create cattle ranches because of the inherent danger such a move portends. The group in a press release issued in Ibadan and signed its Chairman, Mr Gbola Adetunji and acting Publicity Secretary, Mr Jare Ajayi, said cattle ranching belongs in the realm of 'private business'. "Why then should enormous public fund be devoted to establishing and promoting something that will be beneficial to some private individuals and endanger the lives of thousands, if not million…

Wednesday, 04 July 2018 04:01

N’Assembly moves to amend constitution for state police

Senate and House of Representatives on Tuesday declared the country’s security system a “failed architecture” and backed the call for the establishment of state police to contain the escalating killings by herdsmen across many states. The federal lawmakers’ decision to grant the request of many prominent Nigerians, including governors, for state police is hinged on the continued killings in the country and the inability of the security agencies to end incessant violence and murders. The two chambers of the National Assembly have, therefore, agreed to amend the constitution to achieve this objective. To achieve the state police structure, the House…

Wednesday, 04 July 2018 03:57

Why I’m visiting Fela’s Afrika Shrine – Macron

President of France, Mr Emmanuel Macron, has said he decided to visit Afrika Shrine, founded by late music legend, Mr Fela Kuti, in Lagos because he has fond memories of the place. Macron said he has been looking for an opportunity to visit the shrine because, “I know the place and I have some memories.” The French leader, speaking during a press conference alongside his host, President Muhammadu Buhari, in Abuja, travelled to Lagos after the briefing. He told journalists that he hopes his return to the shrine as a serving president “will not spoil the party.” He said the…

Wednesday, 04 July 2018 03:53

Catholic Bishops to Buhari: Resign if you can’t stop killings

Catholic Bishop’s Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has again demanded the resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari over killings across the country. CBCN had in a reaction to an attack on some Catholic worshipers at a church in Benue State accused Mr Buhari of negligence in his constitutional role of ensuring the safety of lives and property in Nigeria and demanded his resignation. In a similar statement on Tuesday, CBCN said it was repeating the request for Buhari’s resignation because the issues raised in the body’s initial statement were ‘neglected’ by the presidency. “Barely two months ago, from the Eternal City of…

Wednesday, 04 July 2018 03:51

Only one percent of Nigerian population in universities – NUC boss

Mr Abubakar Rasheed‎, Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), said on Tuesday that only one per cent of Nigerian population form the total enrollment of students in the 164 universities across the country. Rasheed made this known in Abuja on the sidelines of the presentation of Provisional License to a new private university, Skyline University, Kano. Skyline University is the 75th private university approved by Federal Executive Council. ‎ Rasheed stated that the 75 private universities in the country accounted for 5.31 per cent of total enrollment in universities across the country. He described the situation as unhealthy and stressed…

Tuesday, 03 July 2018 05:36

Buhari gets new electoral act for assent

National Assembly has transmitted a new version of the amendment made to 2010 electoral act to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent. Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly matters (Senate), Mr Ita Enang, confirmed that the bill has been transmitted to the President through his office. The transmission came three months after the president rejected the earlier amendment made citing constitutional matters. The report of the conference committee on the new version of the act was passed on June 7, this year before the lawmakers proceeded on three weeks Sallah break. One of the contentious issues in the…

Tuesday, 03 July 2018 05:35

Police protest: IGP summoned to Aso Rock

Inspector-General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, was on Monday at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja for a meeting with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. The meeting, it was gathered, was over the protest by mobile policemen in Maiduguri, Borno State capital, against six-month unpaid allowances. The officers were reportedly posted to Borno in January in order to fortify the insurgency-ridden state. Mr Osinbajo and IGP met behind closed doors at the vice president’s office. President Muhammmadu Buhari is currently in Mauritania for the 31st Ordinary Session of African Union Assembly of Heads of State and Government. After the meeting,…

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Monday, 02 July 2018 04:58

Buhari calls for repatriation of stolen assets without legal barriers

President Muhammadu Buhari has called on nations, where looted assets have been stashed, to release them without the usually long technicalities involved in the process of reptriation. Buhari, according to a statement by his spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, made the call in Nouakchott, Mauritania, on Sunday during his introductory remarks as leader of African Union shortly before commencement of the debate on African Anti-Corruption Year. The theme for this year’s session is: “Winning the Fight against Corruption – A Sustainable Path to Africa’s Transformation.” “We must all collectively work to place high on the agenda the need for open and…

Monday, 02 July 2018 04:53

Herdsmen, Boko Haram threaten Nigeria’s future - UK Parliament

Killings, suspected to have been carried out in some parts of Nigeria by herdsmen alleged to be of Fulani extraction, and Boko Haram echoed in United Kingdom (UK) as the country’s House of Lords debated the issue last week. The debate came on the heels of the massacre of more than 100 persons in three local government areas of Plateau State last weekend. Before the Plateau incident, killings in some states in the country, including but not limited to Benue, Adamawa and Taraba had been linked to herdsmen. In the debate in UK House of Lords on Thursday, several members…

Monday, 02 July 2018 04:52

Killings: Without state police, we risk more attacks - Ekweremadu

Deputy President of Senate, Mr Ike Ekweremadu, has taken the campaign for restructuring to United States of America. To give fillip to this, Ekweremadu is set to sponsor a bill to decentralise Nigeria’s policing system. This, he said, was in response to the rising insecurity in the country, particularly the killing of over 100 people in 11 villages in Plateau State by armed Fulani herders. This has led to a public outcry with prominent Nigerians including Senate President, Bukola Satraki calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to sack all security chiefs for their alleged inability to secure the country and arrest…

Monday, 02 July 2018 04:51

Buhari’s body language shows unwillingness to punish killer Herdsmen - ASUU

Funmi Olaitan, Ibadan Chairman, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Ibadan chapter, Mr Deji Omole, says the Federal Government has lost the capacity to enforce laws and protect Nigeria and Nigerians with uncontrolled killings in farming communities in North Central part of the country. Omole who said this over the weekend, in a statement issued in Ibadan, while noting the increase in the spate of kidnapping, armed robbery and violence nationwide, stated that the body language of the President and the police has shown unwillingness to arrest, and prosecute killer herdsmen. While maintaining that 80 per cent of…

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