Security Report

To rekindle the spirit of professionalism, the Nigerian Army has released the postings and appointments of some senior officers. The postings which were approved by the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. TY Buratai is a routine/normal exercise intended to reinvigorate the system for greater professional effectiveness and efficiency. …

Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum was on Friday at Maimalari military barracks in Maiduguri where he announced cash support of N23.5m as support to families of 47 soldiers killed by boko haram last Sunday in Yobe state. Each family is to receive N500,000 not as compensation for losing priceless …

The Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, on Monday signed into law the bill for the establishment of Ekiti State Security Network Agency, and Amotekun Corps, with a warning to criminally minded persons to stay away from the State and the entire Southwest zone. Dr Fayemi while assenting to …

The Enugu Journalists Forum (EJF), an umbrella body of journalists of Enugu state extraction practicing in Abuja, has called on the governors and stakeholders in the South-East, to work together towards establishing an efficient regional security outfit in the region. The forum in a statement at the weekend, noted with …

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmBy Stanley Nwanosike Enugu, March 7, 2020 The Enugu State Police Command has arrested a suspected kidnapper and rescued 13 persons held hostage in a successful raid. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Daniel Ndukwe disclosed this in a statement on Saturday in Enugu. Ndukwe said the command also recovered …

Niger Delta youth leaders on Wednesday warned the National Security Adviser (NSA) Maj-Gen Babagana Mongunu (Retd) of the implications of hijacking the management of the Presidential Amnesty Office on the stability and peace of the region. The youths noted that mismanagement of the Amnesty Programme could lead to the return …

  Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, has applauded the Nigerian military’s ground and air components for what he described as “decisive blow against Boko Haram” in the early hours of Wednesday, even when the insurgents ambushed from different directions in attempt to overrun Damboa town in southern part of …

 By Adekunle Williams (Lagos), Adebisi Fatima Sogbade (Ibadan), Olajide Idowu (Osogbo) The Houses of Assembly of Lagos, Oyo and Osun States have, Tuesday, separately passed the Bill to legalize Amotekun, the joint security outfit being set up by the geo-political zone. Lagos State House of Assembly unanimously passed the Bill …

  turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 …and his bishoprick (office or charge) let another take – Acts 1: 20. The jury is in: A preponderant number of Nigerians want the Service chiefs dismissed from office. When we say “Service chiefs”, we mean the Chief of Army Staff; Chief of Air Staff; …

By Sumaila Ogbaje Abuja, Feb. 26, 2020 A Corporal of Nigerian Army serving at the Theatre Command Operation LAFIYA DOLE, Army Super Camp 15, located at Malam Fatori, Borno State, has opened fire on colleagues killing four and injuring two before killing himself. The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. …

By Adekunle Williams Lagos, Feb. 24, 2020 The Aare Ona Kankanfo of Yoruba Land, Iba Gani Adams, on Monday said that the successful implementation of ‘Amotekun’ would attract more investments to the six states in South-West. Adams said this while addressing newsmen on the sideline of a one-day Stakeholders’ Forum …

By Emmanuel Acha Enugu, Feb. 21, 2020 Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State on Friday, signed the state’s Security Trust Fund bill 2020 recently passed by the state House of Assembly into Law. The Commissioner for Information, Mr Chidi Aroh disclosed this on Friday while briefing newsmen after the State …

By Ijendu Iheaka Aba, Feb. 19, 2020 Abia state Police Commissioner, CP Ene Okon has confirmed the arrest of six suspected armed robbers by a team of detectives at the Ndiegoro Police Division in Aba. Okon commended the Ndiegoro DPO, SP Alphonsus Ayang and his men for the feat, adding …

Some angry youths have impounded a police patrol vehicle allegedly being used to extort innocent travelers at Dambam, a rural community in Bauchi State. They seized the patrol van after armed robbers brutally attacked and robbed some women who were travelling in the North-East axis. Three little boys, who were …

From: Ruth Yarnap, Bauchi The Bauchi State Police Command has denied  allegations contained in a trending video clip in the social media, that the police in Dambam local government was the mastermind of a robbery attack that occurred along Kano- Maiduguri road. A press release issued by the acting State …

There is an established cold war and ongoing battle for supremacy in the coordination of Nigeria’s security between the National Security Adviser (NSA), Maj-Gen. Babagana Monguno (rtd) and the Chief of Staff (COS) to the President, Mr. Abba Kyari. In what seems to indicate that Kyari has the upper hand, …

Native doctors in Ijebu, Ogun state, southwest Nigeria have expressed their readiness to lend a full backing to operation Amotekun by fortifying its officers with charms to contain criminalities in the region. The herbalists also told the Amotekun operatives not to worry if the federal government fails to provide them …

By Shedrack Frank Yenagoa, Feb. 17, 2020 The Bayelsa state Police Command has extended the three-day dusk-to dawn curfew earlier imposed on the state from Feb. 17 to Feb. 23. The State’s Commissioner of Police, Mr Uche Anozia, announced the curfew extension on Monday during a press briefing in Yenagoa. “The …

By Jonathan Rozen/CPJ Senior Africa Researcher As reporters for Nigeria’s Premium Times newspaper, Samuel Ogundipe and Azeezat Adedigba told CPJ they spoke often over the phone. They had no idea that their regular conversations about work and their personal lives were creating a record of their friendship. On August 9, 2018, Ogundipe published …

Governors of the South East Geo-political zone, on Wednesday, endorsed the new community policing model of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), for effective security in the zone. Rising from the South East geo-political zone’s Security Summit, initiated by the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. Mohammed Adamu Abubakar, the governors …

South East Governors and the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. Mohammed Adamu Abubakar  in a closed-door meeting at the Government House, Enugu, ahead of Wednesday’s South East Geo-political Zone Security Summit, holding at The Base Event Centre, Independence Layout, Enugu. Theme of the summit is “Strategic Partnership for Effective …

The  Lagos State Police Command held its End of the Year party at POWA Hall, Ikeja G.R.A. Lagos on Sunday, February 9, 2020. Pictures by Chinyere Ikeanyi show some of those at the event.

By Monday Ijeh Abuja, Feb. 10 2020 The Police Command in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), on Monday rescued four kidnap victims from a notorious kidnappers’ den located at Sauni Hills, Lambata, along the boundary between the FCT and Niger State. The command’s Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Anjuguri Manzah …

By Emmanuel Acha Enugu, Feb. 9, 2020 The South East Governors Forum (SEGF) has promised to provide the Federal Government details of its joint security programme at the appropriate time. Gov. Dave Umahi of Ebonyi, the Chairman of the forum, disclosed this on Sunday in Enugu while briefing newsmen after …