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  ..... Calls for Cooperation, Tolerance amongst Nigerians By Aviashima Toom, Abuja    The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, has directed the deployment of adequate personnel to provide protection for citizens, critical national infrastructures, and ensure the success of all activities lined-up for the country’s 62nd Independence Anniversary scheduled for Saturday 1st October, 2022 all around the nation, and prevent any untoward situation throughout the period of the celebration and beyond.   Meanwhile, Strategic Police Managers comprising Assistant Inspectors General of Police and Commissioners of Police in all the Zonal and State Commands and the FCT have been directed to ensure high visibility and confidence boosting patrols around the venues of the celebrations, residential areas and other public places to prevent infiltration by hostile elements and ensure a peaceful celebration.   In a statement signed on Friday by the Force P...

By Our Reporter  The Nigerian Air Force School of Air  Intelligence (NAFSAINT), Nigerian Air Force Base, Makurdi on Friday graduated 48 personnel.  The Commandant of the school, Air Commodore Emmanuel Ukpong, disclosed this during the combined graduation ceremony of the Basic Intelligence Analysis Course 2/2022 and the Basic Intelligence Supervisor Course 6/2022 held in Makurdi. The commandant disclosed that 48 Air Force personnel were enrolled in the two courses and all of them were found worthy in character and learning, emphasizing that all of them had graduated. Ukpong explained that the basic intelligence analysis course is aimed at producing intelligence operatives equipped with the requisite security training that would enhance proficiency in intelligence analysis, evaluation, integration and interpretation to meet the Commander's intelligence requirement. He further stated that the basic intelligence supervisory course was aimed at producing intelligen...

By Aviashima Toom, Abuja  A Non Governmental Organization under the aegis of Council Of The Wise Of Savannah Centre For Diplomacy, Democracy And Development has called on the federal government to provide Independent National Electoral Commission with timely release of funds for the successful conduct of the 2023 General Elections. The Chairperson of the council, Justice Zainab Adamu Bulkachuwa who made the call on Tuesday while addressing a world press conference in Abuja also called on President Muhammadu Buhari to follow up by ensuring that public institutions and officials comply with the electoral laws. The former President, Court of Appeal (Retired), noted that the integrity of the elections largely depends on it's management by INEC who should be guided by the remarkable success so far achieved from 2015 to date.  "As a neutral and independent institution, INEC must be fair and just to all political parties, candidates and...

By Aviashima Toom, Abuja  The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba has reiterated that his administration is committed to continuously developing improved capacity of its officers through practical training, and acquiring top-notch investigative and operational assets to sustain the fight against oil theft and other crimes capable of sabotaging the country's economy.  The IGP butressed this while briefing  the Senate Ad-hoc Committee to Investigate Oil Lifting, Theft and the Impact on Petroleum Production and Oil Revenues on Wednesday 21st September,2022, via a report on the activities of the IGP Special Task Force on Petroleum and Illegal Bunkering. In a statement signed by the Force Public Relations Officer CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi said the IGP similarly recounted other achievements of the Inspector-General of Police Special Task Force on Petroleum and Illegal Bunkering (IGP-STFPIB), the Unit charged with the responsibility...

By Chidi Omeje Nigerians woke up Thursday morning to a grisly picture splashed on the social media of a battered female personnel of the Nigeria Police Force drenched in the pool of her own blood. The vexatious story behind the ghastly picture was that the Policewoman was brutalized to a point of near-death, reportedly by a female professor she was attached to as an orderly or for whatever role. The lady professor who was later identified as Zainab Duke Abiola, according to the story, procured the assistance of her other aides to physically assault the police officer for yet to be disclosed reasons. In spite of the largely unresolved schism between young Nigerians who populate the social media space and the Nigerian Police, the outrage that greeted the report was palpable and spontaneous. Many called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of the killer-professor and her gang and many more questioned, and in fact, expressed even more outrage over the continuous objectifica...

By Our Reporter  The Small-scale Women Farmers Organization of Nigeria (SWOFON), has appealed to the Federal and State Governments to create a special intervention fund for women farmers to enable them increase food production in the country. The National President of SWOFON, Mrs Mary Ishaya made the appeal on Thursday while presenting obsolete farm implement to the National Commission for Museums and Monuments to be kept in the museum in Makurdi.  Our Correspondent reports that the traditional implement the organization presented to the commission were a hoe, small hoe, cutlass and sickle. She stated that women as major contributors to the agricultural sector were faced with the challenge of funding which in turn was hampering agricultural activities. She stressed that if the special intervention fund was made available to women they would step up agricultural production thereby boosting food security. She further requested that strategic g...

By Aviashima Toom, Abuja  The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali, has rated that there is absolute need to review evolving political programmes laid down by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and chart clear pathways for a smooth electoral process in the countdown to the 2023 General Elections. IGP Alkali made this known during an interactive section with Commissioners of Police and above at the Force Headquarters Abuja. Alkali, charged the officers  to boost the security of their public space towards guaranteeing a crime-free and enabling environment for political campaigns and other components of the electoral process. He noted that this was paramount following the announcement by the INEC for the commencement of electioneering campaigns by all political parties from September 28, 2022. The National Political space will become very active and susceptible to increased politically related offences. The IGP tasked all Strateg...