Tag: Insecurity
Insecurity: NCC shuts down telecom services in Zamfara
September 5, 2021 The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has directed telecoms service providers to shut down services in Zamfara State for two weeks. This was disclosed in a memo signed on Friday by the Executive Vice Chairman of the NCC, Professor Umar Danbatta, and addressed to Globacom, one of the telecoms providers. According to the ...We’ve had serious security challenges, but it’s under control now – Obaseki
August 11, 2021 Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo, on Wednesday in Benin, said that the security situation in the state was relatively calm, adding that efforts were ongoing to sustain it. Obaseki stated this while reviewing the state security situation for the month of July, after a joint security meeting with all heads of various ...Let’s use technology to fight crime, Ganduje tells IGP Usman Baba
June 23, 2021 We have installed CCTV all over the metropolitan city, and now laying optic fibre to complement the satellite services. We also have trackers, and at the major entrance of Kano metropolis, we built security dometories where we have a number of security agents manning the major entrances Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano ...In two years, Sanwo-Olu ups the beat in leadership
June 22, 2021 Two years of Sanwo-Olu has triggered an infrastructure revolution in a state that knows no sleep. Some folks have argued that some of the commissioned projects were initiated by Sanwo-Olu’s predecessors. So what? The very fact that he did not abandon those projects to start ‘his own’ projects speaks to the character ...Insecurity: Take drastic actions now, avert anarchy, Obi tells Buhari
The Vice Presidential candidate of the PDP in the last election, Mr. Peter Obi, has bemoaned the current situation in the country describing the ravaging nationwide insecurity as a stepping stone to anarchy. Obi said this in a press release. He urged President Muhammadu Buhari to take drastic actions to avert looming anarchy. Describing the ...Nigeria in troubled times, insecurity has made many hungry – Gov. Okowa
APRIL 23, 2021 Delta Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has said that Nigeria is in troubled times with dwindling economy occasioned by various factors, including worsening insecurity across the nation. The governor stated this on Friday at the funeral service of late Mrs Comfort Nwagimeje at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Agbor, and urged Nigerians to pray ...Insecurity: Yobe joins Katsina, Niger; orders closure of boarding schools
The Yobe government has announced the closure of all boarding schools in the state, as part of proactive measures to safeguard the lives of the students. Earlier, the governors of Kano, Niger and Katsina have ordered the closure of boarding schools due to the growing insecurity. The Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Dr Muhammed ...Governors in Aso Rock, say, ‘we’ll spend more money to contain insecurity’
The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) says it is willing to spend more to help contain the insecurity ravaging the nation, adding it is against ethnic profiling of crime and criminality in the country. The NGF Chairman, Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, gave this indication when he briefed State House correspondents after an emergency meeting ...Plateau State University ASUU begins strike over insecurity, poor infrastructure
The Plateau State University chapter, of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has commenced an indefinite strike action over insecurity, poor infrastructural development and arrears of earned allowances for its members. Dr. Pamson Bentse, chairman of the union in the University, who disclosed this on Friday, in Jos, said the decision to proceed on ...Insecurity, Covid-19: Kano State orders immediate closure of schools
Kano State Government on Tuesday ordered the closure of all public and private schools in the state with immediate effect, Mr Sanusi Kiru, Commissioner for Education announced. No official reason was given but it was gathered that the government took the action because of growing insecurity in the north and the recent surge in Covid-19 ...
