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Sep

15

2022

Nigerian Army, EFCC agree to fight terrorism financing

Metro, News, PoliticsBandits, Boko Haram, Crime, Metro, Next Level, Nigeria, Politics, Security

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Nigerian Army have agreed to tackle terrorism financing. EFCC Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, expressed the readiness of the body to partner with the Army on intelligence sharing and capacity building. Bawa made the pledge while addressing officers of the Nigerian Army School of Artillery in Kachia, Kaduna State. The anti-graft stressed that modern warfare has gone beyond kinetics and the exchange of gunfire. He said the military and other security agencies must “choke” the source of funding of terrorists and identify their sponsors. Bawa, who spoke through the Kaduna Zonal Commander Harry…

Sep

15

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

Group tells DSS to arrest Sheikh Gumi for alleged romance with bandits, terrorists

Metro, PoliticsBandits, Boko Haram, Crime, Metro, Nigeria, Politics, Security, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi

For alleged romance with bandits/terrorists, a civil society organisation, under the auspices of Coalition for Peace In Nigeria (COPIN), has advised the Department of State Services (DSS), to without hesitation, arrest a Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi. COPIN opined that owing to Gumi’s persistent call on the federal government to grant the terror elements amnesty, he should ordinarily be a person of interest. Pharmacist Emeka Akwuobi and Hajiya Fatih Yakub, the National Coordinator and the Secretary of the group, respectively, in a joint statement issued on Wednesday, said that Sheikh Gumi had a lot of explanations to offer…

Sep

15

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

Musiliu Smith resigns as Police commission chairman

Metro, PoliticsNigeria, Police, Politics, Security

Musiliu Smith, Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC) has resigned from his position. Ikechukwu Ani, PSC Head of Information, confirmed his exit to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). The spokesman disclosed that an official statement would soon be issued by the commission. Smith reportedly wrote a notice of resignation to President Muhammad Buhari which has been approved. He is expected to hand over to Justice Clara Ogunbiyi retired, representing the judiciary at the commission. 76-year-old Smith was appointed Inspector General of Police in May 1999 and retired in March 2002. Ogunbiyi, 74, is a former Justice of the…

Sep

12

2022

By Chimamanda

US online university graduates over 400 Nigerians as ASUU strike rages on.

Education, MetroASUU, Education, Next Level, Nigeria, Politics

More than 400 Nigerian students have graduated from N^exford university (NXU), an American online university, for the 2021 to 2022 session. The online university, according to Country Director Olamidun Majekodunmi-Ogundoyin, was launched in the country in 2019 and has since enrolled over 3,000 students in Nigeria. Although the university said it does not see itself as a beneficiary of the ongoing protracted strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), it acknowledged that it saw significant growth in claims during the strike. In her remarks on Saturday at a graduation ceremony held at the Oriental Hotel, Lagos, Ms. Ogundoyin noted that…

Sep

11

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

Terrorists: Tension heightens as schools resume in FCT, others

Education, MetroEducation, Metro, Nigeria

Following the deteriorating security situation in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, parents and guardians are worried over the safety of students as schools resume for a new academic section on Monday. Recall that the Federal Government had on July 25, 2022, directed the closure of federal colleges in the nation’s capital over series of terrorists’ attacks recorded in Abuja. Recall that the National Examination Council was also directed in July to hasten the conduct of examinations for final-year students in a bid to forestall attacks on those participating in the exercise. The directive was sequel to an attack on Sheda and Lambata…