eddie7: FG Moves To Shake Up Security System: Police, DSS, NSCDC Face Fresh Probe Over Overlapping Roles, Inefficiencies
The Federal Government has launched a major review of Nigeria’s security structure, setting up a high-level committee to examine the roles and operations of key agencies, including the Nigeria Police Force, Department of State Services, and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps.
The committee, inaugurated in Abuja by Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume, is tasked with addressing growing concerns over duplication of duties, operational inefficiencies, and overlapping mandates among Nigeria’s expanding list of security and para-military outfits.
Represented by Permanent Secretary Dr. Ibrahim Abubakar Kana, Akume noted that the unchecked rise of federal, state, and quasi-security bodies has complicated coordination and weakened effectiveness in tackling insecurity nationwide.
According to officials, the panel will compile a comprehensive inventory of all security agencies, scrutinise their legal frameworks, and assess their operational relevance. It is also expected to identify areas of conflict and recommend reforms, including possible mergers, restructuring, or outright dissolution of redundant bodies.
The initiative is part of a broader effort to align Nigeria’s security architecture with global best practices while improving accountability and efficiency across agencies.
Membership of the committee cuts across major security institutions, including representatives from defence, police affairs, interior ministry, and the Office of the National Security Adviser.
The committee is expected to submit a detailed report with actionable recommendations within a stipulated timeframe—findings that could significantly reshape Nigeria’s security landscape.
Everytime "moves to" "set to" "about to"
Moving where exactly Do the damn thing and stop moving to
Tabithatim: Governor Mbah is the first Nigerian governor to embark on the construction of brand new Type 2 Primary Healthcare Centres in every political ward across the state. All the 260 PHCs are currently at various stages of completion, equipping, furnishing, and staffing.
Mbah inherited supposed healthcare facilities that had suffered decades of neglect and dilapidation. He could have taken the easy route of patching up and repainting structures that had long outlived their designed lifespan. But he chose the harder path of building modern, fit-for-purpose facilities that meet 21st-century standards, because Ndi Enugu deserve nothing less. Tomorrow is here.
Governor Mbah is the first Nigerian governor to embark on the construction of brand new Type 2 Primary Healthcare Centres in every political ward across the state. All the 260 PHCs are currently at various stages of completion, equipping, furnishing, and staffing. Mbah inherited… pic.twitter.com/qE6ThogVRN
I commend him on this healthcare reforms and the health centers. This is what we ask as citizens from our governments for starters. I hope other governors would emulate this kind of impactful projects (not conference centres, airports, bus stops). I also hope in the near future this would be extended to tertiary and secondary health care. I still spot on okoroawusa, he initiated building of 27 general hospitals across the 27 LG's in Imo state with so much fanfare. Only to abandon them and focus on installing his S-IL as next governor. Billions drained and wasted. And it appears UzodiAbuja is not interested in completing them.
Mrchippychappy: Seriously this kind of behaviour has to be punished. There are actual real cancer patients out there in need of help. This habit of taking everything as "cruise" in Nigeria is really destroying our reputation. There are people desperately in need of help and financial assistant for their ailments
This is not a stunt. What Mr.Beast, Logan Paul, Ishowspeed and KSI do regularly, That can be seen as social media stunts, Not this. If she wants money she can organize an exhibition boxing match with another female influencer, Scam is not a stunt and should never be seen as "cruise", There's just so much irresponsibility, lack of accountability and indiscipline in Nigeria now.
Man, it's really unforgivable and insensitive of her. Does she understand the plight of cancer patients and their family? Is there not a boundary to cruise?
As someone who worked in a bank and got to a higher-up position before leaving...I keep telling people who care to hear that you CANNOT fight corruption in Nigeria by looking at politicians alone. You MUST beam intense searchlight on the banking and financial institutions because almost all the financial corruption happening in the country pass through them. If you see the kind of kukere transactions and emails I receive every other time from "above". And them no dey talk too much o "kindly treat and ensure". All those ED's, RD's, MD's, Directors and even branch managers are living and breathing CORRUPTION!
If you are in public and in a publicly accessible area, you cannot claim right to privacy. There is no expectation of privacy in public. You can only claim that if you are in a private area or space you own. Even at that, if I'm recording you from a publicly accessible area in your private space, you still can't claim privacy. The most you can do is close your blinds. In the US it's called the First Ammendment rights. If you don't want to be recorded, remain in your private area... personal car, house, office and try not to be seen. You cannot be in the taxi, bus, public space etc and say recording you is an intrusion of your privacy...wrong. That is why celebrities are haunted by cameras even in their intimate moments, because they can actually not do anything about it. It is only where the action related to the recording is actually blocking your private space (for example bring the device very close to your face) that you may have a claim, and not the recording itself.
treesun: Two dominant narrative strands have emerged in Nigerian discursive spheres in the aftermath of former President Muhammadu Buhari’s death: whether it offends decency to celebrate his death (as many have done both online and offline) and whether Nigerians should forgive his betrayal of the country. I have slightly unconventional views on both.Nigeria-themed merchandiseSokoto State tourism packages
The religious and cultural values that shaped me in my formative years and that I have internalized throughout my academic and interpersonal socializations have predisposed me to find no value in celebrating anybody’s death, although I admit that it would amount to discursive tyranny for me to insist that people who find value or cathartic experience in celebrating a death shouldn’t do so.
Here’s why, outside the realm of my religio-cultural socialization, I don’t celebrate anybody’s death.
First, death is a garment that every living soul, irrespective of their piety or depravity, will wear at some point.
Celebrating another person's death, in my mind, is like a line of schoolchildren, all guilty of the same offense, awaiting punishment from a stern teacher. When an obnoxious child gets whipped, those farther down the line cheer and clap, momentarily delighted that it wasn't them and overjoyed that the loathsome child had met his comeuppance, forgetting that the teacher is merely working through the queue.
The cane is coming, steadily and inevitably. Their distance from the front of the line is merely a delay, not a pardon. Their personal sense of righteousness or imagined innocence won’t save them. Death, like that teacher’s cane, is no respecter of position or moral superiority. It will reach everyone in turn.
So, to me, rejoicing in another’s death only reveals a foolish ignorance of your own place in the line. Still, I acknowledge and respect the right of people to celebrate anybody’s death, if that gives them even temporary emotional reprieve. It’s the same as the right of schoolchildren in a whipping line to chuckle when the cane lands on someone ahead of them, even if they, too, won’t escape the cane.
Every death is a sharp reminder that I, too, am just further down the line, waiting my turn, not exempt from the cane.
In a July 10, 2010, column titled “Grieving in America,” which I wrote in the aftermath of my first wife’s death, I pointed out that, “It is supremely ironic that it is tragedies and traumas, more than successes and prosperity, that bring out the depth of the humanity in us. Perhaps it is because these tragedies remind us all of our own mortality, our own frailty, our own vulnerability.”
Nevertheless, had Buhari died while he was inflicting pain on Nigerians with his harsh policies, it would be justified, I think, if people that were being crushed under the weight of his ineptitude and insouciance exulted.Sokoto State tourism packages
But he died after eight ruinous years that reversed Nigeria’s little progress by decades. And he died in his 80s at one of the best hospitals in the world. The average lifespan in Nigeria is only about 54. Buhari lived close to the highest life expectancy anywhere in the world. Most of us would be lucky to reach 70 before the inevitable, inexorable cane of death gets to us.
So, I see no karmic retribution in the death of a man who caused so much anguish to millions of people but who lived his best life at the expense of the country that gave him everything and that he devastated without remorse.
Now, should he be forgiven in the interest of posthumous clemency and reverence? Well, Buhari’s offense was to the Nigerian state. Speaking for myself, he never offended me as a person. We are so far in age, symbolic capital, and social symmetry for him to have offended me.Sokoto State tourism packages
But if he did, as a Muslim, I would forgive him. Although the Qur’an and Hadith do not explicitly command Muslims to forgive the dead who wronged them, they strongly recommend forgiveness as a moral virtue, and there is no teaching that restricts forgiveness to only the living.
We are taught to forgive because forgiveness heals the heart from the toxin of resentment and removes the burden of grudge from our own souls. I simply don’t have the emotional and mental stamina to hate or nurse a grudge against anyone.
However, Buhari collectively offended the Nigerian state and its people. He became president when he knew he had neither the physical fitness nor the mental agility to navigate the complex contours of our nation. So, he left Nigeria hungrier, angrier, more divided, and less hopeful than he met it when he became president.Sokoto State tourism packages
There is no mechanism to get the Nigerian state and its people to forgive him. The hurt he visited on the country and its people, both knowingly and unknowingly, is both unforgivable and inerasable. Forgiving him is beyond the realm of human capacity. Since he was a man of faith, only his Creator can choose to forgive him.
It is noteworthy, nonetheless, that Buhari’s entire adult life was marked by a stubborn resistance to forgive people whom he felt offended him. He had a remarkably gargantuan passion to feed and nurse grudges. Yet, somehow, most people he personally offended often forgave him.
There’s a long list of people that Buhari refused to forgive until his death for minor and major slights they committed against him, but perhaps his bitterest, most intense enemy was former military president Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) who overthrew and jailed him in 1985.Sokoto State tourism packages
He never forgave IBB for that until he died. But former President Shehu Usman Shagari, whom Buhari also overthrew and jailed in 1983, forgave Buhari. I’ll come back to this point shortly.
Buhari was pretty petty and explicit in his vindictiveness. For instance, he deliberately shunned the launch of IBB’s autobiography even when several previous “enemies” of IBB honored it in the interest of maturity and late-stage reconciliation. He could never forgive IBB.
He desperately wanted to get back to power not because the benefit of hindsight inspired him with the vision to map out what he could do differently from what he did between 1983 and 1985 to make Nigeria better, but because he wanted to one-up IBB.
He wanted to prove that although IBB got him out of power through the bullet, he got back to power decades later through the ballot. One of his most cherished bragging rights, according to people who were close to him, was that he ended up ruling Nigeria for more years than IBB did.
I joked to someone a few days ago that if the dead could see and talk, Buhari would probably say his only regret was that IBB outlived him. Yes, he had that much consuming obsession with sustaining his grievance and one-upmanship with IBB, even after several efforts were made by northern elders to reconcile them.
For me, though, what was worse than Buhari’s inability to forgive people who offended him was his incapacity to requite the grace of people he offended who chose to forgive him. A classic example was President Shagari.
Although in the aftermath of reconciliation efforts by northern elders Shagari forgave him and was gracious about it, Buhari never quite requited this even when Shagari died. Buhari barely personally acknowledged Shagari’s death. He asked Boss Mustapha, a Christian, to represent him at Shagari’s Muslim funeral.Sokoto State tourism packages
I recall the horror Buhari’s act evoked in Muslim northern Nigeria at the time. It was seen as symbolic, posthumous “F U” to Shagari. Elders of the region had to prevail on Buhari to pay a personal visit to Shagari’s house after the funeral to compensate for his symbolic blunder.
I doubt that it was a blunder because although he visited the house, he refused to write anything on the condolence register. He just signed his name and didn’t even get the date right. There were no delicately phrased words of condolence, the kind that IBB, his sworn enemy, wrote for him.
Members of the Shagari family took a screenshot of the blank page, which bore testimony to Buhari’s cold-heartedness and unforgiving spirit. I shared it on my website in a January 19, 2019, column I wrote titled "Buhari’s Physical and Mental Health is Now a National Emergency.”Sokoto State tourism packages
So, it came as no surprise to me when a grandson of Shagari by the name of Nura Muhammad Mahe went public on July 16 with the hurt the family felt by Buhari’s conduct when their patriarch departed.
Drawing a contrast between the praiseworthy dignity with which the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration has treated Buhari’s death and the shabby, ice-old contempt with which he treated Shagari’s, Mahe said although Buhari wasn’t out of the country when Shagari died, Buhari neither attended his funeral nor accorded him a state burial.
“It remains a painful memory that Shagari’s death occurred under the leadership of a man who many believe harboured political animosity toward him,” Mahe wrote. “Even in death, Buhari showed little public remorse or respect for his predecessor.”
In the end, Buhari’s death may have closed the chapter on his life, but it reopened the wounds of a nation he led with cold detachment and punishing indifference. The irony is that a man who struggled to forgive others now stands in need of forgiveness that only the divine can dispense.
For the rest of us still in line, perhaps the lesson is less about the man who has passed and more about the moral imprint we leave behind before the cane reaches us.
@Farooq, sir you dey write o. I never miss any of your articles. Please I'll like that you mentor and teach me how to collect one's thoughts vividly and put them down in writing.
Yes bro. I'm from Imo but served in Ogun state. Omo that camp is so fine, was still newly built as at that time in 2011. I hope they are still maintaining it. I lived at Gaa street, close to Lafenwa market Abk North. I dey cook soup with N150. Things were ridiculously cheap then in Abk North. I really enjoyed my service year i no go lie. Panseke, Iberekodu, Lafenwa, Oke Musan, OPIC towers, Ageb l'oba, Olumo Rock etc I can still sing the Ogun Anthem heheeh Iseya iseya Omo ogun iseya Olodumare ise ma ye o Iseya Eyi omo Ogun esegiri Ise po fuwa latishe Omo rere kin sase Omo Ogun kin sole Eberuberu o olorunbe Funwa etera mase o Iseya Omo Ogun iseya.
I'm sorry if I murdered the words..just spelling them as I sing in my head.
PlatinumTimesng: The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sued President Bola over what it describes as the “unlawful suspension” of the Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara; his deputy, Ngozi Odu, and members of the State House of Assembly, ThisDay Nigeria reports.
Last Tuesday, President Tinubu declared a state of emergency in the oil-rich state and suspended the governor and other elected officials for an initial period of six months.
He cited as the basis for his action “the disturbing” violence in the state in the last 24 hours, including explosions and vandalisation of petroleum pipelines, linked to the political crises in the state.
The President had relied on Section 305 of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution in his decision that has been greeted with criticism from several interest groups, including the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Nigerian Bar Association, opposition leaders and erudite lawyers.
In a statement on Sunday, SERAP argued that the decision violates constitutional provisions and undermines democratic governance.
The group said it filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday via three members of its Volunteers’ Lawyers Network (SVLN) in Rivers State—Yirabari Israel Nulog, Nengim Ikpoemugh Royal, and Gracious Eyoh-Sifumbukho.
“The rule of law would be a mere figure of speech if the people’s right to participation can be arbitrarily suspended or violated,” SERAP Deputy Director Kolawole Oluwadare said.
“Democracy is an inherent element of the rule of law. Nigeria’s democracy ought to have as its foundation respect for human rights and the rule of law,” the statement read.
To the group, the suspension contradicts both the Nigerian Constitution and international legal obligations, citing the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the African Charter on Democracy, Elections, and Governance.
“The combined provisions of Sections 1(2), 14(1)(c), 176(1)(2), and 305(1) of the Nigerian Constitution create a delicate balance of rights and responsibilities, ensuring that the exercise of presidential power does not override the people’s right to participate in their own governance,” it said.
fabolouz1: I don't understand the kind of upbringing people like you got . Can't you make your point without using disdain words to describe your president ? If he were to be your father or relative and you spoke about him would you describe him as such,?
Did they also approve the suspension of the elected officials and installation of a SA?
These are 2 different things as far as the law is concerned. Yes, he has the power to declare SOE (wether the current situation warrants it or not is a different debate). The HOR has approved it, fine.
DID THEY ALSO APPROVE THE IMPOSITION OF A SOLE ADMINISTRATOR AND SUSPENSION OF THE ELECTED OFFICIALS?
You cannot muddle both together and make a vote.
Meanwhile the okpolo eye president has already "sworn in" the SA even without the approval of NASS with regards to the SOE.
amending, repealing or deleting any part of the US constitution would require two/third majority concurrence from Congress. Yes, GOP has a narrow majority in both chambers - even if they all vote in agreement (which I doubt) it won't still be enough votes to pass through. So again, DEAD ON ARRIVAL.
mrvitalis: I wonder what he would be charged with? Wishing reno family death? ... Obviously that's not a crime
Be like na only you get sense here. I've seen 2 threads on this topic and the comments are laughable. As much as I do not condone the vile comments but I'm yet to see the threat made. There is no crime in the guy's comment. Wishing someone death is NOT a crime! Reno is just being Reno...raising a ruckus for traffic sake.
A state infested with jihadist terrorist cum bandits by Nigerian media
Ride on baba
Milk the black monkeys to thier bones until sense is received
I totally agree with you. Never seen an agglomerate of docile and spineless citizenry (read black monkeys). We must be milked till we receive sense to do the needful.
A cringing lacklustre performance from POTUS. Laid bare his geriatric frailities for the Orange man to completely shellack him. Trump, true to character, mesmerised the audience with his perennial lies, laced with aggressive agility and won the day! Americans are faced with an impossible choice: A man who can't be president vs a man who shouldn't be president. Pitiable.
Politics › Re: FG Moves To Shake Up Security System: Police, DSS, NSCDC And Others by kayevans: 4:20pm On Apr 24
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Shots fired! Shots fired! Someone call the ambulance service o! Reno has been cooked!