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May God be wit the family

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Thas a Goodnews!

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In my opinion..- think you are wrong. You don't know because you simply just don't know.

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Bless God! It reminds me of the time I was a pastor...

They don start with their lying propaganda!

No pinchure!

Goood! It's better!!

Ija just sese Bere ni oooo

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This is lovely! I hope our govts will learn from this and have them installed in our major cities......atleast to start with.

Kilo ba de?

They can be the two......But it appears they lean towards the latter...

Time..they say will........

Possibly, a kirikiri returnee

If you meet this man in restaurant.......what is the first things that would come to your mind?

natas22:
Just wasted a fine Lady


I hope she accepted Christ before she died

Which kind christ? Someone wey go play away.....

kestolove95:
Igbos killing igboz since 1967..gv an igbo man moni,he will bring his mother or father head for u

I think it's high time the MODS started placing bans on those who hav no meaningful contributions to make here but attacking other ethnicity. It's awkward!

Mennnnnnnn.........The woman bad o! Abeg , Henceforth, Make I dey wear iron pant sleep

Lolzzz......I know of a man in the office. Secretary to the government of kwara state that samples 10 wraps at any given time

The Nigerian society is not your average society. Sometimes things are not as upright as they should be. Issues that would be considered in simple terms in other countries often take a whole new dimension in Nigeria. Let’s take last week’s election of the Speaker of the House of Representative and President of the Senate as examples.
After a transparent election in which the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives were duly elected, the APC issued a statement denouncing both individuals as from membership of the party simply because the election did not go as the party had intended.
Earlier this month news made the rounds that there was an ongoing dispute as to who, between the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Military, would be assigned to the protective detail of the President and Vice President.
There were indications on the ground that the dispute had reached fever pitch as the APC Security Committee have drawn and deployed soldiers from Infantry and Artillery Corps of the Nigerian Army as well as from the Navy to the Villa to take over from the DSS. I will not even go into the legality or otherwise of the deployment as it was no doubt done without any authorization or due process. This leaves on wondering what a party Committee has got to do with the configuration of a Presidential Bodyguard unit. It is assumed that the Committee would have terminated its assignment after successful transition.
I find it highly illogical to replace DSS officials with soldiers as the major criteria for doing should have been the pertinent question ‘has the DSS ever failed in its duty to protect the President, the Vice President, Senate President and Speaker of the House?’ The answer is of course No. So, if something isn’t broken, why fix it?
To further understand why it would be absolute folly to have the military protect the President rather than the DSS, let us take a look at the evolution of the DSS.
The DSS or the SSS as it was previously known started as a department in the defunct “E” Department of the Nigerian Police Force in 1948. It was then referred to as the Special Branch and had the primary responsibility of procuring and disseminating intelligence on security matters in Nigeria to relevant authorities.
The Special Branch was transformed into the National Security Organization (NSO) by virtue of Decree No. 16 of 1976. The reason for the creation of the NSO was necessitated by the desire of the Federal Government to confront the challenges of the time as presented by the intelligence challenges of the Civil War, the pursuit of several foreign policy commitments and the challenges to security posed by the abortive coup of 1976. Besides making the NSO an autonomous body with a life of its own, the Decree sought to professionalize the whole essence of intelligence gathering in Nigeria.
In 1986, the Babangida administration, through Decree No. 19 of 5th June, 1986 reorganized the NSO and restructure it into three agencies, the State Security Service; the Defence Intelligence Service (DIS); and the National Intelligence Agency (NIA).
In 1999, to give the SSS the advantage it needed to reposition itself for greater efficiency, General Abdulsalami Abubakar (Rtd.), in exercise of his powers as President by virtue of Instrument No. 1 of 1999 relating to the General Duties of the SSS as set out in Section 2 (3) of the decree’s objectives, further expanded the agency’s mandate to provide leadership and criminal justice services to both the federal and state law enforcement organs and was also charged with the protection of the President, Vice President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, President of the Senate, State Governors, their immediate families, other high ranking government officials, past presidents and their spouses, certain candidates for the offices of president and vice president and visiting foreign heads of state and governments. They have carried out these protective functions impeccably so far.
I understand that there may be old wounds and grudges being borne against the DSS for the partisan and unethical actions they took prior to the elections but this should not blind the current administration into scrapping an institution for the offences of the top officials. The leadership of the agency can be investigated for complicity unethical conduct and may be reprimanded where necessary, for the role the Service played. Tossing the entire institution under the bus as a means of payback is, well to say the least, in bad taste.
Besides, the training of the DSS and the military are totally different. The fact that they are both authorized to carry arms does not make their functions the same. For one, the army by their training cannot blend into a crowd for the purposes of carrying out intelligence or surveillance operations. By virtue of their training, blending isn’t one of the virtues of a soldier. Protecting a President goes far beyond carrying guns and looking stern. There are dozens of intuitive and instinctive issues one needs to consider and DSS operatives by their training are good at this. A DSS officer from basic training is prepared to be a protective security officer.
Replacing the President’s protective detail with their military would be tantamount to stuffing square pegs in round holes.
If this administration wants to expand the functions of the military to include protecting the President and Vice President, then they should first amend the Armed Forces Act. From the reading of Section 1(3) of the Armed Forces Act, the functions of the army are pretty clear and do not contemplate any inclusion of protecting the President or Vice President.
There are reports where the DSS is accused of bugging the President’s residence and cell phones. If you ask me, this is too well timed to be coincidental. Seems to me like someone is playing dirty, all in a bid to validate the military as the protectors of the President.
Call me paranoid but replacing the DSS with the army as the protectors of the President is like inviting the fox into the hen house. If this idea was conceived by someone close to the President, then the President should be wary. That person may have ulterior motives.



SSS: Guarding the guardian - http://dailytrust.com.ng/sunday/index.php/comment-debate/21127-sss-guarding-the-guardian:

The rivalry between the Department of State Services  (DSS) and the Nigerian Army came to a head on  Thursday when the aide-de-camp to President Muhammadu Buhari, an army officer, Lt Colonel Lawal Abubakar, through a memo, disengaged the DSS from providing close body protection for the president as they have always done for many years. It was the climax of the  distrust of the DSS operatives by the president’s  team since he won the election of  March 28.
In the memo, seen by Sunday Vanguard, the ADC claimed that ‘recent events’ which he did not name necessitated the change  he was effecting in the security architecture of the Villa especially as it concerns the close body protection of the president.
The ADC memo addressed to the chief security officer to the president,said: ‘’Sequel to directives, I am to inform you, with immediate effect, the authorization of the redeployment of some DSS personnel from some duty beats/locations. Personnel of the armed forces of Nigeria and the Nigeria  Police who were trained as presidential body guards (PBGs) are to provide close/immediate protection for Mr. President henceforth.
“However, the personnel of the DSS, in conjunction with other security forces, are to man other duties, beats/locations located within the immediate outer perimeter of the Presidential Villa”.
The ADC went ahead to list some of the beats/locations that are off limit to the men of the DSS which effectively mean that the personnel of the DSS would effectively be about two kilometers away from the precincts of the Presidential Villa.
The memo by the ADC to the CSO was the culmination of several weeks of suspicion of the DSS, especially in the run up to the presidential election. It would be recalled that prior to the election, the spokesperson of the DSS, Marilyn Ogar, revealed that in carrying out its operations, the service raided  a building which was being used as a centre by agents suspected to be working for the APC to clone the Permanent Voter Card of the Independent National Electoral Commission. Several of such operation, which saw the APC receiving the short end of the stick, created the impression that the DSS had removed its toga of neutrality and was working in the interest of the Peoples Democratic Party whose candidate, Goodluck Jonathan, was the sitting president.

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With the emergence of Buhari as president, it was learnt that some persons in his inner circle  plotted the idea that since the DSS appeared to have been partisan in favour of the Jonathan (which they interpreted to mean the PDP), the DSS would be stripped of its constitutional role of providing close body security for the president and his family. In order to ensure that there was no vacuum, it was gathered that a retired senior security personnel, who worked closely with the Buhari campaign team, wrote to the heads of some security agencies, including the DSS, to nominate a certain number of their personnel for training in close body protection in Jaji, Kaduna State. It could not be ascertained whether heads of other security agencies complied with the directive, but it was learnt that the DSS, which had already trained a new set of operatives to take over from the personnel that provided security for Jonathan, did not honour the request from the aide, who, they argued, was not known to the service because he had no appointment in government as at then.
As it is customary, all the nation’s security agencies deployed some of their men and equipment to provide maximum security for the President as soon as he emerged as president-elect. While there was little or no friction between the private security guards of the then president-elect and members of the Nigeria Police and the army, for instance, the personnel of   the DSS were viewed with suspicion. The disdain came to a head at a mosque when an attempt by the DSS operatives to restrict access of the private security guards of the president-elect almost resulted in a fisticuff but for the timely intervention of some senior aides.
Few weeks after the mosque incident, personnel of the Nigerian  Army, without coordination with the security operatives on ground in the Presidential Villa, were drafted to join the presidential body guard to understudy how to protect the president. Later, when the new crop of body guards, who had been trained for over three months to take over from those that served under Jonathan, resumed at the Presidential Villa, they were turned back, allegedly on the order of the ADC to the president. A day before the memo officially warning the DSS operatives to stay away from the Presidential Villa, it was learnt that the ADC went  to all the beats manned by the PBGs and drove them away.
According to Sunday Vanguard’s findings, apart from being constitutionally empowered to provide close body protection for the president, the vice president, the governors and their deputies, the president of the senate, the speaker of the House of Representatives and their families, the DSS  is the only security organization that has the competence  to  provide  protection for the VIPs. That is why when there are visiting heads of state, the department  provides not only the security details but also, support staff. To underscore the fact that even the army and the police lack the capacity to train personnel for close body protection, they frequently sends their personnel to the DSS for training as body guards.
Warning about the dangers about personalizing the protection of the president and his family, a security consultant in Abuja who retired from the DSS as Director after serving for 35 years,  Mike Ejiofor said personal interests and score settling should not be a yardstick for determining which agency protects the president.
“I don’t believe the story that the DSS has been withdrawn from protecting the president because his security should not be toyed with. If the president is intent on changing the security architecture, a policy formulation should be made. He should come up with a working document streamlining the different functions of the various agencies. Statutorily and constitutionally, the state security service is charged with the protection of the president, the vice president, the senate president, the governors, and the deputy governor, speaker of the House of Representatives and state house of Assembly and their families”, he stated.
“The president’s security should not be toyed with. I believe that what is going on now is people who are trying to settle personal scores. Instead of looking at national security, they want to settle personal score and in the process compromise national security and the security of the president. What I am saying is that I don’t believe it, but if it is true, it’s rather unfortunate because those military that are being drafted are not trained in body guard protection. The DSS are trained for VIP protection and the president falls under VIP”.
According to a Nigerian Army Intelligence officer in the Villa who spoke with Sunday vanguard on the matter, even if there was a need for a change of security personnel around the Villa and especially around the president, the situation could have been better handled than it was done because of the wider security implication both for the president and the country.
The officer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the matter, noted,”There is a system in place where all the security agencies in the Villa have their defined roles and responsibilities. Even within the army, there are different corps in the Villa and their roles are defined. Statutorily, we have come to know that the role of close body protection is the role of the DSS. Apart from their personnel who are trained both within and outside the country for the role, there are sensitive equipments that they are the only people who have the competence to handle them. Withdrawing them whimsically as it was reported to have been done is not only tardy but exposes the country to ridicule. I am sure that at the end of the day, reason will prevail and the emotional decisions that seem to have been made in the last few days would be reversed”.
It was gathered that the National  Security Adviser, who coordinates security matters for the president, has waded in to resolve the crisis. As a man who professes that his administration would be guided by the rule of law, it speaks well of Buhari  to abide by the provisions of not just the law but also  conventions. And such weighty decision on who provides close body security for the president and his family cannot be taken on the basis of emotions or ego  but on  sound judgment, what the law provides and convention




Source : vanguard newspaper

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The rivalry between the Department of State Services  (DSS) and the Nigerian Army came to a head on  Thursday when the aide-de-camp to President Muhammadu Buhari, an army officer, Lt Colonel Lawal Abubakar, through a memo, disengaged the DSS from providing close body protection for the president as they have always done for many years. It was the climax of the  distrust of the DSS operatives by the president’s  team since he won the election of  March 28.
In the memo, seen by Sunday Vanguard, the ADC claimed that ‘recent events’ which he did not name necessitated the change  he was effecting in the security architecture of the Villa especially as it concerns the close body protection of the president.
The ADC memo addressed to the chief security officer to the president,said: ‘’Sequel to directives, I am to inform you, with immediate effect, the authorization of the redeployment of some DSS personnel from some duty beats/locations. Personnel of the armed forces of Nigeria and the Nigeria  Police who were trained as presidential body guards (PBGs) are to provide close/immediate protection for Mr. President henceforth.
“However, the personnel of the DSS, in conjunction with other security forces, are to man other duties, beats/locations located within the immediate outer perimeter of the Presidential Villa”.
The ADC went ahead to list some of the beats/locations that are off limit to the men of the DSS which effectively mean that the personnel of the DSS would effectively be about two kilometers away from the precincts of the Presidential Villa.
The memo by the ADC to the CSO was the culmination of several weeks of suspicion of the DSS, especially in the run up to the presidential election. It would be recalled that prior to the election, the spokesperson of the DSS, Marilyn Ogar, revealed that in carrying out its operations, the service raided  a building which was being used as a centre by agents suspected to be working for the APC to clone the Permanent Voter Card of the Independent National Electoral Commission. Several of such operation, which saw the APC receiving the short end of the stick, created the impression that the DSS had removed its toga of neutrality and was working in the interest of the Peoples Democratic Party whose candidate, Goodluck Jonathan, was the sitting president.

Aso-Villa
With the emergence of Buhari as president, it was learnt that some persons in his inner circle  plotted the idea that since the DSS appeared to have been partisan in favour of the Jonathan (which they interpreted to mean the PDP), the DSS would be stripped of its constitutional role of providing close body security for the president and his family. In order to ensure that there was no vacuum, it was gathered that a retired senior security personnel, who worked closely with the Buhari campaign team, wrote to the heads of some security agencies, including the DSS, to nominate a certain number of their personnel for training in close body protection in Jaji, Kaduna State. It could not be ascertained whether heads of other security agencies complied with the directive, but it was learnt that the DSS, which had already trained a new set of operatives to take over from the personnel that provided security for Jonathan, did not honour the request from the aide, who, they argued, was not known to the service because he had no appointment in government as at then.
As it is customary, all the nation’s security agencies deployed some of their men and equipment to provide maximum security for the President as soon as he emerged as president-elect. While there was little or no friction between the private security guards of the then president-elect and members of the Nigeria Police and the army, for instance, the personnel of   the DSS were viewed with suspicion. The disdain came to a head at a mosque when an attempt by the DSS operatives to restrict access of the private security guards of the president-elect almost resulted in a fisticuff but for the timely intervention of some senior aides.
Few weeks after the mosque incident, personnel of the Nigerian  Army, without coordination with the security operatives on ground in the Presidential Villa, were drafted to join the presidential body guard to understudy how to protect the president. Later, when the new crop of body guards, who had been trained for over three months to take over from those that served under Jonathan, resumed at the Presidential Villa, they were turned back, allegedly on the order of the ADC to the president. A day before the memo officially warning the DSS operatives to stay away from the Presidential Villa, it was learnt that the ADC went  to all the beats manned by the PBGs and drove them away.
According to Sunday Vanguard’s findings, apart from being constitutionally empowered to provide close body protection for the president, the vice president, the governors and their deputies, the president of the senate, the speaker of the House of Representatives and their families, the DSS  is the only security organization that has the competence  to  provide  protection for the VIPs. That is why when there are visiting heads of state, the department  provides not only the security details but also, support staff. To underscore the fact that even the army and the police lack the capacity to train personnel for close body protection, they frequently sends their personnel to the DSS for training as body guards.
Warning about the dangers about personalizing the protection of the president and his family, a security consultant in Abuja who retired from the DSS as Director after serving for 35 years,  Mike Ejiofor said personal interests and score settling should not be a yardstick for determining which agency protects the president.
“I don’t believe the story that the DSS has been withdrawn from protecting the president because his security should not be toyed with. If the president is intent on changing the security architecture, a policy formulation should be made. He should come up with a working document streamlining the different functions of the various agencies. Statutorily and constitutionally, the state security service is charged with the protection of the president, the vice president, the senate president, the governors, and the deputy governor, speaker of the House of Representatives and state house of Assembly and their families”, he stated.
“The president’s security should not be toyed with. I believe that what is going on now is people who are trying to settle personal scores. Instead of looking at national security, they want to settle personal score and in the process compromise national security and the security of the president. What I am saying is that I don’t believe it, but if it is true, it’s rather unfortunate because those military that are being drafted are not trained in body guard protection. The DSS are trained for VIP protection and the president falls under VIP”.
According to a Nigerian Army Intelligence officer in the Villa who spoke with Sunday vanguard on the matter, even if there was a need for a change of security personnel around the Villa and especially around the president, the situation could have been better handled than it was done because of the wider security implication both for the president and the country.
The officer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the matter, noted,”There is a system in place where all the security agencies in the Villa have their defined roles and responsibilities. Even within the army, there are different corps in the Villa and their roles are defined. Statutorily, we have come to know that the role of close body protection is the role of the DSS. Apart from their personnel who are trained both within and outside the country for the role, there are sensitive equipments that they are the only people who have the competence to handle them. Withdrawing them whimsically as it was reported to have been done is not only tardy but exposes the country to ridicule. I am sure that at the end of the day, reason will prevail and the emotional decisions that seem to have been made in the last few days would be reversed”.
It was gathered that the National  Security Adviser, who coordinates security matters for the president, has waded in to resolve the crisis. As a man who professes that his administration would be guided by the rule of law, it speaks well of Buhari  to abide by the provisions of not just the law but also  conventions. And such weighty decision on who provides close body security for the president and his family cannot be taken on the basis of emotions or ego  but on  sound judgment, what the law provides and convention




Source : vanguard newspaper

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