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When this news first broke, Simplyleo and his band of merry liars called it fake news. Let us see how they react now.

The House of Representatives has said the ongoing recruitment by the Nigerian Navy is unfair and not in compliance with the federal character principle in the constitution, asking the military outfit to suspend the process.

The House resolved to “direct the Nigerian Navy to suspend forthwith the forthcoming pre-screening exercise for the shortlisted candidates, with a view to strengthening the federal character law as well as to ensure better and more vigorous enforcement and implementation, knowing full well that every Nigerian deserves to be treated with dignity and rights, irrespective of where they may be located physically in the country.”

Also, the House requested the Navy to provide details of all recruitments from 2014 to date, showing their geographical spread.

Furthermore, the House mandated the Committee on Navy to “investigate the exercise and recommend appropriate measures to avoid similar constitutional violations in all future government recruitment and report back within 12 weeks for further legislative action.”

These resolutions were sequel to the unanimous adoption of a motion of urgent public importance to investigate the process of the Nigerian Navy Supplementary Recruitment of 44 candidates “for being against the principle of federal character and in gross violation of Section 14 of the 1999 Constitution.”

Sponsor of the motion, Ben Igbakpa, said all the successful candidates that are to report for training in two batches at the Nigerian Navy Basic Training School Onne, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, “are all from a particular part of the country, which negates the federal character principle of all inclusiveness, equity and fair play.”

He said, “The House believes that adequate observance and implementation of the federal character principle will in no small measure allay fears of domination and denial by the ethnic minorities and invariably foster national unity.”

https://punchng.com/reps-condemn-lopsidedness-in-navy-recruitment-demand-suspension/

Mynd44 Lalasticlala

Have you finished wailing over Mama Onochie rejection? I warned you that the expired púnâ wey she dey hawk around no fit land am anytin!

FORWARDEVERLY:
Truthhurts1
Come and Wail oo

John McAfee's wife shares 'suspect' suicide note after his death in Spanish jail
An official post-mortem examination revealed the cause of his death was suicide but his wife Janice McAfee has disputed the suicide note found in his jacket pocket is genuine.

The wife of British tycoon and software creator John McAfee has shared his "suspect" suicide note after he was found dead in a Spanish jail.

The 75-year-old was found dead in his cell in a Spanish prison where he was awaiting extradition to the United States.

An official post-mortem examination revealed the cause of his death on June 23 was suicide.

But his wife Janice McAfee has disputed the suicide note is genuine.

In her Twitter feed she wrote: "The handwriting is suspect and I doubt the authenticity of the note.

"It reads more like someone trying to imitate John’s style of tweeting.

"And if this note was found in his pocket where are the markings of the note being folded into his pocket?"

In an earlier Twitter post she also claimed the letter did not sound like a suicide note and did not sound like someone wanting to end their life.

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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/wife-john-mcafee-shares-suspect-24532585.amp

Mynd44 Lalasticlala

I'm not a wretched, filthy a_boki

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Patrioticbreed9:
Go and drink garri and be free..

I can see you are hungry A.f

Typically childish and stupid response by NL agbaya.

Patrioticbreed9:
you mess! akara fry beans!

And who is going to chase me away? You?

Patrioticbreed9:
Sorry sir you are not welcomed here..

I say it all the time to the children of Abokí beggars I see on the streets. Not only is their birth a mistake, their whole existence is a tragedy.

Patrioticbreed9:
Idonmie generation step aside

When last did you hear this insult "YOU ARE BORN'BY'MISTAKE"!.

Add your's.

So the British tried to use Zik to create enmity between Yorubas and Igbos but he refused to allow himself to be their puppet.
The great tragedy of Nigeria is that Awo and Zik were never able to unite their powers.

Yoruba, Igbo Must Work Together For Freedom – Prof Akintoye Recalls Conversation With Awolowo In Video

The President-General of the Ilana Omo Oodua, Emeritus Prof. Banji Akintoye, has disclosed that former Premier of the old Western Nigeria, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, told him in 1984 Yoruba and Igbo people must work together to get freed of slavery in Nigeria.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I5BIajFMEI

Akintoye said he recalled how Awolowo spoke like a prophet, holding his hands and saying, “Banji, you and Igbo will work together” to bring the desired emancipation.

Professor Akintoye stated these in a video he made on Tuesday, January 15, 2021, obtained by SaharaReporters.

Text of his conversation reads:

“Dele Ogun has a book ‘A Fatherless People,’ and there is a small account of it (that) Zik returning from America in 1932 with highly grown Nigerians of past pan-Africanism, the Black man around the world and so on.

“But, he was vulnerable. He was a poor person and he wasn’t getting the kind of help he deserved. He had applied for jobs at many organizations and agencies in Nigeria, and none had given him a job.

“And when he arrived from London on his way back home, that vulnerability put him in the hands of the colonial authorities. Basically, the British respected the Yoruba, but they didn’t particularly like the kind of Black man the Yoruba were. They didn’t like it, because, by the time they came, the Yoruba were fairly highly educated.

“They had been producing graduates from the mass years of the 1850s and by the time the British began to come into the Yoruba land in the 1880s and 1890s, there were already very many Yoruba graduates in every area of life.

“And when the British finally became the rulers of Nigeria (I’m jumping over a whole lot of things), they didn’t fancy the Yoruba at all. They might be friends with the individual Yoruba people that were educated, who were their friends mostly. But they feared that Yoruba were going to make the profits of colonialism difficult to achieve in Nigeria.

“So, the British didn’t particularly like the Yoruba such that they needed to subdue the interest and influence of the Yoruba people in Nigeria. And according to the account in the book that I have quoted, ‘A Fatherless People’, Mongrel Peller, who was a scholar of the colonial establishment, got hold of Nnamdi Azikwe and took him to meetings with the British colonialists in London.

And finally arranged a meeting between him and a team of people in the colonial office, and what seemed to have happened in those meetings was that the British wanted to construct the Igbo and the Yoruba as an enemy of one another because these were the two most powerful people in Nigeria,” Prof Akintoye narrated.

The Yoruba self-determination agitation leader said Yoruba and Igbo ethnic nationalities had realized that they had been used against each other in the past while adding that the two major tribes in Nigeria had overcome that in this present dispensation.

He further said that the former Prime Minister of Nigeria, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, after eleven days of Nigeria’s Independence, had said that the North should not allow the South to control Nigeria, saying that Southern Nigeria should be treated as a conquered territory.

Also, Prof Akintoye disclosed that the British colonialists had known that there would be an end to their colonial benefits the day Yoruba and Igbo joined forces.

“If the Yoruba and Igbo collaborated, the British thought that would be the end of all the colonial benefits from their colonial endeavors in Nigeria. And, so (Nnamdi) Azikiwe arrived in Nigeria, the man who left Nigeria with high sounding ideas of the black race, the black man and Pan-Africanism, arrived in Nigeria with not so much of those ideas anymore.

“But as I said, we, the Yoruba and Igbo, have allowed ourselves to be pitched against each other. I don’t want to tell a story. A story I want to tell is the story of the change of the future. We are now at a point in the history of Yoruba and Igbo nations, where a substantial people of Igbo and Yoruba now recognize the following things that we Yoruba and Igbo have allowed ourselves to be used against each other, have now ended up nothing better than slavery in Nigeria.

“They have lost everything and now they are just fumbling around in the hands of people who are dedicated to an idea that they must hold Nigeria, they must rule Nigeria, they must control Nigeria and they must make sure that other peoples in Nigeria do not control the resources of Nigeria.

"That was what Ahmadu Bello said on October 12, that was eleven days after Independence in 1960. ‘The South we’ll treat as conquered territory. We must treat the South as conquered territory and not let them ever rule us and never let them control their own future,” the don added.

In the video interview titled: [b]‘Yoruba and Igbo Conference: Speaking With One Voice,’[/b]the Yoruba leader said the foremost Yoruba nationalist spoke like a prophecy that Igbo and Yoruba must work together.

The Professor said late Chief Awolowo told him about Yoruba and Igbo joining forces to get liberated in 1984 after he (Akintoye) was released from the custody of the security agents ordered by the former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari who is also the current Nigerian President.

“I have participated in discussions around Chief Awolowo as one of the young intellectuals from Ife in which we had very infinitely decided that the road forward either for Yoruba or Igbo was that both of them must learn to work together but nothing had come out of those discussions.

“In May 1984, I was released from detention by the then military ruler, Buhari. Chief Awolowo and I spent a whole day together (and I want everybody to listen to this.) Please, listen to what I want to say because it is a story I need to be telling the Yoruba and Igbo nations and shout it. We spent the whole day talking about Nigeria.

“And it was time for us to go to dinner at about 4:35, and as we stood and went towards the dining table, Chief Awolowo stopped me and held my hand and said, ‘Banji, there’s something more I should not forget to tell you.’ So, I stopped and looked at him, and he said, ‘Banji, you, we Yoruba must find a way to work with Igbo. I say you and Igbo will work together. It’s not a question of must now.’”

“He was now talking as if he was prophesying. He had started by saying you and Igbo must work together, then he upgraded his talk to something like a prophecy, that ‘You and Igbo will work together, and that’s the only way you can be freed in the world. It is the only way we can be freed in the world. It is the only way we can achieve what we deserve in the world. You and Igbo will work together.’ I’m quoting him, ‘I’m not saying it’s going to be easy as much as I can remember, ‘I am not saying it’s going to be easy but I’m saying it will be done.’”

http://saharareporters.com/2021/07/13/yoruba-igbo-must-work-together-freedom-%E2%80%93-prof-akintoye-recalls-conversation-awolowo-video

At least as students in a College of Education, try to exhibit some level of logical reasoning before embarrassing yourselves like this.

Abi O! See as FORWARDEVERLY mama come disgrace family name!

olaboy33:
After furthering soiling her name, I hope the old woman can return to the beer parlour where she belongs.

She'll do better as a commissioner there.

Simplyleo
FORWARDEVERLY
CilicMarin
Bosstrevor

All of Una right now


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Yes, Saheed from Kwara is a proud Igbo man.

Almaigaa:
Hmmm, Igbo people.

Simplyleo why nah?

A father, Oyefeso Saheed, has been remanded for giving out his 12-year-old daughter in marriage.

He allegedly collected a HP laptop as bride price.

On Monday, Mr Saheed was remanded by a family court at the Oke-Kura Correctional Centre in Ilorin for the act.

Magistrate Shade Lawal also ordered the remand of the victim’s purported husband, Ismail Lawal, 32, before adjourning the case till Wednesday for further mention.

Earlier, the prosecutor, Sergeant Akinjide Adisa, said that the matter was reported at the Adewole police station by Aishat Temem, a member of the state branch of the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA).

He said that the matter was reported after the complainant had received a call from the victim’s school principal.

The prosecutor also told the court that the purported husband gave the victim a HP laptop as the bride price for the marriage.

He then prayed to the court to order the remand of the two defendants on the basis that the offence they allegedly committed were non-bailable.

The defendants, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges preferred against them.

https://gazettengr.com/father-marries-off-12-year-old-daughter-for-hp-laptop/

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Agbaya big for nothing Emir. Old fool crying like a child whose favourite toy has been confiscated.

Your knowledge of cages and zoos is impressive. It's almost as if you have a history of living inside a cage and behind bars.

CilicMarin:
This man is talking in the rubbish! Kanu is safely caged in our zoo like the wild animal he is..

So if I say something like: Adenigga is a born fool, how would you respond? I'm curious to know.

adenigga:
Hmmnnn!

You are right........

Last time I checked, honesty wasn't a criminal offence on nairaland Why don't you cry to Pantami?

Simplyleo:
mynd44 lalasticlala

Should I get you a bigger platform? Nigerians are missing out on a special brand of simple minded stupidity which only those of us on nairaland get to laugh at.

Simplyleo:
And ipob pigs burning 2 of his trucks were thinking Dangote will get poor.

Very hateful elements.

Nobody wants to hear a response from a simple dimwit. Usually we just want to have fun at the expense of Nairaland's most unintelligent personalities.

Simplyleo:
Lmao.

You know, the more he tries to get me respond to him, the harder I laugh. He most likely got pained and broke the rule.

I knew he will get there.

Well done brother.

There are better ways of manifesting your stupidity.

adenigga:
But what happened to the efficacy of Africa voodoo ( charms/juju ) always claimed by Igbaofo, sorry Igboho?

I thought those guys supposed to have been disappeared by now!

If it is to destroy someone or delay somebody's destiny, it will work.

To hell with them all!!!.......

How Department Of State Operatives Dehumanise Only Female Among 13 Detained Igboho’s Aides

The Department of State Services operatives have continued to dehumanise the female among 13 arrested aides of Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo, otherwise known as Sunday Igboho, refusing to allow her to change her underwear.

SaharaReporters learnt that since July 2 when they were rounded up and taken to the DSS facility in Abuja, the operatives had refused to allow the woman, Amoda Babatunde, also known as Lady K, have access to new clothes.
The operatives rather insist she washes the clothes on her, dries and wears them.

Sources at the DSS detention camp added that the operatives watch as Lady K is forced to strip herself; wash her clothes and dry them outside while she waits while being naked till they dry.

The DSS on July 1 raided Igboho’s residence in Ibadan, Oyo State, arrested 13 of his aides and killed two others.

Those arrested at Igboho’s residence alongside her include Abdulateef Ofeyagbe, Tajudeen Erinoyen, Diakola Ademola, Abideen Shittu, Jamiu Noah, Ayobami Donald, Adelabe Usman, Oluwapelumi Kunle, Raji Kazeem, Taiwo Opeyemi, and Bamidele Sunday.

“They have denied the lady in their midst change of clothes. They make her wash her clothes and wait for them to be dry before wearing them again. They refused to allow their lawyers to give them clothes, especially undergarments.

“She is being treated in a dehumanising manner. She will have to go naked, wash her clothes, wait for them to dry before putting them back on in front of male guards,” the source lamented.

The DSS threw professionalism to the mud when its team of security operatives stormed Igboho’s residence in Ibadan and arrested the 13 persons.

Parading the suspects at the national headquarters of the secret police, the DSS spokesman, Peter Afunaya, said the security team was engaged in a gun duel by nine men suspected to be Igboho’s guards.

SaharaReporters had reported that no fewer than 19 traditional rulers in the South-West region later called for the immediate release of the aides of the Yoruba activist.

The monarchs, under the aegis of Forum of the Yoruba Obas, also demanded compensation for the families of those killed during the raid.

The traditional rulers in a statement titled, ‘The Position of the Forum of Yoruba Obas on the Recent Invasion of Sunday Adeyemo’s house by the operatives of the DSS and the State of the Nation,’ described the invasion of Igboho’s home and killing of his aides as an infringement of their fundamental human rights.

The statement was signed by the President of the forum and Molokun of Atijere Kingdom, Ondo State, Oba Samuel Adeoye (Edema I); its General Secretary, Dr Abdulrasaq Abioye, Olukotun of Ikotun Ile, Kwara State; and 17 others.

The monarchs had said, “We strongly condemn in its entirety the invasion and the gruesome murder of the people at Sunday Igboho’s house on July 1, 2021.

“We believe the killing by the officers of the DSS is unwarranted and unjustifiable, a violent breach of the fundamental right of those who were killed by the overzealous officers in Sunday Adeyemo’s house. We hereby call for the immediate release of those arrested at his residence. We demand that there must be adequate compensation for the family of those people who were murdered during the operation.”

[url]http://saharareporters.com/2021/07/12/how-department-state-operatives-dehumanise-only-female-among-13-detained-igboho%E2%80%99s-aides[/url]

They will learn how to swim across the Sahara Desert.

The supplementary list of successful candidates recently released by the Nigerian Navy has only northerners, SaharaReporters has gathered.

Successful candidates on the list were drawn from core Northern states with only a few from North Central (Kogi and Niger states).

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An official of the Service, who spoke with SaharaReporters said such a thing had never happened in the history of the service.

He noted that the Nigerian Navy had always ensured equal representation of all the regions in all its lists, both primary and supplementary, querying why the latest one had not accommodated all the regions.

He said, “Normally, after recruitment, they release a list and those people on that list will go for training, they divide the list into two, Batch A and B.

“They released a supplementary list recently and this has never happened before that all the names on that list will be from the North, 44 candidates. They are not just from the North but mainly from the core North.

“In the normal recruitment list, every state is usually given equal number but I don't know why this is different. This supplementary list Batch A has resumed, Batch B will resume in January. These are the few people that will join those that are already there. As far as it is supplementary, every zone and state should be included.

"The former ones they did, all states were included in equal numbers except the Federal Capital Territory (FCT); the FCT is the only one that usually gets lesser slots because most of those using FCT to apply are not from there.

“My question is, why is this supplementary list representing only the North. It should represent all parts, not just a particular region.”

Mynd44, Lalasticlala

http://saharareporters.com/2021/07/12/revealed-all-44-candidates-nigerian-navy-supplementary-list-under-buhari-government-are

Bottom line: Your Aso Rock slavemaster is a fool who can't handle the economy.

thebosstrevor1:
The professor is talking nonsense, saying things like inefficient power supply, naira depreciation and increased cost of production that is why no body is investing , the same nonsense he has been telling his students since 1989.

the Director-General of the Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dr Chijioke Ekechukwu, made some very good point than the professor.

The main issue why nvestors are not investing is mainly security and not naira depreciation, naira depreciation makes foreign investors buy assets for very cheap. Cosy of labour is very cheap in Nigeria, compared to other places and big companies do economics of scale to recoup all their investments.

Once upon a time, old man FORWARDEVERLY and his sweet sixteen wife number 7 were expecting the birth of their first child after 20 years of marriage.

However Mrs FORWARDEVERLY was experiencing severe pains and the doctor was worried about the chances of her successful delivery so he spoke to old man FORWARDEVERLY:

Doctor: Sir, your wife's condition is serious and the only way it can be stabilized is if you agree that we should transfer some of her pain to you as the father of the child. Will you accept this solution?

Old man FORWARDEVERLY: Yes, I will do anything to minimize my wife's pain

So the doctor warns Old man FORWARDEVERLY that the process will be painful for him, but Old man FORWARDEVERLY reassures the doctor that he is a strong man and he can endure the pain.

So the doctor transfers 10% of pain to Old man FORWARDEVERLY, then asks him: "How are you feeling?"

Old man FORWARDEVERLY replies: "I don't feel any pain whatsoever"

The doctor was pleased and said: "Since you can carry 10% pain, let us try and increase it to 25%"

Surprisingly, Old man FORWARDEVERLY was able to endure the 25% pain and the doctor was impressed.

"Wow, very few men can take 25% pain as calmly as you are doing right now. You are really a strong man."

Old man FORWARDEVERLY smiled with pride. The doctor now asked him: "Would you mind if we increase the pain level to 50%?" and he answered: "No problem"

So the doctor increased the pain transfer to 50%, but still Old man FORWARDEVERLY was cool and calm and he wasn't feeling it.

By this time, the doctor was excited! "Nobody has been able to endure 50% pain without fainting! You are a real superman!"

The proud FORWARDEVERLY now became boastful: "Even 100% is nothing for me!"

The doctor tried to beg him to change his mind, that nobody has ever survived 100%, but the ignorant FORWARDEVERLY insisted on 100% and even said he will beat up the doctor if he refused. So the doctor reluctantly and nervously increased the pain level to 100% and quietly told the nurses to prepare a death certificate.

However a miracle happened because not only was FORWARDEVERLY still alive, he was actually chilling with a tumbler of kaikai!

The doctor and all the hospital staff were screaming with excitement and giving praises to God.

"Mr," said the doctor to FORWARDEVERLY, "what you have done today is nothing short of a miracle. No man in history has ever survived 100% pain transfer because it is an automatic death sentence! Your new born son is very fortunate to have a father like you!"

The following morning, a proud Old man FORWARDEVERLY and his wife went home after the delivery of their bouncing baby boy.

Upon driving home, they noticed that no matter how many times they horned, their gateman, Abdul, would not come to open the gate. Eventually, their anger over Abdul's behaviour changed to worry, so they summoned a few neighbors and broke down the gate, only to find Abdul lying stone dead on the ground....

Many of the comments look like they're coming from Pakistanis. Those ones are even more racist than the whites.

Talknochip:
disgusting racists

why did the coaching crew not persuade the experienced players in the Team to take the shots?

did they set this guys up?
to take the fall ??

The Senator representing Osun West Senatorial District in the Ninth National Assembly, Adelere Oriolowo, has unveiled a community base station in the Ago Owu Farm Settlement in Osun State as a constituency project.

SaharaReporters learnt that the project was unveiled on Friday.

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“God the Source of our communication; Commissioning of Airtel Mast at the Ago Owu Farm Settlement; facilitated by Senator Adelere Adeyemi Oriolowo, July 9; APC fulfilling promises,” the banner reads.

Airtel, the mobile telecommunication company had yet to react to Oriolowo’s opening of its mast as a community project.

In January 2020, the same Senator had promised to use the rest of his life to serve his senatorial district and the humanity at large.

Oriolowo had disclosed this while receiving an award from the Rotary Club of Akobo-Ibadan.

“This award is an incentive for me to do more for society and I am so excited to receive this award. I’m assuring people in my constituency that I will use the rest of my life to serve humanity.

“The principles and ideals of the Rotary Club tally with my ideals too. I’m a strong believer of the balanced development of knowledge, energy and integrity. I know for you to be a good Rotarian and man of character, you must excel in ideals of the Club.

“Knowledge without integrity is nothing, integrity without knowledge and energy to carry it is also nothing,” the senator, Oriolowo, had said.

http://saharareporters.com/2021/07/11/all-progressives-congress-party-senator-commissions-airtel-mast-osun-community-project


Mynd44 Lalasticlala

COVID-19 Isolation Centres Filling Up Again, Cases Rising—Lagos Governor Raises Alarm

The Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said the isolation centres in the state earmarked for the COVID-19 treatment are getting occupied again.

Sanwo-Olu, during a media briefing on Sunday, expressed concern over the increasing number of cases in the state and hinted that there is a potential third wave in Lagos.

According to him, the isolation centres have recorded a five per cent increase in occupancy in two weeks.

“From the beginning of July, we started to experience a steep increase in the number of daily confirmed cases, with the test positivity rate going from 1.1% at the end of June 2021 to its current rate of 6.6% as at 8th of July 2021.

“The rapid increase within a week gives great cause for concern. Also, within the last two weeks, the occupancy rate at our two isolation centres increased from an average of one per cent to six per cent,” Sanwo-Olu said.

This comes barely two days after the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said it had detected a confirmed case with the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant, also known as lineage B.1.617.2.

[url]http://saharareporters.com/2021/07/11/covid-19-isolation-centres-filling-again-cases-rising%E2%80%94lagos-governor-raises-alarm[/url]

Mynd44 Lalasticlala

Key tracking equipment deployed by the police to go after kidnappers, bandits and terrorists has remained inactive since the beginning of the year amid raging violent crimes across the country.

Multiple reliable sources, according to PUNCH, attributed the downtime to non-subscription and failure to engage the relevant company to carry out system upgrade, among other challenges.

At least 2, 943 people in Nigeria have been abducted across the country in the last six months since the critical tracking technology was down.

Experts have noted that the use of mobile devices by kidnappers to negotiate ransoms makes it possible for law enforcement agencies to determine the movements of the cell phone owners.

Even if users have their location services, cellular data and Wi-Fi disabled, tracking system enables law enforcement agencies to have access to the technology that can determine the location of a mobile device at a specified time.

Senior police officers, including two commissioners of police who spoke to one of our correspondents on condition of anonymity, said the platforms used in tracking phones had been bad since January.

They said in certain cases that were of national interest, the police had to rely on the Office of the National Security Adviser in tracking bandits.

A Commissioner of Police, who spoke to one of our correspondents on the condition of anonymity, said the equipment was handed over to the police by the Nigerian government a few years ago during the tenure of Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Solomon Arase and was installed by a Nigerian company.

“The equipment was given to us by President Buhari. The thing has not been working because those who are supposed to ensure that it runs well have not played their part.

“They claim that they are being owed money for the subscription,” he said.

When asked to explain how the subscription works, the CP said the police had not paid the fees since 2015 and the police had had to rely on the DSS.

He added, “From what I gathered, subscription fees are meant to be paid yearly but you won’t believe that the police have not paid since 2015. Initially, the company gave us a grace period but they have now cut off the police completely. We now rely solely on DSS and NSA office. It’s a terrible situation and it has worsened the insecurity in the country. The Police Trust Fund promised to help but we have not seen any action yet.”

Another police commissioner confirmed the development but said efforts were being made to restore the equipment.

The police commissioner added that the platform was undergoing a system upgrade which would soon be completed.

He added, “You know this thing is technology just like computer so we do upgrades from time to time. A lot of people on the field don’t even understand how it works. It is undergoing an upgrade because you have new features coming in from time to time. There are new technologies that you have to update to enhance their capacity.

“We have some new equipment which we need to adjust so they can link together. Some are still working. It is not as if all components are shut. That is what is happening.”

[url]https://saharareporters.com/2021/07/11/nigeria-police%E2%80%99s-equipment-tracking-bandits-criminals-not-working-january[/url]

Mynd44 Lalasticlala