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Agboola Ajayi Agboola Ajayi, deputy governor of Ondo State and candidate of Zenith Labour Party, has called on the Inspector-General of Police and Director-General of the Department of State Services to reorganise the security architecture of the state to curb violence during Saturday’s governorship election in the state. Ajayi, who made the call in a statement by his media aide, Allen Sowore, on Monday, alleged that candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Eyitayo Jegede, had recruited thugs to unleash attack on members of opposition parties and residents of the state on election day. Agboola Ajayi The ZLP candidate added that the plan of the two political parties was to bring in armed thugs from neighbouring states like Kogi, Ekiti and Lagos to cause chaos during the election.   The statement reads, “The deputy governor and candidate of the Zenith Labour Party, Agboola Ajayi, has uncovere...

Senior Pastor of Daystar Christian Centre, Sam Adeyemi, has joined millions of Nigerians to demand for restructuring. Adeyemi queried the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, over his statement that the Nigerian Government would not succumb to threats emanating from some quarters in the country. Shehu had in the statement described recent calls for the restructuring of the country as “recurring threats to the corporate existence of the country”. But Adeyemi via his verified Twitter handle stressed that effective leaders must listen to the views of citizens and take appropriate actions. When did it become a threat for citizens to express opinions, even if strong, about the structuring or restructuring of their country? Effective leaders listen. — Sam Adeyemi (@sam_adeyemi) October 5, 2020 Earlier, General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, warned of a possible collapse of Niger...

The Katsina State Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has been thrown into mourning following the murder of one its officers by bandits at a checkpoint in Dan Arau Village along the Katsina/Jibiya Highway. Garba Nasiru, who was an Assistant Superintendent of Customs, was killed on Friday afternoon. According to Katsina Post, security operatives engaged the bandits in a gun duel before his corpse could be retrieved from them. Nine other persons were also killed by the gunmen in the state. Efforts to get comments from the customs divisional headquarters in the state proved abortive but sources within the division disclosed that the late officer had since been buried according to Islamic rites. See Also Insurgency Bandits Kill Nine Persons, Abduct Many In Fresh Attack On Katsina Communities 0 Comments 1 Day Ago Spokesperson for the Katsina State Police Command, Gambo Isah, however, confirmed the incident but did not give details. He said, “Yes, the incident was tru...

For the seventh time in the last three years, the Department of State Services and Corporate Affairs Commission have frustrated the registration of a civil society group, Concerned Nigerians. SaharaReporters gathered that the DSS stopped the CAC from issuing the group led by Deji Adeyanju the certificate of incorporation even after it was duly registered after the seventh attempt. “On June 13, 2020, the commission granted approval for the reservation of the group’s name. The commission introduced the requirement that all persons seeking to register an incorporated trustees must apply and obtain the consent of the Registrar General. “The registration was therefore queried on this ground. We subsequently applied for the Registrar General’s consent to use the name and consent was granted on July 17, 2020. “Days after consent was granted, the registration was approved on the commission’s upload portal. A quick glance on the undersigned’s data page on the commission’s registratio...

Fredrick Nwabufo The affliction called “the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS)” has become resistant to every divine antidote. It was set up to treat the pestilence of armed robbery and other violent crimes. But the police unit became the behemoth of organised criminality. It became the canker it was commissioned to extirpate. There have been many accounts of criminality and extra-judicial exertion by this police unit. But there is only a trickle of detail on the prosecution of these dispatchers of death by the police authorities. I must say, the police leadership is complicit in the SARS menace. The force is aiding its criminal minds in taking flight from justice. In one year, between March 2019 and February 2020, the police, particularly the ill-reputed SARS, have caused the untimely expiration of 92 Nigerian souls – according to the Council on Foreign Relations (a non-profit US think tank). Some of the prominent reasons for the killings are “refusal to give a bribe, argument ...