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Azu Ishiekwene That the slain Borno farmers did not get military clearance is an inconvenient truth, but the real error of judgement was taking the government at its word.  In his inaugural speech on May 29, 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the military chiefs – the same military chiefs there today – to relocate to the Northeast, the main theatre in the war on Boko Haram. The previous government had done poorly on security and Buhari said the only way to take the country back from the terrorists and military authorities who deployed troops to fight with bare hands while diverting money and weapons, was to send the new military chiefs to the frontline. They were supposed to report, effective immediately, and stay there until the battle is won. I think the chiefs heard the commander-in-chief on that day. According to a BBC report on June 2, 2015, the military actually started moving its headquarters to Maiduguri, the epicentre of the insurgency, “to add impetus and r...

File Photo: Abdulrasheed Maina Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT) is on his way back to Nigeria after been extradited from Niger Republic. SaharaReporters gathered that a team of police officers led by head of Interpol were in Niger Republic to pick Maina earlier on Thursday. File Photo: Abdulrasheed Maina The former PRTT Chairman is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for alleged money laundering to the tune of N2 billion. See Also Corruption Maina Will Be Extradited To Nigeria Soon —Police 0 Comments 1 Day Ago However, Maina jumped bail which prompted Okon Abang, a Judge of the Federal High Court in Abuja, to order the arrest of Ali Ndume, Senator representing Borno South. Ndume had stood surety for Maina so that he could be granted bail. After about four days in custody, the court granted the legislator bail on Friday. Abang had said although other grounds of Ndume’s bail application fa...

The Police Inspector-General (IGP), Mohammed Adamu The Nigeria Police Force has filed a suit at the Federal High Court in Abuja praying for an order stopping the various states’ judicial panels of enquiry probing allegations of rights abuses and other acts of brutality perpetrated by the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad and other police tactical units. The plaintiff in the suit marked, FHC/ABJ/CS/1492/2020, urged the court to restrain the Attorneys-General of the 36 states of the federation and their various panels of enquiry from going ahead with the probe focusing on police impunity. The Police Inspector-General (IGP), Mohammed Adamu Twitter/toluogunlesi The defendants, totalling 104, who were sued by the NPF, comprised the Attorney-General of the Federation, the National Human Rights Commission which set up the Independent Investigative Panel sitting in Abuja, the Attorneys-General of the states, and chairmen of the states’ panels. The decision to set up the various ...

A former Governor of Kano State, Ibrahim Shekarau, has said Nigeria’s next president should come from the southern part of the country. He said by 2023, President Muhammadu Buhari would have been in power for eight years, and “common sense tells that we should look the other side, to the Southern part of Nigeria”. Shekarau, who represents Kano Central District in the Senate, added, “There is common sense expectation of balancing and giving everybody a sense of belonging and fairness.” He, however, said reliable and competent hands should be entrusted with the responsibility of leading Nigeria in 2023 The All Progressives Congress senator spoke on Thursday while featuring on television programme monitored by The PUNCH. When asked about his position on the growing call for a South-East presidency in 2023, Shekarau said, “I don’t call it zoning, I would instead call it some balancing. There has to be some sense of belonging. There is what I call the constitution of common sens...

Some prospective members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) have expressed fear and worries after they were deployed to serve in Zamfara, Katsina, Borno and other states where insecurity has worsened recently.   In separate interviews with SaharaReporters, they said that they would not risk their lives travelling to those volatile states as tales of banditry, kidnapping and terrorism have become a regular occurrence.   File photo While some of the graduates requested a deferment of service, others said they would apply for redeployment to other states.   Moyosore Adeleke, one of the prospective corps members who spoke with SaharaReporters, said she was sad to learn she was deployed to serve in Kano State. Adeleke said, “I will pray before travelling to the camp. I will only be there for three weeks because I’m redeploying (to another state)  after completing the orientation camp. I don’t want to be too far from my family, and the insecurity in ...