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Mike Ejiofor As the Kankara Schoolboys abducted by bandits reunite with their parents, a former Director of the State Security Services, Mike Ejiofor, has said that the nightmarish experience may continue in the northwest region until Nigeria’s Hausa-Fulani states defeat organised banditry. Ejiofor said this on Friday in an interview on Channels Television monitored by SaharaReporters.  Mike Ejiofor ChannelsTV “The problem is that these people politicise security,” said Ejiofor. “And this is dangerous. Security in these states like Zamfara and Katsina is not as simple as you see it. Leaders of the bandits are organised; so to defeat them, the state security should be strengthened.”  He also said that when bandits negotiated with government officials, they used the money realised to purchase arms which they used to perpetrate more kidnappings. Ejiofor disclosed that politicians in the state know the leaders of the bandits terrorising the North-West territories of t...

The Yoruba Council of Elders has said the group does not believe in any secessionist tendencies and won’t support any move to jeopardise Nigeria’s sovereignty. Dr Kunle Olajide Kunle, Secretary-General of the YCE, was reacting to the formation of the Eastern Security Network created by the Indigenous People of Biafra. A video showing the newly created IPOB security outfit wielding guns on a purported neighbourhood patrol to stem the tide of insecurity trended online over the week. IPOB had said the Eastern Security Network was formed to solve the problem of insecurity in the south-south and the south-east regions of the country. Olajide said, “I know there’s IPOB but I was surprised about their security network. The council of elders that I serve as Secretary-General, we have no position on it and it’s an issue we have never discussed. We are not in support of any secessionist bid by any part of this country, and that is the position of the Yoruba council elders. “We believ...

The Nigerian government has ordered the cancellation of N20 fee for the retrieval of National Identification Number (NIN) on mobile networks. NIMC USSD service to retrieve NIN usually attracts a N20 fee which is deducted from the phone credit balance after dialing *346#. Isa Ali Pantami, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, on Friday, gave the directive which takes effect immediately. A statement signed by the spokesperson for the Minister, Mrs Uwa Suleiman, said the directive was aimed at making the process easier and affordable. “By this waiver, all Nigerians, subscribers and applicants can access the service using the *346# code for their NIN retrieval at no charge for the duration of the NIN/SIM Card integration exercise,” he said. The government had earlier directed that NIN be integrated with Subscriber Identification Modules for security purposes. It also licensed 173 centres and 30 state government institutions to conduct enrolment of all persons, in...

Late Abdulkadir Jimoh The Cross River State Commissioner of Police, Abdulkadir Jimoh, has died of COVID-19.  SaharaReporters gathered that Jimoh died at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital Isolation centre. Late Abdulkadir Jimoh Police PUBLIC HEALTH Breaking News News AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :  from 24HRSNEWS via 24HRSNEWS from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/3r9V8dp via EDUPEDIA

President Buhari A security expert and Special Adviser on Security and Intelligence to the President of the Senate, Dr Kabir Adamu, has said President Muhammadu Buhari has lost his military knowledge as a result of old age. Adamu disclosed this in an interview with SaharaReporters while speaking on the approach of the security arms in Nigeria towards the recent launch of the Eastern Security Network by the Indigenous Peoples Of Biafra. President Buhari He added that President Buhari had lost touch with everything he knew about military strategy and age had also caught up with him. See Also Politics Buhari Must Go, He Has Dementia And Can't Handle His Own Affairs—Junaid Mohammed 0 Comments 1 Day Ago pic.twitter.com/BhIjBcULBj — Muhammadu Buhari (@MBuhari) December 18, 2020 Adamu said, “What IPOB stands for and what the leader stands for is not in the best interest of the country for now. The country needs unity and this new outfit will lead to insecurity i...