Security Agencies
28 May 2019
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it is planning to hold stakeholders meeting and national conversation to review the 2019 General Elections and management of the country’s electoral processes. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this at the commission’s meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners (REC) on Tuesday, in Abuja. Yakubu said that the commission…
12 Jun 2018
Action Aid Nigeria says the lack of synergy among security agencies is fuelling insecurity nationwide. It decried the seeming absence of neutrality, professionalism and sharing of intelligence among security apparatuses, saying the move was deteriorating security in the country. Addressing the media on the state of the nation yesterday in Abuja, the Board Chair of…
16 Feb 2018
A retired Ekiti-born captain in the United States Army, Sunday Adebomi, says Nigerian security agencies need special training to combat the killer herdsmen, noting that the operations of the nomads could be likened to insurgency or guerrilla warfare that requires innovative skills and dexterity. During a chat with newsmen in Ado-Ekiti, the All Progressives Congress…
28 Dec 2016
Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike says, the violence that marred the rerun elections in the state was orchestrated by security agencies with a motive to making the state ungovernable.