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Osun State police officers released Environment Commissioner Mayowa Adejoorin after keeping him in detention for twenty-four hours. Security forces grabbed the state official on Friday following a violent shooting near an All Progressives Congress rally in Ilesa. Police spokesman Abiodun Ojelabi linked the cabinet member’s arrest to an intercepted Lexus vehicle containing spent ammunition and…
Yoruba nation activist Chief Sunday Adeyemo, better known as Sunday Igboho, says more than 80,000 volunteers have now registered for his Iru Ekun Security Network, a figure that overshoots the 50,000 target the outfit set for itself and places the region’s newest community security experiment squarely within the national conversation on insecurity. In a…
Nigeria moved closer than at any point in its democratic history to dismantling its single, centrally controlled police structure on Wednesday, after the Senate passed a constitutional amendment bill authorising state-controlled police services across the federation. The passage shifts the decades-long debate to the 36 state Houses of Assembly, where at least 24 must…
Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has declared his readiness to make any sacrifice, including risking his own life, to secure the release of pupils and teachers held by gunmen in Oriire Local Council of the state. He made the pledge on Tuesday while addressing peaceful protesters led by activist Martins Otse, popularly known as…
Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has given a fresh update on efforts to rescue the schoolchildren and teachers abducted by suspected bandits in Yawota and Ahoro-Esinle communities of Oriire Local Government Area, saying intelligence indicates the victims remain within the Old Oyo National Park. Makinde gave the update on Friday in his Newsletter No….
The Osun State government has summoned an emergency security meeting following the mass abduction of students and teachers in neighbouring Oyo State. The state Ministry of Education met with local union leaders and state intelligence chiefs in Osogbo to draft defensive strategies. Governor Ademola Adeleke ordered the immediate revitalisation of the Safe School Initiative to…
The Agbekoya Farmers’ Society of Nigeria has raised fresh alarm over the fate of victims abducted from schools in Esinele, Yamota and Alawusa communities in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State, alleging that the kidnappers are now ferrying their captives through dense forests across neighbouring states in a deliberate bid to evade security operatives….
Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State has asserted that no terrorist attacks have occurred in the state since the June 2022 massacre at Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Owo, characterising recent violent incidents including the killing of a traditional ruler as isolated criminal acts rather than coordinated terrorism. The governor made these claims…
Few days after the latest violent attacks by scores of gunmen on Igangan, an agrarian community in Ibarapa North Local Government of Oyo State; the state governor Engr. Seyi Makinde had bemoaned the recurring wanton destruction of lives and properties in the region. He is calling on the Federal Government to permit governors in the…
The magnitude of Nigeria’s security problems seems to have exceeded the coping capacity of the conventional security outfits in Nigeria combined. Only few states have minimal security challenges. From Imo State where separatist are on a rampage, to Kaduna and Benue where university students were kidnapped right in their hostels, the news sends panic into…
