The Acting Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba has ordered for the withdrawal of senior police officers from the rank of Chief Superintendent of Police and above deployed to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). In a letter addressed to the EFCC Chairman and dated April 15th, 2021 stated that the affected officers should report for further directives not later than 10 am on April 21st, 2021.
The Nigerian government has sought to disagree with the plan decided by the United Kingdom to grant asylum to alleged persecuted members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB).
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, has advised Nigerians to embrace the fight against corruption because the Commission cannot win the war alone.
The Nigerian Senate has today asked the Nigerian Governors across the 36 states of the federation to save the country’s fragile democracy from crumbling by complying to implement the judicial autonomy in their respective states to guarantee their independence as an arm of government.
As the controversy over affiliation with terrorist groups continues to mount, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, has renounced his past comments. Pantami stated that for over a decade, he took the crusade on the dangers of terrorism across major parts of the north, adding that he converted many young persons who have derailed to normalcy.
Nigerian Troops have restricted movement along Damaturu-Damboa-Biu Road following attacks by members of ISWAP/Boko Haram on a Kumuya military base in Yobe State.
