The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Christopher Musa, has charged top officers and commanders of the Armed Forces to continue to cooperate to ensure an end to all forms of insecurity across the country. Musa gave the charge during the taking over of office by Maj.-Gen. Olufemi Oluyede as the Acting Chief of Army Staff (COAS) on Friday in Abuja. He said that Nigeria as a nation was going through several challenges that required all hands on deck, adding that President Bola Tinubu decided to appoint the acting COAS to ensure continuity and avoid any gap.

Former governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has berated wage exploitation in Nigeria, cautions that poor compensation of labour has negative effect on national security and economic productivity.
Being a former labour leader, the lawmaker revealed that going by the economic indices, Nigerian workers are poorer now, despite the increase in the new minimum wage recently approved by the Federal Government.

President Bola Tinubu has appointed Major General Olufemi Olatubosun Oluyede as the Acting Chief of Army Staff (COAS). According to a release issued on Wednesday by the Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, Oluyede will act in the position pending the return of the indisposed substantive Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja. Until his appointment, Oluyede served as the 56th Commander of the elite Infantry Corps of the Nigerian Army, based in Jaji, Kaduna.

The Bill seeking to involve the Nigerian Armed Forces to engage in agriculture production to enhance food security and foster economic diversification has passes a second reading at the plenary of House of Representatives yesterday. The bill was sponsored by Babajimi Benson (APC, Lagos), as it seeks to establish the “Armed Forces Farms and Ranches,” leveraging military resources to boost agricultural output.

Minister of Power, Chief Adebayo Adelabu, has insisted that there must be an enactment of a legislation to make vandalisation of electricity transmission installations a capital offence. He urged members of the National Assembly to speedily pass the bill seeking to criminalise the act. According to him, prescribing a capital punishment for the crime will reduce the incidents of vandalisation of the infrastructure.

The Pan-Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, has rejected President Bola Tinubu’s decision to scrap the Ministry of Niger Delta and replacing it with a Development Commission. PANDEF’s decision was contained in a communiqué made available at the end of its meeting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, yesterday.