President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday urged Nigerians to get more interested in working with security agencies to tackle myriad challenges facing the country, extoling the courage and bravery displayed by security agencies and service chiefs in promoting peace and order. The President in an address at the opening ceremony of Alumni Association of the National…
The Senate, on Tuesday, faulted the President’s response of sending delegation to Maiduguri to deliver a message of condolence and solidarity with the government and people of the state over the killing of 43 farm workers. Senator Adamu Aliero who described the killing as the height of insecurity, stated that President Buhari should have gone…
President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the country’s service chiefs. Spokesman of the President, Femi Adesina, disclosed this on Monday, July 13, 2015. He disclosed that their replacements would be announced later. The affected officers are the Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen Kenneth Minimah; Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Usman Jibrin; Air Chief, Air Vice…
The Senate, on Thursday, confirmed the appointment of the new service chiefs nominated by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, after they passed their screening at the Senate. The new service chiefs were screened by the Senate Committee on Defence, Army, Navy and Air Force. During plenary on Thursday, the red chamber adopted the report of its…