The Senate on Tuesday asked its leadership to arrange a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari on the nation’s security challenges.
The upper legislative chamber took the decision after adopting a motion on the deadly activities of bandits and Boko Haram terrorists in some local government areas of Niger State and other parts of Nigeria sponsored by Senator Sani Mohammed Musa.
The Senate also resolved to summon the Service Chiefs to brief the lawmakers on steps taken so far to address the worsening insecurity in the country.
The lawmakers also mandated the Senate Joint Committees on Foreign Affairs, Defence and National Security to engage the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, National Security Adviser, Babagana Munguno, Minister of Defence, Major Gen. Bashir Salihi Magashi (retd) and the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ahmed Rufai Abubakar, on the regional implications of the recent development in Chad.
Insecurity: Nigeria in tough, perilous times Okowa, Omo-Agege
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By Festus Ahon & Ochuko Akuopha
GOVERNOR Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State and Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, yesterday, said Nigeria was in tough and perilous times, urging Nigerians to continue to pray and support the government in tackling the security challenges bedeviling the country.
Speaking at Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State during the Third Season of the 8th Synod of the Ughelli Diocese, Anglican Communion, they, however, expressed optimism that the new leadership of the security agencies in the country would bring new strategies to tackle the insecurity in the country.
On Monday 19th April 2021, the world woke up to the news that the long-serving President of the Republic of Chad, Idriss Deby, had died. His death marked the end of an inglorious chapter in the history of political leadership in Africa and left loads of lessons for Africa and her leaders.
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According to reports, he was killed by rebels following injuries he sustained during clashes with rebels in the northern part of the country. The late Chadian leader, aged 68, was said to be a poor herder’s son who scraped a living from the harsh deserts of northern Chad and rose through the ranks of the Chadian military to become one of Africa’s most despotic leaders of his time . He was a tall, imposing one-time military commander with a haughty mien, versed in cunny diplomacy, which helped him outwit his opponents or buy them over. He used fear to rule the arid country and cracked down on the opposition and perceived enemies whenever there was some threat.
Lessons From Chad, By Dakuku Peterside
It is evident that leaders who make peaceful change impossible, make violent change inevitable.
Idriss Deby. Pucture credit: alwhidainfo.com
Nigeria can also learn from Dèby that instability in Chad may mean that instability is nearer home than we thought; flawed elections are invitations to anarchy; clamping down on alternative voices is a call to lawlessness and instability; the help of international friends is limited; development is key to stability, and not deprivation and accumulation of wealth for the self…
On Monday, April 19, the world woke up to the news that the long-serving president of the Republic of Chad, Idriss Déby, had died. His death marked the end of an inglorious chapter in the history of political leadership in Africa and left loads of lessons for Africa and her leaders.
By Festus Ahon & Ochuko Akuopha
GOVERNOR Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State and Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, yesterday, said Nigeria was in tough and perilous times, urging Nigerians to continue to pray and support the government in tackling the security challenges bedeviling the country.
Speaking at Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State during the Third Season of the 8th Synod of the Ughelli Diocese, Anglican Communion, they, however, expressed optimism that the new leadership of the security agencies in the country would bring new strategies to tackle the insecurity in the country.
Okowa said: “We are doing our best and we will continue to do our best to help our people and we thank God that at the federal level, there is a change of guard as it concerns security.”