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Poverty of governance and illegal weapons in circulation Suspected kidnappers, cattle rustlers, robbers and dealers of illegal weapons, being paraded by the police in Abuja yesterday By   Governance in Nigeria in recent times especially since the return of civil rule in 1999 increasingly attracts significant attention. The attraction is a sad tale of incessant governance failure to address the insecurity situation all over the country. There is a sense in which the current situation makes a ca...

BabandedeAdamu Yakubu is Nigerien national trading on petty items in Kano. The 35-year-old foreigner explained to The Guardian how he came into Nigeria seven years ago without any document. Yakubu narrated how he usually bailed himself out at the Nigerian borders with N3, 000 or more to immigration officers at the entry point. Nasiru Mohammad, a Chadian also residing in Kano, has lived there for several years. He shared a similar experience with Yakubu at the Nigerian border. “It is not diffi...

FG, ECOWAS-EU to train 150 ex-militants from C/River On Kindly Share This Story: The Presidential Committee on Small Arms and Light Weapons (PRESCOM) is to train 150 ex-militants who surrendered their weapons in 2018 in Calabar for training on various skills acquisition programmes. Mr Dickson Orji, Programme Coordinator of PRESCOM, who supervised the ex militants on Tuesday in Calabar, said they were going to be trained on alternative livelihood packages. Orji, who is also the National Project...

Easy access to weapons blamed for armed conflicts MINSK, 16 March (BelTA) - Armed conflicts in the world persist because of the easy access to weapons, Marina Lenchevskaya, a member of the Standing Committee on National Security of the House of Representatives, told the media as she took part in the seminar of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly "Connecting the dots: Improving the effectiveness of the UN Program of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and L...

ECOWAS-EU, FG facilitates training of 150 ex-agitators from Cross River On By Ike Uchechukwu The Presidential Committee on Small Arms and Light Weapons, PRESCOM, has facilitated the move of 150 ex-agitators who surrendered their weapons in 2018 in Calabar for training on various skills acquisition programmes. Programme Coordinator of PRESCOM, Mr Dickson Orji, who monitored the movement of the ex-agitators on Tuesday in Calabar, said they were going to be trained on alternative livelihood packa...

Daily Post Nigeria Published The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, was absent as the state government commenced the first phase of COVID-19 vaccination that will help to promote immunity and reduce infection in the state. Unlike his counterparts in other states who took the first jab of the COVID-19 vaccine to boost the confidence of residents of the state, Governor was conspicuously away from the ceremony. Performing the flag-off on behalf of the governor at Government House, Port Harcourt, ...

150 ex-militants depart Cross River for skill acquisition under ECOWAS-EU small arms project Published About 150 ex-militants from Cross River State have departed the state capital to Abuja for a skill acquisition program under the ECOWAS-EU Small arms project. The National Project Coordinator of the Nigerian Component of the ECOWAS-EU Small arms project, Dickson Orji, who spoke to journalists at the departure of the team said the move marks a major milestone in the implementation of the weapon...

Sir: Nigeria has been notorious for ethno- religious, communal, political conflicts. Of late, banditry and kidnapping have become a menace in Nigeria forming part of the predicaments confronting and distorting development progression in Nigeria. Subsequently, kidnapping for ransom has become part and parcel of insecurity problems of Nigeria today. Coincidentally, it is part of the inhuman criminal activity that has escalated over the years alongside other insecurity challenges of communal cl...

10 March 2021 (Speakers notes, may differ from delivered version) Thank you Madame Chair for dedicating this Joint FSC/PC Security Dialogue to the important topic of UNSCR 1325 on Women, Peace and Security. Thanks also to our speakers for their excellent presentations, which serve to reinforce the importance of gender equality in achieving sustainable peace and security. This morning we have an important opportunity to capitalise on the momentum generated at OSCE last year around the Resolution...

Punch Newspapers Sections Patrick Odey, Uyo The European Union through its ECOWAS commission partners and the leadership Initiative for Trañsformation and Empowerment has organised capacity training for Nigeria military, police and paramilitary agencies. The training programme is aimed at equipping the operatives with modern methods and strategies of border management (air, land and sea) as well as strategies for collaborative policing and information sharing. Speaking at the event held at Emj...