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The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has failed to summon a meeting of the Nigeria Police Council for the past 21 months despite the rising insecurity in the country.
Investigations by our correspondent indicated that the last time the council met was on May 23, 2019, when it confirmed the appointment of Abubakar Adamu as the substantive Inspector-General of Police at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The President had on January 15, 2019, appointed Adamu as acting IGP following the retirement of IGP Ibrahim Idris.
Adamu’s appointment was ratified in May by the council members, comprising the President who is the chairman, all state governors, Minister of Interior, Chairman of the Police Service Commission, and the Permanent Secretary of the commission.
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A new security arrangement that will include mobile police men and other security operatives is to be provided for each of the schools in Katsina State.
The Police Commissioner in Kaduna State, Sanusi Buba, made the revelation on Monday at the headquarters of the state Police Command during the parade of some suspects alleged to be involved in banditry, gun running and kidnapping.
The police commissioner said some of the security operatives had already been posted to schools.
Buba said, “We have put in place necessary security arrangements for schools in Katsina State which will see our Mobile Police Force among security operatives that will henceforth man our schools.
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Several schools in Katsina state, on Monday, resumed academic activities following a directive that schools in the state should reopen after a vacation occasioned by security challenges in the state.
The state government ordered the closure of all schools last December shortly after 344 students of Government Science School, Kankara were abducted by bandits.
Although the students were later released by their abductors, the government directed the indefinite closure of all schools in the state for the safety of the students.
The state government last Friday directed the schools to reopen on Monday.
Exempted from the government directive were boarding schools.
Humanities also offer solutions
Humanities also offer solutions
In his remarks at a meeting with the students of Kankara Science Secondary School released from captivity recently, President Muhammadu Buhari said something in passing that is worth pondering about the philosophy of education in Nigeria.
By Kayode Komolafe
The meeting took place on the second day after the 344 schoolboys kidnapped by armed men in Katsina state regained their freedom.
Among other things, the President said the Kankara boys were lucky to be in a science school with a brighter future of getting jobs unlike their counterparts who would major in History or English. The President seemed to have a dim view of the future of students interested in the humanities.
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