The Rivers State Police Command has assured residents and business operators in the state of their safety and protection in the wake of increasing devastating attacks on police formations in neighbouring Abia and most recently, Imo State.
Spokesman of the command, DSP Nnamdi Omoni gave the assurance in an interview with newsmen in Port Harcourt in reaction to the deadly attack at the Imo State Police Headquarters and Correctional Centre.
SP Omoni said the command in Rivers State is on the alert to repel and contain any similar attack in the state.
“There is no cause for alarm. We will not rest on our oars. The Police in Rivers State is prepared to repel any such attack. We are able and equal to the task,” he said.
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Former President Goodluck Jonathan has narrated how he was advised to sack Aruma Oteh as the director-general of the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 2012 to avoid trouble with the house of representatives.
Speaking at a book presentation in Abuja on Tuesday, Jonathan said some of his associates had suggested the removal of Oteh in order to appease the federal lawmakers whom Oteh had accused of corruption.
Oteh, who was at the helm of affairs at SEC from 2010 to 2015, had at the time alleged that the leadership of the house committee on capital market solicited N44 million bribe from SEC.
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Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday said he was not under any pressure to sack the former Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Azubuike Ihejirika from office.
Speaking during a book launch in his honour in Abuja, Jonathan said some people thought he sacked the general due to some pressure from the north.
“He mentioned my removing the Chief of Army Staff, General Ihejirika and said that because there was so much pressure on me from the north, it was not pressured,” Jonathan said.
“If somebody is doing what is right, even if you want to hit my head. And split my head, I will not (sack the person).”
By Abayomi Adeshida, Abuja.
Former Nigerian senator, Dino Melaye, who represented Kogi west senatorial district at the red chamber, has on Tuesday tendered a public apology to Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan at a book launch in Abuja over his role in the 2015 general election that resulted in the loss of the Presidency by the then ruling Peoples Democratic Party.
Speaking while making a goodwill message, The former senator said, “I Senator Dino Melaye, I want to say openly here that after many things that have happened and events that have unfolded in recent times, I want to say openly here that once I was blind, now I can see.