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Acting IG, Alkali Usman Baba The police have no money for its operations despite the serious security situation in the country, Acting Inspector-General of Police Alkali Usman Baba said on Wednesday. Without funding, yet faced with attacks on its assets and killing of its officers and men in parts of the country, the police have become “Miracle Player” to be able to achieve whatever results they have recorded, Baba said. He spoke on the poor funding situation of the police at a meeting with House of Representatives Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila. He told the Speaker: “We have not account�...

By Levinus Nwabughiogu-Abuja House of Representatives has urged the Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba and the Director-General of the Department of State Security Services, DSS to as a matter of urgency, step up actions in curtailing the incidents of kidnapping and banditry in Owan Federal Constituency and the country at large. The House also urged the Executive Arm of Government to initiate a holistic, implementable strategy including immediate recruitment of officers, deployment of personnel, support for vigilante groups and local hunters as well as dialogue with critical stake...

Deputy governor, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat (left); Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Moyo Onigbanjo (SAN) at the signing into law bills establishing Lagos State Lotteries and Gaming Authority and the Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission by the governor at the Lagos House, Ikeja…yesterday Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, yesterday, signed the Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission Bill 2021 into law to promote accountability and transparency in governance process. With the bill, sponsored by the executive arm, the state gove...

The National Assembly, last week, received a research work on legislative responses to COVID-19, which chronicled Assembly’s preparedness for emergencies. Udora Orizu reports An international non-governmental organisation, Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD), in collaboration with Young Parliamentarians Forum (YPF) of the National Assembly on March 31,presented a report on a study conducted on legislative responses to COVID-19 in Nigeria. The report, titled: ‘Legislative Responses to COVID-19 in Nigeria’, threw light on the weaknesses, preparedness and strategies for emergencies ...

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has urged the National Assembly to confirm the nomination of former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (rtd) and some other Service Chiefs as non-career ambassadors. HURIWA said the National Assembly can endorse the appointments of the ex-Service Chiefs because there is no extant law stopping the immediate past security chiefs from being posted out as envoys after their disengagement. In a letter dated February 9, 2021, and signed by HURIWA’s National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko and the National Media Affairs Director Miss...