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President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday promised to shock those behind insecurity in the country. The President made the promise after receiving briefing from Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, on series of attacks on facilities of the electoral body across the country. The president particularly warned those bent on destroying the country through promoting insurrection and burning down critical national assets. “I receive daily security reports on the attacks, and it is very clear that those behind them want this administration to fail,” President Buhari said. “Insecurity in Nigeria is now mentioned all over the world.…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has sealed off two more houses in Kano allegedly belonging to Brigadier-General Jafaru Mohammed, the director of Finance and Admin in the Office of the National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno. Since the beginning of the investigations, sources said the NSA had been using his office, making frantic efforts to frustrate the investigations over fears that the multi-billion naira properties may be linked to him. THE WHISPERER gathered that on Wednesday May 27, soldiers allegedly on the orders of the NSA had threatened to shoot officials of the EFCC that came to mark properties…

Mohammed Babangida, the son of former Military President, Ibrahim Babangida, narrowly escaped death Monday evening when his convoy ran into a trailer loaded with tomatoes along the Minna-Suleja highway. Three of the security guards, all soldiers, died in the accident after their black Prado jeep had a head-on collision with the trailer travelling in the opposite direction. Mohammed Babangida, who was heading to Abuja, was said to be in a Honda Space bus with other members of his family behind the security vehicle. Although no member of the Babangida family was hurt, three of the security personnel in the Jeep…

Tempers rose on Monday among participants at the ‘Nigeria’s 2023 Presidential Transition Inter-Ethnic Peace Dialogue’ organised by Youths Off The Street Initiative when the Middle Belt Forum said it would not go with the North should Nigeria break up. The event, with the theme, ‘Restructuring and 2023 power shift: Nigeria’s make or break factor for political survival’, and convened by the President of YOTSI, Kennedy Iyere, was attended by leaders of ethnic nationalities including the leader of Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo; President, Yoruba Council of Elders, Dr Kunle Olajide, and President of Southern Kaduna Peoples Union, Jonathan Asake. Others were…

The South East Governors’ forum has urged security agencies to immediately arrest those responsible for the murder of late APC Chieftain, Ahmed Gulak. This was contained in a statement issued by the Chairman of the forum and Governor of Ebonyi, David Umahi, on Tuesday after a virtual meeting on the security situation in the Southeast. The forum described the murder of Mr Gulak, in Owerri, Imo State, as a national catastrophe. The statement said: “It is with a rude shock that we received the news of the unfortunate death of Alhaji Ahmed Gulak in the hands of the senseless gunmen.…

The Registrar of National Examinations Council, NECO, Prof. Godswill Obioma has been reported dead. Obioma, according to sources, died Monday night in his sleep in his Minna residence. The Director, Human resources of the NECO, Abdul Mustapha confirmed the death of the NECO boss, said he died in his sleep as a result of heart failure. Mr Mustapha forwarded communication from Obioma’s second son, Prince Godswill Obioma, informing him of the death of his father thus: “Mustapha K. Abdul (Director Human Resource Management, NECO), “Dear Sir, this is to formally inform you that my father, Prof. Godswill Obioma, the Registrar/Chief…

Governor Bello Matawalle has sacked all his commissioners and other political appointees in Zamfara. The governor also suspended an emir and a district head. A statement released by Zailani Bappa, the governor’s media aide, said the secretary to the state government, the chief of staff, and the deputy chief of staff were relieved of their respective appointments. Also sacked were all chairmen and members of the state commissions and boards of various agencies. The governor, however, said the “dissolution does not affect commissions provided for by the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria” just as he ordered commissioners to…

Unknown gunmen on Monday night stormed the residence of Professor Godswill Obioma, strangling him in what his wife suspected to be an assassination. “The assassins came in and killed him and left without taking anything,” Elizabeth Obioma told Peoples Gazette by telephone on Tuesday morning. Weeping profusely, Mrs Obioma said her husband had just returned to Minna from a trip to Abuja when the armed men, lurking in his compound, descended on him and strangled him. A police spokesman did not immediately return a request seeking comments about the development. Mr Obioma has been facing attempts to remove him from…

The President also approved the appointment of Ahmed Mustapha Habib as the new Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, to replace AVM Muhammad (rtd). Following his removal, Mr Mohammed is appointed the chairman of the board of National Senior Citizens Centre. In a statement by presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, Mr Buhari approved the take-off of the National Senior Citizens Centre and constituted a 12-member board with immediate effect. “This is in line with Section 16 (2) (d) of the Nigerian 1999 Constitution as amended which mandates the State to provide adequate social services and improve the quality…

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has warned Northerners against travelling to the South-East for now in view of the prevailing security situation. It advised that if embarking on the trip become necessary they should employ the services of security agents. This was contained in a statement issued by the National Chairman of ACF, Chief Audu Ogbe, on Monday. The statement said it noticed of late with increasing concern the attacks on/killing of Northerners resident and or visiting the South, particularly the South East. “It was so bad at a point in February this year that the northern traders who normally…