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The acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Alkali Usman has said that the disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) created a vacuum which is challenging efforts by the Police to tackle insecurity in the country from a position of strength. The acting IGP stated this on Thursday at a presidential briefing organized by the Presidential Communications Team at the statehouse in Abuja. According to him, the aftermath of the EndSARS protest equally dampened the morale of the officers of the force. The IGP also indicated that the police have recorded successes against secessionist groups and criminals in the southeast. He…

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Senator Basheer Mohammed as the new Director General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP). Garba Shehu, Presidential spokesman, announced this in a statement on Thursday. Shehu said the president also approved some key changes under the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development. Shehu said the action was taken in order to realise and sustain government’s abiding desire for effective and efficient service delivery in the two organisations. The statement said Mrs Imaan Suleiman Ibrahim who was until now the Director General of NAPTIP will now…

The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Major General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff. Prior to his appointment, Major General Yahaya was the General Officer Commanding 1 Division of the Nigerian Army and the incumbent Theatre Commander of the Counter Terrorism Counter Insurgency military outfit in the North East, code named Operation HADIN KAI.

A group known as Ohaneze Ndi Igbo Worldwide (Youth Wing), has conferred the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN with a Hero’s Award of Excellence describing him as the “Most Outstanding Icon of Unity and Peaceful Co-existence in Nigeria.” This was disclosed in a letter jointly signed by the President of the group, Obiora Arthur and the Speaker of Ohanaeze Youth Parliament (OYP), Rt. Hon. Anya S. Anya. According to The Whistler, the group said that Malami deserved the award because of his “massive youth empowerment cutting across ethnic nationalities without sentiments, jingoism and…

Christians, Non-Hausa/Fulani from the Southern part of Kaduna and their counterpart Muslim Hausa/Fulani dominated part of Northern Kaduna, have agreed for the split of Kaduna State into two new states. Speaking during the presentation and defense of their memos at the Senate ad-hoc Committee and the House of Reps Special Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution at the Hassan Katsina House on Wednesday, both parties that have been engaged in infamous inter-ethnic and religious clashes for decades, said creating new states from the present Kaduna State will go a long way at solving the bloody violence that seemed…

President Muhammadu Buhari refused to attend the late Chief of Army Staff Ibrahim Attahiru’s burial because he did not want to cause a traffic jam on Abuja road, says his media aide Garba Shehu. Mr Buhari failed to attend the funeral of Mr Attahiru and six other senior military officers who died in a plane crash in Kaduna last Friday, although they were interred at National Military Cemetery, just a few kilometres away from the State House. Mr Buhari was represented at the funeral held at the National Mosque and National Christian Centre, Abuja, by defence minister Bashir Magashi. Many…

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, on Tuesday asked the federal government to count the state out of its planned rehabilitation of grazing reserves. Governor Ortom stated this while reacting to the earlier statement of the Senior Special Assistant on Publicity and Media to the President, Mallam Garba Shehu, that the federal government was planning to rehabilitate grazing reserves across the country. Ortom in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akase, said that there is absolutely no land in the state that had been gazetted for grazing reserve. The governor said that his state had since embraced ranching…

The presidency has expressed reservation over the position of Southern Governors’ Forum on open grazing, saying their decision to ban open grazing in their states is of questionable legality. Garba Shehu, the president’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, in a statement on Monday in Abuja, observed that the governors’ anti-open grazing stance contradicted the constitutional right of all Nigerians to enjoy freedom of movements irrespective of the state of their birth or residence. He said banning of open grazing by the governors was unnecessary in view of the fact that the president had since approved a number of…

Following the demise of the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, the permutations are on in effort to zero in on a final choice to replace the late Army Chief. Lt General Attahiru and 10 others died on Friday in a plane crash involving Nigerian Air Force’s Beachcraft 350 aircraft in Kaduna. A new Chief of Army Staff is expected to be named between Tuesday and Wednesday, according to sources familiar with the ongoing consultations over the matter. About five senior military officers were being considered for the post, THE WHISPERER has learnt. According to Daily Trust,…

The member representing Oyi/ Ayamelum federal constituency in the House of Representstives, Hon. Barr. Vincent Ofumelu has commiserated with Senator Margery Okadigbo family, Ogbunike Community and his entire constituents on the tragic death of their son, Mr Pharaoh Okadigbo, describing the incident saddening and devastating. Ofumelu stated this in a statement personally signed by him, on Monday in Abuja, the lawmaker also condoled with the people of Oyi over the tragedy. He recalled that the late Okadigbo, who died in a fatal accident, was a vibrant and hardworking personality who lived a humble yet fulfilled life. Ofumelu said the news…