Tag Archives: Security

World hunger in 2021 reached 828 million people, an increase of 46 million from 2020 and 150 million since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Credit: FAO. Opinion by Mario Lubetkin (rome) Wednesday, July 13, 2022 Inter Press Service This is an op-ed by Mario Lubetkin, FAO Assistant Director-General and designated …

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has said President Buhari’s inability to curtail rising cases of kidnapping, killing and terrorists attacks has exposed his ineffective leadership. In a statement signed by its Secretary-General, Murtala Aliyu, the group expressed regret over the level of insecurity, particularly in the Northern region, saying supporters of …

A day after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was gunned down in broad daylight, a stunned nation is questioning how the gunman was able to approach one of Japan’s most prominent politicians and fire two shots from close range without security stepping in. On television and social media, there are …

The woman who was shot dead by a security guard outside a Dallas strip club early Saturday, June 25, has been identified as mother-of-three Shalanda Anderson, 32.   Shalalanda was shot outside the city’s largest strip club, XTC Cabaret Dallas, just after 5 a.m. after she allegedly plowed into the guard with her …

Ikpeazu, while inaugurating the committee at Umuahia, charged its members to ensure the market did not serve as launching pad for attacks by criminal elements against innocent citizens and visitors to the state. He said that Abia had always been home to people from diverse places living peacefully together with …

Christian Ritscher, who also heads the Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/ISIL (UNITAD), upheld that those responsible must be identified, tried, and convicted “at the national and international level.” “Only by prosecuting and referring to such barbaric acts as war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, …

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Following the heightened level of insecurity in the country, actor Frank Donga took to his Instagram  page to ask a pertinent question.   He wrote; ”Why do security forces always get “intelligent reports” about protests but never about killers murdering and burning people in broad day light?”  

Over 100 commercial motorcyclists, popularly called Okada riders, today May 29, invaded the Same Global Estate in the Lokogoma area of Abuja to avenge the death of two colleagues.   According to eyewitnesses, the motorcyclists went on a rampage after two of their colleagues were allegedly knocked down by a motorcyclist in …

His Excellency Distinguished Senator Hope Uzodimma today received The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye at the Government House, EXCO Chamber, Owerri, Imo State.  Pastor Adeboye in his address to the Governor revealed that the problem of Nigeria today is beyond human comprehension …