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Restoring Internal Security A Surmountable Challenge – IGP Baba

Daily Dispatch April 7, 2021

The acting inspector-general of police (IGP) Usman Alkali Baba, has said restoring internal security was a main challenge that can be surmounted. The IGP, who stated this during the handing-over ceremony at the Force headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday, said: “the task of restoring the primacy

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Adamu hands over to acting IGP Usman Alkali Baba

Daily Dispatch April 7, 2021

Mohammed Adamu has handed over to Usman Alkali Baba as the Acting Inspector General of Police. Mohammed Adamu, the outgoing IGP, handed over to Baba on Tuesday at the Force Headquarters in Abuja. Earlier, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo decorated Usman Baba as the Acting IGP. Baba, a Deputy Inspector-General of Police, was on Tuesday appointed as […]

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69th Birthdy: Northern Governors felicitate with Asiwaju Bola Tinubu

Daily Dispatch March 29, 2021

The Northern Governors Forum has congratulated APC National Leader and former Governor of Lagos State Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on the occasion of his 69th birthday. Chairman of the Forum and Governor of Plateau State, Simon Bako Lalong in a congratulatory message made available to Daily Independent on Monday in Jos,described Senator Tinubu as an accomplished […]

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Prosecutor tenders $1.3m cash recovered from member of Jon-Ode arms probe panel

Daily Dispatch March 27, 2021

Federal Government prosecutors at the federal high court in Abuja have tendered a cash sum of $1.3 million recovered from retired Air Commodore Umar Mohammed, a member of the Jon Ode led Presidential Investigative Committee on Arms Procurement. The arm probe panel was constituted by the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) in 2015 but was later unceremoniously

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Former Army Chief, Ihejirika joins APC

Daily Dispatch March 26, 2021

A former Chief of Army Staff, Lt.- Gen. Oyeabo Ihejirika has formally joined the All Progressives Congress (APC). This is according to a statement by Alhaji Mamman Mohammed, Director of Press and Media to Gov. Mai Mala Buni, Chairman APC Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Comnittee (CECPC) on Friday in Abuja. Mohammed said that Buni, […]

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Soldiers protest poor equipment, unpaid allowances in Borno

Daily Dispatch March 26, 2021

Soldiers of an unidentified battalion in Operation Lafiya Dole have protested their posting to a location in the Theatre of Operation. The aggrieved soldiers, according to sources at the Maimalari barracks besieged the headquarters of the Theatre Command in Borno State, shooting sporadically into the air on Thursday night following their deployment. They cited non-payment