Buhari Hired Me To Protect Abuja-Kaduna Road_Asari
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Militant leader, Asari Dokubo, has bragged that President Muhammadu Buhari hired him to protect the Abuja-Kaduna highway.
Daily Trust reports that the highway gained a reputation for being unsafe for travelers during the Buhari-led administration, due to frequent kidnappings and murders.
But in the twilight of the immediate past government, reports of violence crashed significantly.
When he visited President Bola Tinubu at Aso Rock last month, Dokubo had boasted that his men were the ones responsible for the stability being enjoyed on that axis.
He had said: “There is a full-scale war going on and the blackmail of the Nigerian state by the Nigerian military is shameful. They said they do not have enough armament and people listen to this false narrative. They are lying. They are liars. I repeat they are liars because I am a participant.
“I am a participant in this war. I fight on the side of the government of the Nigerian state in Plateau, Niger, Anambra, Imo, Abia and Rivers. And in Abuja today, you are travelling to Kaduna on this road. It is not the army that makes it possible for you to travel to Abuja or travel to Kaduna, and vice versa.
JAMB Bans Ejimeme Mmesoma
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Amid controversy surrounding Ejimeme Joy Mmesoma’s results, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has barred her from sitting for the examination for three years.
Fabian Benjamin, JAMB’s spokesperson, disclosed this in a statement on Monday.
According to him, the Board stands by its decision that the result being paraded by the candidate is fake.
Recall that Mmesoma claimed that she scored 362, but JAMB refuted it, noting that she scored 249.
The issue generated divergent views on social media; however, JAMB said Mmesoma had committed a weighty infraction.
“The Board would like to reassure Nigerians that its system was neither tampered with nor compromised as the candidate simply falsified a copy of a result slip of a candidate named ‘Asimiyu Mariam Omobolanle’, who sat the UTME in 2021 and scored 138.
Arrest killers of Prof Ajewole, ASUU tasks IGP, Oyo CP
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THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday, tasked the Acting Inspector General of Police, IGP, Olukayode Egbetokun, to deploy his tactical team to assist the Oyo Police Command in unmasking the killers of Professor Opeyemi Ajewole of the Department Social and Environmental Forestry Development of the University of Ibadan.
Professor Ajewole was gruesomely gunned down by yet-to-be-identified assailants, on June 5, 2023, in Ibadan, Oyo State.
ASUU, in a statement by the Chairman of the UI chapter, Professor Ayo Akinwole, said the acting IGP should be interested in the case, deploy the necessary human and technical expertise to unravel the mystery surrounding the killing so that evil people will be made to face the wrath of the law.
Akinwole said: “The Union awaits the arrest, parade and prosecution of the killers of Professor Opeyemi Ajewole.
“His family needs to experience that justice is served on those behind his gruesome killing. And by so doing, the entire people of Nigeria will have more trust in our policing system.
“As we bury Professor Ajewole this week, yet the arrest of his killers, we are reminded of how insecure Nigerians are.
“The police and the intelligence community need to rise and bring the perpetrators to book. The killings of hapless Nigerians must stop.”
Insecurity: We’ll secure Nigeria, NSA assures
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The National Security Adviser, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu yesterday assured President Bola Tinubu and the entire country that security agencies will accomplish the objective of securing the country as well as re-establish peace and stability.
Ribadu was responding to the President’s charge that they should work as a team to deliver on the mandate of dealing with the protracted security challenges in the country.
His charge came against the backdrop of the insurgency, banditry, kidnapping and other violent crimes that have threatened the corporate existence of the country.
Briefing State House correspondents at the end of the President’s maiden meeting with the security chiefs at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the NSA, Mallam Ribadu, said: “The President directed them to work as a team and deliver on their mandate.
Speaking on the outcome of the meeting, he said: “We’re here to thank Mr President for the opportunity he gave us to serve our country and to serve his own government. We also pledged our loyalty to him, Nigeria and Nigerians.
“We believe the choice he made is the right one, the correct one, and we know what he wants for this country.
‘’We’re going to work tirelessly to ensure we accomplish that objective of securing our country, establishing peace, stability and let’s get our lives back.
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