The Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of Research and Planning, Adeleye Olusola Oyebade, has been deployed to supervise the September 19, 2020 governorship election in Edo State.
Force spokesperson, DCP Frank Mba, disclosed this in a statement on Friday.
Oyebade, according to the statement, will be assisted by Karma Hosea Hassan, Assistant Inspector-General in charge of Federal Operations at the Force Headquarters, Abuja, and eight Commissioners of Police.
Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu
“Oyebade with the assistance of the AIG will superintend over the entire security architecture and ensure effective monitoring of the election and due enforcement of all electoral laws in the state. The senior police officers similarly involved in the election monitoring and evaluation include CP Garba Baba Umar, CP Habu Sani and CP Buba Sanusi.
“CP Akeera M. Yonous will coordinate the operations of the Police Mobile Force and other special strike forces. Other four CPs will supervise security arrangement in the three senatorial districts of the State,” the statement said.
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Two sons of late Chief Moshood Abiola, winner of the June 12, 1993, presidential election, Kassim and Aliyu, who were arrested and detained over a robbery incident that took place at their father’s residence on September 2, have approached the High Court of Lagos State in the Ikeja Judicial Division for the enforcement of their fundamental rights.
SaharaReporters recall that suspected robbers raided the Lagos mansion of the late Chief Abiola and went away with property worth millions of naira.
The robbers were said to have assessed the Toyin Street Crescent residence of the late politician through a canal and jumped over the high perimeter fence into the compound.
Lagos State Police Commissioner, Hakeem Odumosu.
Lagos State Commissioner of Police disclosed that some suspects including domestic staff were arrested in connection with the incident.
But in a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), the duo said they were arrested at their homes by the police in Lagos over a robbery incident that was said to have occurred inside premises they shared with many other persons.
The applicants told the court that they were discriminatorily singled out as a result of a complaint by their stepmother, Mrs Adebisi Abiola, who accused them of complicity in the robbery.
They told the court that though police had since conducted several searches at their apartments, nothing incriminating or connecting them with any alleged stolen item belonging to their stepmother was found.
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police was cited as the sole respondent in the suit the applicants filed through Ozekhome.
Specifically, they prayed the court to declare that, “The arrest without warrant and subsequent and continuous dehumanization and detention of the Applicants since the 2nd September 2020, by operatives of the respondent on the alleged Complaint of one Mrs Adebisi Abiola, is illegal, unlawful, wrongful and constitutes a blatant violation of the applicants’ fundamental rights as enshrined in Section 35 (1) (4) & (6), 37, 41 (1), 44 (1) and 46(1) of the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as altered, Sections 2, 3(1) (2), 17(1) (2), 18 (1) (2) (3), 19, 21 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law, Lagos State, 2015, and Articles 5, 6 & 14 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights Ratification and Enforcement Act Cap A9, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004.”
Aside from demanding an apology, the applicants equally asked for an order to compel the respondent to pay them N100m as exemplary damages for the “wanton and grave violation” of their fundamental rights.
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Nigeria's Women Affairs Minister, Pauline Tallen, has advocated death sentence for rape and related offences.
The minister also advocated stiff penalty for child-labour offences and other dehumanising treatments against children.
Tallen took her advocacy to Yola, the Adamawa State capital, on Friday, stressing that it was time for religious and other opinion leaders to join the vanguard to demand hash penalties against all forms of gender-based violence.
FILE PHOTO: Pauline Tallen, Nigerian minister of women’s affairs, protests against rape, sexual and gender-based violence in Abuja, NigeriaGbemiga Olamikan/AP
She said, "Rapists deserve death penalty.
"It is disheartening that rape cases have become rampant in our communities, and nowadays even boys suffer some kind of gender-based violence."
Supported by the representative of the state governor, who is also Secretary to the State Government, Bashiru Ahmad, the ninister also inaugurated free distribution of cooking gas and tree planting to curb desertification.
She said government introduced the national cooking gas project as part of measures aimed at conserving the environment.
In Adamawa State, 21,000 5kg gas cylinders were distributed.
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Nigeria's Women Affairs Minister, Pauline Tallen, has advocated death sentence for rape and related offences.
The minister also advocated stiff penalty for child-labour offences and other dehumanising treatments against children.
Tallen took her advocacy to Yola, the Adamawa State capital, on Friday, stressing that it was time for religious and other opinion leaders to join the vanguard to demand hash penalties against all forms of gender-based violence.
FILE PHOTO: Pauline Tallen, Nigerian minister of women’s affairs, protests against rape, sexual and gender-based violence in Abuja, NigeriaGbemiga Olamikan/AP
She said, "Rapists deserve death penalty.
"It is disheartening that rape cases have become rampant in our communities, and nowadays even boys suffer some kind of gender-based violence."
Supported by the representative of the state governor, who is also Secretary to the State Government, Bashiru Ahmad, the ninister also inaugurated free distribution of cooking gas and tree planting to curb desertification.
She said government introduced the national cooking gas project as part of measures aimed at conserving the environment.
In Adamawa State, 21,000 5kg gas cylinders were distributed.
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Nothing puts greater timbre on the parlous state of security in the country than the denudation of the virtual hedges and moats around the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), and the disarray of the phalanx of boots in the city. Abuja was once assumed to be impregnable and residents lived with a false sense of security. But the terrorist blitzes in the national’s capital in 2013 and 2014 jolted many out of the reverie.
With the dawning of the Buhari administration, the bombing in the city petered out. The security forces also appeared to have nicked the insecurity in the north-east to subsidence at the time. I recall that in 2016, Tukur Buratai, Chief of Army Staff, in a fit of showmanship presented a flag reportedly retrieved from the last frontier of the insurgents to President Muhammadu Buhari. But a few months after the "big show", the insurgency metastasised. What really happened?
As a matter of fact, the FCT enjoyed a bit of calm from terrorism but with flickers of other crimes like armed robbery, one-chance operations, rape and car-jacking. However, as the Buhari administration lost its compass by sleight of abominable incompetence, the entire security bearing of the city and the country caved in – from Borno, Kano, Katsina, Zamfara to Niger, Kogi, and Nasarawa bandits expropriated pieces of earth.
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While some of us in Abuja had looked on the devastation of insurgency and banditry in other parts of the country from a ‘’safe’’ distance and with a smirk of privilege, "the doom" comes right at our doors. Really, the Buhari administration has failed spectacularly to secure Nigerians everywhere and anywhere. The government has also failed to secure the very corners from where it sits to preside over the country. What an extravagant failure!
Abuja is home to the headquarters of the DSS, police, army, the air force, the navy, the NIA, the DIA, and other security and paramilitary agencies. But right under the lenses of this octopus of agencies, bandits are attacking communities within the territory and on the fringes of the city. What a phenomenal shame! If they cannot secure their base and the areas around it with diligence, can they secure anywhere else in the country?
The DSS and the police, in particular, appear to be very dutiful in combating civil protests and in arresting dissenters. This is while the nation is taken up in galling insecurity. The expertise of these agencies is demonstrable on the civilian population, not on those who have picked up arms against the state.
Just a few days ago, the Nigeria Customs Service issued an anticipatory warning to its officers, saying Boko Haram insurgents had set up hotbeds in Abuja and that they were oiling their cannons to launch attacks on five locations across the nation’s capital.
In an internal memo, H.A. Sabo, comptroller of enforcement at the customs headquarters, asked officers to be on the alert. He spelt out the locations in Abuja, Kogi and Nasarawa where the nurseries of these terrorists are bubbling.
“Information reaching the comptroller-general of customs (CGC) reveals the existence of Boko Haram terrorist (BHTs) camps in and around the Federal Capital Territory," the memo read.
“Further reports have it that they are planning to attack some selected targets within the territory. They are reported to have set up their camps in the following identified enclaves: Kunyam Bush along airport road, off DIA Staff Quarters - Abuja; Robochi/Gwagwalada forest; Kwaku forest, Kuje, Abuja; Unaisha forest in Toto local government of Nasarawa state and Gegu forest, close to Idu town in Kogi State.
“Consequently, you are to be at alert and security conscious of your environment at all times.’’
What is most disconcerting in the memo is the tone of helplessness by the customs – "consequently, you are to be at alert and security conscious of your environment at all times". What could be more dispiriting? If an agency in the security network is gripped by trepidation, then it is a serious cause for alarm. We should all be worried.
On Thursday, bandits pushing violence in the Gwagwalada axis of the FCT struck at Tunga Maje, a suburb of Abuja, reportedly kidnapping 20 people after a vehemence of brutality on the community. The community has become a select victim of the invaders who attacked the area some weeks ago. What is telling about the recent attack is that it happened just days after the customs’ memo was reported. There is no reprieve from torment for the residents of Tunga Maje who have to endure intolerable trauma. The government has failed them just as it has failed other Nigerians in states under the reign of bandits and insurgents.
Also, there have been coordinated attacks by bandits in other parts of the FCT – in Kuje where a traditional ruler was kidnapped and in Pegi where nine people including a 12-year-old were abducted. And with every successful onslaught, these gunmen are revivified and excited to inch into the city centre. There have been three reported attacks on a road in Life Camp so far.
Insecurity anywhere should concern us all. First, the security crisis was localised in Borno, then it mushroomed in Yobe, Bauchi and Adamawa; it took the form of banditry in the north-west, and now it is metastasising in the north-central -- with Abuja as a trophy target. We must not discount insecurity anywhere. We are all potential victims.
One thing stands out: The Buhari administration has failed on security in all axes – even in its house!
Thousands of households have been rendered homeless after a heavy flood swept away over 2,000 houses in Bauchi State between January and August 2020.
This was according to data from the Bauchi State Emergency Management Agency.
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Permanent Secretary of SEMA, Habu Ningi, said not less than 11 communities in different local government areas were affected by the disaster, adding that “over 1,117 farmlands were also washed away by the floods”.
He said, “We’ve visited all areas involved in the flooding this year. So far, we received 11 reports in 11 local government areas in the state.
“So far, 16 persons lost their lives, 11 in Bauchi LGA, one case in Warji LGA, two in Shira LGA, and two in Dambam LGA. Over 2,000 houses were destroyed during the floods.”
Ningi noted that the state government has provided relief materials to victims as he urged residents to desist from building houses along waterways and avoid indiscriminate dumping of refuse in drainages, a report by PUNCH said.
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Thousands of households have been rendered homeless after a heavy flood swept away over 2,000 houses in Bauchi State between January and August 2020.
This was according to data from the Bauchi State Emergency Management Agency.
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Permanent Secretary of SEMA, Habu Ningi, said not less than 11 communities in different local government areas were affected by the disaster, adding that “over 1,117 farmlands were also washed away by the floods”.
He said, “We’ve visited all areas involved in the flooding this year. So far, we received 11 reports in 11 local government areas in the state.
“So far, 16 persons lost their lives, 11 in Bauchi LGA, one case in Warji LGA, two in Shira LGA, and two in Dambam LGA. Over 2,000 houses were destroyed during the floods.”
Ningi noted that the state government has provided relief materials to victims as he urged residents to desist from building houses along waterways and avoid indiscriminate dumping of refuse in drainages, a report by PUNCH said.
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The Kaduna State House of Assembly has passed a bill sanctioning castration and death sentence for rapists.
The bill was passed at the plenary on Friday (today).
The bill was passed following the amendment of the state’s Penal Code Law No 5 of 2017 based on an executive bill brought by the state governor, Daily Trusts report.
The previous law, which recommended life imprisonment for rapists, was changed to surgical castration, bilateral salpingectomy and death when the victim is below 14 years.
“Whoever commits rape of a child below the age of 14 years upon conviction will be punished with surgical castration and death.
“Whoever has sexual intercourse with a male child below the age of 14 years shall be punished with surgical castration and death.
“Where the female adult is convicted for the offence of rape of a child, the court shall punish the accused by bilateral salpingectomy and death.
“Where the victim is above 14 years the court shall on conviction sentence the accused with punishment on surgical castration and life in imprisonment.
“Where the convict is a child, the court shall order as appropriate under the child and young person’s law cap 26 law of Kaduna State 1991 in addition to the conviction under subsection 1and 2 order that the convict be listed in the convict register to be published in the media by the Attorney General,” the amendment reads according to the Chairman, House Committee on Information, Tanimu Musa Kachia.
The state assembly stated that when a court is trying on the case of rape involving a child below the age of 14 years, the collaboration of a “medical report” shall be necessary.
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The Kaduna State House of Assembly has passed a bill sanctioning castration and death sentence for rapists.
The bill was passed at the plenary on Friday (today).
The bill was passed following the amendment of the state’s Penal Code Law No 5 of 2017 based on an executive bill brought by the state governor, Daily Trusts report.
The previous law, which recommended life imprisonment for rapists, was changed to surgical castration, bilateral salpingectomy and death when the victim is below 14 years.
“Whoever commits rape of a child below the age of 14 years upon conviction will be punished with surgical castration and death.
“Whoever has sexual intercourse with a male child below the age of 14 years shall be punished with surgical castration and death.
“Where the female adult is convicted for the offence of rape of a child, the court shall punish the accused by bilateral salpingectomy and death.
“Where the victim is above 14 years the court shall on conviction sentence the accused with punishment on surgical castration and life in imprisonment.
“Where the convict is a child, the court shall order as appropriate under the child and young person’s law cap 26 law of Kaduna State 1991 in addition to the conviction under subsection 1and 2 order that the convict be listed in the convict register to be published in the media by the Attorney General,” the amendment reads according to the Chairman, House Committee on Information, Tanimu Musa Kachia.
The state assembly stated that when a court is trying on the case of rape involving a child below the age of 14 years, the collaboration of a “medical report” shall be necessary.
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The Kano State Government said it has spent over N100m to purchase hand sanitisers and other COVID-19 preventive kits for distribution ahead of schools reopening.
This figure was revealed by the Executive Secretary of Kano State Universal Basic Education Board, Dr Danlami Hayo.
Kano State Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje.Business Day
He also said the state had set aside N3.2bn for schools rehabilitation and construction of classrooms to ensure compliance with COVID-19 protocols, according to NAN.
Hayo said the state was hinged on making school safe for students when they resume.
He said, “The state government approved N3.2bn for school rehabilitation and why is it necessary to spend such a huge amount of money.
“The state government is spending to rehabilitate schools; we emphasised on the construction of new classrooms and storey buildings in Kano metropolis where there is high population of pupils.
“Additional schools will be rehabilitated and new ones constructed in rural areas of the state.”
The government said it would not rush to order the reopening of schools until preventive measures were fully in place.
Kano had in August flagged-off the distribution of Personal Protective Equipment to 538 public and private schools in the state.
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The Kano State Government said it has spent over N100m to purchase hand sanitisers and other COVID-19 preventive kits for distribution ahead of schools reopening.
This figure was revealed by the Executive Secretary of Kano State Universal Basic Education Board, Dr Danlami Hayo.
Kano State Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje.Business Day
He also said the state had set aside N3.2bn for schools rehabilitation and construction of classrooms to ensure compliance with COVID-19 protocols, according to NAN.
Hayo said the state was hinged on making school safe for students when they resume.
He said, “The state government approved N3.2bn for school rehabilitation and why is it necessary to spend such a huge amount of money.
“The state government is spending to rehabilitate schools; we emphasised on the construction of new classrooms and storey buildings in Kano metropolis where there is high population of pupils.
“Additional schools will be rehabilitated and new ones constructed in rural areas of the state.”
The government said it would not rush to order the reopening of schools until preventive measures were fully in place.
Kano had in August flagged-off the distribution of Personal Protective Equipment to 538 public and private schools in the state.
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The Nigerian Government’s delay in making public a report on the military’s human rights record is an appalling affront to victims still waiting for justice, Amnesty International said in a statement on Friday, three years after a presidential investigative panel started its work.
The Panel to Review Compliance of the Armed Forces with Human Rights Obligations and Rules of Engagement submitted its report in February 2018.
“The failure of Nigerian authorities to release the report of the Presidential Panel that purportedly investigated compliance of armed forces with human rights obligations and rules of engagement, three years after the report was submitted to the President is a gross display of contempt for victims. Many Nigerians showed incredible courage to testify to the panel, in the hope that, at the end it will lead to justice. But three years is so long and too long for victims to continue waiting for the release of the panel’s report; which is a key step to justice for victims.
“We are calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to fulfill the promise he made in 2015 to end impunity by immediately releasing the report. Victims and the larger public in Nigeria deserve to see and scrutinize the findings. Previous such investigations have ended up without any tangible outcome on the side of justice. Nigerian authorities have the duty to ensure that the country’s security forces comply with international law obligations and ensure prompt, thorough, independent and impartial investigations of all allegations of violations.
“Hundreds of victims and witnesses described horrific violations committed by Nigeria’s security forces, including rape, torture, enforced disappearances, extrajudicial executions and razing of villages and homes during public hearings organized by the Panel in Abuja, Enugu, Kaduna, Maiduguri, Port Harcourt, and Lagos. Failure to disclose the report of the panel, an important first step towards justice, is a shameful betrayal of these victims and another marker of the lack of political will by Nigerian authorities to bring alleged perpetrators to justice. It is an abysmal failure, a devastating setback for rule of law that only perpetuates the culture of impunity which is so pervasive in Nigeria,” Osai Ojigho, Director Amnesty International Nigeria said.
The Nigerian Government had in August 2017 set up the panel following reports by Amnesty International and other human rights organisations that the Nigerian military had been responsible for crimes under international law and other serious human rights violations across the country.
The panel held public sittings in Abuja, Maiduguri, Port Harcourt, Enugu, Kaduna, and Lagos from 11 September to 8 November 2017.
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The Nigerian Government’s delay in making public a report on the military’s human rights record is an appalling affront to victims still waiting for justice, Amnesty International said in a statement on Friday, three years after a presidential investigative panel started its work.
The Panel to Review Compliance of the Armed Forces with Human Rights Obligations and Rules of Engagement submitted its report in February 2018.
“The failure of Nigerian authorities to release the report of the Presidential Panel that purportedly investigated compliance of armed forces with human rights obligations and rules of engagement, three years after the report was submitted to the President is a gross display of contempt for victims. Many Nigerians showed incredible courage to testify to the panel, in the hope that, at the end it will lead to justice. But three years is so long and too long for victims to continue waiting for the release of the panel’s report; which is a key step to justice for victims.
“We are calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to fulfill the promise he made in 2015 to end impunity by immediately releasing the report. Victims and the larger public in Nigeria deserve to see and scrutinize the findings. Previous such investigations have ended up without any tangible outcome on the side of justice. Nigerian authorities have the duty to ensure that the country’s security forces comply with international law obligations and ensure prompt, thorough, independent and impartial investigations of all allegations of violations.
“Hundreds of victims and witnesses described horrific violations committed by Nigeria’s security forces, including rape, torture, enforced disappearances, extrajudicial executions and razing of villages and homes during public hearings organized by the Panel in Abuja, Enugu, Kaduna, Maiduguri, Port Harcourt, and Lagos. Failure to disclose the report of the panel, an important first step towards justice, is a shameful betrayal of these victims and another marker of the lack of political will by Nigerian authorities to bring alleged perpetrators to justice. It is an abysmal failure, a devastating setback for rule of law that only perpetuates the culture of impunity which is so pervasive in Nigeria,” Osai Ojigho, Director Amnesty International Nigeria said.
The Nigerian Government had in August 2017 set up the panel following reports by Amnesty International and other human rights organisations that the Nigerian military had been responsible for crimes under international law and other serious human rights violations across the country.
The panel held public sittings in Abuja, Maiduguri, Port Harcourt, Enugu, Kaduna, and Lagos from 11 September to 8 November 2017.
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Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu 
