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Nigeria: Nigeria's Killing Fields, Service Chiefs and Buhari
This Day, 27 July 2020
Kingsley Nwezeh looks at the security challenges facing the nation, the continued stay in office of the military service chiefs, the senate resolution calling for their resignation… Read more »
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Nigeria: Only Buhari Can Sack Service Chiefs, Group Counsels Senate
Daily Trust, 22 July 2020
The Coalition of Friends and Supporters of Buhari (CFSB) have described the Senate's call for the resignation of the Service Chiefs as a display of disloyalty and utter disrespect… Read more »
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Nigeria: 2,732 People Killed Between April and June - Report
Premium Times, 23 July 2020
An estimated 2,732 people were killed in 33 states and the FCT in three months, a new report by a Lagos based research firm has shown. Read more »
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Nigeria: Insecurity: Senate Asks Service Chiefs to 'Step Aside'
Premium Times, 21 July 2020
The Senate has asked Nigeria's military chiefs to 'step aside' to enable a new set with new ideas tackle insecurity across the country. Read more »
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Nigeria: Killings - Presidency, Senate in Verbal War Over Service Chiefs
Vanguard, 22 July 2020
The Presidency and Senate were yesterday locked in exchanges over the continued stay in office of service chiefs. Read more »
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Nigeria: Presidency Tells Senate That Only Buhari Can Remove Military Chiefs
Premium Times, 21 July 2020
The presidency has reacted to a Senate resolution calling for the mandatory exit of military chiefs, by telling the lawmakers that such removal was a 'presidential prerogative.' Read more »
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Nigeria: Why Southern Kaduna Killings Persist - Presidency
Premium Times, 21 July 2020
The violence and killings in Southern Kaduna have persisted because of the "evil combination of politically-motivated banditry, revenge killings and mutual violence by criminal… Read more »
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Nigeria: I Did Not Call for the Sack of Service Chiefs - Ndume
Vanguard, 21 July 2020
Former leader of the Senate and Chairman, Senate Committee on Army, Senator Ali Ndume, All Progressives Congress, APC, Borno South said yesterday that he never called for the sack… Read more »
War of Words Erupts Over Nigerian Service Chiefs, Insecurity
The presidency has reacted to a Senate resolution calling for the mandatory exit of military chiefs, by telling the lawmakers that such removal was a "presidential prerogative" writes QueenEsther Iroanusi for Premium Times. The country's insecurity woes have not only been impacted by attacks by militants Boko Haram but also by the growing presence of bandits and kidnappers who are sowing terror in villages and towns.
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President Muhammadu Buhari's warning to service chiefs that he would no longer condone the deteriorating security situation in the country, follows calls from various sectors ... Read more »
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Communities affected by violent extremism are frequently considered to have risk factors linked to socio-economic deprivation, bad governance and religious ... Read more »
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Nigeria's battle with the militant group Boko Haram has seen thousands of citizens killed over the years in gun attacks on villages and urban areas and suicide bomb attacks. Borno ... Read more »
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President Muhammadu Buhari has given an order for the airforce to support the efforts of troops and policemen combating the activities of bandits, kidnappers and cattle rustlers ... Read more »
