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Online Security News Publishers Honour IGP Baba, Olukoya, Audi with Man of the Year Award
By Eric Elezuo
The trio of the Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, the General Overseer of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM), Dr. Daniel Olukoya and the Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Abubakar Audi, has been honoured with the prestigious Man of the Year Award of the National Association of Online Security News Publishers (NAOSNP).
The trio was considered for the honour as result of their various contributions to the security development and well being of the Nigerian society.
Receiving their awards at the splendidly organised NAOSNP 2021 Security Conference and Awards, the accomplished officers of the law and religion, expressed their joy at the award, adding that they would continue to do their best to see that security of citizens and property is restored, including ensuring that the youths are fed with the Word, to keep them away from acts capable of jeopardising their future and rendering the society ungovernable.
In his response, Dr. Olukoya, who was represented by Pastor Success Enushai, thanked the Association for the honoured, saying it is his responsibility as a minister of God to ensure that security is the lot of all and sundry in the country.
“We are supporting the entrenchment of adequate security in the Nigeria society by doing all within our power to take the youths off the streets, create jobs and inculcate discipline into them through the constant release of the Word of God to also nourish their souls,” Pastor Enushai said.
Dr. Olukoya is the Founder and Presiding Pastor of the thriving MFMM, located along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. His youth outreach is targeted the young ones, who have been empowered with vocational crafts that have stood them in the competitive society.
Apart from the ownership of Mountain Top University, Olukoya and his MFMM are the owners and sponsors of the first division club side, MFM football Club, base in Lagos, where they play their home games. The team, in the recent past, has won the National Premier League. The contributions of the servant of God to the security well well being speak volumes.
Also responding, the NSCDC boss, Audi, who was also decorated with the Exemplary leadership award, and was represented by the Public Relations Officer of the Corps, DCC Olusola Odumosu, noted that the NAOSNP is an Association to reckon with, adding that he was elated to be considered for the honours.
In his paper delivered by DCC Odumosu, Audi remarked that the Corps has been repositioned to tackle crime and criminal elements headlong, highlighting that it is winning the war against vandalisation and other sundry offences.
The lofty awards recipients were honoured during the Association’s Security Conference and Awards event held at the NECA House with the theme A Nation Under Siege: Activating Technology and Local Intelligence to Solve Conundrum.
The event witnessed the presentation of papers on the way forward for a violent-crime-free Nigeria with two former Inspector General of Police, Mr Mike Okiro and MD Abubakar as keynote speakers in addition to panel discussion featuring established security practitioners and experts including Mr Afolabi Oke of Infoswift, Matthew Ibadin, NSCDC’s Seun Abolurin, Cynthia Gregg, DSP Edafe Bright, and Ibiba, who stood in for the NDLEA chairman, Buba Marwa.
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Abiola Cannot Be Recognised As Former President; He Was Never Sworn-in – Gen Ishola Williams
By Eric Elezuo
One of the prime actors of the June 12, 1993 incidents, General Ishola Williams, has said that much as Chief MKO Abiola wrong was created having won the election, and denied victory, he cannot be recognized as a former President of Nigeria.
Gen Williams made his revelation while speaking as a guest on Channels television socio-political programme, Inside Source.
He maintained that only those who were sworn in that recognised as former presidents, and Abiola was never sworn in.
“Abiola cannot be recognised as former president because he was never sworn in.
The General, who said that he resigned from the army as a result of the wholesome reception given to General Sani Abacha, when he overthrew Chief Ernest Shonekan-led Interim National Government, contrary to expectation, also picked flaws in the narratives given by former Military President Ibrahim Babangida, in his recently launched book, A Journey In Service.
Williams rose in the army to become the Commandant of Army Signals, Commander of Training and Doctrine (TRADOC) and Chief of Defence Training and Planning, from where he resigned.
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Breaking: Supreme Court Recognises Martin Amaewhule As Rivers Assembly Speaker, Orders CBN to Stop Releasing Funds to State
By Eric Elezuo
The Supreme Court of Nigeria has in its ruling on Friday recognised Hon Martins Amaewhule as the authentic speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, mandating him to urgently resume sitting with elected members of the assembly.
The apex court also ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria to stop releasing to the Rivers State government until a proper assembly is constituted.
Details soon…
Tension escalated at the Lagos State House of Assembly on Thursday as impeached Speaker Mudashiru Obasa made a dramatic return to reclaim his position.
Accompanied by heavily armed men, Obasa stormed the Assembly complex in a bold move that has thrown the State’s legislature into turmoil.
In a stunning turn of events, security details assigned to the substantive Speaker, Rt. Hon. Mojisola Meranda, were abruptly withdrawn on Thursday morning, clearing the path for Obasa’s controversial comeback.
Sources revealed that the Inspector General of Police (IGP) ordered the withdrawal of all security operatives attached to Meranda, leaving her exposed in the midst of an intensifying power struggle.
The Speaker’s Special Adviser on Information, Mr. Victor Ganzallo, expressed concern over the security vacuum created by the withdrawal of personnel.
“In the early hours of Thursday, we woke up to the startling news that all security details assigned to Madam Speaker, Mojisola Meranda, had been withdrawn.
This includes the police and DSS officers, leaving her exposed to threats amid the ongoing speakership crisis,” Ganzallo stated.
He further called on Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, as the State’s Chief Security Officer, to intervene urgently to prevent a complete breakdown of law and order within the Assembly.
“The withdrawal of security personnel has left the Assembly naked and vulnerable at a critical time. Urgent action is needed to restore order,” he pleaded.
With the speakership battle taking a dramatic new turn, political watchers are keenly observing how the crisis will unfold in the coming days.
