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Online Security News Publishers Honour IGP Baba, Olukoya, Audi with Man of the Year Award
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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.
The Allied Peoples Movement (APM) presidential candidate, Seyi Makinde, on Thursday, criticised President Bola Tinubu’s “Emi Lokan” slogan ahead of the 2027 presidential election.
Makinde said Nigerians do not need “turn-by-turn nepotism”, arguing that voters should be free to decide who becomes the country’s next president in 2027.
The Oyo State governor spoke during the APM’s town hall meeting in Akure, Ondo State.
Makinde asked: “How can someone say ‘Eemi lokan’ in a country like Nigeria? You were given the opportunity. If you recall the 1999 presidential election, the South-West voted massively for Baba Olu Falae, but the rest of Nigerians voted for Baba Obasanjo. So, this is not an issue that only the South-West can resolve; it is an issue we must address collectively as Nigerians.
“We do not want ‘turn-by-turn nepotism’, nor do we want a situation where people say, ‘I will vote for projects because it is my turn’. You will not finish those projects, and when it becomes someone else’s turn, they will do the same thing. We will end up with a Nigeria where we cannot get value for the resources belonging to Nigerians.
“The Reset Nigeria agenda is about building a country where infrastructure development supports economic growth and addresses the concerns of young people and women.
“Once we fix our economy, no zone will be left behind, and no demographic group will be left behind.”
Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Taiwo Oyedele, has denied saying the Federal government will introduce a fuel tax when the economy stabilises and income levels improve.
In a post on X on Tuesday, Oyedele said his remarks during an interview with ARISE News was misrepresented, insisting that a “fuel tax is not on the table.”
However, during the interview with Rotus Odiri, ARISE News Business Correspondent, on the sidelines of the 2026 International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meetings in Bangkok, Thailand, Oyedele said the tax would come when income levels improve enough for Nigerians to accommodate it.
He said taxes account for between 20 and 80 percent of pump prices in some countries, while many African countries impose between six and 10 different taxes on fuel products.
He said introducing fuel tax while petrol was still subsidised would have been counterproductive because government would effectively be paying the tax itself.
According to him, imposing the tax immediately after removal of petrol subsidy would be insensitive to Nigerians.
“The objective should be that instead of trying to suppress prices, which hasn’t worked for us, it hasn’t worked for any country in the world, not one. Instead of trying to suppress prices, think about how to grow income faster than prices rise,” Oyedele said.
“That’s how you bring prosperity and grow the middle class and that is exactly what we are doing as led by Mr. President himself.
“At the appropriate time, when the economy has stabilizes and income level will be able to accommodate it, those taxes will come. Not because we want to impose taxes,” he added.
In his Tuesday post, the minister reiterated that introducing a fuel tax at this time would be insensitive following removal of petrol subsidy, describing reports that government will introduce the levy when the economy stabilises as “fake news.”
A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), and Deputy Director of the Presidential Campaign Council, Chief Dele Momodu, has described former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar as the most nationally formidable and experienced among the leading contenders for the 2027 presidential election.
Momodu said Atiku’s experience at the national level distinguishes him from President Bola Tinubu and former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi.
He stated this on Wednesday during an interview on Eagle 102.5 FM, Ilese-Ijebu, in Abeokuta.
“If you look at the antecedents of the three major candidates, between Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, you will see that Atiku is the most experienced. He has managed our country at the highest level,” he said.
Momodu traced Atiku’s political journey to the 1992 Social Democratic Party (SDP), presidential primary where he contested against late MKO Abiola and stepped down for him.
He said Atiku accepted the outcome without crisis even after he was not picked as Abiola’s running mate, describing it as a mark of true democratic temperament.
“He is the only one who started from around 1992, contested the SDP primary against Abiola and stepped down with uncommon equanimity. He did not make any noise,” Momodu said.
He noted that Atiku was among the founders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and served as Vice-President from 1999 to 2007.
Comparing Atiku with Obi, Momodu argued that while Obi’s best was demonstrated in Anambra, Atiku’s was at the presidency level managing the national economy.
“Peter Obi has tried his best in Anambra, while Atiku’s best is at the level of vice president controlling the economy of Nigeria. The difference is clear. He has matured in experience and exposure,” he said.
Momodu also said President Tinubu’s experience was largely limited to Lagos.
“What I’m trying to say is that Tinubu’s experience was limited to Lagos, and that is why when he became president, he thought Nigeria was Lagos. And he has found out now that Nigeria is not Lagos,” he said.
He argued that the current economic hardship under the present administration did not show prosperity, insisting Atiku remained better positioned to lead the country.
“Well, we are yet to see that prosperity, and if yesterday would determine today and tomorrow, it is obvious that Tinubu should retire now and let someone else do it,” Momodu added.
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