CONTROVERSIAL Nigeria Islamic body Muslim Rights Concern (Muric) has accused regional security outfit Amotekun of intimidating other ethnic groups living and doing businesses in the southwest geo-political zone.
Over recent years, heavily-armed Fulani herdsmen have been running riot across Nigeria, engaging in...
REGIONAL body the Oodua People's Congress (OPC) has warned that the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (Macban) is planning to slip its members into the southwestern regional security output Amotekun with a view to undermining it.
Over recent years, heavily-armed herdsmen have been running riot across...
COMMANDERS of the Oyo State Security Network Agency popularly as Amotekun have denied a report that their operatives killed several Fulani herdsmen in the Ibarapa and Oke Ogun areas of the state.
Last week, it was reported that Amotekun operatives and herdsmen were involved in a bloody shootout which led to several deaths....
Ayo Akinfe
(1) Regional security operations like Amotekun and the Eastern Security Network
(2) Mini power distribution plants in each local government area
(3) Local health centres to offer basic primary care
(4) Funding of local producer cooperatives to enable them process farm goods into semi finished...
SECESSIONIST group the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) has lashed out at the five governors of the southeast geo-political zone for opposing its plans to create the regional vigilante group the Eastern Security Network (ESN).
Earlier this month, Ipob launched the regional vigilante group ESN to combat the growing...
SECESSIONIST group the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (Ipob) has launched a regional vigilante group known as the Eastern Security Network (ESN) to combat the growing insecurity across the southeast and south-south geo-political zones.
In January this year, the six governors of the southwest geo-political zone agreed to launch...
Ayo Akinfe
I would dissolve all paramilitary units in the police and get the National Assembly to pass a law insisting that any such units can only be re-established after they have subjected it to proper scrutiny
I would make having five o'levels the very minimum qualification for joining the Nigerian Police Force (NPF). Police...
SEVERAL prominent Middle Belt leaders have withdrawn from Nigeria's pan-northern socio-cultural group the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and created the breakaway North Central Peoples Forum (NCPF) to protest the ongoing killings in their region.
Historically, the ACF has served as an umbrella body for the elite from...
RECRUITMENT officials in Oyo State have been inundated with applicants as they seek to find staff for the recently-created Amotekun Corps as 47,000 applicants turned up to fill 2,000 positions at the screening exercise in Ibadan.
Over recent years, heavily-armed herdsmen have been running riot across Nigeria, engaging in...
