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Enugu Correctional Centre says it has beefed up security around the facility to forestall any attack that could lead to jailbreak. The Spokesman for the centre, Mr Emeka Monday, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu on Tuesday. Monday said the measure became necessary, following Monday’s attack on the police headquarters and correctional …

Minister of Police Affairs Maigari Dingyadi, says the three-month tenure extension granted to outgoing Inspector-General of Police Muhammad Adamu was terminated following completion of selection process for a new I-G. Dingyadi has earlier announced the appointment of Deputy Inspector- General of Police (DIG) Usman Baba as Acting Inspector-General of Police. The appointment of Usman was with immediate effect. The News …

Edo State Government has intensified the vaccination of residents against coronavirus (COVID-19) in the state’s 18 local government councils, vaccinating over 32,000 persons with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the first phase of the vaccination exercise. The state COVID-19 Incident Manager, Dr. Andrew Obi, who disclosed this to journalists in Benin City, said the government is ramping efforts to ensure the …

Ongoing recruitment of staff into the Edo College of Agriculture and Natural Resources is part of many steps taken by the Governor Godwin Obaseki-led administration to reposition the institution in order to develop the needed manpower to drive the government’s robust agriculture-based economy, according to Edo State Government. Acting Permanent Secretary, Edo State Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Mr. …

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has appointed a Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, as the acting Inspector-General of Police with immediate effect. The Minister of Police Affairs, Maigari Dingyadi, disclosed this to State House correspondents in Abuja on Tuesday. Baba is taking over from Mohammed Adamu, whose tenure Buhari extended for three months on February 4. He …

The National President of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), Mr. Anderson Ezeibe, has stated that the strike by the union which commenced 12 midnight of April 6 still continues despite meeting with the federal government. The ASUP president, who stated this on Tuesday at the Federal Ministry of Education after the union’s meeting with the minister, Mallam Adamu …

Courts across the country on Tuesday were under lock and key in total compliance with the strike called by the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN). JUSUN had last week directed its members to embark on an indefinite strike in protest against the non-implementation of financial autonomy for the judiciary. While at the federal level the judiciary is on the …

Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has described the Monday jailbreak at Owerri Correctional Center and the razing of the Imo State Police Command headquarters as the worst in the recent history of the country. The minister, who spoke to journalists in Owerri on Tuesday while inspecting the extent of damage done to the Owerri Correctional Centre, said that the federal …

Judiciary workers Tuesday morning shut down the Supreme Court in Abuja, in line with their threat to embark on an indefinite nationwide strike to press for financial autonomy for the judicial arm of government. The development came as a defiance to the last minute appeal by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to the workers to shelve the industrial action, which it said …

President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the attacks on a police headquarters and a prison in Owerri, the Imo State capital. The police earlier blamed the attacks on members of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The police said no one died in the attack on its headquarters but a police officer sustained bullet wounds. In a separate statement, the prison authorities said …