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  • CNS warns personnel against sabotage

    CNS warns personnel against sabotage

    The Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ogalla, has warned that any personnel of the Nigerian Navy caught conniving with oil thieves would be severely dealt with according to the law.

    He said the Navy had recorded significant achievements against oil thieves and bunkerers, but “there are still cases of personnel colluding with criminals” to undermine its efforts.

    The naval chief spoke yesterday during the decoration, shipping of stripes of 29 commodores, who were recently promoted to the rank of rear admiral.

    Vice Admiral Ogalla said the newly decorated officers were selected based on their dedication to duty and loyalty to the service.

    He said the officers would constitute the leadership of the Nigerian Navy and the Armed Forces of Nigeria in future.

    He said: “As expected in every performance oriented organisation, the quality of leadership in the Nigerian Navy is essential for the optimal realisation of our objectives and set goals. Hence, despite the huge number of annual enlistments, only the most dedicated and loyal officers rise to the apex of this profession. 

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    “I want you to bear in mind that you were selected based principally on merit and your proven track records and integrity throughout your service career. It behooves you to justify this confidence by contributing your best to the service and the nation in general.

    “I congratulate you on being among the selected few that made it to this rank. Note that while it takes hard work to get to this height, it takes harder work to remain there. 

    “While I rejoice with each and every one of you, I urge you to justify the confidence the service and nation have reposed in you.”

    The Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, urged the newly decorated officers to work harder in their sacrifices to the country.

  • IGP reads riot act to corrupt, indolent, personnel

    The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, yesterday said the police force will no longer tolerate those he called ‘corrupt, indolent and disgruntled personnel’. He said this at the passing out parade of 285 graduates of the Police Training College, Eleyele, Ibadan. At the event, the IGP warned that erring police personnel would be sanctioned accordingly, adding that a total of 6,000 constables were recruited.

    Speaking through the Commissioner of Police, Oyo State Command, Abiodun Odude, IGP Idris said: “As policemen, you must have respect for the rule of law and fundamental human rights. Your loyalty to the nation and the force must be total. You are encouraged to toe the line of honour and shun acts capable of tarnishing the image of the force as there is no place for corrupt, indolent and disgruntled officers because erring officers will continue to receive  commensurate punishment.”

    He also enjoined the new police constables to be diligent, selfless, patriotic and constantly refresh their newly acquired knowledge and skills by putting all they have learnt into practice on the field in order to uphold the highest level of discipline and professionalism in the discharge of their statutory duties. “The Nigeria Police Force has the sole responsibility of policing the society in any democratic setting.

    “This could only be achieved through professional competence and equipment. To meet up with the United Nation’s recommendation ration of one policeman to 400 people, the Federal Government thought it wise to commence recruitment of another 10,000 policemen, our advertorials have since been opened for interested Nigerians to apply,” he said.

    The IGP noted that President Muhammadu Buhari has again approved and made funds available for the four premier colleges of Ikeja, Kaduna, Oji-River, Maiduguri and other police training schools across the country, adding that “this passing out parade comes, at the right time as the preparation for the general election, which will commence in few months time.

    “Our goal is to ensure that the members of the Force are made more competent, more confident and more efficient in the art and science of modern policing. As police constables, care has been taken to ensure that this training prepares you for new challenges whilst providing you with the necessary tools to understand and properly interpret government/force policies on matters affecting national security.”

     

  • NSCDC deploys 1,200 personnel to liberated Borno councils

    The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has deployed 1,200 personnel to restore civil authority in liberated local government areas of Borno State.

    Commandant-General Abdullahi Gana, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri, said about 1,100 of the officers were from Borno and the others from Yobe and Gombe corps.

    He said: “I am here in response to the directive of the Minister of Interior, Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd), that we should deploy men to facilitate the return of civic authority communities liberated from Boko Haram.

    “The move is aimed at building confidence and resilience of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) to return home. It is also to reassure them that peace has returned so they can go back and continue their farming activities.

    “I am also here to inaugurate the movement of our men. We did it in 2015, when we deployed about 1,000 personnel to seven liberated communities.

    “So this is the second time and we want to ensure that the liberated councils are properly secured,”

    The officers deployed include special armed squad and counter-terrorism squad; anti-riot squad; bomb detection and disposal unit, Intelligence and detection unit, as well as rescue and medical team.

  • FRSC to personnel: be dedicated to service

    FRSC to personnel: be dedicated to service

    The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ogun State has urged its personnel to rededicate themselves to service.

    The Sector Commander, Clement Oladele, made the plea at the second quarter retreat with the theme: “Enhancing professionalism toward achieving road safety administration” held in Ota.

    He said the retreat was held to assess their performance in the first half of the year.

    According to him, FRSC is a performance-driven organisation aimed being a world-class, adding that the only way to achieve this is to evaluate our data, identify issues and improve on them.

    Crash prevention is one of FRSC’s mandates. “If we cannot prevent crashes on the road, then FRSC has failed,” he said.

    Oladele said Ogun highways are among the most dangerous such that it was tagged ‘mortuary state’ in the country about 10 years ago. However, he said they are safer now due to the commitment of the FRSC. He noted that the story had changed through the various interventions and synergies with other sister agencies.

    The FRSC boss said the event would serve as a platform to encourage officials with weak performances to shape up and assist those with top performances to keep flying.

    He pledged the readiness of the Corps to key into the Federal Government’s campaign for transparency in the conduct of government’s business.

    The RS 2 Zonal Commander Shehu Alkali Zaki, said the Corps would continue to train their personnel on how to be efficient on service delivery. This, he added, would enable the Corps to achieve its goal of eradicating crashes.

    Zaki, represented by Lagos Sector Commander Hyginus Omeje, however, said the Corps could not say yet it had achieved all it set out to do until the crashes were reduced to the barest minimum. He said: “We are not happy with the number of deaths recorded mostly in the data. We, therefore, call for more hands to be on deck for the actualisation of the goals we set for ourselves.”.

    Zaki said the Corps would not relent at reducing the rate of crashes by 50 per cent and fatality rate by 25 per cent.

     

  • Ogun nurses bemoan personnel shortage

    Ogun nurses bemoan personnel shortage

    The Ogun State Chapter of National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) has urged the state to reposition the health sector and increase its personnel to improve physical and mental needs of patients, and attend to the overall wellbeing of nurses.

    Its Chairman, Comrade Roseline Solarin, who made this known in Abeokuta, the state capital as part of activities to commemorate this year’s International Nurses Week,  said nurses are the first point of contact in health services delivery and the heartbeat of health care service. Nurses, he said, play pivotal role in disease prevention, promotion and healing of both the mind and the body of patients.

    Solarin said it was worrisome that  Ogun State has about 3,000 nurses, including those at the state and Federal health institutions, as against 7,000 nurses it had five years ago to cater for about four million people. He  noted that many Nurses have retired and a few that were employed by the state do not match the number of those that have retired. “This has brought about gross shortage of manpower in our health facilities, coupled with the expansion of units in hospital. The nurses/patient ratio supposed to be one to four, but presently in Ogun State it is one Nurse to 20 patients, which is totally outrageous and unbearable,”Solarin said.

    According to her, lack of adequate security in most hospital poses a great threat to nurses in the state. He also identified lack of adequate equipment/and instruments to work with and where there are available, many of them have become obsolete, which have caused major challenges on service delivery in most general hospitals across the state.

    She pleaded with the state to do the needful to reposition the health sector, noting that out of five Nursing Schools belonging to the state, only one is functioning, while the other four have lost their accreditation.

    She urged the nurses to put more efforts into their profession in order to be relevant in their respective positions. She noted the importance of education in nursing practice, saying that some Nurses tend to hold on to previous knowledge and skills without making efforts to improve and maintain new ones.

    “Many Nurses nowadays are not willing to accept the challenges of staying abreast with education and development of new skills in their areas of nursing practice. They don’t make the move to forge ahead which is inimical to this noble profession,” she said.

    For the nursing practice in Nigeria to develop, the Nurses, she said, must rededicate their commitment to the professional ethics of nursing and acknowledge that their primary assignment is to the welfare of the clients, regardless of the client’s status. They must also participate in development of the profession through continuous education, research and clinical studies. “We nurses need re-orientation about our attitude to practice, profession, society and clients and then eradicate our resistance to change and global professional, clinical, technical, and theoretical advancement,” Solarin said.

  • Kwara prison personnel put on alert

    Officials of the Nigeria Prison Service (NPS) in Kwara State have been put on the red alert following alleged riot  by inmates at two different prisons in the state.

    At least six inmates were said to have died while about five are on danger list following injuries sustained in the melee.

    The incidents, according to a prison source, occurred at Mandala Prisons on Ilorin-Alapa road and Oke-Kura prisons in Ilorin metropolis.

    It was learnt the inmates, who were in the condemned inmates’ cell, protested the substandard quality of their food.

    “It has become a culture of the condemned inmates to enact a riot scene yearly, especially when December is approaching, with the ulterior motive to cause a jail break,” the source said.

    He added that while the Mandala prison scene was brought under control, the Oke-Kura episode recorded deaths.

    Minna Zonal Comptroller Musa Maiyaki has visited the state for a firsthand information.

    The source said while the comptroller was addressing prison operatives, inmates regrouped and attempted to cause trouble.

  • Lagos to employ traffic personnel for 2016 Hajj

    The Lagos State Government will recruit traffic personnel to guide and enlighten pilgrims in Mecca during next year’s Hajj, Home Affairs Commissioner  Dr AbdulHakeem Abdullateef has said.

    This is to prevent the kind of stampede witnessed during this year’s hajj in which hundreds died.

    Speaking at a reception in his honour at the weekend,  AbdulLateef said government would also engage clerics to educate pilgrims on the pebbles throwing rite.

    Traffic officers, he said,  would be trained, adding that the trained personnel would go on pre-visit and understand the routes to Jamarat before guiding the pilgrims.

    He said: “We must now recruit traffic officers from home who will guide the pilgrims in Mecca. Pilgrimage has to do with traffic. If you look at the stampede for instance, the Saudi authority has its own share of the blame. People who embark on pilgrimage need to be educated especially in the area of obeying those in authority. The essence of pilgrimage is not to go and die, rather for worship. If the government can allocate specific time for specific nation, it must be obeyed. We need to educate the pilgrims that throwing of pebbles, as fundamental as it is among the hajj rites is not as fundamental as the Arafat.”

    Emphasising the need for people to be guided and enlightened when embarking on the hajj, Abdul-Lateef said conscious efforts would be made on the part of the government to guide against possible stampede and death.

    The Commissioner said the state government has begun arrangements to make the subsequent hajj exercise stress-free for the pilgrims, especially in the transportation area.

    “Our forms will be out between November 2 and 30. We will ensure there are no fraudulent acts in selling the forms. We will begin enlightenment by December,” he said.

  • NSCDC trains 10,000 personnel on counter terrorism – CG

    NSCDC trains 10,000 personnel on counter terrorism – CG

    The Commandant General, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Mr. Abdullahi Gana, said more than 10,000 personnel have been trained on counter terrorism with the aim of tackling insurgency in the country.

    This is contained in a statement by Emmanuel Okeh, Public Relations Officer of the NSCDC, according to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

    The statement said the personnel were trained on counter terrorism in Israel, Pakistan, Italy and also with the Nigerian Army School of counter terrorism and insurgency.

    It is said that Gana made this assertion at the reception of the courtesy visit by the United Nations counter terrorism committee led by Mr. Weixiong Chen at NSCDC, headquarters, Abuja.

    According to the statement, the CG of NSCDC enumerated the corps mandate, stressing the need for support and training in the area of protection of critical infrastructures and other national assets in the country.

    They are in most cases readily available targets for both terrorists and vandals.

    He said presently, over 400 personnel are protecting the facilities of multinational oil companies in Nigeria, such as Shell, Agip, and Mobil among others.

    According to the statement, the leader of the UN delegate, Mr. Weixiong Chen, said his team came to assist in training and to proffer solutions against insurgency.

    Chen pointed out the following has to be in place for the fight against terrorism to be completed.

    “The rule of the law must be present, therefore the issue of coordination and training among the various law enforcement agencies is paramount.

    “They must have basic training on close protection; to enable the security operatives protect themselves and the populace in general.

    “That Nigeria cannot fight terrorism in isolation, hence there must be involvement of other nations of the world, to assist financially, trainings and providing equipment based on the need for the particular nation“.

    Chen assured the Corps of UN-CTED support in training the personnel and to also give logistic support and advocated the tackling of terrorism through a holistic approach involving the three tiers of government.

    Gana appealed to the UN delegate that the personnel still need more exposure on technological abilities to improve greatly in the fight against terrorism.

     

  • Abia police caution personnel

    Abia police caution personnel

    Abia State’s new Commissioner of Police Habila Joshak has warned personnel in the command against any acts that may breach the smooth conduct of the electoral process.

    Joshak who was speaking during his familiarisation visit at the Aba Area Command said that the Abia State Command would not hesitate to try, persecute or recommend the dismissal from service, any of its official found to be involved in any form of electoral malpractice.

    Responding to a question, the Abia CP said, “Let me assure you that the policemen are only going to be posted to polling stations to ensure there is smooth conduct of election. We (police) don’t touch sensitive and non-sensitive materials. Our main duty is to make sure that criminal element or those that doesn’t want the elections to be free and fair will be brought to book. It is the end of the road and the game will be over for any police officer that will be caught in any act of electoral malpractice because we are not going to condone such”.

    The Abia Police boss who said that they were working in partnership with other sister agencies to ensure that electoral laws and guidelines were obeyed on March 28 and April 11 elections, also urged police, military and other security apparatus in the state to get the handbook on electoral guideline for people that would participate in the elections which was recently recommended by the Inspector General of Police, IGP Suleiman Abba.

    According to him, the police and other security agencies were working out modalities to ensure that electoral crisis before, during and after elections would be curtailed, hinting that they have designed a mop up measures for any electoral crisis outburst.

    Joshak while lauding the cooperation existing between the police in Aba, the PCRC (Police Community Relations Committee) in various police divisions, army and among other security agencies called for more synergy to enable them nip crime in all place in the bud and to also ensure that the country’s democracy wasn’t truncated.

    The commissioner who had once served in the state as a youth corps member and a police officer said he knew the importance of Aba to the economy of the state, southeast and the nation as a whole also assured Aba and Abia residents including visitors alike that police in collaboration with other security agencies were willing to make the commercial nerve center a safe haven for their businesses to thrive, warning hoodlums in Aba and the state to relocate to another place as he would make the state uncomfortable for their operation.

    ”I am encouraged when I learnt about the cooperation between the police and other sister agencies in Aba. Such is not even obtainable at the state capital. It is important that we deemphasise the attention on the superiority of ranks and come together and share ideas on how best we can fight crime and achieve a peaceful and habitual environment to allow business and economic to thrive. Crime fighting should be a collaborative efforts and I am going to ensure that the police will work together and synergize with other security agencies to ensure that we fight crime in Aba and Abia Sate in general”.

    On the use of policemen by revenue contractors in their drive which has become a norm in the state, he directed that on no account should the police be used for revenue drive unless they were executing an order of court of competent jurisdiction, warning that any police officer used in revenue drive by any agent or contractor without the knowledge of the State Command risk losing his job.

    The CP who had earlier inspected some of the ongoing reconstruction and refurbishing of offices and police quarters in the Area Command called on DPOs (Divisional Police Officers) to emulate the pace set by the Area Commander, Peter Wagbara who despite the paucity of funds has improve the infrastructural condition of the command.

    He assured them that their welfare and logistic challenges facing the command would be properly addressed and urged them to ensure that they use whatever little logistics that the IGP had provided for them optimally to ensure productivity.

    Earlier in the speeches, the Deputy Comptroller of Prisons in Aba Prison, Emmanuel Maduako and Prince Ambassador Emma Nwosu, state chairman, PCRC on behalf of other security agencies in Enyimba city and members of the PCRC expressed happiness over the progress recorded so far by the Wagbara led administration since he assumed office in the command.

    Maduako noted that in the number of years he has put into service, it was in Aba under the administration of the Area Commander that he has witnessed the coming together of police and other sister agencies to a round table despite their ranks and differences in job functions to discuss on how to improve security and work collaboratively to fight crime and other criminality, stressing that it has breached the gap and also make them see reasons why they should work harmoniously with each other.

    The PCRC chairman also expressed their willingness to continue working together with DPOs of various commands in Aba and the state police command and assured that the lessons they learnt from the Aba Police boss will be replicated in other various police divisions in the state.

    The police commissioner before departing the command held an interactive session with officers and men in the command which it was learnt bordered on their welfare, the March 28 and April 11 elections and how best they can work effectively to tackle crime in Aba.

    Some policemen who chose to speak off record described the CP’s visit as a morale booster and hope that they would enjoy better and improved working condition under the current leadership of the police in the state and national level, stating that they were committed to ensure that they work harmoniously with the state police commissioner while his stay in the state lasted.

     

  • Global dearth of IT security personnel rises, says Cisco

    Global dearth of IT security personnel rises, says Cisco

    Globally, the skilled gap in the information communication technology (ICT) security sector continues to widen. This year alone, it reached more than one million, the United States (U.S) tech giants, Cisco has said.

    In the Cisco Annual Security Report presented in Lagos, the firm lamented that malicious traffic continues to grow at an unprecedented levels, adding that threats designed to take advantage of users’ trust in systems, applications and personal networks have now reached startling levels.

    The sophistication of the technology and tactics used by online criminals—and their non-stop attempts to breach networks and steal data—have outpaced the ability of information technology (IT) and security professionals to address these threats, it added, lamenting that many organisations do not have the people or the systems to continuously monitor extended networks and detect infiltrations, and then apply protections, in a timely and effective manner.

    General Manager, Cisco Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia and Sierra-Leone, Dare Ogunlade, who unveiled the report with the firm’s System Engineer, Security, Adeola Kukoyi said the report’s findings offer a vivid picture of rapidly evolving security challenges facing businesses, IT departments and individuals.

    Ogunlade said attack methods include socially engineered theft of passwords and credentials, hide-in-plain-sight infiltrations, and exploitation of the trust required for economic transactions, government services and social interactions.

    He said: “Organisations across Africa must realise that it is no longer if they will be targeted by cyber-attacks, but rather when Chief Information Security Officers face growing pressure to protect terabytes of data on an increasingly porous network, manage information safely especially on the cloud, and evaluate the risks of working with third-party vendors for specialised solutions – all in the wake of shrinking budgets and leaner IT teams.”

    Ogunlade also noted increased sophistication and proliferation of the threat landscape, lamenting that simple attacks that caused containable damage have now given way to organised cybercrime operations that are sophisticated, well-funded, and capable of significant economic and reputational damage to public and private sector victims.

    Cisco also highlighted increased complexity of threats and solutions due to rapid growth in intelligent mobile devices’ adoption and cloud computing providing a greater attack surface than ever before, adding that new classes of devices and new infrastructure architectures offer attackers opportunities to exploit unanticipated weaknesses and inadequately defended assets.

    The tech firm said cybercriminals have learned that harnessing the power of internet infrastructure yields far more benefits than simply gaining access to individual computers or devices. These infrastructure-scale attacks seek to gain access to strategically positioned web hosting servers, name servers and data centers—with the goal of proliferating attacks across legions of individual assets served by these resources. By targeting Internet infrastructure, attackers undermine trust in everything connected to or enabled by it.