Tag: Security meeting
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Photos: Buhari presides over security meeting
R-L; President Muhammadu Buhari, Minister of Defence Brig-Gen Mansur Dan Ali, Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonisakin, Chief of Army Staff LT-Gen T.Y. Buratai, Chief of Nava Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas, Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar and Inspector General of Police, Mr Mohammed Adamu during the security meeting presided over by the President at the State House, Abuja R-L; President Muhammadu Buhari, Minister of Defence Brig-Gen Mansur Dan Ali, Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonisakin, Chief of Army Staff LT-Gen T.Y. Buratai, Chief of Nava Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas, Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar and Inspector General of Police, Mr Mohammed Adamu during the security meeting presided over by the President at the State House, Abuja R-L; National Security Adviser to the President Maj-Gen Babagana Monguno Minister of Defence, Brig Gen Mansur Dan Ali and Minister of Interior, Lt Gen Abdulrahman Dambazzau Rtd during the security meeting presided over by the President at the State House, Abuja National Security Adviser to the President Maj-Gen Babagana Monguno in a warm greeting with Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonisakin and Chief of Army Staff LT-Gen T.Y. Buratai during the security meeting presided over by the President at the State House, Abuja Director General NIA, Alhaji Ahmed Rufai Alkali and Chief of Defence Intelligence, (CDI), Air Vice Marshal Mohammed Saliu Usman during the security meeting presided over by the President at the State House, Abuja Chief of Staff, Mallam Abba Kyari chats with Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonisakin and Chief of Army Staff LT-Gen T.Y. Buratai during the security meeting presided over by the President at the State House, Abuja SGF Mr. Boss Mustapha chats with Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonisakin and Chief of Army Staff LT-Gen T.Y. Buratai during the security meeting presided over by the President at the State House, Abuja L-R; President Muhammadu Buhari, Chief of Staff, Mallam Abba Kyari, SGF, Mr. Boss Mustapha, Minister of Interior, Lt-Gen Abdulralman Dambazzau Rtd, Maj-Gen Babagana Monguno Rtd and DG DSS, Yusuf Magaji Bichi during the security meeting presided over by the President at the State House, Abuja -
INEC to hold security meeting next week
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will hold a security meeting next week on the Osun State governorship election.
The Chairman of the commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said the essence of the meeting is to review the security arrangement for the election.
Besides, he said the commission is working on a multi-faceted approach to stop the menace of vote-buying and other sundry electoral malpractices.
He said INEC will introduce changes to the election-day administration at the polling units.
Yakubu spoke yesterday at the opening of the meeting of the management of the commission and Resident Electoral Commissioners (REC) in Abuja.
He said: “The Commission is convening a meeting of the national Inter-agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) next week to review the security arrangement for the election.”
On the preparation for the election, Yakubu said that the omission is on course; adding that the processes and activities are going according to schedule of activities.
He said: “Furthermore, the Commission is convening a meeting of the national Inter-agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) next week to review the security arrangement for the election.
“We are working on a multi-faceted approach to the menace of vote-buying and other sundry electoral malpractices. We will introduce changes to the election-day administration of our polling units, in addition to the electronic tracking of our sensitive materials. We are discussing with the security agencies on a more vigorous enforcement of the law against voter-inducement.”
On the preparation for the election, he said: “All processes and activities are going according to our timetable and schedule of activities released almost a year ago.
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Sanusi to Ganduje: convene security meeting to avert violence
The Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, has called on Governor Abdullahi Ganduje to convene a security meeting with political leaders and security agents to deliberate on ways to avert violence ahead of the 2019 elections.
The monarch spoke yesterday at the Government House during the traditional Hawan Nasarawa, where he paid homage to Ganduje as part of activities marking the Eid-el-Fitr.
He said: “Once the political refused to play politics according to the rule of the game, there is every tendency that many people could die because of their action or inaction.
“It is high time the politicians be cautioned against promoting hatred or any anything capable of jeopardising peace as an ingredient of social co-existence.”
Ganduje decried the conduct of politicians hell bent on attacking political opponents to smear their names and reputation.
According to him, the present day political class are dangerously playing with words in the media to denigrate the status of their opponent in the eyes of the public.
He said: “Having critically observed what is going on this time, we decided to mobilise leaders of about 53 political parties and sensitise them on the need to avoid politics of condemnation and attack on personalities…”
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Herdsmen: Oba Ewuare II holds special security meeting
The Benin monarch, Oba Ewuare II, has convened a special security meeting to help tackle herdsmen menace, kidnapping, human trafficking and illegal migration.
Part of the decision reached at the meeting was the need to set up a task force at each of the three senatorial districts as well as forming monitoring units at both the local and state levels to check the activities of herdsmen and other criminal activities.
It was also agreed at the meeting that a committee headed by the Commissioner of Police should be set up to help develop a template that would be used by the State Council of Traditional Rulers and Chiefs in achieving the desired peace and tranquility in the state.
Various security agents present at the meeting agreed to implement the decisions reached it would bring peace and tranquility to the state.
The security agents however requested for adequate logistics to enable them tackle security challenges in the state.
They also demanded for the provision of enough vehicles and communication equipment to enable them respond to emergency or distress calls.
Village heads were requested to provide security agents with useful information that would enable them track down these criminal elements in the society.
The monarch told the gathering that the purpose of the meeting was to hear from the security agencies on the way out of the security challenges in the state.
Oba Ewuare II who expressed worries over crimes rates disclosed that he started putting plans together since 2015 on how to tackle the problems.
He assured security chiefs present at the meeting that required logistic requested to ensure effective security of the state would be communicated to the State Government for immediate action.
Leaders of the Hausa, Fulani and Nupe communities in Edo State who spoke separately blamed cattle dealers for security problem and stressed the need for concerted efforts to ensure that herdsmen who destroy farms were made to pay for them.
They promised to hold meetings with village heads in the various local governments to sensitize them on how to handle the issue of cattle herdsmen.
The meeting was attended by the various heads of security agencies in the state including the Police, the Army, the Directorate of State Security, the immigration, Prisons and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corp.
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Amuwo Odofin LG boss holds first security meeting
The Chairman of Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State, Comrade Valentine Buraimoh has started held a peace and security meeting at the Council Secretariat, Festac Town.
Comrade Kola Folorunso, said the chairman said the meeting was called to get reports from security agencies, with a view to addressing it.
The meeting also looked at the black spots, bad roads, blocked drainages and other security challenges in the community.
Valentine said: “The current security situation in the country is precarious. We have to put all proactive and workable measures to combat any form of unseen security breach.”
He beaconed on all to make it a point of duty to regularly intimate all the relevant security operatives of any suspicious character in their domain. The local government boss also constituted a strategic committee to look into issues of security and environmental black spots.
The committee is headed by a former Chairman of the Local Government, Prince Rasheed Otolorin. Members are drawn from the Nigeria Police, Nigeria Civil Defence Corps(NSCDC), DSS, the Legal Officer of the Local Government and the Chief Security Officer of the Local Government.
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Shettima calls security meeting on renewed insurgency
Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima at the weekend summoned an emergency security meeting following the resurgence of Boko Haram attacks in some parts of the state.
A statement by Shettima’s media aide, Isa Gusau, said the closed-door meeting was attended by heads of security agencies.
The statement added that Theatre Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, Maj.-Gen. Leo Irabor, briefed the governor on recent attacks and ongoing military operations while discussions centred on the wave of suicide attacks following the dismantling of Boko Haram stronghold in Sambisa Forest.
The statement reads: “At the end of meeting, new guard locations were established in some routes to curtail the movement of remnants of Boko Haram fighters; deployment of security personnel in various locations were increased with more members of Civilian JTF
(youth volunteers involved) while the Governor approved the release of additional patrol vehicles to security agencies for increased surveillance.
“The governor also approved logistics to compliment the Federal Government’s efforts in strengthening the Armed Forces while measures were adopted to strengthen the Civilian JTF and hunters.
“The meeting also reviewed synergy between formal Armed Forces and volunteers with steps adopted to increase collaboration and clamp down cattle rustling.”
The over three-hour meeting, at the council chambers of the Government House, was attended by the G.O.C 7 Division Brig.-Gen. Victor Ezugwu; Commander 79 Composite Group of the Air Force, Air Commodore Charles Oho; Commissioner of
Police Damien Chukwu; Garrison Commander, 7
Division, Brig.-Gen. Jibrin G. Mohammed; Director of the Department of State Services (SSS), Suleiman Kankia; Commandant of the Nigerian Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Ibrahim Abdullahi; Secretary to the State
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Jonathan reschedules meeting with governors
President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday rescheduled another meeting with governors over rising security challenges in the country for next week Wednesday.
The Presidency had on Wednesday, through a statement by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, invited governors and the National Security Council for a meeting on Thursday over insecurity in the country.
But all the governors under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) were conspicuously absent when the meeting started at 2.00pm at the First Lady Conference Room in the State House.
Briefing State House correspondents at the end of the two hours meeting, the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forumand Akwa Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio, said that only PDP governors were invited for Thursday’s meeting.
According to him, all the governors of the 36 states of the federation will be invited for Wednesday’s meeting.
He said: “This is a fall out of our meeting which we held with PDP governors and we felt that there was a need for us and also meet with security chiefs. Mr. President has listened to us and even said that since it is a problem that involves all the state of the federation, it is better for all the state governors to be in attendance. Because of that he has graciously agreed to meet with all the governors of the 36 states of the federation on Wednesday by 4pm.”
“Of course you know we are very much concerned first as PDP governors and the center belongs to the PDP and so we felt that we should see our dear president and if need be with some of the security chiefs.”
“He has graciously listened to us and he said since it is a national issue we must have all the 36 governors in attendance. So I believe strongly notice will be going out and all governors will be meeting with Mr. President and service chiefs next week Wednesday so we can sit and discuss and proffer solutions to the current insecurity in the country. I believe it will come to an end.”
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APC governors shun meeting with Jonathan
All governors under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) were conspicuously absent when the meeting convened by President Goodluck Jonathan started by 2.00pm at the First Lady Conference Room in the State House, Abuja, on Thursday.
Jonathan had on Wednesday summoned all governors and National Security Council to a meeting over rising security challenges in the country.
After the President met the Service Chiefs and the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar in his office earlier, they all moved to the First Lady Conference room where governors were already seated.
Governors who attended the meeting are – Gabriel Suswam (Benue), Martin Elechi (Ebonyi) Ramalan Yero (Kaduna), Isa Yuguda(Bauchi), Theodore Orji (Abia) and Ibrahim Dankwanbo (Gombe).
Others are – Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom), Liyel Imoke (Cross River), Willie Obiano (Anambra), Idris Wada (Kogi), Ibrahim Shema (Katsina), Jonah Jang (Plateau), Emmanuel Uduaghan (Delta), Sule Lamido (Jigawa) and Sullivan Chime (Enugu).
Also at the meeting are – Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Olusegun Mimiko (Ondo), Garba Umar (Acting Governor Taraba), Deputy Governor of Bayelsa, John Jonah and Deputy Governor of Kebbi State.
The meeting was also attended by the Defence Minister, Brigadier-General Aliyu Gusau (rtd); Director-General of State Security Service (SSS), Ita Ekpeyong; Minister of Interior, Abba Moro; National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki (rtd) and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator Anyim Pius Anyim.