The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has sanctioned 36 of its personnel for corruption as part of efforts to sanitize the agency. A statement released Tuesday morning in Abuja by the Service spokesman, DCI Tony Akuneme, said four officers were dismissed while 14 were demoted for various offences for which they appeared before the Orderly Room Trial Committee of the Service. Read More
The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has emerged overall best in the Law and Justice Sector comprising 47 Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs). The assessment was carried out by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) for year 2022 ethics and integrity compliance scorecard. A statement released Tuesday in Abuja by the NCoS’s spokesman, ACC Umar Abubakar, said Read More
The Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) has said it has arrested suspected vandals and oil thieves, got 49 convicted and destroyed 71 illegal refineries destroyed between January 2022 to August. The Corps has, however, acquired 93 new operational vehicles to fight insecurity and crimes across the country. Speaking Thursday at the commissioning event of the newly acquired operational Read More
As part of efforts to end the menace of crude oil theft, illegal oil bunkering and pipeline vandalism, the federal government has commissioned eight gun boats for the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) to wage a full scale war against the perpetrators. According to the government, the move became necessary to strengthen the combative capacity of NSCDC Anti Read More
The Controller-General of the Federal Fire Service (FFS), Engr. Abdulganiyu Jaji, has revealed how his agency fought 519 fire outbreaks and saved properties worth N56.92 billion within four months of his assumption of office. Jaji said between April 28, 2022 that he took over the saddle of the Federal Fire Service till date, his tenure had lost a total of Read More
Since 2014, Osun State has emerged as Nigeria’s bellwether state, as Americans call states whose voting patterns almost always align with the winning presidential ticket with mathematical exactitude. APC’s victory in Osun in 2014, in spite of the intense, all-out PDP-controlled federal effort to swing the election in PDP’s favor, presaged APC’s odds-defying victory in the 2015 presidential election. In Read More
The federal government has reveal that the country was on the path to totally defeating Boko Haram terrorists and other criminals ravaging the country, saying that about 61,000 of them have been arrested, especially in the north-east. Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, revealed Tuesday when he paid a surprise visit to the Kirikiri Maximum and Medium Security Custodial Centres Read More
Some allies of the former governor of Osun state and Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, have accepted governor Adegboyega Oyetola and declared their support for him in the July 16 governorship election. The splinter group who had presented former Secretary to the state government, Moshood Adeoti, as their governorship candidate, met at their monthly meeting held in Ejigbo and declared Read More
The federal government has declared Monday 11th and Tuesday 12th July, 2022, as public holidays to mark this year’s Eid-el-Kabir celebration. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, who made the declaration on behalf of the federal government, congratulated all Muslims and Nigerians both at home and in the diaspora on this occasion. The declaration was made in a statement Read More
Dare-devil gunmen suspected to be members of the dreaded Boko Haram terrorist group, yesterday night around 10pm laid siege to the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Kuje Abuja, attacking the facility with explosive devices and sophisticated assault weapons. The gunmen numbering about 300 according to eyewitnesses, rode motorcycles invading multiple military and police checkpoints in the city to successfully overpower a Read More
The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has called on the judicial arm of government to support the ongoing reform in the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) through timely conclusion of criminal cases. Aregbesola specifically advocated a 12-month timeline for dispensation of justice on criminal cases brought to the court. The Minister spoke on Tuesday at a two-day Controller General of Read More
An immigration expert and United Nation SDG Ambassador, Hussaini Coomassie, has congratulated the newly decorated Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) Isah Jere Idris over his new rank. CGI Idris Jere got one year extension of Service by President Muhammadu Buhari on 22nd April, to enable him lead the service to higher heights. Coomassie who also doubles as Read More
The federal government has declared Monday 2nd and Tuesday 3rd May, 2022 as public holidays to mark this year’s Workers Day and EIdul-Fitr Celebrations. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, made the declaration on behalf of the federal government in a statement signed Thursday in Abuja by the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary Dr. Shuaib Belgore. He congratulated workers across the Read More
Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola has said President Muhammadu Buhari’s investment in the Federal Fire Service (FFS) since he came to power in 2015 is more than whatever has been put into it since its establishment in 1901. The Minister, however tasked the new Controller General of the FFS Jaji Olola Abdulganiyu to strive to achieve more than his predecessors. Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Jaji Olola Abdulganiyu as the Controller General Federal Fire Service (FFS) with effect from Friday 22nd April, 2022. Until his appointment, Engr Abdulganiyu was the Deputy Comptroller General in charge of Administration and Supplies in the Federal Fire Service. A statement released Tuesday in Abuja by the Secretary of the Board Ministry Read More
Minister of Interior Rauf Aregbesola, has asked agencies under his ministry to take public perception management more seriously. The minister also applauded the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) and other agencies under his watch for their performances. Speaking Friday in Abuja at the quarterly review meeting of the ministry of interior and its agencies, Aregbesola said the need Read More
The faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun state, loyal to the former governor and Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, is planning to join the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Blueprint has gathered. The crisis between Aregbesola and his successor, Adegboyega Oyetola, has been heightened recently with the total neglect of members of the factional group in the congresses Read More
Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has called on the Nigerian media to continue to do more in making the country’s democracy virile. This is as he commends journalists and media handlers for their roles in sustaining democratic tents especially since 1999, saying their involvement has impacted positively on the state. Aregbesola also challenged the fourth estate of the realm Read More
The federal government has reiterated the commitment of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to improving the conditions of the mass of the Nigerian people with her programmes and policies. This was stated Monday by President Muhammadu Buhari, at the official commissioning of the Housing Project under the National Housing Programme (NHP) Phase 1 in Abere, Osun state. The President who Read More
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