Buhari fires police chief in Holy Week of high drama
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Adamu-Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari showed red card to an inspector-general of police in an Easter week characterized by unpatriotic acts by Nigerians against their fatherland.
Buhari, who is currently taking a short rest in London, England, named Mr Usman Baba as acting Inspector-General of Police after firing, Mr Mohammed Adamu on April 6.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the development occurred 28 days to the expiration of Adamu’s extended tenure.
Adamu’s tenure was extended by the president on Feb. 4 this year in what analysts described as a controversial tenure extension of a retiring police chief.
The General Overseer of the Omega Fire Ministries
International, Apostle Johnson Suleman, has advised the President Muhammadu
Buhari-led administration to focus on the fight against insurgency and not
critics.
Apostle Suleman gave the advice after Presidency lambasted
the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah over his 2021 Easter
homily, saying it is an ungodly attempt to politicise the nation’s security.
Kukah, in his Easter message, had said the greatest tragedy
of Buhari’s government is the death of empathy, adding that the government’s
clay-footed fight against corruption had not moved the needle of transparency
forward.
He said Nigeria, being the poverty capital of the world came
The Presidency, on Sunday in Abuja, described as ungodly attempt by Bishop Matthew Kukah to politicise the nation’s security challenges and the hijab saga in Kwara in his 2021 Easter homily.
The Presidency, on Sunday in Abuja, described as an ungodly attempt by Bishop Matthew Kukah to politicise the nation’s security challenges and the hijab saga in Kwara in his 2021 Easter homily.
By Ibrahim Hassan
Southern Kaduna People’s Union, SOKAPU, yesterday said not less than N900 million ransom was paid by kidnap victims in Southern Kaduna to their abductors last year.
National President of the group, Jonathan Asake said between January and December, 2020, kidnap victims paid N900 million to their abductors.
At a briefing in Kaduna, Asake decried the worsening insecurity in the southern part of Kaduna State, saying 80 percent of residents of Chikun Local Government area had abandoned their ancestral land for safer areas because of insecurity.
This came as SOKAPU condemned threat to the life of Catholic Archbishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Mathew Kukah by some groups and individuals over his Christmas Day’s homily and demanded the arrest of those threatening Bishop Kukah with eviction.