Banditry: Ex-EFCC chair seeks safety for women, children
FRIDAY OLOKOR
Published 14 March 2021
A former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Farida Waziri, has decried the spate of insecurity in the country which she said had left women and children as scapegoats and victims of criminality.
According to Waziri, Nigeria must be made safe for women and children to grow and flourish, while opportunities must be provided for them to fulfil their dreams without any hindrance.
She wondered why insurgents, bandits and kidnappers in Nigeria continued to feast on the most vulnerable and innocent in the society as their soft targets.
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Published 14 March 2021
Former President Goodluck Jonathan, on Saturday, said he consulted with Niger Delta leaders, including the late oil mogul and philanthropist, High Chief Olu Benson Lulu-Briggs, after his nomination as the running mate to the late President Umaru Yar’Adua in the 2007 presidential race.
Jonathan, who spoke in the Lulu-kiri, Abonnema Local Government Area of Rivers State, during Lulu-Briggs’s funeral, described the deceased as a father, urging his heir, Dumo Lulu-Briggs, to walk in the shoes of his father whom he said came from humble beginnings and became successful.
Though the late billionaire’s widow, Seinye, was noticeably absent, dignitaries from all walks of life from within and outside the country graced the ceremony.
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JESUSEGUN ALAGBE his views on calls for either the resignation or impeachment of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), due to the lingering security challenges across the country
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say that Nigeria is battling with widespread insecurity is to state the obvious. In your years of military experience, has it ever been this bad?
You see, I do not believe that Nigeria is in a state of insecurity because nobody is invading Nigeria. There is no foreign country or enemy or other forces that are invading the country. What we have is a problem of safety. What do I mean by this? When you read notices from embassies, they say Nigeria is not safe; they don’t say Nigeria is not secure. This is because our boundaries are safe. The people terrorising Nigeria like Boko Haram and bandits are not from outside, they are from within. So we are not suffering insecurity but lack of safety. In the North, for instance