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Years of hogging the limelight should, by now, have inscribed Kanyeâs name in flaming letters into the art industryâs consciousness. This is why his latest exhibition â which opened on Friday, April 16 and ends tomorrow (Monday, April 19) at the Abuja Transcorp Hilton Hotel â should go down in the annals of the local art scene as a landmark event. True, he is only an 11-year-old. But he found fame when he made history as the youngest and first-ever African winner of the prestigious Flamme des Friedens (Flame of Peace) award in the Austrian capital, Vienna. This was on Thursday, September 6, 2018, about two months shy of his ninth birthday.
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VICE-PRESIDENT Yemi Osinbajo; Zamfara State governor, Bello Matawalle; some retired police officers and security experts; the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams; economic expert, Professor Pat Utomi and the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) have set agenda for the acting Inspector-General of Police, Alkali Baba Usman, as he assumed duty on Wednesday.
While decorating the acting IGP with his new rank on Wednesday, Vice-President Osinbajo charged him to professionalise the force and end the culture of impunity demonstrated by some of its elements.
At a short ceremony at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the vice president spoke of the enormous challenges before the new police helmsman which, he observed, will test his mettle. Osinbajo stated: “IG, you are assuming office at a very turbulent time in the life of our people. There are multiple threats to law, order and public safety. The role of law enforcement and particularly that of the police force as prim
Daily Trust reports that Usman Baba had earlier been decorated by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo at Presidential Villa in Abuja.
Baba was announced on Tuesday to replace Adamu in acting capacity following the recent attacks in the country particularly in the SouthEast.
Meanwhile, mixed reactions have continued to trail the appointment of the Acting IGP.
Some police officers, who spoke to
Daily Trust, said although they have nothing against the acting IGP, a substantive DIG should have been appointed for the position.
”Our new Acting IG was formerly Acting DIG, I expect that a substantive DIG would have been appointed as his replacement.
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Once again, Nigeria is tottering at the precipice. The last time I felt this way was 1993 after the annulment of the June 12 presidential election and an implosion hung precariously in the polity after the mandate of the late Moshood Abiola was annulled. The events that followed that, fed and sustained in very dangerous narratives till the very end of the military rule, portended nothing at that time other than a break up of the entity called Nigeria.
Those who were old enough to witness the commencement of the Nigerian civil war in 1967 say that the drumbeats of war they heard then sound similar to what they hear now. Let’s be hopeful there can be a rethink, one strong enough to pull back the strings and save Africa’s most populous nation the stress of disintegration.
New IGP: The dodgy and dicey dangers of delay
IGP Mohammed Abubakar Adamu
Thu Feb 04 2021
Since Monday, February 1, 2021, when the tenure of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Adamu Mohammed, officially came to an end, having attained the mandatory 35 years in service, Louis Edet House, the Force Headquarters of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), and the entire country have been thrown into suspense, confusion and palpitations.
The suspense and confusion are due to the uncertainty of what would happen. Would Adamu’s tenure be extended by the president, or is the country going to get a new IGP? Silence, particularly the kind that stirs suspense, is playing out as a critical tool of PMB’s style of leadership.