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Lawan to Southern Govs: Restructure your states before calling for restructuring at federal level
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Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has cautioned Southern Governors and other elected leaders against joining the agitations for secession or calling for restructuring of the country.
Lawan, who stated this while fielding questions from State House correspondents in Abuja on Thursday, said he was not against those calling for restructuring but elected officials must not be among those advocating for such calls.
According to him, state governors must ensure that they restructure their respective states first before calling for restructuring at the federal level.
Senate President to Governors: Restructure your states first before
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The Federal Government has directed officials of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) to protect all custodial centres in the country.
Rauf Aregbesola, the Minister of Interior, gave the directive on Friday at a meeting with squadron commanders of the service at the NCoS Headquarters in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Amid the disturbing spate of insecurity in the country, the minister directed all officers of the services to defend the custodial centres at all costs.
“More importantly, you are armed and positioned to directly guard them and defend their integrity. Your mission is to defend the facilities at all costs. Let me repeat again, defend them at all costs,” he told the officials at the meeting.
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