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I NSECURITY: IGP ACQUIRES, DEPLOYS 3 ASISGUARD SONGAR ARMED DRONES TO STRATEGIC LOCATIONS The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba psc(+), NPM, NEAPS, fdc, CFR, has acquired three (3) high-powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for improved armed surveillance operations to checkmate criminal activities in the country as a further manifestation of the IGP's determination to integrate the use of innovative technology in the law enforcement duties of the Nigeria Police Force. The newly acquired drones will surely assist the Police in monitoring active crime scenes, coordinating response operations, and providing armed aerial support to officers on reconnaissance operations. The 3 newly acquired UAVs are rotary wing aircrafts capable of flying up to an altitude of 1000ft with high operational endurance and capacity of firing at acquired threats and targets from reasonable distances. The Nigeria Police Airwing has equally concluded trainings for the operators of the drone...

University of Jos has appealed to its ASUU Chapter to resume lectures after the lecturers threatened to suspend classes about pay. This appeal was made by its vice-chancellor, Prof. Tanko Ishaya, in a news conference on Monday in Jos The lecturers claim they were only paid 15 days’ salary by the federal government after ASUU had agreed with House Of Representatives that 50 percent of its members eight months withheld salaries would be paid. Prof Ishaya told newsmen that the lecturers needed to return to lecture theatres to prevent university education from total collapse and urged the union to consider the needs of students and parents. “ASUU should please be considerate and compassionate with students and parents and return to the classroom. I appeal that it allows academic activities to go on while further negotiations with the government on payment of withheld salaries continue. We have asked these students to resume; it will be traumatic to ask them to return home again, having spe...

Nigeria seeks collaboration among African countries on drug war Seamless exchange of intelligence and strengthened collaboration among African countries will help the continent surmount the daunting challenge of illicit drug trafficking and abuse. This was Nigerias position presented by the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), CON, OFR, at the ongoing 30th Conference of Heads of Drug Law Enforcement Agencies Africa (HONLEA) in Nairobi, Kenya; a stand widely supported by other countries represented at the gathering. While briefing the meeting on the gains so far recorded by Nigeria in the fight against drug abuse and illicit drug trafficking, Marwa said there is the need for all to put in place a national coordination mechanism that will ensure coordinated action against the menace. According to him, The starting point is the harnessing of all the stakeholders by the national drug focal agency. Through...

Stakeholders in the education sector have been urged to strengthen the education system with modern technology to enable students be at par with others to meet the present day reality. A Corps member Robinson Ojeka made the appeal in Abuja at an awareness campaign for some schools in the FCT to encourage students on the need to inculcate good morals to build a better nation. Mr. Ojeka who said government had put in place good policies in the education system stressed the need to equip schools with necessary Information Communication Technology as this remains key to fastrack learning and ease of doing business in the sector According to him "Two public schools in participated in the programme that speaks a lot about the education system in the country, it is very promising a lot has been done, I must commend the government for what they have done so far. What we need to do is to strengthen the education system we found that the public schools student are not expose to technolo...

BREAKING: EFCC CHAIRMAN CONVICTED, SENT TO JAIL. The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has convicted the incumbent Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Abdulrasheed Bawa for contempt of court in relation to his agency’s failure to comply with an earlier order of the court for the EFCC to return a seized Range Rover and Fourty Million Naira (40,000,000.00) to the defendant in the case before the court. According to The Nation Newspaper, the Court ordered the Inspector -General of Police to ensure he be remanded in Kuje prison immediately.