Entertainment Politics Business Videos HealthWise Editorial Columns Opinion Subscribe Search Search the site Search for: punchng.com © 1971-2020 The Punch newspaper PunchNG Menu: Video Spice Special Features Education Sex & Relationship Interview Columns Opinion Privacy Settings Current challenges preparing Nigeria for the future, says Osinbajo Olalekan Adetayo 27 April 2021 Kindly share this story: Vice President Yemi Osinbajo Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says the current challenges facing Nigeria, including security, are only preparing the country for the future. He admitted that the nation is facing security challenges and there is a need to reorganise its security architecture. According to a statement on Tuesday by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, the Vice President spoke on Monday while receiving the Yakanaje Uke, (in Nasarawa State), Alhaji Ahmed Hassan, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The statement was titled ‘We are re-organi...

Hoodlums on Monday night attacked the Federal High Court in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, burning some sections of the building. Two security guards were also injured during the attack that was said to have occurred around 1am. It was gathered that the hoodlums, who reportedly scaled the court perimeter fence to carry out the attack, used a petrol bomb to perpetrate the act. The court’s library and the security post were badly torched. Our correspondent who visited the court on Tuesday morning sighted a detachment of policemen with three patrol vehicles stationed at strategic positions within the court area.

The President, Muhammadu Buhari on Monday night, met with a leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Tinubu was accompanied to the meeting by a former national chairman of the APC, Chief Bisi Akande. The meeting was held inside the President’s official residence inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Buhari also met behind closed doors with the Borno State Governor, Prof Babagana Zulum. The meeting was said to have centred on the security situation in the state.

What began as a minor clash between Hausa motorcyclists and members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, in the Iyana-Iba area of Ojo, Lagos, quickly degenerated into a tribal clash, early Monday morning, as Hausa and Yoruba youths confronted themselves, wielding dangerous weapons. The fracas according to eye witnesses began when Hausa motorcyclists gathered themselves to protest constant harassment by the road union members, after an Hausa motorcyclist was allegedly beaten and stabbed to death. The fight which began with exchange of stones between members of the union and the motorcyclists, soon degenerated into a full blown crisis, as sporadic gunshots were heard at the scene. Shouts of “e no concern una”, was barked at passerbys, as supposed members of the road union, tried explaining to whoever cared to listen, that the fight was between “us and aboki dem”. More photos below…

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