Acting Inspector General of Police, Mr Mohammed Adamu, yesterday in Lagos, said that henceforth, the nation’s policemen will start using stun guns for routine patrols because the Police under the current leadership can no longer tolerate abuses associated with the Police.  He spoke on the heels of killings by some policemen in Lagos and other parts of the country, recently.

As insecurity worsens across the country, the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, yesterday, accused the Federal Government of not showing enough political will to address the situation in the North, saying it has been turned to a land of bandits.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari yesterday ordered security operatives to deal decisively with insecurity across the country.

WORRIED by the increasing insecurity in the country, the Senate yesterday, reiterated its call for the establishment of state police if the problem must be nipped in the bud, just as it condemned in very strong terms, the killings nationwide.

Minister of Defence, Major-General Mansur Dan Ali has accused politicians and traditional rulers in the northern part of the country of being behind the current wave of insecurity, just as President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, condemned the resurgence of killings by cult groups in Rivers State and ordered increased community and law enforcement action against its escalation.

As Acting Inspector-General ofPolice, IGP Mohammed Adamu,  deploys special squad units to beef up security in eight local government areas worst hit by high cases of kidnapping and armed banditry in Kastina State, it was another bloody Monday, as no fewer than 12 persons were  reportedly killed as cultists clashed  in two local government areas of Rivers State.

THE battle for leadership of the 9th Senate got tougher, yesterday, with former Senate Leader, Senator Ali Ndume, vowing to continue with his Senate presidency aspiration despite pressures from the ruling  All Progressives Congress, APC, leaders.

With renewed killings and kidnappings by bandits and herdsmen in Zamfara, Kaduna, Borno, Lagos, Katsina, and Anambra states, President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, said it would be “ridiculous and unfair” to suggest that he was not concerned about the killings.

If the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, is relying solely on his political godfathers rather than political allies and colleagues within the National Assembly to realize his ambition of emerging the Speaker of the 9th House, then it will be a long walk full of uncertainties.

The nation’s total debt stock escalated in 2018 to N24.387 trillion ($79. 437 billion), about N2.7 trillion or 9.1 per cent higher than the N21.725 trillion recorded at end of 2017. Perhaps, the huge addition was recorded in the fourth quarter of 2018 which came with N1.96 trillion or 8.03 per cent increase against the N22.428 trillion recorded at end of September 2018.