Category: Police

  • Adebayo Adeoye

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    Adebayo Adeoye, Police chief, born 18 April 1949, in Ede, Osun State, Adeoye attended United Primary School, Ilorin, Kwara State; Baptist Secondary Modern School, Ara-Ede, Osun State; ljebu Muslim College, Ijebu Ode, Ogun State; and Ahmadu Bello university, Zaria, where he obtained a degree in Geography. During the compulsory one-year national service, Adeoye served as…

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  • Farouk Abdulmutallab

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    Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab: Fundamentalists whose failed bid in 2010 to bomb an airplane with 289 people on board lend credence to fears that Nigeria was becoming a fertile ground for extremist recruitment. Farouk was a model student, keen, enthusiastic. Often he would stay behind to discuss items in the lesson or in the news. Farouk…

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  • Fundamentalism

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    Fundamentalism; is ideological or religious intolerance. There is a clear demarcation between terrorism at an international level and the rise of fundamentalism in northern Nigeria as a region. There are many factors that led to the low level of tolerance and peace in this part of country. First is the problem of illiteracy. There is a…

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  • Vandalism

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    Vandalism; is the damage to public properties. Bottled resentment due to Niger Delta crisis has been blamed for instances of vandalism of oil and gas pipelines[i]. A total of 2,258 cases of pipeline vandalism were recorded in 2005 while 911 cases were reported in 2004. This culminated in the loss of products amounting to about…

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  • Nuhu Ribadu

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    Nuhu Ribadu; Nigerian anti-graft czar,  founding chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, who brought freshness, patriotism and candour to his job. As an undergraduate Law student in Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, the story was told of Ribadu’s foolhardy confrontation with a gunman when he was himself armless. While he was only…

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  • Muhammadu D. Yusuf

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    Muhammadu Dildto Yusuf or MD Yusuf; was the only Nigerian politician who established his own political party to challenge a military self-succession agenda.  He served as Inspector General of Police from 1976 to 1979. Yusuf was chairman of Nigeria LNG in 1994 when a consortium led by Halliburton was bidding for a contract to construct…

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