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The Coalition of Northern Group (CNG) has announced the establishment of a regional security outfit known as “Shege-Ka-Fasa”. This comes one month after Amotekun, a similar outfit was established by governors of south-west states. At a news conference on Wednesday, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman...

ABUJA—National Working Committee, NWC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, said, the emergence of the South-West security outfit, Amotekun and other security apparatus are indications of a vote of no confidence on the ability of President Muhammadu Buhari … Read more via...

LAGOS — National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has stated that the security outfit launched by South-West governors, Amotekun, is not a threat to national unity.... Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/37i88DC Get More Nigeria Metro News

The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has finally made a comment on the establishment of the Southwest regional security outfit, Amotekun, after ample pressure READ MORE

Acting National Chairman of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, lawyer, and a stalwart of Afenifere, Chief Supo Shonibare, has lampooned the Federal Government over the controversy trailing the issue of Amotekun, the security outfit set up by the South West Governors.... Read more via...

AKURE—HUNDREDS of diverse Yoruba interest groups, yesterday, in Akure, Ondo State; Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State; Ibadan, Oyo State; Osogbo, Osun State and Abeokuta, Ogun State, heeded the call by Yoruba...... Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2TGN9X4 Get More Nigeria Political News

In its bid for an effective takeoff of the regional security outfit, Amotekun, the South-West is not only faced with opposition from external forces, according to Ondo State Governor and Chairman, Southwest Governors’ Forum, Rotimi Akeredolu.... Read more via The Guardian Nigeria News –...

A leading campaigner for operation Amotekun, Governor Akeredolu has said he doesn’t care if his quest will stop him from getting a second term. Read more via Tori News – https://ift.tt/2tuuMdk -- Get More Nigeria Political News

According to The Nation, dozens of security Operatives from the Nigeria Police, Department of State Security Service (DSS), Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), most of them armed on Monday morning positioned themselves at Panseke, a bustling area of Abeokuta, Read more via...

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, was in a buoyant mood, the other day, when he nodded at the birth of the security outfit called Operation Amotekun, which was launched, in Ibadan, January 9, 2020, by the six governors of the South-West geo-political zone. He described … Read more via...

Did Buhari Declare Amotekun Illegal For Not Enlisting Fulani Herdsmen Group Miyetti Allah? Amotekun Is A Lasting Solutions To Nigeria’s Insecurity, An Initiative That Evolved From Buhari’s Inability To Provide Adequate Security… Read more via NaijaGists.com – https://ift.tt/2R7MQCY Get...

Even with the affirmed doggedness of southwest governors to go agead with Operation Amotekun, the embattled joint security outfit, the most powerful and politically influencial person in the region, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has maintained silence. Already, the declaration of the security...

The General Overseer, Christ Apostolic Church (WOSEM), Lagos Zone, Pastor Paul Obadare has urged the Federal Government to support the Western Nigeria Security Network, popularly known as Amotekun. Obadare allayed fears over the outfit’s mode of operation because of the inclusion of existing...

A former governor of old Kaduna State, Balarabe Musa, has said that the main reason the leaders and governors of the Southwest region set up the new security outfit, Operation Amotekun was to create Oduduwa Republic. DAILY POST reported that Governors in the South West region had … Read...

The professional body of public relations, Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON) has thrown its weight behind the Amotekun security outfit in the south-west. In a statement issued by the publicity secretary, Adewumi Abiola, on Saturday, APCON advised that “other regions should...