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RIVALRY: RIBADU BANS INDISCRIMINATE USE OF CAMOUFLAGE

  Office of the National Security Adviser, has barred personnel of the National Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Nigeria Immigration Service and Federal Fire Service from using camouflage outfits.  A January 16 circular issued by the ONSA referenced a 2015 National Security Council resolution which resolved to restrict the use of camouflage to the armed forces and the police when on joint operations.  The decision was to address the proliferation and imitation of military wear by criminals and impostors and was seen as “a pathway for enhancing Nigeria’s national security.” But the directive, according to the circular, has been loosely adhered to, with personnel of the Fire service, Immigration and NSCDC including “camouflage uniforms in their dress code, thus disregarding the ban on the use of the uniforms.”  According to the circular, the disregard for the ban and its continuous use “makes the outfit easily accessible to criminals and impostors, thereby exacerbating the alrea

MOHBAD RALLY: CURB ESCALATION, SECURITY EXPERT WARNS RIBADU, F.G

The National Security Adviser to the President, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu has been advised to rejig the terrorism unit of the NSA's office in curtailing any untoward event in the ongoing rallies and gathering under the toga of Justice for Ilerioluwa Oladimeji Aloba popularly known as Mohbad before it escalate beyond control. A Legal Criminologist and Security Psychologist, Tolu Mustapha gave this advice while analysing the current trend of upsurge in the numbers of peaceful protest seeking a probe into the death of late hip-hop star, Mohbad. According to him, the rate at which these rallies are springing up across the states of the federation brings to mind the pace at which the END SARS protest started gradually before it was hijacked and eventually dove-tailed into a national calamity. He said, Individuation is a very key factor that fuels crisis in threat to National security. "At at a time like this when the new administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is still battling with