Abba Kyari
13 Apr
A group known as One Voice Development Initiative has expressed its dissatisfaction with the prolonged imprisonment of Abba Kyari, the former head of the IGP Intelligent Response Team (IRT), alleging it is an injustice that has gone too far. They also noted that Kyari played a crucial role in the apprehension of high-profile kidnappers, leaders…
7 Apr
As I was saying before the electricity jumbo bill and other related bills came to compound our expenditure woes:
17 Jan
The Concerned Nigerian Group (CNG), called on President Bola Tinubu to utilize the skills and expertise of the embattled and suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, to tackle the escalating insecurity issues plaguing the country. In a statement signed by its National Coordinator, Segun Rotimi, Deputy National Coordinator, Musa Shehu, and National Secretary, Nnamdi…
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During his ambassadorship in Germany, Tuggar played a key role during the 23rd Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. He also facilitated the state visit of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Nigeria in August 2018.
30 Sep 2023
Barely four days after he was sworn into office, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on June 2, this year, appointed former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, as his Chief of Staff.
12 Sep 2023
A group, the Centre for Democracy and Human Rights (CEDEHUR), yesterday, called for the release of embattled super cop, Abba Kyari, to help unravel those behind the killing of Superintendent of Police (SP) Bako Angbadhim, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Ahoada Divisional Police Headquarters in Rivers State. While commiserating with families and friends of…
3 Aug 2023
Sir: For about 18 months now, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Abba Alhaji Kyari, has been in the Correctional Centre in Kuje, while being tried for various offences. Nigerians may recall that before his arrest and detention, Kyari was a household name in the struggle to curb the menace of insecurity in Nigeria as a…
6 Jul 2023
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday granted bail to suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari. Justice Kolawole Omotosho granted Kyari bail under stringent conditions. However, he still has a criminal case before Justice Emeka Nwite of a federal high Court in Abuja. In Thursday’s ruling and in an application filed by the…
16 May 2023
Journalists covering the ongoing trial of the suspended DCP Abba Kyari and others were, on Tuesday, restrained from coming into Court 10 of the Federal High Court, Abuja, venue of the proceeding.
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