The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Tunji Disu, has ordered a nationwide civil disarmament operation, ahead of the 2027 general elections.

Disu issued the directive during a courtesy visit to the Force Headquarters in Abuja by the Director – General of the National Centre For The Control Of Small Arms and Light Weapons, DIG Johnson Kokomo (rtd).

While expressing worries that illegally-manufactured small arms and light weapons were being transported across the country by road, and water, the IGP said operations aimed at dismantling arms manufacturing factories, as well as black markets, had been intensified.

Disu emphasised we have to talk to members of the public, we have to do advocacy… And most importantly, so that we can do civil disarmament; civil disarmament of people with illegal arms in their possession.

” We need to talk about it, we need to let people know that it is not only us putting on uniforms that are security operatives. “Everybody is the police, and the police are the com- munity, and the community are the police.“

So, everybody should know (that) anybody carry- ing illegal arms around, is going to use it on another citizen of the country”.

He continued: “So, all hands must be on deck to ensure that we recover all arms.

The Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway has been renamed after President Bola Tinubu.

The Minister of Works, Dave Umahi who announced the naming said that the decision was taken by the Ministry of Works in recognition of President Tinubu’s ‘long-standing vision’ for the landmark project.

Besides, the minister disclosed that the President has approved an additional 400-kilometre extension to the country’s Fourth Legacy Highway, the 700km Akwanga–Jos–Bauchi–Maiduguri Superhighway to Taraba, increasing the project to 1,100 kilometres.

The minister spoke during a media briefing in Abuja, during which he described the approvals as major milestones in the federal government’s infrastructure renewal programme.

Senate’s President Godswill Akpabio says he has never seen the national assembly’s budget despite presiding over the upper legislative chamber.

TheCable had reported that despite billions of naira spent refurbishing the chambers, lawmakers continue to grapple with malfunctioning microphones and faulty electronic voting devices, forcing both chambers to adopt manual voting on key constitutional amendments.

Akpabio spoke on Thursday during plenary after the senate stepped down a motion seeking to review the legislature’s internal procurement process and establish an internal tender’s board for contract awards.

The motion, sponsored by Sunday Karimi, senator representing Kogi west, came less than 24 hours after the senate president threatened to sanction the contractor responsible for renovating the national assembly chambers over persistent technical faults with the newly installed audio.

Responding to the debate, Akpabio said lawmakers should first understand the national assembly’s budget and spending before considering procurement reforms.

” We can set up a small committee to work with the management of both chambers… because personally I’ve never seen the budget of the national assembly,” he said