Bombings: FG embarks on intensive security campaigns

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, July 22nd, 2011

Federal Government has mapped out some strategic plans to tackle the spate of insecurity in the country.
Making this known at a launch of a book, entitled, Hoodlums, Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku urged Nigerians to beware of abandoned cars, bags and their environments.

Labaran who spoke through the deputy director in the Ministry of Information, Mr Olusola Osunbayi said government would soon embark on intensive campaign to ensure that Nigerians are aware of their environments..

He said government was taking measures to address some of the issues responsible for social unrest such as unemployment and other poverty related issues.
In a keynote address, the Director General, Institute of Conflict Resolution, Dr Joseph Golwa decried the attitude of government in resoponding to conflict as every conflict has an early warning indicators.
The author, Sumaila Unaisha, he said, has done well to capture a lot of Nigeria’s history in the book.

He said the government alone should not be left to provide security for the people, stressing that the people themselves must be security conscious by volunteering information when and where necessary.
Reviewing the book, Dr Emman Usman Shehu said the stories provided the author a platform to explore a variety of themes including political thugery,violence,assassinations, militancy, withcraft, prostitution among others.

He said what should have been a major drawback in the collection, the high number of stories, became a strength because they not only have thematic variety, but they are not all of the same length.

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