Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State has imposed a 24-hour curfew on Lamurde Local Government Area with immediate effect to checkmate the level of insecurity in the state.
Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Humwashi Wonosikou, disclosed this in a statement issued in Yola

He said the directive followed recent violent attacks and breaches of peace in some communities within the area.

“The government views these disturbances as unacceptable and has directed security agencies to enforce the curfew strictly,” he said.

Wonosikou cautioned that anyone or group of people found violating the order would be arrested and dealt with according to the law.

The Chief Press Secretary reiterated the government’s commitment to protecting lives and property, as well as ensuring the safety of all citizens.

Constitutional lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, SAN, says constitution amendment will not be able to tackle Nigeria’s foundational problems.
Ozekhome, who said this on Friday, when he appeared on ‘Politics Today’, a programme on Channels Television, described the document as a curse to national development.

The senior lawyer emphasized that only a brand-new, people-oriented constitution can rescue Nigeria from its political, economic, and security crises.

“What we need is a brand-new constitution that is people-driven. You can’t amend a bad document. A document that is already afflicted with an ailment cannot be amended.

“If you have a problem in your house — the building is cracking — how do you solve it? Some people say, ‘Let’s amend the present constitution.’ Amendment, one million times, cannot solve the problem,” he said.

According to him, the current constitution, handed down by the military in 1999, was not created by the people and has continued to promote over-centralisation of power in Abuja, crippling regional growth and autonomy.

The legal luminary faulted the existing presidential system modelled after the United States, calling it too costly and unsustainable.

He, therefore, called for a return to the parliamentary system practised before 1966, with regional governments controlling their resources and security.

The Executive Chairman of Obingwa LGA of Abia State, Maxwell Nwadike has expressed disappointment with the destruction of some sections of the ongoing perimeter fencing in the LGA headquarters at Mgboko.

Nwadike, who inspected the affected sections on Friday, vowed that the council would no longer tolerate any act of sabotage that undermines public interest.

A statement signed by Cletus Chibueze Ebere, the media aide to the the Chairman on Friday, said that the fence was allegedly pulled down by  members of  Umuatubi kindred, Umuocha village, Mgboko autonomous community, noting that it affected approximately twelve sections of the perimeter fence currently under construction.

The statement said that the local government boss addressed security operatives, including the Operation Crush Squad from the State government, the Divisional Police Officer, officers from the Department of State Services, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, and other stakeholders during his visit to the project site.

According to the statement,  Nwadike expressed disappointment over the actions of the community members whom the local government  had consistently engaged its leaders and youths in dialogue, seeking amicable resolution of their grievances regarding the land, which has been legally allocated to the local government since 1976.

Nwadike disclosed that despite the clear status of the land as government property, the community had demanded a sum of N700 million alongside portions of the land as compensation.

“In a demonstration of goodwill and commitment to peaceful coexistence, the council offered traditional compensations, including cows, monetary support, and partial land concessions.

“However, these offers were rejected due to complexities arising from portions of the land reportedly sold by some community members to private individuals, further complicating the dispute,” the statement read in part.

The Chairman further emphasized that while the community sought to halt the fencing project, he made it unequivocally clear that the local government, having fulfilled its contractual obligations to the project’s contractor, would not suspend the work.

Instead, he urged the community to carefully reconsider the peace-oriented offers presented by the government, emphasizing that development cannot be sacrificed on the altar of personal interests.

The statement further appealed to the community members to embrace peace and avoid destruction of government infrastructure, as such would attract full weight of the law.

It would be recalled that a major fire outbreak destroyed the Magistrate Court and some other sections of Obingwa LGA headquarters in the first week of February, 2025, promoting Governor Alex Otti to direct  the local government Chairman to fence the council headquarters.