President Muhammadu Buhari, has blamed the several problems facing the nation on the diminishing of family values.

The President, who was represented by the Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Uche Ogah, made the assertion at the wedding of Jachimike Ikpeazu, son of Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, stressing the need to place importance on family values.

Buhari decried the situation where parents and guardians who should have inculcated good character in their children and wards, abdicated that responsibility.

He sued for a collective effort across tribes and regions towards restoring family values and giving it its rightful place.

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The Police Service Commissions (PSC) has said recruits of the Nigeria Police Force will be trained locally.

PSC chairman and former Inspector-General of Police, Musiliu Smith, stated this during a press briefing in Abuja.

The German Government had on Tuesday asked the federal government to release at least 30,000 police personnel for special training in Germany on how to manage protests without using weapons.

But Smith said Nigeria and Germany are two different countries

According to Smith, it is important for police personnel to undergo training locally so as to screen them when they are at the basic level of the force.  

The PCS head said: "We have to screen them. You know the German people were around. They had discussions with the government and some relevant organisations, the discussion is still on.

"The government there is willing to support good security in our country, and we're also ready to encourage them, but definitely, the earliest or the basic set of personnel will still hold their training here.

"Gradually, if they have facilities, we need to go and see whatever facilities and whatever is there and the curriculum they are using because the two societies are different societies.

"We want to be sure that there are things we need to input into our systems that will help us."

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The National Chairman-elect of the People's Democratic Party, Iyorchia Ayu, has said the planned increase in the price of premium motor spirit, popularly known as petrol, will pile more hardship on Nigerians as well as increase prices of foodstuff and crimes rate in the country.

Ayu said this in Abuja while responding to questions from reporters after releasing the communique issued at the end of the PDP's 2021 two-day national retreat.

He said Nigerians had already been pressed ahead of the planned increase of petroleum pump price because of too much hardship.

He stated that the All Progressives Congress (APC) government was trying to "take us into the highest level of suffering and ultimately, taking Nigerians to a position of non-existence".

Ayu said: "The PDP does not believe in visiting more hardship on the Nigerian people. The party has not discussed the issue of increase in petroleum prices but our general position is that the people of Nigeria are already hard pressed, there is so much hardship.

"If you're poor, you're not going to benefit from what is called petroleum subsidy."

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