The senate has insisted that the role of the office of the National Security Adviser is critical to improving the security situation of the country, hence he must show up for questioning.

Senate spokesperson, Yemi Adaramodu stated this after the adjournment of the earlier scheduled invitation extended to the service chiefs.

Adaramodu said the extended summon will provide a more robust engagement with the security heads.

The Senate has expressed worry over insecurity, declaring that the nation’s seat of power was under threat.

Akpabio spoke after admitting into the chamber, the service chiefs who had honoured the lawmakers’ summon to brief them on the spate of insecurity in Nigeria and effort to address the menace.

The Senate however adjourned its briefing with the heads of security agencies to next week over the absence of National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu, and the Chief of Defence Staff, Christopher Musa.

The lawmakers also extended the invitation to other security heads.

Niger state where a fresh round of protests was staged  yesterday in Suleja, which is only a few kilometres away to the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

The angry Nigerians stormed the streets, calling on the President Bola Tinubu-led government to end the hardship and unbearable inflation they were suffering.

This is coming two days after a similar protest in Minna the state capital and Kano state.

The demonstrators wielded placards with inscriptions such as “Tinubu, Do Something Now!”; “Leadership Is All About Improving Lives”; “Nigerians Are Suffering”; “Stop The Hardship Now”, among others.

Moreover, the Niger State Police Command says it has arrested three women, 30-year-old woman, Aisha Jibrin, 57-year-old Fatima Aliyu, 43-year-old Fatima Isyaku and 22 others for their participation in the Monday protest in Minna.

The Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the Federal Government to fix the prices of goods and petroleum products within seven days.

Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa specifically ordered the government to fix the price of milk, flour, salt, sugar, bicycles,  motorcycles and motor vehicles and their spare parts, as well as petroleum products, which include diesel, Premium Motor Spirit and kerosene.

The judge gave the order while delivering judgment in a suit filed by human rights activist, Femi Falana against the Price Control Board and the Attorney-General of the Federation, listed as the first and second defendants.

Falana had approached the court to determine whether by virtue of Section 4 of the Price Control Act., the first respondent is carrying out its duty to impose a price on any goods that are of the kind specified in the First Schedule to the Price Control Act.