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Security

“No local govt. in Nigeria under terrorists’ control'”– CDS

Aminu Imam

The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Lucky Irabor, has said that there is no local government area in Nigeria under the control of Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists. Irabor said this at the 21st Century Chronicle Roundtable, with the theme: “Going for Broke: Fighting Insecurity in Nigeria”, yesterday, in Abuja. He recalled that a state of emergency was imposed on several local governments in the North-East in the past, especially in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States. According to him, the measure taken at that…

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Police foil bandits attack on Kaduna-Abuja highway

Aminu Imam

…Recover arms, ammunition The Police in Kaduna State have on Sunday foiled bandits’ attack on Kurmin Kare village, in Chikun local government area of the State. The State’s Police Command Spokesman, ASP Mohammed Jalige, said in a statement issued in Kaduna yesterday, that Police also recovered arms and ammunition from the bandits. He stated that the Police were able to foil the planned attack, following credible information that a large number of bandits were sighted around Kurmin Kare village on the Kaduna-Abuja Highway. According to Jalige, “The suspects were on…

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Abductors of Sokoto Councillor demand N60m ransom

Aminu Imam

The bandits who kidnapped nine persons, including a serving councillor of ‘Yar Tsakuwa, in Rabah local government area of Sokoto State, have demanded a ransom of N60 million. A resident, Nazifi Abdullahi, told newsmen that the bandits called the families of the abductees and asked them to raise the money. According to him, “When they (relatives of the abductees) asked for a discount, they switched off the phone. We don’t know how they can raise such an amount, because I know one of the abductees who find it difficult to…

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HURIWA demands removal of roadblocks in South-East

Aminu Imam

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), on Saturday, urged the Inspector-General of Police, (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, to dismantle roadblocks mounted by Police personnel in the South-East region. HURIWA, which made the call in an issued statement signed by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, decried the increasing cases of accidents in the region as a result of the roadblocks. The statement read in part: “HURIWA is pained that security agents who ought to be the first law enforcement officers are flagrantly disobeying the judgment of a law court…

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Zamfara: Police rescue 7-month-old baby, nursing mothers, 21 others kidnapped by bandits

Aminu Imam

The Zamfara State Police tactical operatives have rescued 24 kidnapped victims including a seven-month-old baby, nursing mothers after a gun battle with bandits in the State. Addressing newsmen at the Command headquarters in Gusau, yesterday, police Public Relations Officer, SP Muhammad Shehu, said it was a land-marked operation in the State, adding that “all the victims rescued from Gurgurawa village were rescued unconditional”. He said the Command’s tactical operatives deployed along Gurgurawa village, of Bungudu local government area, has succeeded during the rescue operations. Shehu maintained that as a result…

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IPOB killings: ‘Is South-East becoming a failed zone?’ – Stakeholders

Aminu Imam

Stakeholders in the South-East geo-political zones have lamented the resurgence of the activities of ominous unknown gunmen in recent weeks, describing it as becoming worrisome. Recall that gunmen of the banned Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) became a phenomenon in the zone in the aftermath of the #EndSARS protests in 2020, got to an alarming height up till mid-2021, but began to show a downward curve before the end of the same year. However, with the recent incidents in some communities in the zone particularly Imo, Ebonyi, and lately Abia…

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“We won’t compromise South-West security” – Afenifere, Akeredolu

Aminu Imam

The pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, and the chairman of the South-West Governors’ Forum and Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, have declared that the security of lives and property of the people of the South-West remains important to the governments of the region. Akeredolu, while reacting to the allegation of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) that the State’s security outfit, Amotekun, was being used arbitrarily against northerners in the State, said security remained one of the pillars of his administration and he would not relent in investing in the security…

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Katsina: Masari signs Executive Order banning political thuggery, other associated crimes

Aminu Imam

Governor Aminu Masari, of Katsina State, has signed an Executive Order towards tacking the security challenges in the State. The State’s Commissioner for Information and Culture, Yahaya Sirika, said this in an issued statement in Katsina yesterday, saying that the Order was in the exercise of the powers conferred on the governor by Section 176(2) of the1999 Constitution. Sirika said the Order, which took effect from Jan. 1st, banned all forms of political thuggery and associated crimes in the State. He further said that indiscriminate posting of political parties posters…

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Kaduna: Bandits invade residence of community leader, abduct wives, 4 daughters

Aminu Imam

Bandits have raided the residence of Sarkin Hausawa of Unguwar Azara, Malam Ibrahim Tanko, abducting his wives alongside his four daughters in Jere, along Abuja-Kaduna highway. Tanko, while confirming the incident to newsmen, gave the names of his kidnapped wives as Maimuna Ibrahim and Hauwa’u Ibrahim. He, however, added that Hauwa’u, who is his senior wife, was later set free when her captors discovered that she is suffering from high blood pressure. He said the bandits, who wielded sophisticated weapons, invaded his house around 11:52 pm on Tuesday, adding that…

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Insecurity: Zamfara residents pay N40.7m protection levy to bandits following sack of military base

Aminu Imam

Six months after sacking a military base in the area, bandits have collected at least N40.7 million as protection levy from residents of Mutumji communities in Maru local government area of Zamfara State. Residents said they delivered N9.7 million to the bandits on February, 4 as the last installment of the levy collected from various peasant communities in Mutumji. The troubled area, Mutumji, is in Dansadau Emirate and sits at the edge of Kuyanbana forest in the ungoverned boundaries with Katsina, Kaduna, Kebbi and Niger States. Recall that last September,…

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