Tag: Insecurity

Plateau: Unidentified gunmen kill 10 at Jos drinking joint – Police

Aminu Imam

Some unidentified gunmen have struck a drinking joint in Jos, Plateau State, fatally shooting no fewer than 10 persons dead on Sunday, the Police have said. The gunmen drove in a Hilux van into Kashe (Sabon Layi) community, Kuru District of Jos-South local government area, sporadically shooting at the bar and leaving many dead or wounded, according to an issued statement by Police spokesman, Ubah Ogaba in Jos yesterday. According to him, the killers invaded the community on Sunday night. However, a witness told newsmen that twelve people were killed,…

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North-East: Boko Haram/ISWAP free UN staff, nine others

Aminu Imam

Several humanitarian workers and civilians abducted during attacks on the North-East have been released by Boko Haram/Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) insurgents. After more than five months, Abubakar Garba Idris, a senior Protection Assistant with the United Nation High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), who was abducted by the Islamic State of West African Province(ISWAP) on Maiduguri/Damaturu highway, has regained freedom. According to authentic humanitarian sources, Idris , who is popularly known as Alooma, is undergoing medical and military checks with troops of ‘Operation Hadin-Kai‘ in Maiduguri before he was reunited…

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“Bandits, killer herdsmen more daring under Buhari” – el-Rufa’i

Aminu Imam

Kaduna State governor, Nasir Ahmed el-Rufa’i, has disclosed that since 2015, bandits, killer herdsmen and Boko Haram insurgents have become more daring under President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. Speaking during the second quarter 2021 meeting of the Directors of State Commands of the State Security Service (SSS) in the North-West, in Kaduna on Thursday, el-Rufa’i admitted that insecurity had worsened under President Buhari though the federal government has particularly and repeatedly claimed to have decimated Boko Haram. Although, el-Rufa’i is considered an ally of the incumbent president, who assumed power in…

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Insecurity: ‘UK to support Nigerian Government restore peace to North-East’ – Foreign Office 

Aminu Imam

The United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, (FCDO), has expressed its readiness to work with other donor partners and the Government of Nigeria in helping to put appropriate policies in place and advance peace and security in the North-East. A representative of UK FCDO said this in Abuja at North-East Conflict Management and Stabilization (NECMS) Programme joint consortium learning event and press conference. This is even as the agency advised that effective peace solutions in Nigeria should involve all stakeholders particularly those affected by the conflict. The event was…

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Troops foil attack on secondary school in Kaduna – KDSG

Aminu Imam

…Says bandit neutralised The Kaduna State government says troops have prevented an attack on Prelude Comprehensive College, located in Kujama, Chikun LGA of the State. The State’s Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, disclosed this in an issued statement on Saturday. The development comes hours after an attack on Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic in the state, which resulted in the death of one student, while 10 other persons were abducted. Aruwan, however, noted that the “bandits” attacked travellers on the Kaduna-Kachia road, resulting in three travellers sustaining gunshot…

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FCT: Police recover ‘huge’ ransoms after raiding kidnappers’ camps

Aminu Imam

Operatives of the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT), Police Command have arrested about a dozen criminals suspected to be armed kidnappers. It was gathered that the suspected kidnappers are behind recent abduction incidents at Kwali and Bwari area council axis, together with Tungan-Maje community in Abuja. They were nabbed during a ‘guerrilla’ undercover operation conducted at the criminals’ hideouts by the Police crack team, within the past three days. A security officer, who participated in one of the raids told newsmen that a huge sum of money allegedly paid as ransom…

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How IPOB hoodlums mistakenly slaughtered cows belonging to Igbos in S/East

Aminu Imam

An Anambra-based cattle dealer, Chibuike Okafor, has cried out that he has lost over 50 cows in the recent slaughter of cows by the Igbo agitators against Fulani herdsmen.  Okafor, who made this known when he met the Secretary to the State Government of Anambra State, Prof. Solo Chukwulobelu, on Tuesday, said that most of the cows in the South-East are owned by Igbo businessmen.  According to him, over 50 of his cows were set ablaze by an angry mob at Kwata junction, Awka, Anambra State.  Okafor said that it…

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Kaduna: Police foil kidnap attempt, rescue five victims

Aminu Imam

The Kaduna State Police Command has rescued five persons from bandits in Jema’a and Igabi local government areas of the State. The State’s Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Mohammed Jalige, in a statement, said the gunmen had blocked the Jagindi Godo-Godo road, attacked a Sharon vehicle and abducted the occupants. The statement said operatives gave the bandits a hot chase and exchanged tactical fire after the bandits shot sporadically at the security men. The Police confirmed that its operatives however succeeded in rescuing three victims unhurt. ”On the same day,…

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Bandits kill 88 people in Kebbi – Police

Aminu Imam

The Kebbi State Police Command yesterday confirmed that bandits killed 88 people in Danko/Wasagu local government area of the State on Thursday. The Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, (PPRO), DSP Nafi’u Abubakar, who confirmed the figure, said all the victims were killed in eight different communities in the local government area. According to him, the Command has so far recovered the 88 bodies and dispatched a detachment of operatives to maintain law and order in the affected communities. “The killing took place in Koro, Kimpi, Gaya, Dimi, Zutu, Rafin Gora…

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Just In: Gunmen hijack school bus in Akure, Ondo State

Aminu Imam

There is panic among parents today, as some gunmen this morning hijacked a school bus in Oba-ile Estate, in Akure-North local government area of Ondo State, abducting one person who was on duty to convey children to school. According to reports, the incident, which occured around 6:45am while the driver and the attendant were moving round to pick the pupils of Chimola School, which is situated inside the estate, to their school. A source in the school explained that the gunmen, numbering about eight who were on motorcycles, rounded the…

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