Tag: Kaduna train attack

“Terrorist attack on Abuja-Kaduna train imminent”, DSS warns

Aminu Imam

The Department of State Services, (DSS), has issued a security alert on a grand plot by bandits to attack the Abuja-Kaduna train service anytime from now. Recall that an Abuja–Kaduna bound train was attacked in Katari village, Kaduna State on Monday, March 28, 2022, prompting the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) to briefly halted operations along the route. In a leaked letter signed by DSS Director of FCT Command, R.N. Adepemu, and captioned: ‘Security Alert: Impending Threat By A Coalition Of Banditry Syndicate To Attack Abuja-Kaduna Train Service, (AKTS) Along Corridor,’…

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Abuja-Kaduna train services to resume operations January next year – FG

Aminu Imam

The Federal Ministry of Transportation has disclosed that the Abuja-Kaduna train services will commence operations ‘soon’. This was disclosed by the Minister of Transportation, Mu’azu Sambo, while briefing newsmen in Abuja. This is coming barely 48 hours after the 23 remaining victims were released by the terrorists. Recall that the terrorists had attacked Abuja-Kaduna train passengers on March 28, this year, kidnapping 168 passengers and killing eight passengers. The release of the victims has been in batches since then, with the last 23 being the last to be released. Reacting…

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Abuja/Kaduna Train Captives: ‘No kobo was paid for release of 23 hostages’ – FG

Aminu Imam

…Train service to resume soon, Transport Minister assures The Federal Government, yesterday, said no money was paid to secure the release of the 23 remaining kidnapped train passengers. The Minister of Transportation, Mu’azu Sambo, disclosed this in Abuja, at a press briefing organised to officially welcome the 23 released kidnapped train passengers of March 28 Abuja-Kaduna train attack. Sambo told newsmen yesterday, in Abuja, that “no kobo was paid in exchange for the release of the last 23 hostages and other ones as well”. The Minister said that President Buhari-led…

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Abuja/Kaduna Train Released Captives: ‘How Mamu frustrated rescue efforts, encouraged terrorists to demand huge ransom’ – FG negotiator

Aminu Imam

A member of the Presidential Committee that facilitated the rescue of the last batch of kidnapped Abuja-Kaduna-bound train passengers, Dr. AbdulMalik Atta, has accused the arrested terrorists’ negotiator, Tukur Mamu, of frustrating efforts to release the captives. Atta, whose father was among the abducted passengers, made the claim in an interview on a television programme yesterday. According to him, Mamu did everything within his reach to thwart the federal government’s efforts at rescuing the hostages for his own interest. He alleged that: “Because of Mamu’s introduction of money into the…

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Kaduna: President Buhari meets freed train passengers

Aminu Imam

…Commends military President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, met with the freed 23 passengers of the March, 28 Abuja-Kaduna-bound train attack at the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) hospital, in Kaduna. According to an issued statement by the Media aide to the President, Garba Shehu, yesterday, in Abuja, President Buhari made an unplanned visit to the hospital to see the victims of the train attack after commissioning Cadets of 69 Regular Course (Army, Navy and Air Force) of the NDA, in Afaka, Kaduna State. Before boarding NAF 001 back to Abuja from the…

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‘Terrorists release 23 remaining Abuja-Kaduna-bound train passengers’ – Military

Aminu Imam

The military has announced the release of all the 23 remaining passengers held hostage by Boko Haram terrorists following the attack on the Abuja-Kaduna -bound train. In an issued statement by the Chief of Defense Staff Action Committee, (CDSAC), Prof. Usman Yusuf, disclosed that the hostages’ release was secured yesterday, at about 4p.m. The statement said, “The nation owes a debt of gratitude to the Nigerian military under the leadership of the Chief of Defense Staff, (CDS), who conceived and guided the operation from start to finish. All sister security…

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35 Abuja-Kaduna train victims to be released soon – Transportation Minister

Aminu Imam

The Federal Government, on Thursday, raised the hope of 35 families whose loved ones were kidnapped by terrorists on the Kaduna-Abuja train. Recall that on March 28, 2022, armed terrorists launched a bloody offensive on the Abuja-Kaduna-bound train, with about 970 passengers on board, shooting at the passengers and kidnapping some of them. The attack, which occurred a few kilometres to Kaduna metropolis, left about eight people killed, dozens injured and about 168 kidnapped by the bandits. However, 42 victims have so far regained their freedom from the terrorist den,…

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Kaduna Insecurity: Woman gives birth in captivity as bandits demand N50m, family cries out

Aminu Imam

The family of a woman, who gave birth in captivity, have cried out to the Federal and Kaduna State government and individuals for assistance, as bandits are demanding N50 million ransom to release the nursing mother and her two sisters.  The three sisters were kidnapped on July 17, 2022 in Mando, on the outskirts of Kaduna, at their family house where they were tending to their sick mother. It was gathered that the eldest of the sisters, who was heavily pregnant when they were kidnapped, has given birth in captivity…

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Kaduna Train terror Attack: ‘Victim’s relatives, security surveillance of route delaying resumption of services’ – FG 

Aminu Imam

There are indications that the Federal Government is at crossroads on the resumption of train services, particularly, the Abuja-Kaduna route. The Minister of Transportation, Mu’azu Sambo, has said it would be insensitive to the plight of families whose loved ones are still in captivity if the Government recommenced the Abuja-Kaduna train services for now. The Minister bared his mind while briefing correspondents at the end of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, yesterday. According to him, the Government is…

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Kaduna Train Attack: Terrorists release another four abductees

Aminu Imam

The terrorists that attacked the Abuja-Kaduna-bound train passengers on March 28 yesterday released four more hostages including an 85-year-old woman, Hajiya Halimatu Atta, her daughter, Adams Aliyu and two others after spending four months in captivity. The release of the four hostages was confirmed to newsmen by Tukur Mamu, the publisher of a Kaduna-based newspaper and Media Consultant to renowned Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, who withdrew as one of the negotiators, in Kaduna. According to him, one of the terrorists’ commanders was said to be in love with one…

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