Nigeria Insecurity Archives - Page 48 of 52

Insecurity: Nigerians may soon resort to self-help, Baptist church warns

August 20, 2021August 20, 2021 Aminu Imam

�Demands compensation for families of kidnapped Kaduna students The Nigerian Baptist Convention (NBC) has warned that Nigerians may resort to self-help in defence of themselves against bandits, Boko Haram, and other non-State criminal groups terrorizing the people. The Church demanded that the Federal Government deploy more security personnel to fight the rising insecurity across the country, stating that Nigeria is presently at war against insurgents, notably, Boko Haram, bandits and ISIS, and citizens may resort to self-help in order to defend themselves. President, Men�s Missionary Union (MMU) of the Nigerian…

Northern leaders launch �Abuja Roundtable� to tackle insecurity

August 18, 2021August 18, 2021 Aminu Imam

In an effort to confront the challenges confronting northern Nigeria especially insecurity, some eminent sons and daughters of the region, have founded Abuja Roundtable, an independent, non-partisan, Non-Governmental Organisation, (NGO), to address the ever-evolving challenges facing the region. Disclosing this yesterday, at the initiative�s maiden in Abuja, a former presidential candidate, Bashir Tofa, lamented that the state of insecurity across Nigeria is worrisome, adding that in Northern Nigeria, it has reached existential proportions, threatening to render the region hostile to civilised existence. Tofa, who spoke on behalf of the Initiative,…

Plateau massacre: Death toll hits 28

August 17, 2021August 17, 2021 Aminu Imam

�”We will take action if your response is not favourable” � Sheikh tells State govt.�”I’ll not allow celigious crisis in Plateau” – Lalong�Ondo govt. delegation meets Fulani community The death toll from the attack that happened in the Rukuba area of Plateau, Jos-North local government area on Saturday has reached 28 and many are still missing. The victims, who were mostly Fulani from Ondo State had attended an annual Zikr (prayer session) and celebration of the Islamic New Year, which held at the Dahiru Usman Bauchi mosque, in Bauchi, and…

Insecurity: ‘Animal kingdom now safer than Nigeria’ – Christian leaders

August 15, 2021August 15, 2021 Aminu Imam

The leaders of All Nation�s Christian Assembly, (ANCA), have said that with the daily rise in cases of kidnapping, banditry and other crimes, the animal kingdom is now safer than Nigeria. Addressing a press conference on Friday, a week after the church�s 2021 Annual Convention, the Council Chairman of ANCA, Sunday Oibe, lamented that while killings and kidnapping have become the order of the day in the country, such a situation is never common even among animals. The leaders added that although the country is bleeding, the State actors appear…

Suspected Niger Delta militants launch attack on Nigerian Navy, kill operatives

August 13, 2021August 13, 2021 Aminu Imam

Assailants, suspected to be Niger Delta Avengers, (NDA), have attacked Nigerian Navy personnel deployed to a waterways security vessel in Bayelsa State, killing some of the military men. The NDA is a militant group in the Niger-Delta region. According to a video released by the attackers, about three personnel were seen down, as the Niger Delta militants continued the heavy gun battle with the military. The assailants, on June 27, had threatened that they would return with ‘Operation Humble‘ which is similar to its ‘Operation Red‘ of 2016, designed to…

Insecurity: “We know about a network behind Killings, kidnappings in the North” – ACF

August 11, 2021August 11, 2021 Aminu Imam

The political and socio-cultural association of leaders in the North, the Arewa Consultative Forum, (ACF), has said President Muhammadu Buhari is a disappointment to the North, for failing to put an end to insecurity as promised during his presidential campaigns. According to the ACF National Publicity Secretary, Emmanuel Yawe, in a published interview yesterday, the Forum is aware of those behind the kidnapping and killings in the region, Yawe said, �If you have been reading our press outings, which I believe you have because you are one reporter that has reported…

Insecurity: ‘Spate of kidnapping is retarding education in the North’� – Prof. Malumfashi

August 5, 2021August 5, 2021 Aminu Imam

A renowned scholar, Professor Mansur Usman Malumfashi, has expressed concern that spate of kidnapping and insecurity are discouraging parents in the North from taking their children to school. Malumfashi, a Professor of Education of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, (ATBU), Bauchi, who made the remark in an interview in Bauchi yesterday, warned that the development was capable of retarding education in the region. �It is alarming; because here we are today in a situation where the school system is disrupted, in the sense that parents are not willing to take…

Insurgency: Boko Haram kills 1,868 security operatives in two years � Report

August 2, 2021August 2, 2021 Aminu Imam

It has emerged that no fewer than 1,868 members of security forces may have been killed in the North-East by Boko Haram between 2018 and 2020. This is contained in a report published by UK-based Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, titled: ‘Violent Extremism in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from the Rise of Boko Haram’. According to the report, the three years were said to be the deadliest for security agents on the frontline of the fight against terrorists. The figure for the three years is said to be almost equal…

‘FG not bothered by US lawmakers� moves to halt $875m defence equipment’ – Security sources

July 29, 2021July 29, 2021 Aminu Imam

Against the backdrop of insinuations that United States� lawmakers are putting pressure on the President Joe Biden administration to halt the delivery of the remaining six Super Tucano Aircraft and subsequent sale of military hardware to Nigeria, security sources have said the Federal Government was not perturbed, as all necessary agreement indices reached on government-to-government basis were adhered to. According to earlier reports, US lawmakers on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee called for delayed clearing of another batch of 12 AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters and accompanying defence systems to be…

Insecurity: Food insecurity looms in Northern Nigeria � United Nations

July 29, 2021July 29, 2021 Aminu Imam

The United Nations Development Programme, (UNDP), Global Environment Facility, (GEF) says the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) had warned that people in northern Nigeria are at risk of acute food insecurity. The UN-FAO projected that an estimated 13 million people in the area face the risk of acute food insecurity in the next few months. The Project Manager, UNDP � GEF, in-charge of Resilient Food Security Project, Rhoda Dia, gave out this information yesterday, while speaking with newsmen in Abuja. Ms. Dia said the warning had become imperative because the…