Worsening Insecurity Archives - Page 2 of 16

“B�Haram has seized parts of Kaduna, banned election campaign” � Lawyer

August 28, 2022August 28, 2022 Aminu Imam

Human rights lawyer and Senior Fellow of the Extremism Policy unit of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, Bulama Bukarti, who has researched the Boko Haram insurgency for many years, has warned that in some parts of Kaduna, the insurgents have outlawed any electioneering or campaign activities in those areas. According to Bukarti, who made this known in a published interview yesterday, all the three factions of Boko Haram today have cells in the North-West and North-Central regions. He said: “Ansaru, the faction of Boko-Haram that is associated with Al-Qaeda,…

Insecurity: Katsina Govt. to deploy 3,000 security personnel to tackle crimes in frontline LGAs�

August 24, 2022August 24, 2022 Aminu Imam

No fewer than 3,000 civilians are to be trained to augment security and tackle crimes in Katsina State. 500 personnel had already been trained by the Mobile Police unit of the Nigeria Police Force and had been deployed to frontline local government areas in the State, which have a history of frequent terrorist attacks. The State Governor�s Special Adviser on Security matters, Ahmad Katsina, who confirmed the development, said another batch of 600 personnel would be trained and deployed �anytime from now�. According to him, the arrangement is part of…

Insecurity: Terrorists�force residents of 8 villages to flee in Kebbi

August 21, 2022August 21, 2022 Aminu Imam

No fewer than eight villages in Augie local government area of Kebbi State have been deserted due to attacks by bandit-terrorists. According to reports, the villages are Zagi, Tungar-Rafi, Tungar-Tudu, Keke, Kwaido, Sabongarin Kwaido, Tungar-Chichira and Tattazai. Residents of the villages were said to have moved out in droves after bandits attacked Zagi on Wednesday night. The attack was said to have left three people dead, many injured and 15 others abducted. The Village Head of Zagi, Muhammadu Lawwali-Sule, said the bandits stormed the village at about midnight. According to…

Insecurity: Bandits kill 16, abduct several others in Taraba communities

August 14, 2022August 14, 2022 Aminu Imam

No fewer than sixteen persons in different communities of Taraba State have been killed by gunmen. According to reports, the bandits stormed the communities in their numbers at the weekend and whisked away several persons. The communities invaded by the attackers are Gidado and Garinkuka villages in Gunduma district, of Mutum-Biyu chiefdom, in Gassol local government area. A staff of the local government council, who gave his name as Abdullahi Chul, said the attackers who invaded the communities in their numbers, accessed the villages with motorbikes. Chul said the attackers,…

Worsening Insecurity: El-Rufa’i writes Buhari, says terrorists creating �parallel� govt. in Kaduna

August 12, 2022August 12, 2022 Aminu Imam

Kaduna State governor, Nasir Ahmed el-Rufa�i, has said terrorists are consolidating their grip on communities in the state with a �parallel� government and �permanent operational base�. The Governor, who reportedly disclosed this in a memo to President Muhammadu Buhari, warned the president of the terrorists� consolidation. The report said terrorists belonging to Ansaru ‘al-Musulmina fi Bilad al-Sudan‘, or Ansaru in local parlance, are believed to have moved to Birnin-Gwari in the State in 2012, when they broke away from Boko Haram. According to sources, the terrorists that formed Ansaru were…

Escalating Insecurity:�”Set up security outfit in Kaduna”, SOKAPU tells el-Rufa’i

August 11, 2022August 11, 2022 Aminu Imam

Against the backdrop of the insecurity bedevilling the country, the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU) has urged the governor of Kaduna State, Nasir Ahmad el-Rufa’i to set up a security outfit like the governor of Benue State Samuel Ortom did. According to an issued statement signed by SOKAPU’s acting president, Awemi Dio Maisamari, �We also believe that if governor el-Rufa’i and others should welcome and implement the Volunteers Guards initiative of Governor Ortom, the thousands of captives in the dens of kidnappers would be rescued and the culprits brought to…

Insecurity: Northerners in fear as IPOB kills 8 Nigeriens in Imo

August 5, 2022August 5, 2022 Aminu Imam

Fear among northerners living in Owerri, the Imo State capital, has heightened following the killing of eight Niger Republic indigenes (Nigeriens) by members of the banned Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB). According to reports, the attack occurred on Monday, when the assailants attacked a building at Orogwe, Owerri, occupied by mainly Hausa migrants from Nigeria and the Niger Republic. The northerners said the building was attacked because IPOB assumed all of them living in the area to be migrants from the North, not knowing that the victims were foreigners. They…

Worsening Insecurity: ‘Buhari can proceed on leave, allow someone else rule Nigeria’ � Kadaria Ahmed

August 4, 2022August 4, 2022 Aminu Imam

Nigerian journalist and Chief Executive Officer of RadioNow, Kadaria Ahmed, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to proceed on sick leave and allow somebody to run the affairs of the country, due the deteriorating security challenges. Ahmed has been in the news for describing a recent BBC documentary on Zamfara banditry as �irresponsible reporting�. In an opinion article published last week, Ahmed said the BBC documentary fell below the best practices of journalism, and was against public interest. She said the BBC Africa Eye may be charged with aiding terrorism…

Insecurity: Kaduna, Benue Borno, top unsafe States � Report

August 3, 2022August 3, 2022 Aminu Imam

…As terrorists kill 7,222, abduct 3,823 in seven months Terrorists, bandits and other assailants have killed 7,222 persons and kidnapped 3,823 individuals in the country between January, 1 and July 29, 2022, according to data from the Nigeria Security Report, published by Beacon Consulting � a security risk management and intelligence consulting company. Borno State, the stronghold of Boko Haram terrorists, recorded the highest deaths of 163 people within the period under review, while Benue State, which appeared the most hounded State in the Middle-Belt, came second with 90 fatalities.…

Insecurity: CSO threatens protest, gives Buhari 2-week ultimatum to sack Monguno

August 3, 2022August 3, 2022 Aminu Imam

A civil society organisation (CSO), The Arewa Youth Assembly (AYA), has threatened to �occupy the office� of the National Security Adviser (NSA) if President Muhammadu Buhari fails to sack him. The group had earlier asked the NSA, Babagana Monguno, to resign over the insecurity in the country. On Sunday, a Senator representing Niger-East, Sani Musa, also criticised the NSA for not being the first to inform President Buhari of a threat by bandits to kidnap him. In a statement issued on Monday, signed by the AYA spokesman, Mohammed Danlami, the…