Tag: Worsening Insecurity

Terrorists kill 7 farmers, Imam in Zamfara

Aminu Imam

…Drop warning letter Terrorists killed no fewer than seven local farmers, including the Chief Imam of Jumuat Mosque in Faru, identified as Sani Akwala, on Saturday, at Dajin Danau, Faru village of Maradun LGA of Zamfara State. The attack came at about 12:45 p.m. when about 30 armed terrorists stormed farms located at Faru, which is less than a kilometre away from Faru township. The gang met the farmers while they were clearing bush areas at their various farmlands. Upon sighting them, some of the farmers ran for their lives.…

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Kaduna Escalating Insecurity: “Terrorism wouldn’t have been a threat if FG sustained measures I took in 2015” – El-Rufa’i

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Listing measures that his administration had been taking in tackling insecurity in Kaduna state since he assumed office in 2015, Governor Nasir el-Rufa’i said if such measures were sustained by security agencies terrorism wouldn’t have been a threat to the State He noted that one of such measures was the decision to collaborate with the governors of the other states in the North-West and Niger State to fund a joint military operation to clear forests in the Birnin-Gwari axis of cattle-rustlers who were hibernating in the ranges that cover Niger,…

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Insecurity: “Recruit mercenaries; we’re tired of FG’s condolence messages” – Kokori

Aminu Imam

An All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain and former Secretary-General National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers Union, (NUPENG), Chief Frank Kokori, has declared that there is nothing wrong with recruiting foreign mercenaries to assist the Federal Government in the on-going war against terrorists across the country. Kokori, who noted that terror attacks in the country had reached an alarming and frightening proportion, said recruitment of foreign mercenaries to help combat terrorism is being done by other countries in the world, including the United States. According to him, “It is…

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Worsening Insecurity: “It’s hard to believe Buhari is in charge of Nigeria” – Wike

Aminu Imam

Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has said that it is hard to believe that President Muhammadu Buhari is truly in charge of affairs of Nigeria, given the intractable insecurity situation in parts of the country and poor performance of the economy. Wike stated this when he met with members of Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), delegates at the party’s secretariat in Owerri, the Imo state capital, on Tuesday, as part of his ongoing consultation ahead of the party’s presidential primary next month. However, he assured that if he is elected, he…

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Worsening Insecurity: Northern Elders ask Buhari to resign

Aminu Imam

The Northern Elders Forum, (NEF), has demanded the immediate resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari over the worsening insecurity ravaging several parts of the country. In an issued statement yesterday, signed by its media chief, Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, the Forum called for the president’s resignation over his inability to halt the heavy insecurity bedeviling the country. The statement read in part: “The administration of President Muhammadu Buhari does not appear to have answers to the challenges of security to which we are exposed. We cannot continue to live and die under…

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Kaduna Insecurity: CSO reiterates call for sack of Army Chiefs over attack on military base

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The President, Northern Advocacy for Peace (NAP), Ambassador Khalifa Shu’aibu, has condemned the attack on the forward operating base near Mando in Kaduna State. Recall that terrorists, in large numbers, attacked the forward operating base of the military, killing 17 soldiers and leaving over 20 badly injured. The terrorists set ablaze many military cars and carted away a large cache of military weapons. Ambassador Shu’aibu regretted the destruction and boldness of the terrorists in the past month. According to him, “In Niger, Sokoto, Zamfara, Borno, Kebbi and Kaduna States, terrorists…

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Insecurity: “Any government that can’t protect its citizens has lost moral justification” – Sultan

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The apex Muslim organisation in Nigeria, Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), led by the Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Sultan Abubakar III, has said that in Islam, and by all global standards, the essence of government and governance is solely to protect the five principal cardinal rights of the human race, the most important of which is life. The JNI said, “Any government that is incapable of protecting the lives of its citizens has lost the moral justification of being there in the first place”. The JNI Secretary-General, Dr. Khalid Abubakar…

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“Declare State Of Emergency on Security”, Northern Youths urge Buhari

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The Unified Nigerian Youth Forum, (UNYF), has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency on security following the recent attacks on Kaduna airport and Abuja /Kaduna train service by terrorists. A statement issued by one AbdulSalam Mohammed Kazeem, on behalf of the Forum on Thursday, stated that the series of attacks has further exposed the inability of the current administration to keep to her campaign promises. “The country as usual again just lost some finest brains though many were injured while others were kidnapped. “To our…

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Insecurity In The Land: H/Reps urge Nigerians to arm, defend selves

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…Says: “We can be kidnapped in this chamber” Members of the House of Representatives have called on Nigerians to take personal measures aimed at defending themselves against terrorists, in reaction to the unabated terrorist attack in the country. The lawmakers stated this yesterday, while debating a ‘Motion on Matters of Urgent Public Importance’, calling attention to the recent successive terrorist attacks on the Kaduna International Airport, an Abuja–Kaduna train, as well as the raiding of different communities within Kaduna State which resulted in the loss of many lives and kidnap…

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Train Attack: ‘Incessant violent attacks question our capacity’ – Governors’ Forum

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The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has stated that the incessant violent attacks being witnessed in the country constitute a challenge to the capacity of the nation’s leadership. “First, as leaders, we owe the victims and their relations an apology as these unwarranted acts of violence are becoming too regular and they basically question our collective capacity to govern”, the NGF said, in an issued statement yesterday by its Chairman, Governor Kayode Fayemi, of Ekiti State. The statement was issued in reaction to Monday’s attack on a Kaduna-bound passenger train. The…

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