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Troops Raid Markets Where Terrorists Buy IED Materials to Make Explosives

10Sep

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security, Terrorism

Troops Raid Markets Where Terrorists Buy IED Materials to Make Explosives

The Nigerian Army has raised the alarm that the Islamic West Africa Province and Boko Haram terrorists are purchasing Improvised Explosive Devices. It said the terrorists were planning to unleash terror on innocent Nigerians to remain relevant after the sects must have been decimated. It disclosed this in a statement by the Director of Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, on Thursday. Onyema said 281 bags of 50kg of urea fertiliser used to produce IEDs had been recovered and two distributors were arrested as troops raided IED hubs in the Damboa and Gashua local government areas of Borno and Yobe states, respectively. He also said a suspected Boko Haram terrorist, who had been on the wanted list of the Nigerian Army, had been arrested. Onyema said the su...

I Like This Pampering Don’t You? By Femi Adesina

10Sep

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security

I Like This Pampering Don’t You? By Femi Adesina

For those who believe in the ineluctable victory of good over evil, no matter how long it takes, this has been an inspiring week. From the forests of a thousand daemons in Zamfara, Kaduna, Niger States, among others, bandits, criminals, evildoers are taking a pounding. In their scores, scores upon scores, they are being spoken to in the language they understand, and sent to God to answer for their sins. One has never been prouder of our military. I see the hair-splitting over whether they should be called terrorists rather than bandits, and I laugh. Sheer sophistry. Whether insurgents, bandits, kidnappers, ritual killers, criminals are criminals. And what do you do to such? Eliminate. Annihilate. Obliterate. If they won’t let decent society be, get rid of them. That is one case...

Buhari Assures Uzodinma To Assist in Fight Against Insecurity

9Sep

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Infrastructure, News, Nigeria, Security

Buhari Assures Uzodinma To Assist in Fight Against Insecurity

President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State that the federal government will help him to surmount security challenges in the state. The president also promised that he would wield his power as the president to address infrastructural deficits of the state. Buhari, who spoke while commissioning the Egbeada-Onitsha bypass road in Owerri, said that he was impressed with the level of development in the state. He said that no society would make any meaningful progress in the face of insecurity and infrastructural deficits. Buhari said that his vision of having a secured Nigeria with huge infrastructural progress had marched with what Uzodinma was doing in the state. The president said, “I have gone round and I am impressed with what I saw. A society...

Three Policemen Shot, Corpses Burnt Inside Patrol Van In Delta

9Sep

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security

Three Policemen Shot, Corpses Burnt Inside Patrol Van In Delta

Three officers of the Delta State Police Command have been shot dead, with their corpses set on fire. The officers attached to Umutu Divisional Police Headquarters were killed at a checkpoint along the Obeti/Oliogo Road in Ukwuani Local Government Area of the state. Our correspondent gathered the hoodlums ambushed the deceased officers and burnt them inside their Toyota Sienna patrol van. See Also: Osun Police Give Details Of Bank Robbery In Iragbiji “They were burnt beyond recognition in their patrol van”, an eyewitness said. The State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Bright Edafe, confirmed the killings but did not give details. Source: Daily Trust

Insecurity: GSM Operators Comply With FG’s Order, Shut Over 240 Zamfara Base Stations

5Sep

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Communication, News, Nigeria, Security

Insecurity: GSM Operators Comply With FG’s Order, Shut Over 240 Zamfara Base Stations

GSM operators in Zamfara State have shut down their base stations in state in compliance with the order of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, that all telecom sites in Zamfara State be shut down due to the “pervading security situation” in the state. A source in the Association of Licensed Telecoms Operators of Nigeria told Sunday Punch that all the telcos had complied with the directive. Recall that a leaked memo signed by the Executive Vice-Chairman of the NCC, Prof Umar Danbatta, which was addressed to one of the telecom operators on Friday, stated that the immediate shutdown of all telecommunications services had become necessary due to the insecurity in the state. In the letter titled, ‘Re: Shutdown of all telecom sites in Zamfara State’, the NCC boss stated that th...

Why Some Boko Haram Repentant Terrorists Should Be Prosecuted – Senator Ndume

5Sep

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Boko Haram, News, Nigeria, Security, Terrorism

Why Some Boko Haram Repentant Terrorists Should Be Prosecuted – Senator Ndume

Senator Ali Ndume, representing Borno South constituency, has asked for some repentant Boko Haram insurgents that have blood on their hands to be investigated and prosecuted. Recall that weeks ago, the media was agog with reports of repeated surrenders of Boko Haram terrorists to the Nigerian military. More than 2,000 terrorists were reported to have surrendered and branded ‘repentant’ by the Army, claiming adherence to international laws relating to ‘enemies willing to surrender’. Some Nigerians have kicked against the de-radicalisation and rehabilitation initiative for the insurgents by the Nigerian army under the Safe Corridor programme. Speaking on Saturday after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, in Abuja, Ndume maintained that the former insurgents cannot be let o...

BREAKING: Gunmen Shoot Sowore’s Younger Brother Dead

4Sep

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security

BREAKING: Gunmen Shoot Sowore’s Younger Brother Dead

Gunmen have killed Olajide the younger brother of Sahara Reporters’ Publisher and human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore. Sowore confirmed this in a Facebook post on Saturday. The activist said his brother was killed by suspected herdsmen or kidnappers. The deceased is said to be in his late 40s. According to him, the deceased was killed on his way from Igbinedion University in Edo State. The police had yet to react to the student’s death as of the time of filing this report. Sowore posted, “My immediate younger brother, Olajide Sowore was today shot and killed near Okada in Edo state by reportedly herdsmen/kidnappers on his way from Igbinedion University in Edo State where he is studying Pharmacy. “They snuffed out the life of yet another real human being! Rest In ...

DSS Stopped American Lawyer, Others From Visiting Kanu —Counsel

3Sep

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Biafra, Nigeria, Security, United States of America

DSS Stopped American Lawyer, Others From Visiting Kanu —Counsel

Ifeanyi Ejiofor, Lead Counsel for the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has said that the Department of State Services stopped the detainee from seeing his lawyers on Thursday. Ejiofor, in a statement on Friday, said the secret police denied himself and other lawyers including “IPOB’s Attorney in the United States, Bruce Fein”, from meeting with Kanu. He described the denial as a violation of the order of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja which ordered that the DSS should allow the lawyers to visit Kanu twice a week. The lawyer had previously alleged maltreatment by the DSS during the routine visits. See Also: IPOB Members Arrested During Meeting in Ghana Ejiofor’s statement on Friday was titled, ‘Update On Yesterday’s Visit Being 2nd Day Of...

Nigerian Military May Lose Newly Acquired Super Tucano Jets To Jihadi Terrorists—Ex-US Ambassador

3Sep

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security

Nigerian Military May Lose Newly Acquired Super Tucano Jets To Jihadi Terrorists—Ex-US Ambassador

John Campbell, a former United States Ambassador to Nigeria, fears the new Super Tucano fighter jets Nigeria bought may be hijacked by bandits and terrorists. Mr Campbell relates his prediction to the fall of the Afghanistan government and the takeover of similar high-grade military jet fighter by the Talibans. The Afghan government had also acquired 23 Super Tucanos from US to combat the Talibans but with the collapse of the Afghan government and the fall of Kabul, not all of the aircraft have been accounted for. Some Afghan pilots flew their planes out of the country. However, at least one Super Tucano is now in the hands of the Taliban. Mr Campbell who wrote for CFR, explained the instances of how terrorist groups seized other military equipment in Nigeria, expressing worries o...

How Social Media Helped Kaduna Students’ Abductors Flee

2Sep

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security

How Social Media Helped Kaduna Students’ Abductors Flee

The Kaduna State Police Command has blamed viral audio on social media for the escape of kidnappers of 37 students of Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka in Agabi local government Area of Kaduna State. The gunmen invaded the school premises which was located along Kaduna International Airport Road opposite the Nigerian Defence Academy, NDA, on March 11, 2021, and abducted the innocent students. A few days after, they reached out on a viral video demanding N500million as a ransom for the release of the students Following the intervention of former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, the students were eventually released after spending over fifty days in the bandits' den. The students were also not released at once but in batches. Meanwhile the Stat...