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Nigerian Police, DSS Summon Clerics To Regulate Preaching

6Apr

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Religion, Security

Nigerian Police, DSS Summon Clerics To Regulate Preaching

Nigerian Police The Nigeria Police Force in insurgency-ravaged Borno State and the Department of State Services have urged Islamic clerics in the state to use the period of Ramadan fast to preach only unity and peaceful coexistence and shun other commentaries. The Borno State Commissioner of Police, Abdu Umar, gave the charge during the stakeholders’ meeting to regulate preaching on Tuesday in Maiduguri. The meeting was convened by the Nigeria Police and the DSS. This week, the Apo Legislative Quarters central mosque committee in Abuja sacked Sheikh Nuru Khalid for criticising President Muhammadu Buhari in his Friday sermon. The police chief said the meeting became necessary to remind preachers of the existing law passed in 2010 by the state government to regulate preaching...

Insecurity: Buhari’s Govt Overwhelmed – Obasanjo

4Apr

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security

Insecurity: Buhari’s Govt Overwhelmed – Obasanjo

Olusegun Obasanjo Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, declared that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government has been overwhelmed by insecurity. Obasanjo spoke in the light of the recent deadly attack on a Kaduna-bound train, which killed seven passengers, while 21 others are reportedly missing. “I believe that all right thinking Nigerians must know that we have a situation that has overwhelmed the present administration,” he said at his penthouse residence in Abeokuta, Ogun State, while receiving a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant, Dr. Ugochukwu Williams. Describing the attack as “a serious situation,” Obasanjo lamented that Nigerians are “no longer safe on the road, in the train and at the airport.” This was as pan-Yoruba socio-politica...

Gov El-Rufai Reveals Identity Of Kaduna Train Attackers

2Apr

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security, Transportation

Gov El-Rufai Reveals Identity Of Kaduna Train Attackers

Train Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State on Friday in Abuja met President Muhammadu Buhari on security developments in his state following Monday night’s terror attack on an Abuja-Kaduna bound train. Recall that terrorists bombed the Abuja-Kaduna train en route Rigasa with hundreds of passengers on-board. During the attack, many passengers were kidnapped, others shot dead and an unascertain number of the passengers also sustained various degrees of injury. El-Rufai, who was sober about recent happenings in the state, told journalists that the President had reassured him that drastic measures would be taken to check the activities of terrorists and bandits in Kaduna and beyond. The governor revealed that the attack on the train was carried out by Boko Haram terrorists i...

Unknown Gunmen Set 3 Police Stations Ablaze In Anambra

2Apr

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security

Unknown Gunmen Set 3 Police Stations Ablaze In Anambra

Unknown Gunmen Rampaging unknown gunmen, in the early hours of yesterday set ablaze Osumenyi, Amichi and Ezinifite police stations all in Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra State. This is coming less than twelve hours after unknown gunmen burnt some buildings in Nnewi South Local Government Headquarters in Ukpor, which prompted the state Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo to visit the scene. During his visit to assess the level of destruction, the governor promised to equip the police and other security agencies to enable them chase out the hoodlums who have been terrorizing residents of the areas. However, less than twelve hours after the visit of the state by the governor, unknown hoodlums went and burnt the three police stations in the area. Amichi, Ezinifite and Osu...

Bandits Shoot Pregnant Pharmacist Dead For Being Sluggish

25Oct

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security

Bandits Shoot Pregnant Pharmacist Dead For Being Sluggish

The Force Intelligence Response Team (IRT) has arrested a 21-year-old suspected bandit, Umar Adamu alias Meagwua, for being part of the gang that shot and killed a pregnant pharmacist because she was walking too slow and delaying them. The gang was behind the abduction of the grandchildren of the Kadun State’s Commissioner for Finance. The gang also carried out an attack on the National Leprosy and Tuberculosis Training Centre, Zaria, Kaduna State, where it killed eight people. The gang stormed the centre armed with seven arms; two General-purpose machine guns (GPMG) and five AK47 rifles. The Force Spokesman, Frank Mba, while briefing journalists about the case, revealed that the gang’s leader, Isah Ibrahim aka Isah Danwasa, was still at large. Adamu was first arrested and then used as ...

Ngige Condemns Killing of Aguleri Monarch

13Sep

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Interview, News, Nigeria

Ngige Condemns Killing of Aguleri Monarch

Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige has condemned the assassination of Chief Alex Edozieuno, a former traditional ruler of Mkpunando Aguleri, calling it an "unfortunate criminal deed." The minister encouraged security services to track down those responsible for the murder and bring them to justice, according to a statement sent by his media office in Abuja. “Chief Alex Edozieuno before he became Igwe was a grassroots politician and a firm believer in just cause. Long ago while we were in PDP, he was a field man and a political forte of sorts. See Also: Rising Unemployment Can Wipe Out Nigeria, Elite Unsafe – Ngige “I recall the last conversation I had with him last year, when he called to complain about his deposition as the traditio...

Insecurity: UNIJOS Suspends Academic Activities, Shuts Hostels

21Aug

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria, Security

Insecurity: UNIJOS Suspends Academic Activities, Shuts Hostels

Following the rising spate of insecurity in Jos and its environs, the Management of the University of Jos has suspended all academic activities in the institution till further notice. Mr Monday Danjem, the Registrar of the university, unveiled this development in a statement on Friday in Jos. According to Danjem, the decision to suspend academic activities and shut hostels was arrived at the end of the meeting between management and the Committee of Deans, Directors and Provost of the institution on Friday, August 20. “The insecurity in Jos, which led to the imposition of dusk-to-dawn curfew has affected the academic activities and forced the university to suspend its second semester examinations for the 2019/2020 academic session. “Students of the university continued to expe...

Gunmen Kidnap 15 Students Of Bakura Agriculture College, Zamfara, 4 Killed

16Aug

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Uncategorized

Gunmen Kidnap 15 Students Of Bakura Agriculture College, Zamfara, 4 Killed

Gunmen have abducted some students and teachers at the College of Agriculture and Animal Health in Bakura, Zamfara state. Aliyu Bakura, deputy registrar of the college, confirmed the development to BBC Hausa. “Last Sunday night around 10pm they entered and opened fire and took away 15 students and a teacher and his wife and two children,” he said. Mallam Aliyu said the attackers were very numerous and climbed the wall and spent more than two hours in the school firing. See Also: Gunmen Free About 70 Abducted Zamfara School Pupils After 12 Days In Captivity This is not the first time bandits will abduct students from schools in Zamfara. On February 26, bandits invaded Government Girls Science Secondary School, Jangebe, Zamfara state and abducted many female students but were ...

15Aug

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security

Abducted Niger APC Chairman Rescued

The abducted All Progressives Congress (APC) Zone ‘C’ Chairman in Niger State, Alhaji Aminu Musa Bobi, has been rescued. His rescue is coming a day after the Niger State Commissioner of Information; Alhaji Mohammed Idris Sani was released by his abductors. See Also: Kidnapped Niger State Information Commissioner Freed Bobi was abducted last week at about 2.30 pm by unknown gunmen on his way to the farm along Ukuru Road in Bobi District Area of Mariga Local Government Area. A press release by the Niger State Police Command stated that the APC chairman was rescued unhurt and has been taken to the General Hospital, Kontagora for medical attention. The statement signed by the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Wasiu Abiodun said: “The Command mobilized a joint police, army and...

15Aug

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security

Tension Grips Jos Over Mass Burial

Palpable tension has gripped Jos, the Plateau State capital, over the mass burial of those killed during the last attack in Bassa, Plateau North Senatorial District. Information has it that the people of Irigwe were on their way to Bassa for a mass burial after retrieving the corpses of those killed on the 29th July and 9th, August, when trouble started at Rukuba road axis Jos. See Also: Insecurity: UNIJOS Suspends Academic Activities, Shuts Hostels It was further gathered that trouble allegedly started when hoodlums blocked natives on their way to burying their loved ones in the ensued fracas which led to the killing at both sides of Rukuba axis of Jos North Local Government Area of the State. Confirming the incident, the Plateau State Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Ga...