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BREAKING: Kaduna Orders Immediate Closure Of Schools Over Attacks

17Mar

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Press Statement, Security, Terrorism

BREAKING: Kaduna Orders Immediate Closure Of Schools Over Attacks

The Kaduna State Government has ordered the immediate closure of all public and private schools in the Kajuru Local Government Area of the state. According to a memo signed by the zonal education office, Sabon Tasha, all schools should close due to the prevailing security situation in the area. The memo, dated March 16, was addressed to all principals of public and private schools. Gunmen had on March 11 stormed the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation in Mando, Kaduna state, kidnapping 39 students. The Kaduna college was said to have about 300 male and female students, mostly aged 17 and older at the time of the attack. Kaduna state commissioner for internal security, Samuel Aruwan, said 39 of the students were missing. Aruwan disclosed that “further checks in the w...

Students’ Abduction: Schools must remain safe spaces to learn without fear

13Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Crime, Education, News, Nigeria, Safety, Security, United Nations, Youths

Students’ Abduction: Schools must remain safe spaces to learn without fear

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, has expressed sadness over the recent mass abduction of students in different parts of Nigeria. Gunmen had abducted over 300 people including students and staff of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Friday. The incident marked the fourth mass abduction of school children in the North in the space of four months. In his reaction, Guterres in a post on Twitter urged authorities to ensure the safe release of the students and the prosecution of the abductors. He said, “I’m deeply saddened to learn of yet another mass abduction of students from a school in Nigeria. “Schools must remain safe spaces to learn without fear of violence. The students must be ...

Ganduje Asks FG to Re-Open Kano Airport for International Flight

10Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Covid-19, Finance, News, Nigeria, Safety, Transportation

Ganduje Asks FG to Re-Open Kano Airport for International Flight

Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje has asked the Federal Government to re-open the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport, MAKIA, Kano, to permit the resumption of international flight operations. The Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Abba Anwar disclosed this in a statement issued in Kano. Ganduje made the appeal when he led a delegation of legislators, business, traditional and civic leaders to pay a courtesy visit to the Minister of Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, in Abuja. The governor said that the continued closure of the airport has caused untold hardship to international travelers from the North, as well as negatively impacted on the ease of doing business in Kano. He said, “The closure of MAKIA has impacted negatively on the business environment in Kano, which is ...

Govs Can’t Ban Open Grazing – Miyetti Allah

7Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Agriculture, News, Nigeria, Safety, Security

Govs Can’t Ban Open Grazing – Miyetti Allah

The Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, a factional unit for herdsmen in Nigeria, has opposed the ban imposed on open grazing of cattle by South-West governors. Their position is, however, in contrast to that of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, which at a meeting with some governors in Akure, the Ondo State capital, on January 25, aligned with the position of the governors. Among the governors that attended the Akure meeting were the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum and Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi; Governors Adegboyega Oyetola of Osun State, Muhammad Badaru of Jigawa State, Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State and Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State. MACBAN was led to the meeting by its chairman, Alhaji Muhammadu Kiruwa, among other attendees. Asides from the Sou...

FG Declares Zamfara ‘No-fly zone’, Bans Mining Indefinitely

2Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security

FG Declares Zamfara ‘No-fly zone’, Bans Mining Indefinitely

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the declaration of Zamfara State as a “no fly zone” in an attempt to subdue the security challenges confronting the state. This was disclosed by the National Security Adviser, Major General Babagana Monguno, in an interview with State House correspondents at the end of a meeting of the National Security Council held the Villa, Abuja on Monday. Buhari also approved the stoppage of all forms of mining activities in the state till further notice. Monguno said, “The President has approved, based on our recommendations, the imposition and enforcement of a ban on all mining activities in Zamfara with immediate effect until further notice. “He has directed the Minister of Defence and the National Security Adviser to deploy massive military and i...

Breaking: Abducted Kagara Students Released

27Feb

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Breaking News, Education, News, Nigeria, Security

Breaking: Abducted Kagara Students Released

Bandits have released the students and staff of Government Science College Kagara, in Niger State who were kidnapped Wednesday, February 17, 2021. Their release was confirmed by a top security source involved in the counter-kidnapping operation in the State who spoke to Punch. Recall that the students were abducted by the bandits who disguised in military uniforms from their hostels over a week ago. Among those abducted were 27 students, three staff members, and 12 members of their family in the early hours of Wednesday.

Gunmen Kidnap 300 Girls in Zamfara School

26Feb

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Crime, Education, News, Nigeria

Gunmen Kidnap 300 Girls in Zamfara School

Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in the Talata-Mafara Local Government of Zamfara State has been raided by gunmen suspected to be bandits and abducted about 300 schoolgirls in the early hours of Friday, 26th February, 2021. According to a staff of the school who spoke to Punch on the condition of anonymity, the gunmen arrived at the school around 1am on Friday with Hilux vehicles and motorcycles and forcefully took the schoolgirls. The source said some of the gunmen dressed in uniforms and pretended to be security personnel, before they broke into the students' hostels and kidnapped over 300 students. He said, “When they came into the school, we thought they were security personnel but to our utmost fear and dismay, they started putting the girls into Hilux vehicles and ...

26Feb

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Crime, News, Nigeria, Safety, Security, Violence

Gov Ugwuanyi Imposes Curfew

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has imposed a curfew on the Oruku Community, in Nkanu East Local Government Area of the State. The action followed the crisis that greeted the murder of the traditional ruler of the Oruku community, HRH Igwe Emmanuel Chidiebere Mba, on December 26, 2020, which is subject of an ongoing Judicial Commission of Injury, and the recent gruesome murder of the Vice-Chairman of Oruku Town Union Caretaker Committee, Chief Samuel Ani. According to a statement issued by the Commissioner for Information, Nnayelugo Chidi Aroh, the curfew was imposed by Governor Ugwuanyi, pursuant to Executive Order No. 2: 2021, dated 25th February 2021. Aroh stated that the curfew, which is between the hours of 6pm to 6am daily, commences from 6pm, on Thursday, February ...

Abuja Air Crash Victims to be Buried on Thursday

24Feb

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Armed Forces, Aviation, News, Nigeria, Safety, Transportation

Abuja Air Crash Victims to be Buried on Thursday

The Nigerian Air Force, NAF, has announced that the Seven officers who died in the air crash that took place in Abuja on Sunday will be buried at the National Cemetery, Lugbe, Airport Road, Abuja, on Thursday. This was disclosed by NAF on Wednesday in an invitation to journalists. The officers were victims of the fatal Beechcraft King Air B250i crash that occurred close to the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, after reporting engine failure. Among the deceased were the Captain, Fl. Lt. Haruna Gadzama; Fl. Lt. Henry Piyo (Co-Pilot); Flying Officer Micheal Okpara (Airborne Tactical Observation System Specialist); Warrant Officer Bassey Etim (ATOS Specialist); Fl. Sgt. Olasunkanmi Olawunmi (ATOS Specialist); Sgt. Ugochukwu Oluka (ATOS Specialist) and Aircraftman Adewale Jo...

Bandits Are Peaceful People, says Sheikh Gumi

23Feb

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Safety, Security

Bandits Are Peaceful People, says Sheikh Gumi

Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, an Islamic Cleric has defended perpetrators of banditry in the country, saying that they are victims of circumstance. The cleric reiterated his standpoint during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday. Gumi had been an advocate of amnesty for bandits after meeting with them in the forest. He said, “When I listened to them, I found out that it is a simple case of criminality which turned into banditry, which turned into ethnic war, and some genocide too behind the scene; people don’t know.” “There is no excuse for any crime; nothing can justify crime, and they are committing crime,” the bandits were forced into criminality. “I think it is a population that is pushed by circumstances into criminality. “And this is what we should lo...