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House Of Zamfara Speaker, Others Set Ablaze By Bandits

14Sep

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security

House Of Zamfara Speaker, Others Set Ablaze By Bandits

Bandits have set the home of the Speaker of Zamfara State House of Assembly, Nasiru Muazu Magarya, and other residents ablaze in Zurmi Local Government Area of Zamfara State. Chairman of the Committee on Security and Prosecution of Bandits in Zamfara State, Abdullahi Shinkafi, confirmed the incident on Monday. He said the bandits invaded the community and set ablaze some houses including that of the speaker. According to him, this was coming as a result of the ongoing onslaught by the military in Zurmi Local Government Area of the state. The Chairman of the committee, who visited the affected community to assess the security situation, said the government also wanted to provide support for victims and deploy more security operatives to protect the people. See Also: Army Dismis...

Gunmen Free About 70 Abducted Zamfara School Pupils After 12 Days In Captivity

13Sep

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security

Gunmen Free About 70 Abducted Zamfara School Pupils After 12 Days In Captivity

Pupils of Government Secondary School, Kaya, in the Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State numbering about 70 have been freed from captivity. Their abduction of 73 students of the school by suspected bandits was confirmed by the the state police command on September 1. The pupils were abducted on September 1 following which the state governor, Bello Matawalle, ordered the closure of all primary and secondary schools in the state. The governor also imposed a 6:00 p.m. to 6:00a.m. curfew in 14 local government areas of the state. The Nigerian Television Authority reported the news on its Facebook page overnight. Read also: Insecurity: GSM Operators Comply With FG’s Order, Shut Over 240 Zamfara Base Stations The report of the abduction was contained in a statement is...

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...

Army Dismisses Pictures, Videos Of Mass Burials In Zamfara

13Sep

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Press Statement, Security

Army Dismisses Pictures, Videos Of Mass Burials In Zamfara

The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has dismissed viral images and videos that show the dumping of dead bodies into mass graves, ostensibly from military operations. Maj-Gen. Benjamin Sawyerr, Director of Defence Information, issued a statement on Sunday in Abuja dismissing the images and videos. According to Sawyer, a picture with the message "Alhamdulillah, Zamfara Must Secure" and other viral horrific pictures and videos allegedly came from current military operations in the country's north-west and north-central regions. According to him, it is important to state that the allegation is false and malicious and has no link whatsoever with the operations being conducted by troops of the Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN). “However, it is true that the AFN are presently conducting successful...

Jigawa Recruits 270 Herders, Establishes 200 Nomadic Schools

12Sep

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security

Jigawa Recruits 270 Herders, Establishes 200 Nomadic Schools

Jigawa State governor, Alhaji Muhammadu Badaru Abubakar approved the recruitment of 270 herdsmen as additional teachers in the nomadic schools in the state. This was contained in a press statement signed, and made available to Tribune Online in Dutse by the special adviser to the governor on Media and Publicity, Alhaji Habibiu Nuhu Kila, who said: “the governor approved the establishment of 200 additional nomadic schools across the state”. Alhaji Habibu Nuhu Kila explained that the governor gave the approval in a meeting with Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore’ a socio-cultural Fulani organization at government house Dutse, adding that “the governor reaffirmed his commitment of improving and expanding qualitative nomadic education to the herders in all parts of the state. According to the ...

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...