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Terrorists Planning to Attack South-West – Yoruba Leader Raises Alarm

13May

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security

Terrorists Planning to Attack South-West – Yoruba Leader Raises Alarm

Popular Yoruba historian, Professor Banji Akintoye has raised an alarm of planned terror attacks in the South-West region. The elder statesman who is also the leader of Ilana Omo Oodua, the umbrella body for Yoruba self-determination groups, warmed that major monuments and worship centres are most at risk if the region is besieged by terror groups. Akintoye disclosed this in a statement issued by his media aide, Maxwell Adeleye on Wednesday. He beckoned on the governors of the South-West to be proactive in preempting the imminent attacks, noting that the terrorists had hatched finalised plans to attack important places to wreck the economy of the region. Akintoye in the statement also advised the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye; Bi...

Gunmen attack another Police Station in Abia

13May

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security, Violence, Youths

Gunmen attack another Police Station in Abia

The Bende Divisional Headquarters of the Nigeria Police Force, Bende Local Government Area of Abia State has reportedly been attacked by hoodlums. The attack, it was learned, took place on Wednesday night. The police station was also said to have been razed down by the hoodlums who also set some detainees free. Details later...

Eid-El-Fitr: 3,200 Police Officers Deployed in Imo As Tension Heightens

12May

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Religion, Security

Eid-El-Fitr: 3,200 Police Officers Deployed in Imo As Tension Heightens

The Imo State Police Command has disclosed that a total of 3,200 officers have been deployed to preempt the breakdown of law and order in the state as Muslim faithful celebrate this year’s Eid-El-Fitr. This was contained in a statement signed by the Police Public Relations Officer, Orlando Ikeokwu, assuring Imo indigenes that it is collaborating with all security agencies in the state. According to the statement, Ikeokwu stressed that the police had made adequate arrangements to ensure the safety and security of lives and property within the period of the celebration. He felicitated with all Muslim faithful in the state, urging them to offer prayers for the sustenance of peace and security in the state and the unity and peace of the nation at large. Also, Ahmed Audi, the Comman...

Southern Governors Demands for State Police, National Dialogue

12May

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security

Southern Governors Demands for State Police, National Dialogue

The governors from the southern part of the country have urged President Muhammadu Buhari to address the nation on the rising spate of insecurity and quell tension across Nigeria. Rising from its meeting in Asaba, Delta State capital on Tuesday, the governors from the 17 southern states disclosed its position in a communique read by its Chairman, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State. The forum was mute on the recent agitations for the resignation or removal of President Buhari. The governors expressed the belief that the Southern region remains resolute to the unity of Nigeria built on the principles of justice, fairness, equity, oneness, and peaceful co-existence between and among its peoples with a focus on the attainment of shared goals for economic development and prosperity. ...

Shi’ites Deny Killing Police Officer During Abuja Protest

11May

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Religion, Security

Shi’ites Deny Killing Police Officer During Abuja Protest

Members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, also known as Shi'ites, have debunked killing a police officer, ASP Ezekiel Adama, during a protest help in Abuja on Friday last week. The group in a statement signed by the Secretary Academic Forum of Movement, Abdullahi Musa, on Monday said its members were not culpable for the officer’s death, noting that they did not have close contact with any of the anti-riot policemen stationed to calm the protest. According to the statement, the group utterly refuted partaking in the killing of the police officer, describing the allegation of its involvement as an attempt to tarnish the image of the group and paint the sec in bad light. It added that members of the group would not resort to killing security agents irrespective of provocation by t...

10May

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security

IPOB Planning to Attack Lagos – Police

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu has raised an alarm that members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, are planning to attack some vulnerable areas in the state. He said this at a stakeholders’ forum on security chaired by Lagos State governor, Babjide Sanwo-Olu on Monday. He also acknowledged threats posed by agitators of Oodua Republic and other Yoruba successionist groups. Odumosu said 24 24 of these groups have been identified and being closely monitored. According to the police commissioner, the threats have been put on the radar of the Lagos Command intelligence-gathering unit. He added that strategies are being planned to nip the threats in the bud. He said, “The command has taken notice of agitators for Oodua Republic by some Yoruba separat...

Now I Avoid Newspapers Due To Depressing Reports—Soyinka

9May

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Life, News, Nigeria, Security

Now I Avoid Newspapers Due To Depressing Reports—Soyinka

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, says he now goes days without reading the newspapers to avoid the depression that comes from reading bad reports of insecurity and other anomalies in the country. Soyinka added that he did not believe Nigerian unity is attainable under the current regime of President Muhammadu Buhari due to its systemic failure. Soyinka said this in Abuja on Saturday at the book reading and signing of two of his books titled ‘Trumpism in Academe’ and ‘Chronicles of the Happiest People on Earth’. Former Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State had asked Soyinka if he could write a Nigerian story that would evoke patriotism and inspire unity among the various tribes in the country. Responding, the playwright said no narrative would unite the people of Nigeria with...

Kidnappers Free Abducted Abia University Student

9May

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria, Security

Kidnappers Free Abducted Abia University Student

The kidnappers of some students of Abia State University, ABSU, Uturu, has released the only student left in their custody who was among scores kidnapped while travelling along the Okigwe-Uturu Road. This was announced by Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State on his official Twitter handle, @GovernorIkpeazu, in the late hours of Saturday. Ikpeazu expressed great pleasure at the development and vowed never to share the state with criminals while appreciating God, security agencies and the management of ABSU for the prompt release of the abducted student. He tweeted, “It is with exceedingly great joy and a very pleasant sense of relief that I announce that the only kidnapped ABSU student, who was still in the custody of the hoodlums that abducted some people a few days ago along the...

Gov Umahi Condemns the Madness of Herdsmen Killings in South-East

9May

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Fulani Herdsmen, News, Nigeria, Religion, Security

Gov Umahi Condemns the Madness of Herdsmen Killings in South-East

Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has condemned the increased spate of killings by herdsmen in the South-East region describing it as “madness of herdsmen killings” while stressing that it must cease immediately and herdsmen must abide by the culture of their host communities in the region. The governor who doubles as the Chairman of the South-East Governors’ Forum, added that killer herdsmen must desist from the unprovoked killing of South-Easterners. Umahi disclosed this while addressing a humongous crowd of the Christian faithful, stakeholders and political stalwarts of the state during the finale of the seven days praying and fasting convened by the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Ebonyi State chapter, at the ecumenical centre Abakaliki. The crusade was organised to ...

Pentagon Responds to Buhari’s Plea to Relocate US African Command to Nigeria

8May

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security, United States of America

Pentagon Responds to Buhari’s Plea to Relocate US African Command to Nigeria

Following the request by President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria for the United States to relocate its Africa Command from its present base in Germany to Nigeria, the US has said that it does not harbour such a plan. The response just two weeks after President Buhari asked the US government to consider relocating AFRICOM to Africa as a measure to help Nigeria and other African nations struggling to combat increased terrorism, banditry, and other security challenges. President Buhari had made the appeal in a virtual meeting with the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, on April 27. Germany-based Africa Command (AFRICOM) is the US military headquarters that oversees its operations in Africa. Buhari’s plea comes after a series of recent military casualties in Nigeria’s decade-long...