CRIME
Send Us Foodstuffs To Feed Your Children Or Hunger’ll Deal With Them, Bandits Warn Parents Of Abducted Kaduna Students
The abductors of the 121 students of Bethel Baptist Secondary school in Chikun local government area of Kaduna state have demanded for food items from their parents to enable them feed the children. The bandits warned that failure to do so will expose the children to impending starvation. The parents disclosed this on Saturday during their daily prayer sessions to seek...
After Mass Slaughter In Zamfara, Kaduna, Buhari Calls For Crushing Of Bandits
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday demanded a crushing response against bandits after repeated killings in Zamfara and Kaduna states. This was made known in a statement signed by presidential spokesman Garba Shehu. At least 35 persons were killed after bandits attacked five communities in Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State on Thursday. Bandits have also continued to terrorise Kaduna state, launching...
Ikpeazu Denies Calling For Nnamdi Kanu’s Imprisonment, Set To Take Legal Action
Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu has described as 'FAKE NEWS making rounds in some sections of the media that he called for the imprisonment of the re-arrested leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Describing it further as thrash, the Governor in a statement on Saturday made available to ABN TV by the Commissioner for Information,...
El-Rufai Condemns Killings In 3 Local Govts, Decries Disappearance Of Youths
Governor Nasir El-Rufai, of Kaduna State has condemned the killings and disappearance of some citizens in Zangon Kataf, Igabi, Chikun and Jema’a Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state. The Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs,Mr Samuel Aruwan, relayed the feelings of the governor through a statement issued on Friday in Kaduna. “Security Agencies had previously reported killings of citizens...
Bandits Attack Five Communities In Zamfara, Kill 35
Bandits have killed 35 persons after an assault on five communities of Faru district located in Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State. Gudan-Baushi, Gidan-Adamu,Gudan-Maidawa, Tsauni, and Wari communities woke up to the marauders’ invasion in the late hours of Thursday morning on motorcycles numbering over 100. The state Public Relations Officer, Mohammed Shehu confirmed the incident to Channels Television. He...
Bandits Rejected 9 Bags Of Rice We Donated, Insisting On 30 To Feed Abducted School Children — Principal
The principal Bethel Baptist High School, Maraban Rido, Kaduna State, Wakili Madugu, has said bandits are demanding for thirty bags of rice and other foodstuffs to feed the abducted students of the school. Recall that the bandits had, at 1am on Monday, invaded the school and kidnapped 121 students, who are mostly in Senior Secondary schools 2 and 3. The Vice-Principal...
Paris Club Refund: Why is Obinna Oriaku Afraid of Proving His Allegations? – Group
A former Commissioner of Finance in Abia State, Mr Obinna Oriaku has been urged to take his campaign of alleged mismanagement of the Paris Club Refund to Abia State beyond the media space and avail himself of the golden constitutional opportunity offered by the Abia State House of Assembly to present the needed facts on his allegations. This was the...
Court Jails Three For Posing As ‘Oyibo’ Military Officers On Facebook To Scam People
Justice C.L. Dabup of the Plateau State High Court sitting in Jos, today July 7, 2021, sentenced three internet fraudsters, Nbubuisi Kerian Ozomba, Paul Obide, and Samuel Chukwuebuka Nduchukwe to one-month imprisonment for obtaining money by false pretence through the social media platform, Facebook. The trio were arrested in a sting operation by the Abuja Zonal Office of the EFCC...
Insecurity: My Administration Can’t Afford To Disappoint Nigerians – Buhari Vows
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday reiterated his administration’s resolve in tackle the numerous security challenges in the country, noting that the Federal Government cannot afford to disappoint Nigerians. Buhari through his media aide, Garba Shehu, condemned the killing of 24 persons in Adamawa on Wednesday, and directed security officials to “redouble their efforts and respond to these security threats promptly...
Face Bandits, Terrorists Not Nnamdi Kanu, Umar Advises Buhari
A former military governor of Kaduna State, Col. Abubakar Umar (retd.), on Wednesday knocked the All Progressives Congress and Federal Government led by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) for giving undue attention to the arrest of leader of Kanu than the banditry, kidnapping ravaging the country. Umar argued that it was disturbing that rather than concentrating on insecurity...
