CRIME
Use Good Bandits To Fight The Bad Ones — Gumi Advises FG
The Nigerian cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi who negotiates with Bandits has advised the Nigerian Government to support splinter groups among bandits as a way to end banditry. Gumi, who spoke on the abduction of 200 Islamiyya schoolchildren in the Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State, said many bandits were ready for a dialogue. According to him, the government can use...
Police Release Oil Worker Paraded As An Unknown Gunman
A 40-year-old oil worker identified as Casmir Ibegbulem, has been released by the police after wrongly arrested and paraded as one of the unknown gunmen attacking security formations in Imo state. Casmir Ibegbulem who is a father of one and expectant father of another is a “Permit Holder” staff member of an oil company in Bonny Island, Bayelsa State, and...
Road Users Decry Inhuman Treatment By Military Along Enugu-Anambra Express
It was a horrible and dehumanising experience for road users on the dilapidated Enugu-Onitsha Expressway following their subjection to a stop-and-search operation by soldiers mounting a checkpoint between Enugu and Anambra states. The inhuman treatment, they said, was akin to the treatment meted to captives from a war-ravaged territory. To cross the Amansea-Awka boundary, passengers are dropped off a few metres...
Ganduje Weeps, Says Bandits Have Taken Over Kano Forests, Seeks Military Support
Kano State governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has raised the alarm that armed bandits have taken over forests in the state. The Kano governor, who made the disclosure at the Defence Headquarters, where he met with the service chiefs, said the bandits are grouping in Falgore forest, even as the state government is working hard to open up the forests. Although he...
Insecurity: Niger Gov’t Bans Commercial Motorcycles
Deputy Governor of Niger state, Mohammed Ketso has stated that the government has banned commercial motorcycle operators in an effort to curb insecurity. This was announced by Ketso while giving updates about efforts to rescue the school children recently abducted in the state. Recall that students and staff of Salihu Tanko Islamic School in Tegina town, Rafi LGA were taken hostage on...
35-Year-Old Man Rapes 9-Year-Old Girl In Ondo
Ondo State Police Command has arrested a 35-year-old farmer, Kelvin Abugu, for allegedly defiling his neighbor's 9-year-old daughter in Uso, Owo Local Government Area of the state. Confirming the incident on Wednesday June 2, the state Commissioner of Police, Bolaji Salami, said the mother of the victim reported the case to the police after she found her bleeding from her...
Army Alone Can’t Solve Nigeria’s Security Problems – Chief Of Army Staff
The Chief of Army Staff, Maj.-Gen. Farouk Yahaya, on Wednesday, said only the land forces in the military can not contain enormous security challenges ravaging the country. The COAS stated this when he paid a courtesy visit to his counterpart at Air Force, the Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Oladayo Amao, at the Nigerian Air Force Headquarters, Abuja. According...
Police Parade Suspected Kidnappers, Robbers, Recover 17 AK-47 Rifles, GP Machine Gun, Others
Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force have arrested a total of 81 suspects for various crimes, including banditry, armed robbery, kidnapping, murder, homicide and illegal manufacturing and distribution of vehicle number plates. Items recovered from them were 45 assorted firearms, which included 17 AK-47 rifles, 20 locally made AK-47 rifles, one General Purpose Machine Gun, 9,899 AK-47 live ammunition, 80...
Declare Nigeria A Failed State Now, Former American Ambassador Advises US
A former United States Ambassador to Nigeria, John Campbell, and a former Director with Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, Prof. Robert Rotberg, have said it is time for the US to acknowledge that Nigeria is a failed state in the light of the many challenges plaguing the country. Campbell and Rotberg said this in an article titled, ‘The Giant...
IPOB ‘Juju’ Doesn’t Work, Don’t Let Them Scare You With It – Wike Advises Rivers Residents
The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike has advised residents of the state not to be scared or afraid of members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. The fiery leader made this comment while addressing youths in Ahoada area of the state. He stated that with all the ‘juju’ IPOB members carry, they are still being neutralised by security...
