Killing Of Policemen In The State, Nationwide Worrisome – Abia Speaker Decries
The Speaker Abia State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Chinedum Orji has decried incessant attacks and killings of policemen in the state and across the country, saying it is worrisome. While further adding that it has become a recurrent decimal, the Speaker while reacting to a matter of urgent public importance on attacks on security agents brought before the Assembly...
Conduct A Psychiatric Evaluation, Drug Tests For Police, Army Before Recruitment, NEC Proposes
The National Economic Council has recommended psychiatric evaluation and drug tests for those seeking to be enlisted into various security agencies, especially the arms-bearing outfits. This formed part of the resolutions at the council’s meeting chaired by the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, on Friday. The meeting received reports from judicial panels regarding the #EndSARS protests in parts of the...
Abducted Girls: Police Deploy Tactical Units, Comb Forests, Shanties
Operatives of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command have continued to comb bushes and shanties in border areas between the FCT, Niger, Kaduna, and Nasarawa States, in a bid to rescue the remaining 23 victims that were abducted by bandits in the Bwari area of Abuja on January 3. Our correspondent gathered that the FCT Commissioner of Police, Haruna Garba,...
Burkina Faso: NAF Dismisses Rumours Of Detained Military Aircraft Engaged In Espionage
The Nigerian Air Force has debunked as false claims and insinuations making the rounds on social media, alleging that its C-130 aircraft, currently being held in Burkina Faso, was forced to land on suspicion of espionage. It also dismissed reports that the eleven crew members and engineering personnel onboard the aircraft were intelligence officers/specialists trained on espionage activities, adding that...
Military Declares Full Scale Battle Against IPOB Over Alleged Killing Of Army Couple In Imo
Nigerian Army yesterday said it would go after members of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) for the gruesome murder of army couple in Imo State. Two soldiers, Audu Linus, a Master Warrant Officer, and Private Gloria Matthew, were shot d...
Fear Grips Zamfara Residents As Deadline For Payment On N20m Protection Levy By Bandits Approaches
Residents of Gidan-goga village in the Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State are panicking as the deadline given to them by bandits to pay a levy of N20m draws near. A bandits kingpin, Bello Turji, had told the community that the N20m must be paid on or before Sunday this week. He threatened to attack the village if the money...
Attack On Abia INEC Office Needless, Unacceptable — Sen. Kalu
The Chief Whip of the Senate, Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu, has condemned the attack on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Ohafia Local Government Area (LGA) of Abia. The INEC office was set ablaze on Sunday by unidentified hoodlums, leaving electoral materials and furniture destroyed. Kalu, in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja, described the act as undemocratic...
Lai Mohammed Downplays Abduction Threat Against Buhari, Says It’s Laughable
Lai Mohammed The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has described the threat to abduct President Muhammadu Buhari as laughable. In a video released at the weekend, the abductors of train passengers in Kaduna threatened to kidna...
Arewa Urges FG To Crush New Terror Group Now
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has called for urgent action by the Nigerian military to subjugate and decapitate the Lakurawa terror group that is terrorising residents of Sokoto and Kebbi states in the North West Zone with all the human and material arsenals at their disposal, without hesitation. ACF considered the emergence of the new terrorist group as very dangerous...
Some Of Our Staff Informants To Bandits, Says Katsina VC
The Vice-Chancellor, Federal University Dutsinma (FUDMA), Katsina State, Prof. Armaya’u Bichi, has alleged that some of the university’s staff are serving as informants to bandits. Bandits have been attacking the area, kidnapping students and staffers of the university as well as their family members. Exactly a week ago, bandits stormed the residence of Dr Tiri Gyan David, Head of the Department...
