Nigerian Security Much Better Under Buhari ― Minister
Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, on Monday, affirmed that the nation’s security has fared much better under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari than the previous administration, ABN TV reports. The minister, who took the president’s message to Zamfara State over the weekend when he assured that the Jangebe school girls abduction would be the last, met in a closed-door...
Abducted Zamfara School Girls Regain Freedom
The kidnapped schoolgirls of Government Secondary School in Jangebe, Zamfara State have been released and are currently in the palace of the Emir of Anka waiting for transportation to Gusau, the state capital. A very competent source had informed our correspondent on Saturday that negotiations with the bandits who kidnapped the schoolgirls had reached a very advanced stage, saying “they...
Security Forces Rescue Abducted Bridal Train From Boko Haram
A team of military and police have rescued a bridal train abducted by Boko Haram on Maiduguri-Damaturu Highway. The bride and her team were kidnapped by the insurgents on Friday at about 1pm somewhere in Mainok on Damaturu-Maiduguri Highway. The abductees were made to drive their two vehicles into the bush and begin a long journey to a destination believed to...
Buhari Finally Reveals Why FG Has Not Used Force On Bandits
President Muhammadu Buhari has said security forces have not moved against bandits in the country because of the fear of “heavy casualties of innocent villagers and hostages” that may be suffered in such operations. In a statement on Friday, presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, quoted Buhari as saying, “We have the capacity to deploy massive force against the bandits in the...
Tension As Over 40 Security Agents Attempt To Arrest Sunday Igboho [VIDEO]
There was pandemonium along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Friday when a joint team of policemen and the Department of State Services attempted to arrest Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo, better known as Sunday Igboho. According to a viral video, Igboho, who is topless, is seen with his men daring the security operatives to “do their worst” before they drove off. According to...
Again, Gunmen Besiege Zamfara School, Abduct Over 300 Students
Some gunmen suspected to be bandits have abducted over 300 schoolgirls at Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in the Talata-Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State. A staff of the School, who begged for anonymity, said the bandits arrived in the school around 1am on Friday with Hilux vehicles and motorcycles and forcefully evacuated the students. He narrated that some of...
Bandits: We Support Gumi’s Call For Amnesty — Northern Group
A Pan-Arewa Social-Political organization under the auspices of Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) Thursday threw its weight behind Sheikh Ahmed Gumi’s call to grant amnesty to bandits. The group argued that when Niger Delta militants took up arms against the country, previous administrations set up the Ministry Niger Delta Affairs, and other amnesty programmes, geared towards meeting their demands. CNG added...
After Aba Police Station Invasion, Ikpeazu Places N1m Bounty On Attackers, Bans Keke NAPEP
Abia state governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu has placed a bounty of one million Naira on hoodlums who attacked Abayi police station in Aba in the early hours of Tuesday. The governor while expressing regret that the arms carted away by the hoodlums will be used on innocent citizens of the state vowed that the state government will not cede any...
Ohanaeze Youths Seek Amnesty For Eastern Security Network
Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council (OYC) has called on the Federal Government to begin moves to grant amnesty to Eastern Security Network (ESN) a wing of IPOB the same way amnesty to bandits has occupied a front burner in national discourse. The council also called on the federal government to recruit the officers of ESN into mainstream community vigilante network. Speaking with...
FENRAD Carpets Gov. Uzodinma For Inviting Military Against ESN In Orlu
A human and environmental rights group Foundation for Environmental Rights Advocacy and Development (FENRAD) has condemned the Imo State governor, Sen. Hope Uzodinma for inviting the Nigerian military to launch an aerial onslaught against suspected members of Eastern Security Network (ESN), a wing of IPOB in Orlu Imo State. The group says the military should have rather deployed its energy...
