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...
Fear Grips Bandits As DHQ Says Troops’ War Mode Has Been Activated Against Terror
Defence Headquarters said, yesterday, that the current leadership of the Armed Forces has activated troops into ‘war mode’, with a view to countering the threats of terrorism, banditry, kidnapping and economic sabotage being perpetrated against Nigerians. Consequently, in the last one week, troops neutralised 23 terrorists, bandits and IPoB militants, rescued 17 kidnapped civilians and arrested 32 criminal elements, including...
FG Awards ₦4billion Monthly Contract To Ex-Militant Leader Tompolo To End Oil Theft
The Federal Government has renewed a multi-million dollar pipeline surveillance contract to a former militant leader and Commander of the defunct Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), Government Ekpemupolo, aka Tompolo. It was gathered that the government and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Limited signed the deal with Tompolo to end illegal bunkering, illegal refining and other forms...
How ‘Unknown Gunmen’ Allegedly Beheaded Imo Lawmaker’s Gateman, Set House Ablaze
A gateman working at the home of Imo Assembly member representing Orsu state constituency, Ekene Nnodumele was in the early hours of Wednesday, beheaded by “unknown gunmen.” The attack took place at the hometown of the lawmaker, in Orsu local government area at about 02:15 am. Apart from the gate man whose head was cut off by the “unknown gunmen” the...
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...
NDA Attack: Dino Melaye Calls For Resignation Of ‘Some People’
Former Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye has stated that several people should be resigning over an attack by Bandits on the Nigeria Defence Academy, NDA in Kaduna on Tuesday. Melaye, who was miffed by the incident, stated that the attack was proof that nowhere in the country was safe. ABN TV recalls that dare-devil bandits attacked the NDA facility around 1...
How Bandits Invaded Abuja Estate, Abduct Many Residents
An undisclosed number of residents were in the early hours of Monday abducted by suspected bandits from the popular Gwarimpa estate in Abuja, the nation's capital. This is coming barely 24 hours after scores of worshippers were feared dead at an atta...
El-Rufai Hails Security Forces Of Offensives Against Bandits, Terrorists
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has applauded security agencies for mounting a sustained offensive against terrorists, kidnappers and other criminals in the state. The governor made the commendation on Wednesday in Kaduna while declaring open the 4th edition of the Kaduna Book and Art Festival. “In the last six weeks there has been improved offensive operation against criminals and we...
Insecurity: Nobody Takes Buhari Seriously, Even Service Chiefs – Sen. Abaribe
Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe stated this on Wednesday during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today. “Why would we take him (President Muhammadu Buhari) seriously? Just the day after he had said we would no longer accept all these kidnappings, this would be the last, they kidnapped the last day,” he said. “And those people are still there; those innocent Nigerians are...
Uzodimma Compensates Families Of Murdered Security Agents With N185m
The Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodimma, has compensated the families of the security men killed in the Ehime Mbano Local Government Area of the state a few months ago. Gunmen had ambushed the security agents, killed some and razed their operational vehicles. A statement in Owerri, the state capital on Monday by the governor’s spokesperson, Oguwike Nwachuku, disclosed that the...
