FG Favours Other State-Owned Security Agencies – Akeredolu
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has accused the Federal Government of double standards in their treatment of state-owned security agencies. He lamented that the FG resisted needed rights for the South-West Security Network, codenamed Amotekun Corps to legitimately bear arms while their equivalent in Katsina was allowed to bear arms. In a statement he personally signed on Thursday and made...
Worshippers Abducted From Zamfara Mosque Resume Work At Bandits’ Farmlands
The 44 worshippers abducted from a mosque in Zamfara community last Friday have been subjected to physical labour on armed men’s farmlands. Residents said the bandits had called to tell relatives that the captives were with them and working on their millet and sorghum plantations but had yet to demand ransom, Daily Trust reports. “Our millet plantations are due for harvest...
Police Restore Peace To Orji After Gunbattle With Unknown Gunmen
Imo State Police Commissioner, Mr. Abutu Yaro, says peace has been restored in Orji, Owerri North Local Government Area, after Thursday’s shootout with hoodlums. Yaro said in a statement issued in Owerri on Friday by police spokesman, SP Bala Alkana that four hoodlums were fatally injured, but others fled during the gun battle. He said the police were on the...
Ikpeazu Reiterates Commitment To Improve Security In Abia, Says Curfew Still In Force
Abia State governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu has said the existing curfew in Aba and Umuahia municipalities commences at 8pm and ends at 6am while that of Ohafia, Bende, Umunneochi and Arochukwu Local Government Areas is from 6pm to 6am for strategic reasons. The Governor while stating that he is daily working hard to improve the security architecture of the state...
Attack On Ortom: Abba Kyari’s Team Arrives Benue
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Muhammed Adamu has set up a Special Investigation Task Force to further probe the attempt by some gunmen to kill Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom. The team, the police said, is led by Abba Kyari, a Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), and it has arrived in Makurdi, the Benue State capital. A statement on Sunday in...
Bandits Abduct 14 In Fresh Kaduna Attack
At least 14 people have been kidnapped by bandits at Iri Station community in Kajuru local government area of Kaduna State. The police authorities are yet to comment on the incident, but a community leader, Ahmed Musa, said the bandits in their large...
We Were Told To Say Boko Haram Kidnapped Us – Kankara Student
One of the hundreds of schoolboys kidnapped from the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State has said that their abductors were not members of Boko Haram. The schoolboy disclosed this in a viral video, adding that they were told to say that the kidnappers were Boko Haram insurgents. Asked if their abductors were bandits or Boko Haram, the students said,...
Troops Rescue 20 Policemen After Their Abduction By Terrorists
Twenty policemen abducted by terrorists during an attack on a police division at Buni Yadi have been rescued by troops of Operation Hadin Kai, the Defence Headquarters has said. Acting Director Defence Media Operations, Brigadier General Benard Onyeuko, while briefing reporters on ongoing military operations in the last two weeks, said the troops’ kinetic and non-kinetic operations have driven the...
Herdsmen Can’t Leave Ondo, Presidency Dares Akeredolu
The Presidency on Tuesday waded into the controversy generated by the directive of the Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, asking herdsmen to leave the state government forest reserves. In a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President called for restraint on the side of the state government and the Fulani...
FG Says NYSC No More Posting Corps Members To “Very Unsafe” and Locations
The Federal Government said members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) are no longer posted to states deemed unsafe in the wake of worsening security conditions in the country. Several corps members have been abducted in some parts of the country during their one-year mandatory national service, raising fears about the sustainability of the scheme. But the Minister of Youth...
