Troops of Operation Sahel Sanity of the Nigerian Army have arrested 418 bandits and 315 illegal miners in the North-West. The Acting Director, Defence Media Operation, Brig.-Gen. Bernard Onyeuko, stated this while briefing newsmen on the success recorded by the Army Operation at the Special Army Super Camp 4, Faskari, Katsina State, on Saturday. Onyeuko […]
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Brig-Gen. Bernard Onyeuko, Acting Director Media Operations, Operation Sahel Sanity, disclosed this during a news conference at the Special Army Super Camp in Faskari on Tuesday. Onyeuko disclosed that the troops acting on intelligence information raided an illegal mining site in Bukkuyum Local Government Area of Zamfara State where they arrested 150 bandits and recovered […]
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As part of measures adopted to consolidate efforts aimed at containing the security situation in the country, the Federal Government has approved the sum of N13.3 billion for the take-off of Community Policing initiative across the country. Accordingly, the National Economic Council (NEC) at its virtual meeting on Thursday (the 6th in 2020), chaired by […]
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By Arlene J. Schar and Dr. David Leffler We are currently living through unprecedented times of epic proportions. Against the backdrop of a deadly relentless pandemic and its resulting economic and societal collapse, cities worldwide are under siege from the backlash of peaceful protests gone horribly wrong. These are challenging times for police. They are tasked […]
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The sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar, says the recent killings by insurgents and bandits would have been avoided if the government had risen to the occasion. In a statement issued through Abubakar Aliyu, secretary-general of Jamaatu Nasril Islam (JNI), the sultan, who is JNI president-general, asked the government to do more to stem the tide […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has told the services chiefs that their best is not good enough as regards the handling security challenges in Nigeria. Buhari said this in a meeting with service chiefs at the presidential villa on Thursday, noting that excuses will no longer be tolerated. Addressing state house correspondents at the end of the […]
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The Oyo State Command of the Nigeria Police Force has arrested a suspect connected with the killing of the 29-year old pregnant post-graduate student of the University of Ibadan. The student, Azeezat Shomuyiwa, was murdered in Ijefun, Akinyele area of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, last week. She was found dead in her home with […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari urged the military to strongly repel the attack on Faduma Kolomdi village in Gubio local government area of Borno state. Recall that over 70 people were gruesomely killed by Boko Haram fighters in an attack on Tuesday. In a statement Garba Shehu, his spokesman, issued on his behalf, Buhari expressed shock over the “brutal […]
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The Nigerian Army has expressed sadness at the unfortunate incident in which suspected Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists ambushed and killed innocent women and children in Faduma Koloram village, Gubio LGA of Borno State. In a communique by its spokesman, Colonel Sagir Musa, the army revealed that already a large contingent of military personnel have been drafted […]
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Gunmen have killed seven persons in four separate attacks in Plateau State. It was gathered that while four young men were shot dead in an ambush by gunmen in Adu village and one killed in Miango town, all in the Bassa Local Government Area, two other persons were shot dead by gunmen in the Jos […]
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