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ABDUCTOR KILLED, TWO CAPTURED IN RESCUE OPERATION OF ABDUCTED MEDICAL STUDENTS It was a bloody day in Ajide forest, Benue State on Friday as security agents swooped on the gunmen who had been holding 20 medical students of the Universities of Jos and Maiduguri captive. The abductors had demanded a N50million ransom to free the victims but the government was …

CHARLEY BOY MOCKS NIGERIAN GOVT OVER MURDERED SOKOTO EMIR An emir was kiidnaped and N1 billion ransom in cash was demanded. Demand was not met and the emir was killed. Son asked for the corpse of the murdered Emir. Kidnappers demands N60 million and 6 motorbikes as ransom for the ded bodi of the killed emir In all these going …

OKONJO-IWEALA KNOCKS, ACCUSES NIGERIAN POLITICIANS OF WEAPONSING INSECURITY The Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has urged political actors to stop weaponising insecurity in Nigeria.She argued that it is impossible to have socioeconomic development without security. Okonjo-Iweala spoke before a room filled with lawyers at the Eko Hotel & Suites in Lagos during the opening ceremony …

POLICE, SHI’ITE CLASH IN ABUJA: TWO POLICEMEN DEAD, THREE UNCONSCIOUS The Nigerian Police Force has claimed that two of its officer were killed and three other fatally wounded during a clash with the Muslim Shi’te religious sect on Sunday in Abuja.According to a statement signed by FCT Police Public Relations Officer, Supritendent of Police Josephine Adeh, “The FCT police command …

EL RUFAI BEMOANS STATE OF ENVY AMONG NIGERIA’S POLITICAL CLASS Former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has taken to his verified Twitter account to share a reflective piece on the destructive impact of envy within Nigeria’s political system. Citing a quote from U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, who stated, “None of us has to fail for all of us to …

THE YORUBAS WANT YORUBA NATION; THE EAST, WANT BIAFRA; BUT THE NORTH, IS FACING BOKO HARAM, ISWAP – SHINKAFI Former Chairman of the Committee on Prosecution of Bandits and Related Offences, Sani Shikafi, recently spoke about the escalating insecurities in Nigeria Speaking with Channels Television., Shinkafi condemned the brutal killing of a Sokoto monarch by bandits who demanded a ransom …

THE INEVITABLE RETURN OF AMBASSADOR EKE AYODELE AS DG NIA & SUDDEN “RESIGNATION” OF AHMED RUFAI Ahmed Rufai from Katsina state resigned as DG NIA yesterday, a post he has been holding since April 2017. He was the most influential of all Buhari’s appointees and the luckiest of all appointees. His reported resignation today was short of FULL DISCLOSURE and …

RIBADU UNDER FIRE AS BANDITS OVERWHELM SECURITY AGENCIESStakeholders have taken a look at the rising wave of terror and banditry, especially kidnapping, in the last few months and blamed the Bola Ahmed Tinubu adminis­tration for its apparent lack of an effective security framework and coordination under Nuhu Riba­du as National Security Adviser.Ribadu, former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes …

POLICE ARREST WOMAN WITH 124 ROUNDS Of AMMUNITION HIDDEN INSIDE PALM OIL Operatives of the Nasarawa State Police Command attached to the Keffi Division have intercepted and arrested a woman, Hauwa Sani, alongside a two-year-old child, with dangerous weapons. Keffi town is 33 kilometres and about a 40-minute drive from the Federal Capital Territory, FCT. The Nasarawa Police Public Relations …

SIX ARRESTED FOR OPENLY URINATING ON RAIL TRACK The Lagos State government has arrested six individuals for openly urinating on the rail track in front of the Nigeria Army Shopping Complex, Arena, Oshodi. The state Commissioner, Ministry of Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab said this in a statement posted on his verified X account on Saturday. He wrote, “6 …