Bandits Have External Sponsors-NSCDC Boss

Crime & SecurityNewsBandits Have External Sponsors-NSCDC Boss

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 20, 20211

Commandant-General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Ahmed Audi says persons involved in banditry and similar criminal activities receive sponsorship from international circles. The country in recent times, witnessed a rise in the activities of bandits, especially with the mass abduction of schoolchildren in the northern part of the country for ransom. Audi who spoke during training for state commandants of the agency in Abuja stated that the country is experiencing “asymmetric...

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BREAKING: Bandits Attacks Governor Ortom

Crime & SecurityNewsBREAKING: Bandits Attacks Governor Ortom

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 20, 2021

Some bandits suspected to be militia herdsmen have just launched an attack on the convoy of Governor Samuel Ortom at Tyo-mu along Makurdi – Gboko road. It’s not clear yet the impact of the attack on the governor’s convoy. Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Terver Akase, confirmed the incident and promised to provide details as soon as possible. Details shortly…

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Four Naval Officer, Three Policemen Killed In Anambra

Crime & SecurityNewsFour Naval Officer, Three Policemen Killed In Anambra

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)March 19, 2021

Gunmen on Thursday were reported to kill four naval men and three policemen in different locations in Anambra. But the state police command said it is only one policeman that died. It was learned that the incident created tension in the state following the ambush and murder of the security agents. It was gathered that the hoodlums killed three policemen at Ukacha Junction, Neni in the Anaocha Local Government Area of the state while their...

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OPINION: The Nigerian Military’s Missing Link: A Joint Special Operations Command

Crime & SecurityNigeriaOpinionOPINION: The Nigerian Military’s Missing Link: A Joint Special Operations Command

PilotnewsMarch 18, 2021

By Fola Aina Nigeria’s northern regions continue to struggle with insecurity, claiming the lives of tens of thousands and displacing millions due to armed banditry and Boko Haram. Significant battlefield defeats led the military to resort to a strategy of establishing super camps to prevent terrorists and armed bandits from overrunning areas of relative peace. However, as that approach has largely failed, President Muhammadu Buhari decided to heed months of repeated calls for change among the military’s top brass when he appointed new service chiefs in late...

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Crime & SecurityLocal GovernmentNewsNigeriaBREAKING: Gunmen Run Amok, Kill Security Operatives and Cart Away With Their Weapons in Anambra

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)March 18, 2021

Unknown gunmen today killed some Navy officers around Awkuzu Junction, in the Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State. While the number of Navy operatives killed has not been ascertained, weapons belonging to the murdered officers were taken by the gunmen, according to reports. This was exactly the case yet again at Okacha Junction in Idemili South local government of Anambra this evening when some police officers were killed and their weapons were taken by...

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Tongue Lashing: Politicians, Retired Public Servants Behind Conflicts Across Nigeria

Crime & SecurityNational SecurityNewsTongue Lashing: Politicians, Retired Public Servants Behind Conflicts Across Nigeria

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 17, 2021

There are accusations and counter-accusation of those behind the various forms of conflict in Nigeria as the national president of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, a Fulani socio-cultural organization, Alhaji Bello Bodejo, says desperate politicians were the brains behind ethnoreligious crises in the country. However, Bakut Bakut, Director General Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR) has accused retired public servants of causing communal conflicts across Nigeria. The duo made their positions in different fora. Bodejo during the...

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United Nations Launch $1b Appeal For 6.4m Vulnerable People Of Borno, Adamawa, Yobe

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaUnited StatesUnited Nations Launch $1b Appeal For 6.4m Vulnerable People Of Borno, Adamawa, Yobe

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 17, 2021

The United Nations is appealing for $1 billion to help 6.4 million of Nigeria’s most vulnerable people, including two million who have been forced to flee their homes because of armed conflict. The bulk of the money will be used to provide life-saving assistance to millions of people in Nigeria’s northeastern states of Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe due to activities of Boko Haram, which began in 2009. Jens Laerke, spokesman for the U.N. Office for...

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Plumber, 48, Bags 2 Months’ Community Service For Stealing Generator Set

Crime & SecurityLaw & JusticeNewsPlumber, 48, Bags 2 Months’ Community Service For Stealing Generator Set

PilotnewsMarch 17, 2021

GWAGWALADA (FCT), —  A Gwagwalada Magistrates’ Court, FCT, on Wednesday sentenced a 48-year-old plumber, Isiaka Garuba, to two months’ community service for stealing a generator set. Garuba of Sabo Iddo village, Abuja, pleaded guilty to theft of a generator set and begged the court for leniency. Delivering his judgment, the Magistrate, Yusuf Ibrahim, however, sentenced Garuba to two months’ community service. Ibrahim ordered that the community service should be for three hours daily. The magistrate...

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OPINION: Nigeria Needs to Better Protect its Schoolchildren

ColumnsCrime & SecurityOpinionOPINION: Nigeria Needs to Better Protect its Schoolchildren

PilotnewsMarch 16, 2021

By Nkasi Wodu In early March, over three hundred schoolgirls abducted by armed groups from a secondary school in Zamfara State in northern Nigeria were released by their abductors. Unfortunately, the global outrage this incident stoked has not deterred the armed groups operating in the north. Just last week, another set of students was kidnapped from a college in Kaduna State—the third mass kidnapping of students in Nigeria in 2021. An ugly video released by the kidnappers in Kaduna showed the students being...

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Abduction of School Children Aim To Destroy Education In North-University Dons

Crime & SecurityEducationNewsNigeriaAbduction of School Children Aim To Destroy Education In North-University Dons

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 16, 2021

The Dean, Faculty of Education, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Prof. Yahaya Korau Kajuru, said the abduction of school children is a grand design to destroy whatever success that the North has recorded in the education sector. He noted that it was a ploy to prevent Northern children from going to school and the implication was obvious for everyone to predict. “Unfortunately, our leaders don’t seem to understand what is going on, or they have...

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