Bill To Eliminate Violence Against Persons Pass Into Law In Adamawa

Crime & SecurityLaw & JusticeNewsBill To Eliminate Violence Against Persons Pass Into Law In Adamawa

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 2, 2021

YOLA — Adamawa State House of Assembly has passed into law a bill for a law to eliminate violence against persons in private and public life. The bill prohibits all forms of violence and provides maximum protection and effective remedies for victims and punishment of offenders. The majority leader of the House, Hammantukur Yettisuri of Jada Mbulo constituency presented the bill for a third reading on the floor of the House as required by law...

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Soldiers Kill Eight Bandits, Weapons Recovered in Katsina

Crime & SecurityMilitaryNewsNigeriaSoldiers Kill Eight Bandits, Weapons Recovered in Katsina

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)March 2, 2021

No fewer than eight bandits were killed when some bandits’ camps were raided in Safana Local Government Area of Katsina State by a joint police-military patrol in a three-day operation that ended on Sunday. The official report said members of the operation also recovered one AK-47 rifle and burnt nine motorcycles belonging to the bandits during the operation. The spokesperson of Katsina State Police Command, SP Gambo Isah, also confirmed the development in Katsina on...

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Police in Adamawa Apprehends Three Suspected Kidnappers, Recovered Weapons

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaPolice in Adamawa Apprehends Three Suspected Kidnappers, Recovered Weapons

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 1, 2021

The Police Command in Adamawa says it has apprehended three suspected kidnappers, recovered weapons and other items from them. Items recovered from suspects included a single barrel gun, a motorcycle, and other dangerous weapons. The Command’s spokesperson, DSP Suleiman Nguroje, said in a statement on Monday in Yola that the suspects were arrested on Feb. 27. “The suspects were apprehended at their various hideouts in Gombi town following credible information and intense search by the...

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PDP Advices Bawa to Restore Professionalism in EFCC

CorruptionCrime & SecurityPDP Advices Bawa to Restore Professionalism in EFCC

PilotnewsMarch 1, 2021

ABUJA — The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised the new Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Abdulraheed Bawa, to re-engineer and restore professionalism in the anti-graft agency. The party in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, on Sunday in Abuja urged Bawa to avoid the pitfalls of his immediate predecessor. Ologbondiyan advised him to resist all-partisan pressures to use the agency as a tool for political...

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SEC, Group to Train Security Agencies, Lawyers On Tackling Ponzi Scheme

Crime & SecurityInvestingNewsSEC, Group to Train Security Agencies, Lawyers On Tackling Ponzi Scheme

PilotnewsMarch 1, 2021

ABUJA — The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in collaboration with the Attorney General Alliance Africa (AGA-Africa) will train law enforcement agencies, lawyers, and the public on the prevention of Ponzi scheme operations in the country. A statement by a joint committee of SEC and AGA-Africa in Abuja on Sunday said the training would be a two-day webinar to educate the stakeholders on the prevention and investigation of Ponzi schemes. The committee noted that the...

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Kano State Government Closes 4 Tertiary Institutions

Crime & SecurityEducationNewsNigeriaKano State Government Closes 4 Tertiary Institutions

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 1, 2021

The Kano State Government has ordered the closure of four tertiary institutions in the state over insecurity in Nigeria’s northwest region. The affected schools include RMK College of Advanced and Remedial Studies Tudun Wada, School of Environmental Studies Gwarzo, School of Rural Technology and Entrepreneurship Development (SORTED) Rano, and ABCOAD Dambatta. The order came just a day after the state closed 10 boarding schools due to rising cases of students abduction for ransom by the...

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Bandits Releases Kidnap Students of GSC Kagara, President Buhari Hails Security Agencies

Crime & SecurityEducationNewsNigeriaBandits Releases Kidnap Students of GSC Kagara, President Buhari Hails Security Agencies

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 27, 2021

42 persons abducted by armed bandits on Feb. 17 at the Government Science College, Kagara in Rafi Local Government Area of Niger, have regained freedom. Mary Noel-Berje, the spokesperson to the governor of Niger state, confirmed in a statement that “kidnapped students, staff and family members of the Government Science College Kagara have regained freedom and received by the Niger state government”. The students who were received by the Chief of Staff to the governor,...

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Abduction Saga: Zamfara, Kano States Closes Boarding Schools

Crime & SecurityEducationNewsNigeriaAbduction Saga: Zamfara, Kano States Closes Boarding Schools

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 27, 2021

Following the abduction of 317 schoolgirls of Government Girls Secondary School Jangebe, the Zamfara State government has closed down all boarding schools. In the same vein, Kano state government has announced the closure of 10 boarding schools across the state with immediate effect in the wake of the abduction of school children. Briefing newsmen in Government House Gusau, on Friday, Governor Bello Matawalle explained that the schools must remain shut down until the security situation has...

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Federal Government Will Soon Arraign 5,000 Suspected Boko Haram In Detentions

Crime & SecurityLaw & JusticeNewsNigeriaFederal Government Will Soon Arraign 5,000 Suspected Boko Haram In Detentions

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 27, 2021

The Director-General of Legal Aid Council, Aliyu Abubakar says the Federal Government will soon begin the arraignment of 5,000 suspected Boko Haram members in various detention facilities across the country. Abubakar disclosed this during a courtesy visit to Borno Governor Babagana Zulum in the Maiduguri Government House. “The legal aid teams have so far interviewed about 283 as part of the efforts to establish the extent of their involvement as well as to understand the...

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Zamfara Abduction Is A Violation Of Children’s Right

Crime & SecurityNewsWorld NewsZamfara Abduction Is A Violation Of Children’s Right

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)February 27, 2021

The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has expressed concern over the abduction of over 300 students at the Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in Talata Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State. It described abduction as “a gross violation of children’s rights.” The UNICEF country representative in Nigeria, Peter Hawkins, in a statement on Friday, condemned the attack which took place in North West Nigeria. The statement added that the school attack is coming a...

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