ONE of the leading negotiators for the release of victims of the train attack in Kaduna State, Tukur Mamu, has been reportedly arrested by security operatives in Egypt. Mamu, who is also the spokesman for Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, was said to have been arrested on Tuesday by INTERPOL at the Cairo International […]
RESIDENTS and traders at Mile 12, in the Kosofe Local Government Area of Lagos State, have been living in fear after cultists allegedly killed a Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Sulaimon Onaolapo, aka Ariku, in the area. In a video which trended online on Sunday evening, no fewer than four suspected […]
THE Country Director of Actionaid Nigeria, Ene Obi, has lamented the impact of banditry on the country’s food security, adding that government should tackle it in order to solve the food crisis. Obi made this disclosure in her remarks on Monday at the National Stakeholders Consultative Meeting on the 2023 Agriculture Budget in collaboration with […]
THE New General Officer Commanding (GOC) 1 Division Nigerian Army, Maj Gen Taoreed Lagbaja accompanied by a team of operational commanders and operatives rescued three kidnap victims, while on an Operational cum inspection tour in Kaduna state on Thursday 25 August 2022. A statement by Army headquarters said, “The GOC and his team rescued the […]
FIVE suspected Ambazonian fighters from neighbouring Republic of Cameroon, believed to be linked to Boko Haram, have been arrested by personnel of the Benue State Community Volunteer Guards, BSCVG, in Jato Aka, Kwande LGA, of the state. Special Adviser to the governor on Security, Lt. Col. Paul Hemba (retd), who made the disclosure, yesterday, in […]
A local branch Chairman of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MCBAN, Attahiru Abubakar (Tukuran Bargu), has warned against ethnic profiling and killing of Fulani pastoralist in some Southern and middle belt states. He gave the warning in Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State. According to him, Fulani tribe is not unaware of the labelling of […]
THE Edo State Police Command has announced the killing of a suspected kidnapper at Izuala forest in the Ovia North East Local Government Area of the state. The state Command’s Deputy Public Relations Officer, ASP Jennifer Iwegbu, explained that the exploit of the command in killing the suspect followed a complaint by one Mr Moses […]
THE four Catholic Church Reverend Sisters kidnapped last Sunday at Okigwe-Umulolo axis in Okigwe Local Government Area of Imo State have been released. Secretary-General of Sisters of Jesus The Saviour (Generalate), Zita Ihedoro, disclosed this to newsmen in Owerri, yesterday. The freed Reverend Sisters, Johannes Nwodo, Christabel Echemazu, Liberata Mbamalu and Benita Agu, were kidnapped […]
The whereabouts of the Divisional Crime Officer, DCO, of Mbala Isuochi Police Division, Umunneochi council area of Abia State, DSP Dickson, is still unknown two weeks after he was kidnapped by gunmen at the station. The Abia state police command is yet to make any official statement on the incident. However, Vanguard gathered that the […]
Notorious bandit leader, Bello Turji who has been the mastermind of killings and kidnappings in Shinkafi, Sabon Birni, Isah in Zamfara and Sokoto states. The Zamfara State Committee on Prosecutions of Bandits Related Offences says until Bello Turji, the Notorious Bandit Kingpin publicly surrenders his arms and announces his repentance, it will not consider his […]