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Monday, 01 March 2021 03:28

NDLEA operatives arrest cross-border trafficker with N1bn cocaine concealed in yogurts

A 36-year-old suspected trans-border drug trafficker, Nkem Timothy, alias Auwalu Audu, has been arrested in Sokoto by operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. He was apprehended while trying to cross to Algeria through Niger Republic with 62 wraps of substance suspected to be cocaine weighing 1.550kg and with an estimated street value of about N1bn. Sokoto State acting Commander of the NDLEA, Bamidele Segun, according to a statement by the agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday, stated that the suspect was intercepted on a motorcycle around the Baggage area of the Illela border while trying…

Saturday, 27 February 2021 05:25

24 hours after, location of more than 300 abducted Zamfara schoolgirls unknown

An operation to rescue more than 300 girls kidnapped in Nigeria had failed to pinpoint their location by late on Friday, almost 24 hours after gunmen seized them in a raid on their school. The raid in Zamfara state, where the governor ordered all boarding schools to close immediately, was the second such kidnapping in little over a week in the country’s northwest, a region increasingly targeted by militants and criminal gangs. Zamfara police said they had begun search-and-rescue operations with the army to find the “bandits” who took the 317 girls from the Government Girls Science Secondary School in…

Saturday, 27 February 2021 05:22

OPC arrests four suspected kidnappers in Oyo forests

Oyo State chapter of Oodua Peoples Congress on Friday said it arrested four suspected kidnappers during its search of forests in the Ibarapaland area of Oyo State. The group under the supervision of the Oyo State coordinator of Gani Adams-led OPC, Rotimi Olumo, also made progress with the arrest of the second-in-command to the alleged dreaded kidnapper, Wakilu, one Isiaka Muhammadu. According to a statement by the Special Assistant on Media to Adams, Kehinde Aderemi, the arrests were made around 1pm on Friday during a search mission for Wakilu said to be terrorising the area. The statement noted that Muhammadu…

Friday, 26 February 2021 07:29

Bandits kidnap hundreds of schoolgirls in Zamfara

Armed bandits have attacked Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in Talata Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State, kidnapping hundreds of schoolgirls. This is coming barely a week after the abduction of dozens of schoolboys in Kagara, Niger State. Although details are still sketchy, sources told BBC Hausa on Friday morning that over 300 schoolgirls were abducted in the latest mass school abduction in Zamfara. Daily Nigerian

Friday, 26 February 2021 05:29

Nigeria losing $13m worth of oil daily to theft, vandalism - NNPC

Nigeria is losing 200,000 barrels of crude oil a day because of theft and vandalism, the head of the state oil company said, underscoring how insecurity is causing vast financial losses for the West African country. With Brent Crude oil prices hovering around $66.70, the losses would amount to more than $13 million a day and more than $4.8 billion a year, at a time when Nigeria needs funds to tackle poverty, improve security and boost the economy, which shrank 1.92% in 2020 in part due to the pandemic. Group managing director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mele Kyari,…

Friday, 26 February 2021 05:27

Boko Haram abducts travellers on Maiduguri highway

Boko Haram insurgents abducted some passengers along the Damaturu-Maiduguri road on Thursday. The incident happened in the Jakana axis of the road. Military sources told TheCable that the insurgents attacked the army’s 28 task force brigade in the area, and while they were being engaged, they turned on travellers plying the road. “They attempted to attack the military base, but the troops gave them a run,” one of the sources said. “While they were retreating to the bush, they got to the highway and abducted some passengers they ran into the bush with. “Soldiers are still tracing them in order…

Friday, 26 February 2021 05:26

Gunmen kill 4 policemen, 2 others in Calabar

Gunmen have shot and killed four policemen at a checkpoint in Calabar, Cross River State capital. The incident reportedly happened in the wee hours of Thursday, 25 February, 2021. The gunmen were said to have swooped on the unsuspecting policemen at Ayanmbat community near Idundu in the Aka Efa area of the Cross River capital. The policemen whose identities had not been disclosed were said to have been killed while resting at the location. Neighbours, who heard the gunshots, said they thought it was a robbery attack. When reporters visited the scene in the morning, six bodies, including those of…

Thursday, 25 February 2021 05:26

Bandit attacks claim 18 lives in Kaduna communities - Official

Security agencies have reported a sequence of attacks by armed bandits on soft targets in Igabi and Chikun local government areas occurring over the last 48 hours. Samuel Aruwan, Commissioner, Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Kaduna State, said on Wednesday, that Anaba village in the Igabi local government area was attacked, with seven residents killed. He said many of the houses in the community were burnt down, along with storehouses and barns. About 20 cows were rustled and a number of poultry slaughtered and carted away. Also, Barinje village in Chikun local government area was attacked, with eight…

Tuesday, 23 February 2021 05:38

FG knows locations, hideouts of bandits, killer-herdsmen - Gumi

Islamic cleric and peace negotiator, Ahmad Gumi, has said that Federal Government knows the hiding place of the herdsmen and bandits involved in clashes with farmers, kidnappings and other criminal activities. Gumi said that the government was only now playing safe because it realised that the former approach of attacking the bandits frontally was not working. The Islamic cleric said this on Channels TV “Politics Today” on Monday, when asked why he can locate and hold dialogue with the bandits, while government authorities cannot find them. Gumi said: “They (government) know. They see them (bandits) by aerial view. But the…

Monday, 22 February 2021 05:28

Imo police arrest ex-gov Okorocha for breaking into sealed property

Operatives of Imo State Police Command, Owerri, have arrested a former governor of the state, Rochas Okorocha. Also arrested were Ijeoma Igboanusi and Lasbrey Okafor-Anyanwu. While Igboanusi was the deputy chief of staff (Domestics), Okafor-Anyanwu was the commissioner for Transportation when Okorocha, who is the current lawmaker representing Imo West (Orlu Senatorial Zone), held sway as the state governor. This was as the former governor claimed that the incumbent Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, attacked him (Okorocha) with 1,000 thugs. Okorocha was arrested on Sunday after unsealing the Spring Palm Estate linked to his wife, Nkechi. The ex-governor had stormed…

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Friday, 19 February 2021 06:17

Herdsmen unleash terror on Edo communities, kill seven

Gunmen suspected to be herdsmen have killed no fewer than seven persons, including farmers in Edo State. The gruesome attack was said to have been carried out yesterday at Ugboke, Oshodi, Okokodo, Ariyan and Yoruba camp situated in Ovia North-East Local Government Area of the state. According to Janet Ighodaro, an indigene of the area, “the suspected herdsmen took over the popularly known Yoruba camp located in Ovia North-east as a base to launch attack on the various communities in our state.” Ighodaro said she was lucky to escape stray bullets flying around as she ran for safety to take…

Thursday, 18 February 2021 05:28

Gunmen kill student, kidnap 42 in attack on secondary school in Niger state

Unidentified gunmen killed a student in an overnight attack on a boarding school in the north-central Nigerian state of Niger on Wednesday and kidnapped 42 people including 27 students, the state governor said. The assailants stormed Government Science secondary school in the Kagara district of Niger state at around 2 a.m., overwhelming the school’s security detail, Governor Abubakar Sani Bello said. “Twenty-seven students, three staff and 12 members of their families were kidnapped. Unfortunately, one student was shot dead,” he told a news conference. Aliyu Isa, a teacher, told Channels TV that the abductors were dressed in army uniforms and…

Thursday, 18 February 2021 05:27

Seven soldiers killed as Boko Haram sacks military base in Borno

At least seven Nigerian soldiers have been confirmed killed after a deadly ambush by Boko Haram terrorists in Borno State. The affected soldiers were attached to the 153 Task Force Battalion in Marte Local Government Council of the state, sources familiar with the matter told PREMIUM TIMES. According to the sources, the troops were caught by surprise when the terrorists swooped on them at 10 a.m. on Monday. They, however, put up a strong fight to defend their base and ward off the insurgents. But despite their gallant efforts, the soldiers were overwhelmed “because they could not withstand the superior…

Thursday, 18 February 2021 05:24

Invictus Obi jailed 10 years for fraud by US court

A Nigerian businessman, who once appeared on the cover of Forbes magazine, has been jailed for 10 years in the US over a cyber fraud scam that led to the theft of about $11m (£8m). Obinwanne Okeke, also known as Invictus Obi, used Nigerian-based companies to defraud people in the US. His companies used phishing emails to steal funds from victims. In 2016 Forbes Africa listed Okeke among the most influential businesspeople under the age of 30. From around 2015 to 2019, he was part of a group which engaged in a conspiracy to conduct various computer-based frauds, including creating…

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