Kaduna state governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has declared that any bandits operating in the state will “most likely end up dead”. The governor spoke on Sunday while featuring on Channels Television programme, “Politics Today.” According to him, the solution to this problem of banditry and kidnapping is to intensify military operations from the air or the…
A non governmental organisation, Journalists Coalition for Citizens’ Rights Initiative (JCCRI), has raised the alarm over the influx of fulani herdsmen and other shadowy elements into the famous Pandam Game Reserve in Qua’an Pan Local Government Area of Plateau. The group in a statement on Sunday, expressed fears that unless urgent steps are taken to…
Raising from their meeting on Sunday in Abeakuta, former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, have recommended special courts to try bandits, kidnappers and carriers of unlawful weapons in Nigeria. According to the Punch newspaper, Obasanjo and Gumi made this known in a jointly signed communique issued after their closed-door meeting at the Obasanjo…
The Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU) has described Yinka Odumakin, the late spokeman of Afenifere as a “fierce fighter for good governance, justice and democracy. In a statement on on Sunday, the President of SOKAPU, Mr. Jonathan Asake, said news of the death of Odumakin was shocking! According Asake, news of Odumakin demise “hit the people…
Five people have been killed by bandits following an attack on Katarma village in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna state. The commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Kaduna. Aruwan also debunked reports that the state government had appointed representatives to negotiate with bandits. The…
Prominent Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, is said to be currently meeting with former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital, according to reports by TheCable. The online news platform said Obasanjo’s spokesman, Kehinde Akinyemi, confirmed the meeting. “It is not just the two of them present; it is stakeholders meeting holding at…
