By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor LAGOS— Criminal and politically minded insurgents in the Boko Haram group were behind last week’s rejection of the amnesty plans of the Federal Government, Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State has said. Noting that no genuine Moslem or Christian would shed blood in the name of God, Governor Yuguda affirmed [...]
BY SUZAN EDEH Bauchi — The Inspector General of Police, IGP, Alhaji Muhammad Abubakar yesterday donated N9.8 million to families of policemen who lost their lives while in active service, as well as those who sustained various degrees of injury while fighting Boko Haram in Borno and Yobe States. Distributing the cheques to the next-of-kins [...]
•Gives chilling details of how her co-traveller was slaughtered From PAUL ORUDE, Bauchi, Call it a narrow escape or a close shave with death, you are not wrong in capturing the story of 25-year old Patience Bitrus who recently escaped from suspected ritualists in Bauchi State. However, her co-traveller was not as lucky as Patience [...]
Bauchi- An explosion on Wednesday night slightly damaged the building of Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) in Zango area of Bauchi metropolis. Bauchi State Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Mohammed Ladan, confirmed the incident in a telephone interview. He said that the church building was slightly damaged, adding that there was no casualty. Ladan also [...]
BAUCHI, Nigeria – A suicide car bomber attacked a Catholic church conducting Mass in northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing one person and wounding another 46 in a region under assault by a radical Islamist sect, officials said. An Associated Press journalist heard the explosion after 9 a.m. Sunday in the city of Bauchi, which has [...]
No fewer than nine persons were killed on Sunday in Zango area of Bauchi metropolis following an attack carried out in the area by gunmen. Seven others were injured in the midnight raid. An eyewitness said five people died on the spot and four died at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Teaching Hospital Bauchi while receiving [...]
Telecoms services were on Wednesday disrupted in Borno, Bauchi, Yobe, Gombe and Kano states following the bombing of telecoms base stations by suspected terrorists. Our correspondent gathered that base stations belonging to MTN, Globacom, Airtel might have been affected in the multiple attacks that jolted Borno, Bauchi, Yobe and Gombe states. Experts, who described [...]
By SUZAN EDEH Security agents, yesterday, stepped up checks on motorists and pedestrians in Bauchi State ahead of the end of Ramadan prayers. Security patrols were intensified especially in densely populated areas of the Bauchi metropolis and the suburbs of Yelwa (crisis prone area), Bayara, Guru, WuntinDada, and Tsohon Kanfani, along Bauchi -Jos Road. Other [...]
THE Congress for Pro-gressive Change (CPC) in Bauchi State has informed that Governor Isa Yuguda’s constant travelling outside the state is disturbing, saying that the governor’s absence in the state is causing setbacks to the state. In a swift reaction though, the state government defended the governor’s constant absence in the state, saying it was [...]
By: PAUL ORUDE, Bauchi Date: Thu, 07/26/2012 – 23:40 It was a bloody day for the Bauchi State Police Command as gunmen yesterday killed three of its men on patrol along Bauchi Gombe Road. The gunmen made away with three police rifles after opening fire on the policemen on patrol. Two inspectors and a corporal [...]
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