By PETER DURU, Makurdi In what seemed a renewed crackdown on perpetrators of violent crimes in parts of the state, no fewer than 45 suspected cultists and armed men have been arrested by men of the Benue State Police Command. Also recovered from the gangs in the last few weeks were assorted fire arms, live […]
Tragedy was averted in the Kano metropolis on Friday when the police uncovered a bomb planted in Fagge Juma’at Mosque. Fagge mosque located on Murtala Muhammad Way in WAPA area of Fagge Local Government is rated second among the big Eid (Sallah prayer) mosques in Kano. It is beside Fagge Police Division, one of the […]
THE current spate of terrorists-induced crises in Kaduna and Yobe states lingered yesterday in both states, pitting security forces against insurgents and those bent on carry out reprisal attacks. Also, Sunday’s multiple bomb attacks in Kaduna and Zaria as well as the reprisals continued to attract condemnation yesterday from concerned individuals and groups. The European […]
KADUNA State Police Commissioner, Mohammed Jinjiri Abubakar yesterday alleged that foreign nationals especially from three African countries were involved in the acts of terrorism currently ravaging parts of the north. The Commissioner told reporters in his office that citizens of Niger Republic, Chad and Cameroon were among those involved in the terror activities and warned […]
By BOLUWAJI OBAHOPO …parade security guard, 8 other suspected robbers LOKOJA—Kogi State Police Command has paraded seven persons for allegedly posing as bishop, pastors and prophets during a revival programme in Lokoja, capital of Kogi State. Those paraded include Bishop Bamidele Abraham of Eagle Kingdom Church, Lokoja and Pastors Chucks Ingalis Kelvin, Chinedu Okosisi, Samson […]
KADUNA (AFP) – Residents of Kaduna stayed indoors on Wednesday as a heavy deployment of soldiers and police enforced a ban on movements after three days of religious violence killed at least 61 people. The round-the-clock state-wide curfew was first imposed after three church bombings in the state on Sunday sparked reprisal violence by Christian […]
2012 VICE-PRESIDENT Namadi Sambo, on Tuesday, met in an emergency session with service chiefs over escalating violence in parts of the country. The National Security Adviser (NSA) to the President, General Andrew Azazi, who fielded questions from State House correspondents after the meeting which took place at the vice-president’s wing of the Presidential Villa, said […]
June 19, 2012 by Success Nwogu, Ilorin, David Attah, Kaduna 92 Comments As violence continued in some parts of Kaduna State on Monday and fresh attacks were reported in Damaturu, Yobe State, President Goodluck Jonathan, will depart for Brazil today. Jonathan is going to the Brazilian commercial capital city, Rio de Janeiro, to take part […]
The death toll of Sunday’s bomb blast reprisal attack in Kaduna had risen to 70 while the number of those injured stood at 130 as at the time of filing this report. This was just when Corporal George Korinya of Kakuri Police Station narrated how hoodlums seized his gun during the reprisal attack when Daily Sun […]
•35 killed, scores injured in bombings, reprisal attacks •Govt imposes 24-hour curfew Photo: Sun News Publishing Victims of reprisal attacks in Kaduna By: NOAH EBIJE and ABDULGAFAR ALABELEWE, Kaduna Date: Sun, 06/17/2012 – 22:49 Suicide bombers, yesterday struck at different churches in Kaduna metropolis and Zaria town, killing many people, as well as injuring scores […]
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