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Three suspected ritualists have been arrested at a house where abducted persons were slaughtered in Igbokoda, Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State. The suspects, Bode Omoboye, Eric Ogungbamila and Tayo Loto who served as their agents, are currently being detained at the Igbokoda police division. According to residents of the community, Tayo confessed after an interrogation that he was sent to Kogi State by Omoboye and Ogungbamila to kidnap people and bring them to Igbokoda for rituals. “I want to appeal to Nigerians to take this case seriously, especially the Governor of Ondo State, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, and his Kogi State counterpart, Yahaya Bello because this case involves two states,” said a resident who narrated the incident on Facebook. He added, “A guy named Loto Tayo has confessed after interrogation at NURTW motor park in Igbokoda that he was sent to Kogi State by two men from Igbokoda to go and kidnap people for rituals as he has been doing for them for a very...

Police in Bayelsa State have paraded 45 suspects arrested for armed robbery, rape, arson, murder and cultism in the state. Five suspects were arrested for their involvement in the last month’s invasion of the country home of the former governor of the state, Seriake Dickson, and killing of a police inspector in Toru Orua Community of Sagbama Local government area of the state. The Bayelsa State Commissioner of Police, Mike Okoli, while parading the suspects, noted that though crime and criminality could not be eradicated in the country, the police are on top of their games to checkmate and arrest perpetrators of such crimes. He said due to intelligence gathering and discreet investigations, the police arrested the five suspects that invaded Dickson’s home who were searching for hidden money purportedly kept in his residence. He said though the suspects confessed to the planning of the invasion, they denied that they carried out the attack.  “We will arraign them in cour...

The relatives of an Oyo State-based widow and property owner, Kachi Owanwe, have cried out for help over intimidation by tenant Vitalis Njoku who allegedly used the police to harass them at their house located at Bilyman Usman Street in Jab, Abuja. Njoku occupies one of the three flats in the building which was rented to him by Osias and Oseji Estate Surveyors and Valuers. He had refused to sign and returned the tenancy agreement form to the house agents. With a long-overdue rent and a debt of N4 million, the owners appealed to Njoku to move out for the house to be renovated, but he allegedly refused to do so, further barring other potential tenants from taking over from him. Instead, they said, he installed cameras and door locks at every point in the building to track uninvited guests and wade them off with dogs. One of the widow’s relatives, Jonathan Chinedu, said Njoku had gone on to occupy the two bedrooms downstairs without their consent in the previous year, a scenari...

Members of Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), popularly known as Shiites, on Monday dared the Nigerian police. They staged a massive protest at the nation’s capital Abuja to mark the fifth anniversary of the massacre of their members by the Nigerian Army in Zaria, Kaduna State. The demonstrators stormed Wuse Market chanting anti-government songs to demand the release of their leader, Ibraheem El-zakzaky, who has been held since December 2015. The sect also distributed some leaflets to passersby which contained information on how unarmed members of the sect were murdered soldiers. PHOTONEWS: Shiites Dare @PoliceNG , Hold Protest On Abuja Streets To Mark Five Years Of #ZariaMassacre Carried Out By @HQNigerianArmy | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/RJ4wgrkaJR pic.twitter.com/yvCvRHgMRZ — Sahara Reporters (@SaharaReporters) December 14, 2020 The group said the demonstration was aimed to honour and remember hundreds of their members who died during a violent clash with the...

Wole Soyinka Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has lamented the spate of insecurity in the country, noting that President Muhammadu Buhari was not in charge of the government. He said the recent “abduction once again of the nation’s children” in “Buhari’s terrain” is “a slap across the face of the Commander-in-Chief”. Wole Soyinka He spoke on the backdrop of late Friday’s abduction of pupils in an all-boys Government Secondary in Katsina State; hometown of Buhari. Soyinka condemned the security challenges confronting in the country in a statement on Tuesday titled “INFRADIG–A presidential comeuppance.” He added that when the National Assembly summoned the President to appear before it amid the rising insecurity in the country, he (Buhari) didn’t initially consider the summon as below the standard of behaviour. He stated that the President considered the invitation as a polite invitation to preserve the “tattered remains of his ‘Born-Again’ democratic camouflage.” “That, ...

A pupil of the attacked Government Secondary School, Kankara in Katsina State, who escaped from the bandits’ hideouts, has claimed that two of his colleagues have been killed. A parent of a missing pupil, Hajia Faiza Hamza Kankara, who spoke to Vanguard, said the pupil stated this while giving an account of his ordeal in the hands of the captors. The grieving parent said the boy told them that the bandits fed them with leaves and beat them like cattle. She also said the pupil told them that the abducted pupils still missing stand at over 500, saying whoever said the number of missing children is 10, is a liar. She said,  “My son, Usman Lawal Tahir, is in SS2 class. He is still missing. One of the pupils who returned yesterday (Sunday night) said they were 520 that included two that were killed and him who escaped. “So whoever says the missing children were ten lied. Today (Monday), another child just returned, and he is being interviewed in the principal’s office. So we...

DG of DSS, Yusuf Bichi. The Department of State Services has called on Nigerians to show their support in tackling insecurity and stop blaming the security agencies.  The Director-General of the agency, Yusuf Bichi, made this call in Abuja at the Security and Emergency Awards (SEMA 2020), where the organisation was conferred with an award by Emergency Digest, a security tabloid.  DG of DSS, Yusuf Bichi. The DG, represented by the service spokesman, Peter Afunanya, stated that the support of the citizens was pertinent, especially in areas of intelligence gathering. He added that people needed to rededicate themselves to the ideals of building a country that is devoid of any insecurity.  He said, “We call on Nigerians to support security agencies and the government. Security is no longer for government and security agencies; there is a need for collaborative efforts and partnerships. You continue to stay in your comfort zones and continue to blame security agenci...

About 16,000 reports of sexual abuse in 29 Sexual Assault Referral Centre have been received across 17 states as of September 2020 in Nigeria. Danladi Plang, the National Programme Manager, Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption Programme, disclosed that many people are rejecting the culture of silence and coming out to seek help. He further added that there had been an increase in reportage of sexual assault even in places considered to be conservative. According to the Nation, Plang spoke on Sunday in Abuja at the SARC Network Conference/International Human Rights Day/Grand Finale of the 16 Days of Activism organised by RULAC. He said, “Right now, we have 29 centres, the latest being the one opened in Bwari, FCT, two weeks ago, and more is coming. We should be able to open the second one in Lagos by the beginning of next year. “Many people are rejecting the culture of silence and coming out to seek help, which has increased the number of survivors coming to SACRs centres with ab...

The Delta State Police Command has arrested the Chairman of Patani Local Government Area in the state, Perez Omoun, over alleged invasion of the private home of the state Commissioner for Power and Energy, Basil Ganagana. SaharaReporters learned that the invasion, which occurred in the early hours of Sunday, left the gate of the commissioner’s home, some exotic cars and other properties severely damaged in Asaba, the state capital. It was gathered that the development, which created tension among residents in the area, was brought under control when police officers from the GRA Division of the state command were called in and arrested the rampaging council chairman. Ganagana and Omoun hail from the same local government council. Confirming the incident to SaharaReporters, one of the aides to the commissioner, who pleaded anonymity because he was authorised to speak to the press on the issue, said that apart from the destruction of property, the commissioner’s driver was ...

Some Nigerians on social media have lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari over the abduction of students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State. Bandits had stormed the school on Friday night and abducted the students after a gun duel with the police. See Also Insecurity UPDATED: How Gunmen Invaded Katsina Boarding School Few Hours After Buhari Arrived Home State 0 Comments 2 Days Ago The President had arrived in the state on Friday, hours before the abduction took place but failed to visit the community three days after the incident. A google map check by SaharaReporters showed that the distance between Daura, Buhari’s hometown and Kankara is 190km, a journey of less than 3-hours if the President decided to travel by road. Abduction: @MBuhari Shuns Katsina School, Sends Delegation | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/CDHO6dwJwv pic.twitter.com/mGOic1Su8S — Sahara Reporters (@SaharaReporters) December 13, 2020 Using the hashtag #BringBackO...

About 19 suspected armed robbers, kidnappers have reportedly escaped from police custody in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. The 19 were cooling their heels at police headquarters, Diamond Hill in Calabar, after being arrested. The suspects were said to have escaped between Saturday night and Sunday morning after using a hacksaw to cut the key to the cell. As of press time, the station guard on night duty and some other officers on duty have been detained, but the police authorities are keeping the incident under wraps, CrossRiverWatch reports.   CRIME Police Breaking News News AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :  from 24HRSNEWS via 24HRSNEWS from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/381aw3d via EDUPEDIA

Osama Aminu Maale, an 18-year-old student of Government Science School, Kankara, in Katsina State, has narrated how he escaped from bandits who kidnapped hundreds of his colleagues last Friday. According to AFP, Maale said 520 students were abducted when the armed bandits stormed the school. BBC “There were a total of 520 of us that were taken by the gunmen from the school,” he told AFP on the phone. “After they took us away, we stopped inside the bus where they made the older students take a headcount. We counted 520,” he said. The hostages were split into groups before Maale and four others escaped. “One of the gunmen hit me repeatedly when I failed to keep up with the rest of the group due to my failing health before he let me trail behind, giving me the chance to escape,” Maale added. Despite being in Daura, President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to visit Kankara. The President, however, sent a Federal Government delegation led by the Minister of Defence, General Bash...