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Sulaimon Olooru, first son of the Seriki Fulani of Eggua community in the Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State, Adamu Olooru, has said the Nigeria Police are clueless about curtailing the criminal activities of killer Fulani herders across the country. He said a new approach must be devised to fight the murderous nomads for peace to reign in the country. Adamu told SaharaReporters in an exclusive interview on Monday in Eggua. Speaking about his ordeal in the last few days, Sulaimon noted that the Nigeria Police had merely been fighting the killer Fulani herdsmen with theories with no practical improvements to show for it. “I just left a meeting in Aiyetoro now. We had a meeting with the police. We have had a series of meetings like that in the past which yielded no successful results. Personally, I think the Nigeria Police cannot handle these criminal Fulanis. They don’t know what to do,” Sulaimon said. He said the police do not even act on intelligence given to t...

File photo used to illustrate story. No fever than 80 armed Fulani herdsmen were arrested by the men of the Oyo State Security Network Agency, also known as Amotekun, on Monday. A top police officer at Testing Ground Police Command, Ibadan confirmed the development to SaharaReporters in Ibadan on Tuesday. File photo used to illustrate story. “Yes, they were handed over to us but we have transferred them to state police command for more investigation. We all need to be more vigilant and report any suspecious moves in our community,” he said.  The Fulani were intercepted at the Iwo Road area of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. See Also News Amotekun Arrests Truckload Of 80 Armed Fulani Herdsmen Heading To Ogun, Lagos 0 Comments 44 Minutes Ago According to a report, they were armed with dangerous weapons like bows, arrows and daggers. Apart from that, sources told reporters in Ibadan that there were about 25 motorcycles along with cattle in their truck. Upon interr...

A major tragedy was on Monday averted in Abuja along the Abuja-Kefffi Expressway as hundreds of commuters narrowly escaped death when a heavy duty tanker conveying Premium Motor Spirit fell and blocked the entire section of the highway. SaharaReporters gathered that the accident occurred in the evening during the rush hours when people were heading home from work. Eyewitness accounts said the accident occurred after the ill-fated articulated vehicle had faulty brakes while descending the Kugbo hill, only to crash opposite the Nigerian National Petroleum Company filling station when its two tyres deflated and the tank hit the ground and started discharging its content. Officials of Federal Capital Territory Fire Service and other emergency agencies were mobilised to the scene of the incident to prevent the high inflammable tanker from exploding. The incident caused a gridlock at the ever busy Nyanya interchange with many vehicles trapped while several commuters trekked lon...

No fewer than four people have been allegedly killed by the police during a shoot-out with suspected smugglers in Igbogila community in the Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State. One person was said to have sustained gunshot wounds.  The violence, which began on Thursday and went on till Sunday has thrown the residents of the community into a state panic as the hoodlums have threatened to retaliate the deaths of their gang members. A resident of the community, Akinola Kojekun, told SaharaReporters about the apprehension in the community on Monday while recounting the  experience of the last few days. There was a fight against two rival gangs suspected to be smugglers at Imoto, a neighbourhood close to Igbogila. It was gathered that one of the members was arrested by the police at Eggua Police Divisional Headquarters, which angered the hoodlums and led to an attack on the police station at Igbogila on Thursday. “It was not the fault of the policemen. There...

Another group of youths in Lagos State have announced plans to organise a counter-protest at the Lekki tollgate on Saturday, February 13. This is coming a few hours after some youths took to Twitter to call for a protest against the reopening of the Lekki tollgate. According to Punch, the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry probing the alleged killing of #EndSARS protesters by soldiers at the Lekki tollgate had, on Saturday, approved the reopening of the tollgate. However, four out of the nine members of the panel faulted the report of the forensic experts hired to comb the scene for evidence. See Also #EndSARS Nigerians Plan Another Protest Over Reopening Of Lekki Tollgate 0 Comments 21 Hours Ago The counter-rally, which is trending on Twitter as #DefendLagos and #DemNoBornYourPapaWell, is to protest against any protest organised to stop the reopening of the tollgate, tagged #OccupyLekkiTollGate. The poster of counter-rally shared on social media showed that it i...

Illustration   The private sector-led Coalition Against COVID-19 has disowned the move by the BUA Group to purchase one million doses of COVID-19 vaccine for Nigeria. In a statement issued earlier on Monday, the BUA group had announced that it would purchase one million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, through the AfreximBank vaccine programme in partnership with private sector CACOVID. Illustration However, in a statement, CACOVID denied BUA’s contribution to securing the doses, stating that purchase of the vaccine cannot be done by individuals or companies, but only through the Nigerian government. It said, “CACOVID is dismayed to learn of reports on social media today alleging that BUA is singlehandedly purchasing 1 million Covid-19 vaccine doses for Nigeria. Alhaji Abdulsamad must have been misquoted because these claims are not factual as CACOVID operates on a collegiate fund contribution model. There is no agreement between BUA, CACOVID and Afreximbank. ...

File photo used to illustrate story. Men of Oyo State Security Network Agency, known as Amotekun, have intercepted a truck loaded with no fewer than 80 men suspected to be Fulani herdsmen at the Iwo Road area of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. The Amotekun corps reportedly stopped the men, who were loaded in a truck, and a quick search revealed some bows, arrows and daggers in the vehicle. File photo used to illustrate story. PT Apart from that, sources told Punch that about 25 motorcycles in the truck also had cows. Upon interrogation, the men were reported to have told the Amotekun operatives that they were going to Lagos and Ogun States. The search was said to have attracted residents who trooped to the scene, but to avoid crisis, the security agents were said to have led the truck and its occupants to the police station at Testing Ground area in Iwo Road. They were said to have been handed over to the police at the station for further interrogation and search. The Com...

Location of Federal Capital Territory in Nigeria Residents of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, have expressed worries over the rising spate of kidnapping in the country’s capital, saying the menace calls for urgent action by the security agencies and the government. Two of the victims of the marauding kidnappers, who spoke with SaharaReporters, recalled their horrendous experiences in the hands of the assailants, noting that it was” “a journey of life-and-death.” Location of Federal Capital Territory in Nigeria SaharaReporters had recently reported the case of a Punch newspaper journalist, Victor Nnodim, who was kidnapped alongside two of his neighbours by gunmen in his house at Kubwa, Abuja.   On Sunday, barely days after, gunmen also abducted one person and shot at three others in Abuja’s Pegi community when the victims were returning home from work.  This was the same period that a retired Assistant Comptroller of Immigration, Alhaji Abdulahi Idris Rakieu,...

Nigeria’s naira fell on Monday as the local spot currency market struggled with a scarcity of US dollars, traders said. One dealer at a top-tier Nigerian bank quoted the naira at 395-402 per dollar in the over-the-counter market from 392-394 naira in the previous session. Others quoted the naira at 397.21 to the dollar. Traders said few deals were executed between banks as rising demand for dollars from importers and foreign investors seeking to repatriate funds piled pressure on the naira, Reuters report. Nigeria’s currency has been losing ground on spot and derivatives markets, mirroring weakness on the black market, where it trades more freely. The naira dropped to a record intra-day low last week on the spot market and has been quoted at 480 naira to the dollar on the black market since last month, against the official rate of 381 naira, set in July and backed by the central bank. The central bank nearly doubled open-market Treasury yields last week to lure investor...

File Photo: Herdsmen. The Fulani residents at Eggua in the Yewa-North Local Government Area of Ogun State have returned to their bases after a mob burnt houses and Kara market in the community. Last week, the mob took advantage of the visit of the Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, to the area over the killings of farmers by Fulani herdsmen. File Photo: Herdsmen. The mob set ablaze the houses belonging to the Eggua Seriki of Fulani and others and the Kara market. One person reportedly lost his life after the violence. But it was gathered on Monday that the fleeing Fulani herdsmen who are residents of the area were back to their bases, Punch reports. It was gathered that the Fulani herdsmen went back to their houses and Kara market after getting the police assurance in the state of protection of lives and property. The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, who spoke with our correspondent on the telephone said,” “They didn’t r...

The Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump is set to begin on Tuesday, as several key details regarding the duration and structure of the trial remain unsettled, according to reports.  Lawyers for both sides submitted pre-trial briefs on Monday ahead of this week’s proceedings regarding the former president’s role in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol building. During his final days as US president, the House of Representatives voted to impeach Trump 232-197 on one impeachment article: “incitement of insurrection.”  The Senate trial focuses on Trump’s role in inciting Capitol Hill on January 6, which resulted in five deaths and dozens of arrests. Immediately before the riot, Trump spoke to followers in Washington, DC, at a gathering to falsely denounce 2020 election fraud in an attempt to disrupt Congress from confirming President JoeBiden’ss win.  Following the day’s events, Trump’s Twitter account was temporarily or permanently suspend...

A Nigerian man living in Georgia has been arrested and had his first appearance in federal court in Atlanta on charges of laundering the proceeds of romance scams that targeted victims in the Eastern District of North Carolina and throughout the United States. According to court documents seen by SaharaReporters, Oluwadamilare Kolaogunbule, aka “Dare” opened, maintained, and controlled multiple bank accounts, referred to as “drop accounts” that were used to receive, move, and obscure criminal proceeds, including funds derived from romance scams.  FBI A romance scam refers to a scheme in which scammers create fake profiles on Internet dating sites to identify victims, form fraudulent romantic relationships with them, and then exploit them for profit.   According to the allegations in the indictment, co-defendant Samuel Ugberaese, a/k/a” “Putsammy” a Nigerian national, and his co-conspirators, used romance scam techniques, including false stories and promises, as...