The Theatre Commander, North East “Operation Hadin Kai”, Maj-Gen. Christopher Musa, has said that more than 79,000 insurgents comprising combatants and non-combatants have so far surrendered. Musa made this known in Maiduguri, Borno State capital while briefing newsmen on recent successes of the command. The commander said that the sustained onslaught on the insurgents under the kinetic and non-kinetic approaches had led to the mass surrender. According to him, this led to the need to have additional camps in Maiduguri to host the penitent insurgents that were being screened to identify the combatants and the non-combatants. He lauded the support from the…
Author: admin_secure
The police command in Lagos State on Sunday said 35 suspected armed robbers were arrested between June and August in the state. The command’s spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, said 13 other suspected armed robbers were killed in different parts of the state during encounters with the police within the period. He said while 37 robberies were foiled in different parts of the state, 32 firearms and 78 ammunition abandoned in vehicles by suspects were recovered during the same period. The image maker said no kidnappings were recorded within the period, but 15 suspected cultists were arrested. Mr Hundeyin said six vehicles…
The Kaduna State Government says Troops of Nigerian Army have gunned down several bandits at Tollgate general area of Chikun Local Government in the state. The Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan, confirmed the development in a statement on Saturday in Kaduna. Aruwan also disclosed that notorious bandit Boderi Isiya narrowly escaped being neutralized, but his deadly second in command and several other fighters were gunned down by the troops. According to him, security agencies informed the Kaduna state government of this development in an operational feedback. He explained that a painstaking…
The Special Adviser to Ondo State Governor on Security Matters and State Commander of Amotekun Corps, Akogun Adetunji Adeleye, has described the Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu as a man who loves and accommodates visitors in the state. Akogun Adeleye made this known while receiving Northern leaders on behalf of the Governor, from Kano, Jigawa and Kogi states who came on a courtesy visit at the Corps Headquarters in Akure Thursday. According to him, “Our Governor likes visitors, he protects visitors with all his might, but will not allow visitors to come and cause havoc and truncate the reigning peace…
The Nigeria’s flags, home and in foreign missions, are to be flown at half mast in honour of the passage of Queen Elizabeth II, the Federal Government declared on Friday night.. According to a statement by Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the flags would be flown at half mast on Sunday 11 to Monday 12, 2022. The government commiserated with the government and people of the United Kingdom and all the affected people of the Commonwealth and the World on the passage of the Queen. The statement reads:” In honour of Queen Elizabeth II, the sovereign…
Buckingham Palace has announced that Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral will take place on Sept. 19. It was reported that Queen Elizabeth II died on Thursday at 96. Many dignitaries, eminent personalities around the world have continued to pay glowing tributes to the late monarch. Meanwhile, King Charles III has been formally proclaimed as the UK’s new monarch on Saturday. According to Buckingham Palace, the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II will hold in London at 11 a.m on Monday, Sept. 19. The late monarch’s coffin will lie in state in Westminster Hall starting on Wednesday, giving the public an…
The Peter Obi Support Network (POSN) on Saturday held a one-million-man walk in support of Mr Peter Obi, Labour Party’s Presidential Candidate, in the 2023 General Elections. The participants marched from the gate of Fiwasaye Girls Grammar School, Akure, along Old Owo Road, to Ilesha Garage on FUTA Road, Akure. They displayed placards with inscriptions such as: “We no dey give shishi”, “We are the structure 100 per cent”, Obi-Datti for new Nigeria”. The POSN Coordinator in Ondo, Mr Francis Cyprian, told newsman at the event that it was to sensitise the public about the need to vote for credible…
The flags of the United Kingdom on UK government buildings around the world will be raised from 9am September 10 to 1pm September 11 to mark the accession of King Charles III to the throne. This is stated in a tweet posted to the verified Twitter handle of the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing, Saturday afternoon. King Charles III was officially proclaimed king on Saturday by the British Accession Council comprising senior politicians, judges and officials amid cheers, trumpets blasts in a historic ceremony that was televised for the first time in centuries. Clerk of the Council, Richard…
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State says the emergence of Atiku Abubakar and Iyorchia Ayu as presidential candidate and national chairman respectively shows a lack of will by both men to restructure the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Nigeria. Debunking the news that he had accepted to be chairman of the PDP governors’ forum, Mr Makinde, at a road commissioning outing in Abia State, faulted the process of both men’s emergence as incapable of delivering an equitable and structurally inclusive party. “We are not fighting to have the chairmanship of the PDP’s governors’ forum. We are saying that if…
A retired civil servant in Lagos State, Mr Segun Alabi, has faulted claims by former Communication Minister under late General Sani Abacha, Major General Tajudeen Olarewaju, that the land on which the popular Oriental Hotels, Lekki presently stands belonged to Kembu Company. Former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu had in a television documentary said that the land on which Oriental Hotels stands was full of garbage before he transformed it into what it is today. The former Communications Minister however disputed Tinubu’s claim saying the land in question wasn’t full of garbage and was in fact owned by Kembu Company. In…