GUNMEN have reportedly killed one policeman and a vigilante on patrol in Sokoto State. It was learnt that the incident occured around 3am on Monday at Kwanan Milgoma along Sokoto-Bodinga road. Although the Spokesman of the Sokoto Police Command could not be reached at the time of filing this report, a senior police officer who spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed the attack to our reporter. According to him, the operatives were caught unaware by the gunmen who came in a white Hilux. “The gunmen met the operatives at a checkpoint along Sokoto-Bodinga road and opened fire on them. They…
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AN early morning fire has razed the red chamber of Katsina Government House. The chamber is attached to the governor’s office, where the governor meets important personalities. Details are sketchy regarding the cause of the fire and the level of damage as at the time of this report. This newspaper gathered that Governor Dikko Umaru Radda was in Funtua attending a zonal town hall meeting when the calamity struck. He was there to engage with the population on their needs and aspirations. The Director of Press to the Secretary to the State Government, Abdullahi Aliyu Yar’adua, disclosed this in a…
THE Kebbi State Independent Electoral Commission on Sunday, declared the All Progressives Congress as the winner of Saturday’s local council polls in the state. The Chairman of the commission, Aliyu Muhammad-Mera, who announced this in Birnin Kebbi on Sunday, said the party won all the 21 Chairmanship seats and 225 Ward Councillors. Muhammad-Mera said that 17 political parties participated in the polls, including, APC, NNPP, LP, AAC, Boot party, AP, and SDP among others. He announced that the commission had ratified and adopted the chairmanship results for the LGs as announced by the various councils’ Returning Officers and the Councillorship…
OVER 10,000 persons have been displaced while farmlands and other properties worth millions of naira were destroyed by flood after a “few weeks” of intense rain in Gummi Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The Emir of Gummi, Justice Hassan Lawal (retired) disclosed this on Saturday when Zamfara State Governor Dauda Lawal paid an on-the-spot assessment visit to the local government. Lawal visited Gummi town and Gayari community on Saturday to assess the level of damage caused by the flood. Briefing the governor, Justice Lawal gave the breakdown of the situation in the local government. “Following our discussion with experts,…
THE Katsina State Police Command on Friday announced that it arrested three suspected notorious gun runners and recovered a large cache of live ammunition along Dutsinma town in the state. Their arrest, according to the Command’s Spokesman, ASP Abubakar Sadiq, was part of the significant breakthrough in its fight against armed banditry and gunrunning. The suspects are Ahmed Mohammed Kabir, 25, of Hayin Danmani quarters, Kaduna State; Mannir Musa, 25, of Dutsinma town, Dutsinma LGA and Aliyu Iliya, 25, of Dankauye village via Ummadau, Safana LGA, Katsina State. They were apprehended on 29th August 2024, at about 1245 hours, while…
GUNMEN suspected to be Boko haram terrorists have invaded Faudiya Islamic boarding School in Geidam, Yobe state killing three students, abducting dozens and injuring one. The Islamic School which belongs to Muslim Brotherhood Movement (Shi’ites) is located in Geidam, the headquarters of the Geidam local government area of Yobe state. Spokesman of the Nigeria Police Force in the state, DSP Dungus Abdulkarim who confirmed the incident to News Point Nigeria, revealed that the attackers arrived at the school on motorcycles, armed with AK47 rifles around 4:00am today Friday 30th August 2024 shooting sporadically. “Yes, there was an attack on Faudiya…
AT least 37 bandits were reportedly killed in Matusgi village, Talata Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State, after residents engaged a gang that had invaded the village with the intent to abduct locals. According to an anonymous resident, the bandits arrived on motorbikes around 2pm on Wednesday, aiming to carry out abductions, saying it was not the first time the villagers had confronted bandits, but it was the first instance where they managed to inflict significant casualties. The resident said the bandits began their attack by firing sporadically to intimidate the community. However, the residents had been alerted in…
HALLIRU Liman, Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Wasagu Division of the police in Kebbi state, is dead. Liman died when he was reportedly shot dead by a soldier at a checkpoint in Zamfara. According to ASP Yazid Abubakar, spokesman of the Zamfara State Police Command, the deceased police officer was on his way to Birnin Kebbi in Kebbi State to attend a meeting when he was stopped on the way at Danmarke area in Bukkuyum Local Government Area of Zamfara by military personnel attached to Operation Dadarin Daji. Abubakar said the officer was murdered on the spot by the military…
GUNMEN have killed one man identified as Garba Yakubu and abducted two others in the Gadabuke community of Toto Local Government Area of Nasarawa State. The Police Public Relations Officer, Ramhan Nansel, confirmed this to News Point Nigeria in a telephone conversation. He said gunmen invaded the residence of a man known as Agaba Yakubu on Monday and in the process, they shot Yakubu Garba and abducted two others. “On 25/8/2024 at about 2 am, a distress call was received by the Divisional Police officer of Toto Division that the residence of one Agaba Yakubu of Gadabuke was invaded by…
THE police on Monday arraigned Shafi’u Tureta, a media aide to former Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, for allegedly defaming the Sokoto State Governor, Ahmad Aliyu. Tureta was arraigned before a Chief Magistrate’s Court in Sokoto State. However, journalists were barred from covering proceedings, allegedly on the order of the Chief Magistrate, Fati Hassan. The suspect was allegedly accused of spreading unlawful media content and was detained by the police on August 25, 2024, before his first arraignment in court on Monday. In a First Information Report read by the prosecutor, Abdurahman Mansur, the accused person was charged with circulating…
BANDITS have abducted over 150 persons and rustled over 1,000 cattle in some villages in Gobir Emirate of Sokoto State, this newspaper can report. The incident happened less than 72 hours after the death in kidnappers’ den, of the Emir of Gobir, Alhaji Isa Muhammad Bawa, who was also the District Head of Gatawa. The monarch was, on July 29, kidnapped alongside his son and six others on the Sokoto-Sabon Birni Road. In a viral video, the deceased, whose hands and legs were tied, was seen appealing to the Sokoto State government, the Sultanate Council, his relatives and friends to…
THE Emir of Ningi in Bauchi State, Alhaji Yunusa Muhammadu Danyaya, is dead. Emir Danyaya was aged 88. He was said to have died Sunday morning at the Expert Alliance Hospital, Kano, two days after returning from a medical trip to Saudi Arabia. He passed away after spending 46 years on the throne. A statement by Usman Sule, Secretary of Ningi Emirate Council, said the funeral prayer for the deceased will be held by 4 p.m. on Sunday at the Emir’s Palace in Ningi. Born in 1936, the emir had an illustrious working career before ascending the throne in 1978.…
A DEVASTATING flood has ravaged several communities in Madagali Local Government Area, Adamawa State, leaving huge losses in its trail. The disaster has reportedly claimed six lives, displaced over 2,000 people, and destroyed numerous houses, farmlands, and bridges. The worst-hit communities include Kichinga, the hometown of Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, as well as Mildu, Maradi, Mayo Wandu, Shuware, Pambla 2, and Palam. In an interview with newsmen, Madagali LGC Executive Chairman Hon. Simon Musa confirmed the incident, revealing that some affected communities had never experienced such a disaster in their history. He stated that thousands of displaced persons were seeking…
NINE governors elected on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) met yesterday in Jalingo, the Taraba State capital. Among the governors in attendance include Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi; Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa; Sim Fubara of Rivers and Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta Others include Godwin Obaseki of Edo; Peter Mbah of Enugu; Dauda Lawal of Zamfara and Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau. The governors, who landed at the Danbaba Suntai Airport Jalingo in about six chartered aircraft, were received by Governor Agbu Kefas of Taraba State. Upon their arrival at about 2pm, the governors went into a closed-door meeting…
BANDITS have raided Moriki community in Zamfara State on Wednesday night, kidnapped over 10 locals and demanded N50 million ransom. A resident of Moriki community told the BBC Hausa Service on Thursday, that the bandits were disturbing the community and had earlier kidnapped other locals in the community. ”The bandits claimed that their cows were killed by the Commander in the community. “They attacked the community and went from house to house picking our people, and gave today as the deadline for us to pay the N50 million,” he said. He said any time they needed money, the bandits had…
FLOODING has cut off the Azare-Ja’amare road along the Kano-Maiduguri Highway in Bauchi State. Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, who inspected the affected area, said he has reported the situation to the Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, who had visited last week when the road was initially threatened. Mohammed also warned that communities are at risk of being submerged if the flow of water is not managed effectively. The incident occurred barely two weeks after downpour severely damaged a federal highway connecting Kano to Maiduguri, particularly between the Malori and Guskuri villages in the Katagum Local Government Area of Bauchi…
ZAMFARA State Governor, Dauda Lawal, on Wednesday denied appointing suspected terrorist and gunner, Bashir Hadejia, as a Special Adviser in his government. Hadejia was arrested on Monday last week over alleged treason and subversion against the state. The suspect was a special adviser to the current Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle when he was the Governor of Zamfara State. After his arrest, a letter dated October 27, 2023, purportedly signed by the Secretary to the Zamfara State Government, Mal Abubakar M. Nakwada, alleged that the state government offered an appointment to the suspected gunrunner made rounds online. But…
One of the sons of the slain district head of Gobir in Sabon Birni Local Government Area, Hon. Shuaibu Gwanda Gobir, has blamed Sokoto government for refusing to pay up ransom demanded by his father’s captors. The marauders, who three weeks ago, waylaid and took away the district head, late Alhaji Isa Muhammad Bawa, along with one his sons, had asked for N60 million, out which they requested five motorcycles should be bought for them. But he was killed on Tuesday, August, 20, at about 4pm after being tortured and compelled to beg for his life in a video released…
THERE was a case of conspiracy, armed robbery and culpable homicide on the 18th of August 2024 at about 2200hrs; when the police in Misau Bauchi state, said it received information from a good samaritan. According to him, he saw a body lying down in a pool of blood in Anguwan Agwaluma on the outskirts of Misau town. On receiving the information, the DPO, Misau Police Division led a team of detectives to the scene and discovered that the victim’s throat was stilted and cut with a knife. The detectives moved the body to the general hospital, Misau where he…
THE Military has announced that troops of OPERATION HADARIN DAJI encountered an ambush by bandits at the general area of Bachaka Kurya Forest in Gudu Local Government Aarea of Sokoto State on the 10th of August at about 11:45pm, losing four personnel in the process. The Director, Defence Media Operations, Major General Edward Buba, in a statement made available to News Point Nigeria in Abuja on Tuesday, said the ambush occurred close to the border with the Republic of Niger. He said that during the fire fight, several of the bandits were killed, with weapons and ammunition recovered. The statement…