Author: Sani Nura

A MENTALLY ill man has killed at least nine people in Adamawa State, before being beaten to death by an angry mob. News Point Nigeria reports that the incident happened on Wednesday evening in Libbo Ward, Kate-Gamji village of Sheleng Local Government Area of the state. The man, identified as Ali Denham, was said to have embarked on a killing spree for reasons unknown to members of the community. He reportedly used a knife to stab his victims, including an elderly woman and man. Some angry youths in the village surrounded Denham after he killed his victims, disarmed him, and…

AFTER six months, the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar On Thursday confirmed News Point Nigeria’s story, saying, ‘they sent governors to my house after election and I didnt allowed them in’. On March 2, 2023, News Point Nigeria had exclusively reported how Atiku Abubakar chased away the reconciliation delegation team sent by the President-Elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. A reliable source close to the former vice president had told News Point Nigeria in an exclusive chat via phone that, then Governors Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano, Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi, Badaru Abubakar of Jigawa, Abdullahi Sule…

THE Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Birnin Kebbi on Thursday upheld the election of Governor Nasir Idris as the duly elected governor of Kebbi State. The tribunal chaired by Justice Ofem I. Ofem gave the judgement on Thursday. News Point Nigeria reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC had declared Idris of the All Progressives Congress, APC winner of the March 18 gubernatorial election. But General Aminu Bande (rtd) of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP had filed a 722-page petition challenging the election of Governor Idris in the March 18 poll. More Details Shortly…

GOMBE State Governor and Chairman of Northern Governors’ Forum, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya,  CON has restated his administration’s commitment to promoting the welfare and professional growth of educators, as well as addressing infrastructure and human resource gap to boost performance and productivity across all levels of education. The Governor restated this is his goodwill message on the occasion of this year’s World Teachers’ Day celebration. He emphasized that teachers are the bedrock upon which the aspirations of future leaders are built, making their role indispensable to the progress of any society. He acknowledged that teaching, though challenging, remains one of the…

SUSPECTED bandits have reportedly abducted at least five female students from the Federal University in Dutsin-Ma (FUDMA), Katsina State. A relative of one of the victims, Muhammad Fatima confirmed the abdcution to newsmen. According to Fatima, the gunmen stormed the off-campus dormitories behind Mariamoh Ajiri school, close to Wednesday Market in Dutsinma and forcefully took away the young women. She disclosed that three of the abducted students hailed from Kwara State, one was from Kano, and another was from Niger State. The students from Kwara were identified as Muhammad Fatima, Bello Fatima Zara, and Adam Rahmatallahi. However, the names of…

THE Nigerian Air Force says its air strikes have killed many terrorists on the fringes of Lake Tchad in Borno State. According to the Nigerian Air Force, Boko Haram and Islamic States of West Africa Province, terrorists were neutralised after air strikes destroyed their hideouts and destroyed their structures and strategic logistics base in the region in air strikes on the fringes of Lake Chad in Borno State. “Similar strikes were also undertaken at Tumbun Shitu after structures believed to be terrorists’ hideouts were observed tucked under thick foliage,” a Monday statement by NAF Director of Public Relations and Information,…

THE police in Sokoto State have confirmed an attack carried by suspected bandits that claimed the lives of three persons and left other persons injured at Soro community in Binji Local Government Area of the state. The Police Public Relation Officer in Sokoto, ASP Ahmad Rufai, while confirming the attack said some gunmen suspected to be bandits launched attack on Soro community but men of the police command with the support of military operatives repelled the attack. He, however, said the bandits out of frustration set some houses on fire as a result of which three of the residents lost…

THE Boko Haram Commander in charge of Sambisa and Gwoza enclaves, Ali Gana Alhaji Ali, has been killed by fighters of Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) on Gwoza hill in Gwoza LGA of Borno State. A security source told this newspaper that Ali, one of the deadliest terrorists leaders in Borno, was killed during an ambush by the ISWAP fighters on Sunday. He was the deputy of the late Ali Ngulde, and apart from Shekau, nobody killed human beings like him from Sambisa forest and Bayan Dutsen Gwoza. “He was a crude killer. His foot terrorists in Gwoza areas…

THE Nasarawa State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal has sacked Abdullahi Sule as the Nasarawa State governor. Two out of the three justices of the panel led by Justice Ezekiel Ajayi declared David Umbugadu as the winner of the 2023 Nasarawa State governorship elections. The third member of the Panel, Justice Ibrahim Mashi is, however, still reading a dissenting judgment. More details shortly….

THE Taraba State Governorship Election Tribunal has affirmed that Agbu Kefas of the Peoples Democratic Party is the validly elected governor of Taraba State. The three man panel of justices of the tribunal said the petition challenging the election of Kefas lacks merit and consequently dismissed it. More details shortly…

LEAH Sharibu, the lone schoolgirl held in captivity by members of Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) who invaded Government Secondary School, Dapchi in 2018, now leads a medical team of the sect in Lake Chad, according to local security sources. Sharibu was abducted alongside over 109 schoolmates from Government Girls Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State, on February 19, 2018. Five of the girls were reportedly killed in captivity while ISWAP returned 104 girls to their families, except Sharibu. ISWAP reportedly kept Leah Sharibu because she refused to comply with their demands and convert to Islam. Government had entered into…

THE Gombe State Governorship Election Tribunal has affirmed the re-election of Governor Muhammadu InuwaYahaya, and dismissed the petitions of the Governorship Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Jibrin Barde and that of the Africa Democratic  Congress,  ADC and its candidate, Nafiu  Bala who challenged the return of Inuwa Yahaya and his Deputy, Manassah Daniel Jatau of the All Progressives Congress,  APC. The three-man panel in its unanimous judgment dismissed the two petitions for lack of merit. On the petition filed by the PDP and its candidate, the tribunal described it as vague, nebulous, lacking in particularity, baseless and an…

THE Kebbi State government has appealed to residents of Birnin Kebbi and the environs to be patient as the power failure occasioned by the fire incident at the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) enters 11 days. The Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Alhaji Yakubu Bala-Tafida, made the appeal during his visit to the TCN substation alongside the SA on Political Affairs and Power, Alhaji Kabiru Sani Giant. He said the call became imperative in view of the lingering power outage being faced by the residents in the last 11 days. This newspaper reports that two transformers at the TCN…

TROOPS of Joint Taskforce, Northwest Operation Hadarin Daji, in the early hours of Monday rescued 15 kidnapped victims in Zamfara state. The troops acted on an intelligence report about the abduction of an unspecified number of innocent persons from Kayan Boggo village under Bukkuyum Local Government Area of the state. A top military source told News Point Nigeria that the troops mobilised and established a blocking position at a possible exit route for the suspects. According to the source, a gun duel ensued forcing the bandits to flee and abandon the 15 victims while an unspecified number of the bandits…

TROOPS of Operation Hadarin Daji have rescued seven female students of Federal University Gusau in Zamfara State and three construction workers who were abducted by bandits last Friday. A top military source told News Point Nigeria that 10 others, including three workers/labourers of a construction company, escaped from captivity during military rescue operations. Following the “prompt response” of troops of land and air components of the Joint Task Force of Operation Hadarin Daji, a total of 13 students and three construction workers who were carrying out projects at the university have regained freedom so far. According to the source, some…

SUSPECTED Boko Haram terrorists have ambushed security vehicles escorting motorists along the Gwoza- Limankara-Uvaha road, killing one soldier on the spot. Also, a security patrol van was set ablaze, five commercial vehicles were also burnt down with their passengers inside, hence dozen bodies are still unaccounted for. Local and security sources said the incident happened around 5pm when the soldiers and civilian JTF were providing cover to passengers travelling to Goza, Askira-Uba LGA in Borno and Northern parts of Adamawa State. “The GOC was at the scene of the attack. A soldier and many passengers were killed in the ambush,…

PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has mandated security agencies to rescue the female students abducted in Zamfara. Bandits last week attacked the Sabon-Gida community, Bungudu Local Government Area, kidnapping over 24 students of the Federal University of Gusau, Zamfara. While six of them were later rescued, President Tinubu has ordered security operatives to ensure those still in captivity are freed. “President Bola Tinubu has directed security agencies to rescue the remaining female students of the Federal University Gusau, Zamfara State, who were recently abducted by terrorists,” presidential spokesman Ajuri Ngelale said in a Sunday statement. “Condemning the reprehensible act of abduction, the…

MORE than 50 per cent of girls in Nigeria are not attending school at the basic education level, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said. Jutaro Sakamoto, education manager at UNICEF disclosed this in Abuja at the education conference organised by the French Institute in Nigeria. He said 7.6 million girls were out of school in Nigeria – 3.9million at the primary and 3.7million at the junior secondary level. Sakamoto also said 48 per cent of out-of-school girls were in the North West and North East, adding that gender parity in net attendance ratio was below 1.0 in 10…

GOVERNOR Dikko Radda on Saturday congratulated the people of Katsina State on 36 years since the state’s creation by the military government of General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida on September 23, 1987. Radda, in a personal message to the citizens and residents, praised Babangida for “purposefully” creating the state, a statement by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Ibrahim Mohammed, said. “We all, as a people, must roll out the drums to celebrate this historic milestone, which was only made possible by one of the architects of our contemporary Nigeria,” the governor said. “We shall eternally remain indebted to Gen. Babangida for…

GOVERNOR Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State, on Saturday, issued a ban on illegal mining activities in the state and ordered law enforcement officials to take stringent action against violators. The Senior Special Assistant to the governor on Media and Publicity, Sulaiman Idris, who disclosed this in a statement, said that over the years, illegal mining in Zamfara State has fuelled banditry and other criminal activities. Governor Lawal noted that it’s time to end the destructive activity and implement measures to protect the safety and well-being of the people. He stressed that security operatives had been given strict orders to take…