Author: Sani Nura

THE Katsina State Police Command says it has rescued two kidnapped students at the Federal University Dutsinma (FUDMA), Katsina State, and one other victim from their captors. A statement issued by the command’s spokesman, ASP Abubakar Sadiq Aliyu, said the command rescued the students, Ibrahim Abdulwaheed and Abdulrahman Abdulwasiu, on Friday. The police said one Malam Dauda Magini, 55, of Bayan Radio quarters, Dutsinma Local Government Area of Katsina State, was also rescued alongside the students. “The fact of the case is that on August 3, 2023, at about 0209hrs, bandits in their numbers, wielding weapons, invaded Bayan Radio quarters,…

THE Governor of Kebbi State, Comrade Nasiru Idris, has sent a delegation to Benin Republic to facilitate the release of 10 of the state’s indigenes arrested and clamped in detention by security operatives in the country. The 10 arrested youths are Yusha’u Mohammed (38), Surajo Likita (25), Suleiman Usman (25), Ibrahim Umar (29), Nazifi Tahiru (18), Babangida Aliu (30), Usama Kabiru (25). Others include Babawo Mohammed (35), Hamisu Dan Ashibi (25) and Ibrahim Rilwanu (25), all from Dandi Local Government Area of the state. They were said to be returning home from Benin Republic on Thursday, June 1 when they…

THE wife of slain Katsina commissioner for science, Binta Rabe Nasir and his childhood friend, Yushau Abubakar Mani have been granted bail on health ground on Wednesday News Point Nigeria gathered. This newspaper reported that the deceased’s wife, Binta Rabe Nasir and his childhood friend, Yushau Abubakar Mani were arrested, arraigned before a Magistrate Court and remanded in custody as prime suspects in the murder of the former commissioner. News Point Nigeria learnt that Binta and Yusha’u filed their application for bail before a High Court sitting in Katsina on the ground that they are suffering from yet unknown illness.…

THE Adamawa State Deputy Governor Prof Kaletapwa Farauta says the hoodlums that attacked some warehouses in the state did not break the doors. She was speaking on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics hours after hoodlums attacked several warehouses in the state including that of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). The attackers looted food and non-food items from the warehouses. “Two warehouses were attacked in Yola, the state capital, while one was attacked in Numan Local Government Area,” she said on the show. “The NEMA stores and state government warehouse attacked in Yola are within the same axis. “They drilled holes…

GOVERNOR Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri has declared a 24-hour curfew on Adamawa State, following a breakdown of law and order across the State. The development followed looting of warehouses, private shops and malls by residents, who carted assorted foodstuffs and other valuables under guise of looking for ‘palliatives’. Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Humwashi Wonosikou, in a statement made available to this newspaper on Sunday afternoon, said the curfew takes effect immediately on Sunday, July 30, 2023. According to the statement, Governor Fintiri said the curfew followed the dangerous dimension the activities of hoodlums had assumed across the state…

THE Nigerian Army on Friday revealed that troops arrested a former soldier suspected to be supplying weapons to Boko Haram members in Bauchi State. “On 18 July 23, troops arrested one suspected gunrunner at Boi in Bogoro Local Government Area of Bauchi State,” the Army said in its ‘Report On Joint Task Force Operational Activities as at 28 July 2023′ made available to News Point Nigeria. “Preliminary investigation revealed that the suspect was a dismissed soldier from 5 Bde Damasak. Troops recovered 2 pistols, 2 magazines and 8 rounds of 9 mm ammo.  “On the same day, troops in another…

IN keeping with the 60 days constitutional provisions, Governor Muhammadu Yahaya of Gombe State has submitted a list of 17 commissioner-nominees to the House of Assembly for approval. Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Abubakar Njodi, personally transmitted the list of the nominees to the clerk of the Assembly, Rukaiyatu Jalo, for unveiling by the Speaker, Abubakar Luggerewo. Meanwhile, based on the recommendation made by the report of the 2023 Transition Management Committee chaired by Dr Ibrahim Daudu on 17th July 2023, the governor is expected to reduce the number of ministries from 21 to 17. In 2019, Yahaya reduced…

BANDITS have shot one person and abducted 10 others at Talata Mafara town, the headquarters of Talata Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The incident occurred Wednesday night at about 11:30 pm when the bandits stormed the town and went straight to the residence of the former member of the House of Representatives who represented Talata Mafara/Anka Federal Constituency, Kabiru Yahaya Classic, but could not gain entrance to the house. Although police authorities in the state are yet to comment on the latest attack, a resident of the area, Abdullahi Mafara, told News Point Nigeria that residents thought they…

SUSPECTED Islamic State-affiliated militants have killed 32 people, including 25 herders, in two attacks in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, civilian militia told AFP Thursday. The attacks happened on Tuesday in the Lake Chad area, where the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) controls swathes of territory. In the first attack, ISWAP fighters riding in pairs on more than a dozen motorcycles killed 25 Fulani herders who were grazing their cattle in Gudumbali forest, 95 kms (60 miles) from the regional capital Maiduguri, the sources said. “The terrorists… left without taking anything” from the dead herders, said militia leader Babakura Kolo.…

GUNMEN suspected to be bandits have killed seven people in Gara and Gamji villages in Burra District of Ningi Local Government Area of Bauchi State. The bandits who came in their numbers were said to have attacked the villagers and shot sporadically into the air and in the process, killed seven people and injured many others. The Police Public Relations Officer, Bauchi State Command, Ahmed Wakili, confirmed the incident in a telephone interview with journalists. Wakili said, “Today, we woke up with a very sad news. We received a distress call that some bandits had attacked Kada and Gamji villages…

FIVE students have died of suspected diphtheria in the Jamaare Local Government Area of the Bauchi State The Executive Chairman of Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Agency,(BSPHCDA), Dr Rilwanu Muhammad, who disclosed this to newsmen on Wednesday in Bauchi said out of 28 samples taken from Jammare, two were confirmed, adding that the agency was determined to act fast to curtail a possible spread of the disease. Muhammad described the deaths of the students as unfortunate saying laboratory tests would confirm if they died of Diphtheria. Muhammad said vaccination would be given to prevent the disease, “We need to vaccinate…

SEVEN soldiers have been reportedly killed in an ambush by bandits in Zamfara State. The bandits were said to have attacked the Kangon Garacce community under the Dangulbi district of the Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara on Monday afternoon, killing several residents. A resident of Dangulbi community, Lawal Dangulbi told News Point Nigeria late Tuesday that the troops were responding to a distress call about the attack on the community when they fell into the bandits’ ambush. “The bandits divided themselves, some were attacking the community while some were stationed outside the community to prevent the military from assisting…

TROOPS of Operation Hadarin Daji, on Monday night, foiled an attack by bandits on military formation. The troops also neutralised no fewer than seven bandits during the encounter in the Kango Sabuwal area of the Gusau Local Government Area of Zamfara State. Troops of Sector 1 Operation Hadarin Daji in conjunction with troops deployed at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Wanke, in the government area carried out the ambush operation along the route suspected to be used by bandits. A top military source, who preferred anonymity told News Point Nigeria that the troops successfully neutralised no fewer than seven bandits while…

BOKO Haram suspects reportedly plotting to attack the Yola, Adamawa State residence of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, have been arrested. A 29-year-old suspect, Jubrila Mohammed, who confessed to being a Boko Haram member from Damboa in Borno State, was first arrested at the gate of Atiku’s residence while trying to carry out the attack at about 9pm on Sunday. After his arrest, three other persons suspected to be his accomplice were also nabbed. In a statement, the media office of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 elections narrated what transpired. “We wish to alert the Nigerian public that…

GUNMEN have killed a man in the Kankia Local Government Area of Katsina State. News Point Nigeria reports that the man was shot after the gunmen invaded a low-cost residential estate near the Kankia General Hospital on Saturday night. It was gathered that the victim was killed while trying to accost the gunmen who arrived on motorcycles. An eyewitness told Channels Television on a telephone call that the assailants riding on motorcycles invaded the estate last night and shot sporadically thereby killing the victim identified as Alhaji Ibrahim Baraya Solo. After killing the victim, The gunmen fled the scene, leaving…

FOUR female captives including a student of the Zamfara State College of Arts and Science, abducted by bandits, have raised an alarm over their captors’ threat to marry them off if their parents fail to pay a N12 million ransom. The abductees, nabbed along the Birnin Magaji-Kaura Namoda Road six months ago while returning from a wedding, revealed this in a two minutes 19 seconds video obtained by News Point Nigeria on Saturday. The victims, identified as Ummukhair, Aisha Yahaya, Jamila Yahaya, and Ummu Sani also said that their abductors gave their families one week to pay the ransom. “We…

THE National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has called on residents of 11 local government areas in Niger State to prepare for the impeding flood in the coming months. Head of Minna Operations Office, Zhinab Sa’idu, gave the warning in a statement she issued in Minna, the state capital. She said prediction revealed that Mokwa, Shiroro, Lavun and Borgu local government areas are in the category of high flood risk areas in the state and expected to experience high flooding within the months of July to November. She said Edati, Gbako, Wushishi, Rafi, Mashegu, Magama and Agwara fell in the category…

TROOPS of Operation Hadarin Daji deployed to the Bukkuyum Local Government Area of Zamfara State have rescued 40 kidnapped victims. News Point Nigeria gathered that the troops acted on an ntelligence report that bandits had kidnapped an unspecified number of persons from Kyairu/Kyaram and Alkama villages in the local government. A top military source, who preferred anonymity, told News Point Nigeria that troops immediately mobilised for a fighting patrol and established blocking positions around the bandits’ withdrawal routes around Kyairu/Kyaram and Alkama villages on Tuesday. “However, contact was made with heavy firefight which lasted for hours forcing the bandits to…

A MEMBER of Civilian Joint Task Force, Isah Hamma Joda, recently got married to Diana Maria Lugunborg, a Norwegian in Adamawa State, this weekend. Lugunborg was said to have flown to Adamawa for the wedding. The reception held around College for Legal Studies, Yola North Local Government area of the State. The couple initially tied the knot at the High Court Registry in Yola. It’s unclear how they met but there are reports that it was on social media. See photos below:

THE Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has commenced an investigation into the alleged attack on Jabiru Tsauri, the Chief of Staff to the Katsina State Governor, Dikko Radda. It was gathered that the governor’s aide escaped an attack by suspected Customs personnel on July 13. According to the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Ibrahim Kaula Mohammed, the personnel targeted the victim at a location known as Gorar Yammama, while on his way to Abuja. “Gov. Radda has vehemently condemned the incident and called for a thorough investigation to ensure that justice is served,” he said. “The safety and security of…