GOMBE State Governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya CON has approved the appointments of District Heads and Village Heads for 5 emirate and traditional councils. This is in exercise of the powers vested in the Governor under the creation of Emirates, Districts, Villages and Wards as well as appointment and deposition of Emirs and Chiefs Law. The Secretary to the State Government, Professor Ibrahim Abubakar Njodi who conveyed the Governor’s approval, announced the following as district heads under Gona Emirate: Nasiru Saidu Ahmed (Garko), Usman Idrisa Aliyu (Lafiya Mango), Mohammed Abubakar ( Kalshingi), Bello Hassan (Lawanti), Dahiru Abdulkadir Abdussalam (Amada) and Abubakar…
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KATSINA State Governor, Dikko Radda, on Thursday, said his administration will not negotiate with terrorists in the State. Radda was speaking during a special prayer session organized by the state government to seek divine intervention against insecurity amidst the economic hardship facing the state. “We don’t have plans to give amnesty to terrorists, but we are ready to accept them if they are ready to embrace peace and lay down their arms,” he said. “This event is not all about prayers, but also for the clerics to step down our message to their various communities to see to the end…
POPULAR Islamic Cleric, Sheikh Ibrahim H Musa Albani Kuri has been murdered by unknown gunmen in his house at Tabra area of the bypass in Gombe state. News Point Nigeria reports that, the cleric was brutally murdered when the assailants broke into his house in the early hours of Wednesday. Attending his funeral, Gombe State Governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, CON at the Bolari Izala Mosque in Gombe, condemned in strong terms the appalling criminal act that he said has tempered with the sense of security and prevailing peace in the state. “We want to reassure the citizens of Gombe State…
NO fewer than fourteen villagers have been abducted in three different villages of Sabuwa Local Government Area of Katsina State. The terrorists in a separate attacks, were said to have abducted the victims after invading their villages yesterday at about 1:00 am. The villages include Yakkaka in Gazari ward, Yallagwada in Maibakko ward and Maiturmi in Rafin-Iwa ward. The terrorists abducted seven (7) persons at Yarkaka village, six (6) people at Yallagwada village and one woman at Maiturmi village. Although, members of the Vigilante Group operating in the are were able to rescue the woman victim of Maiturmi village, eyewitness…
IN a coordinated operation by troops of Sector 1 Operation Hadarin Daji in Zamfara State, troops of Operation Hadarin Daji have neutralised 10 armed bandits and rescued nine kidnapped victims. News Point Nigeria reports that, the troops of Forward Operating Base (FOB) Danmarke carried out the operation in the early hours of Tuesday, after receiving credible information on bandits’ movement with some kidnapped victims from Sokoto State through Gadazaima village in Zamfara State. The troops immediately mobilised for an offensive ambush operation within the village and made contact with the armed bandits that lasted for hours, it was learnt. A…
A FEMALE soldier enforcing the curfew imposed by Adamawa government has killed a senior colleague at a checkpoint in Yola, the state capital. Governor Ahmadu Fintiri had imposed the curfew after hoodlums broke into government warehouse and looted several items, including palliatives meant to cushion the effect of fuel subsidy. Sources told this newspaper that the female soldier simply identified as Lance Corporal Nkiru shot a captain who tried to intervene in her altercation with civilians at Fire Service Round About in the state capital. This newspaper learnt that the female soldier had insisted that motorists returning home during the…
FOUR illegal miners have been killed following the collapse of a mining pit in Kogo Kadage village in the Yadagungume area of Ningi Local Government Area of Bauchi State. The incident reportedly occurred on Saturday night when the miners were digging lead and trying to excavate it. The source who didn’t want to be mentioned, disclosed that people have been there for over one month mining and excavating lead, one of the mineral resources common in the area, when suddenly one of the holes they dug collapsed on them and buried them underneath. According to him, the four miners died…
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…