TROOPS RECORDS MORE SUCCESSES AGAINST ISWAP/BOKO HARAM TERRORISTS
Ongoing offensive onslaught by troops of Operation Desert Sanity records another feat as several ISWAP/BokoHaram terrorists were neutralized around Kangarwa/Metele in Borno State. Weapons & ammunition amongst others were also recovered.
A toyota Hiace bus conveying members of Catholic Women Organization had a ghastly motor accident in Benue.
Salemgists gathered that the accident claimed unspecified number of lives while many others were injured.
It was learnt that the accident happened along Gboko to Makurdi road on Thursday, April 7.
An eyewitness at the scene of the accident told salemgists that the women were coming back from a burial when the accident occured.
The source who wouldn’t want his name to be mentioned said the CWO members were on their way from Annune in Tarka LGA to Makurdi, the Benue state capital when they had the accident.
He said the vehicle they were traveling in lose control and crashed into a tree that was by the road side, adding that many people were dead and others were seriously injured.
As at the time of this report, men of the federal road safety corps were on ground to convey the injured to the hospital and the dead to the morgue.
A secondary school student reportedly stabs his principal to death in Cameroon over wrong school uniform.
Salemgists gathered from sources that the young boy stab his principal after he was asked to remove the pullover he was wearing.
It was gathered that the incident happened at the Yona School Complex located in the Nkolbisson district on Wednesday, April 6, 2022.
A source said after the pullover was collected for indiscipline, the student went to the principal to ask for it but the principal refused to give him.
It was no doubt that the principal’s refusal angered the student, he then took the knife out of his bag and stuck it in the teacher’s stomach and then in his shoulder.
The student fled the scene after commiting the crime but was given a hot chase by motorcycle riders. He was caught and handed over to the police.
It was unfortunate to learn that the teacher died later in the evening of April 6 after she was rushed to the hospital after the incident.
Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State came under heavy attack from Boko Haram insurgents on Wednesday morning, April 6.
Salemgists gathered that the terrorists attacked Damboa in a bid to abduct some residents but we’re engaged by troops who were on alert.
The terrorists who set some buildings on fire, including Damboa General Hospital were engaged in a heavy gun battle by troops of Operation Hadin Kai.
It is not yet clear if there are casualties on either or both sides but salemgists learnt that one civilian was wounded by strey bullet during the gun firing.
it was also gathered that the troops efforts prevented the insurgents from gaining full access into the town.
Many people were killed in a ghastly motor accident involving Benue links bus along Abuja to Makurdi road.
Salemgists gathered from eyewitnesses that all occupants of the vehicle lost their lives except a woman and her one-month-old child.
It was learnt that the accident which occured Tuesday evening, April 5 involved a Benue links and a Toyota bumber bus.
Details of the accident remain sketchy at the moment but the deceased were evacuated to the morgue while the woman and her child were taken to the hospital for medical attention.
Angry mob burnt two suspected motorcycle thieves alive in Kwankwashe community of Suleja, Niger State.
The suspects met their waterloo after they engaged a motorcyclist to convey them to another community for work and in the process hit him with a hammer and zoomed off with his motorcycle.
Salemgists learnt that unknown to the two suspects, another motorcyclist who was following them, noticed the development and immediately raised an alarm.
The motorists hit them before they were rounded up by the crowd, killed, and burnt, the ward head of Kwankwashe, Jamilu Shuaibu said.
He stated that the cyclist was taken to the Suleja General Hospital by his colleagues where he was confirmed dead.
A man identified as Chief Kingsley Ebuka Magom has been found dead after he was kidnapped by unknown men in Anambra state.
Salemgists gathered that his body which was already decaying was found yesterday, April 3 in Alaifite, Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra state.
A source in the community said that Kingsley was kidnapped some days ago alongside Chukwemeka Christian Chukwunweike who who was a welfare officer of the Anamenuebonyi Hemispherial Kegites Club.
The source further narrated that both of them were killed by the suspected kidnappers.
The source added:
“The remains are already decomposing as we suspect that he was killed and dumped the same day Chief Okpore was killed. Arrangements are on the way to have him buried immediately as he cannot be taken to the mortuary.”
No fewer than ten suspected Boko Haram fighters have surrendered to men of the Nigerian army.
The terrorists who came out from their enclaves around Jango village and Mandara Mountain in Gwoza surrendered alongside five children.
A military source revealed that the terrorists surrendered to troops of the army’s 151 battalion in Banki, Bama LGA on Sunday, April 4.
understands that the insurgents who surrendered were part of those loyal to Bakura Salaba, a factional leader of Boko Haram who was recently killed.
The surrendered terrorists dropped their arms following sustained aerial bombardment and aggressive intensive clearance operation by troops of Operation Hadin Kai, salemgists learnt.
A military source said:
“Two AK 47 riffles, one G3 riffle 1 X FN riffle, 1 X PKT gun, 120 Rounds of 7.62MM Nato, 31 RDS X 7.62MM special, 3 AK 47 extra magazines, 3 X G3 extra magazines, 1, 36 HG, 2, knives and the sum of N600,000 was handed over to the troops by the insurgents”.