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An elderly man, Alhaji Muftau Mohammed of Gbeganu Area of Minna, Niger State capital, slumped and died at Morris Police Division, where he had gone to bail two of his sons, Mubarak Ahmed and Yusuf Mohammed who were reportedly arrested by the police.

Mubarak and Yusuf told Daily Trust that they were picked by the police around 11pm on Wednesday where they were sleeping in a burglary in front of their house due to heat.

According to Yusuf, “We were lying down in a burglary in front of our house around 11:23pm when three police patrol vans passed us and went into Gbeganu Area. Few hours later, we saw them coming back and we stood up. Suddenly, the vehicle in the middle packed in front of us and they asked what we were doing outside. We told them that it was where we normally sleep because of heat. One of the officers forced the burglary opened and ordered his colleagues to put us in the vehicle and take us to the station.

“When we got to the station at Morris, they collected our phones and put us in the cell. At about 20 minutes later, I was in cell when I heard my father’s voice outside. Later I heard him screaming, asking for water and few seconds later, I didn’t hear anything again. It was at that point that I asked one of officers what was happening outside. But one of the officers told his colleague not to tell us anything. Later I didn’t hear our father’s voice again until when we were told that he was dead.”

Also speaking, Mr Dauda Jimo, the deceased neighbor who took him on his bike to police station that fateful night, said Alhaji Muftau Mohammed had high blood pressure and that each time he was woken up horribly, he usually develops severe headache.

“It was in my presence that his sons were picked by the police and Alhaji had already retired to bed. It was the noise from his daughters and neighborhood that woke him up horribly. So, when they told him that Mubarak and Yusuf were taken away by the police, he called me to bring my bike to take him to the police station. We got to police station at about 12:33am.

“So, where we were seated, he told me he was having a severe headache and I should get him water to drink. We looked for water around the vicinity but we couldn’t get because all the shops around had closed for the day. It was in the process that he collapsed and one of the tricycles that was arrested was released to take us to the hospital and one policeman was asked to follow us.

“We went to Imani Clinic, we were told that doctor was not around. So, we headed for General Hospital. On our way, the fuel in Tricycle got finished. It was at that point that we saw one of the police vans with which Yusuf and Mubarak were arrested . So, they stopped and we told them what happened and they took us to Minna General Hospital. Getting to the hospital, we dropped Alhaji’s dead body and police left.”

Another neighbor, Alhaji Ahmad Abdullahi, who claimed to have witnessed all that transpired told our correspondent that the deceased’s wife who also followed them to police station fainted when the news of her husband’s death was broken to her.

“The wife wanted to trek kilometers to Morris Police Division that night but I obliged her to enter my car. Immediately we got to Morris Police Division, one of our neighbors who took Alhaji there rushed to me. Not knowing that his wife was sitting in the back seat, he broke the news to us and the wife jumped out of the car. As she was about running to enter the station, she fell down and fainted. It took some minutes before she was revived,” he narrated.

When contacted, the Niger Stat Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Wasiu Abiodun, the confirmed the incident.

He said police had commenced investigation into the matter to ascertain the fact, and to also look into the scenario if there was any act of negligence for necessary disciplinary action.

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The government of Sudan has called on the Nigerian government to intervene in the crisis between the military and the members of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), in the country.

Fighting broke out in Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, on 15 April 2023 as an escalating power struggle between the two main factions of the military regime finally turned deadly.

On one side are the Sudanese armed forces who remain broadly loyal to Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the country’s de facto ruler.

Against him are the paramilitaries of the Rapid RSF, a collection of militia who follow the former warlord Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.

The RSF was founded by the former dictatorial ruler Omar al-Bashir as an Arab counterinsurgency militia. Bashir wanted to crush a rebellion in the region of Darfur that began more than 20 years ago due to the political and economic marginalisation of the local population.

However, members of the RSF are now being described as rebels trying to overthrow the government.

While speaking at a press conference in Abuja on Friday, Mr Ahmed Omer Jaboul, Charge d’ Affaires of the Embassy of the Republic of Sudan in Nigeria, said Nigeria’s intervention could end the one-year-old conflict.

“If Nigeria intervenes in this crisis, we are sure this issue will be resolved soon.
“We know Nigeria was busy with elections when the crisis started and then the Niger Republic crisis came up after,” he said.

According to him, Nigeria’s previous interventions in crisis in the country had been successful.

While expressing the government’s intention to return the country to democracy, he said Nigeria’s intervention would fast-track the process.

He said the humanitarian situation in the country was getting worse as the rebels were intercepting the few supplies from international organisations.

Jaboul said the rebels were invading civilian homes, government institutions and universities, turning them into bases.

He said, although the conflict situation in Sudan has not completely changed since it began, the National Military Forces have halted hostilities in most parts of the country.

“What we would like to focus on nowadays is to talk about the humanitarian solutions in Sudan.

“This is one of the very critical areas and one of the priorities, not only for the government but for the international community as well,” he said.

Notorious bandits Kachallah, Madagwal, 12 others killed in faceoff with rival groups in Zamfara

Two notorious bandit kingpins, Kachala Gwande and Kachallah Madagwal, and 12 others have been killed following a confrontation involving three rival bandit groups at Kaurar Zomo village in the Kunchin Kalgo district of Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State.

This was disclosed in post by Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency expert and security analyst in Lake Chad.

The three rival groups involved in the clash were Alhaji Tsauni, Kachallah Jafaru, and Kachallah Gwandu’s groups.

According to Makama, they clashed in a fierce gun battle on Thursday at approximately 1545 hours, resulting in the reported death of 12 bandits from the three factions.

Jafaru, a notorious bandit kingpin known to operate from Faskari LGA in Katsina State, descended upon Kaurar Zomo village, which serves as Tsauni’s stronghold, under undisclosed circumstances that led to the violent confrontation.

The security expert explained that Jafaru’s fighters were overpowered and naturalised by Gwande and his fighters.

The fight, however, escalated to other enclaves shortly after the news of Gwande’s death broke, resulting in another heavy gun battle with Kachallah Madagwal’s group who was nutrialised in the aftermath of the shootout.

The report added that several bandits who sustained severe gunshot wounds were promptly evacuated to Munhaye Health Facility for urgent medical attention.

“The people of the area were currently trooping to the battleground to see the dead bodies of the neutralized bandits,” he concluded.

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It was a limited attack just to save face

Iran’s air defences have brought down three small drones over the central city of Isfahan, state media reported, hours after United States broadcasters, quoting senior US officials, said Israeli missiles had hit an Iranian site.

Iranian state television reported explosions in Isfahan as air defences were activated and flights across several areas, including the capital, Tehran, and Isfahan, were suspended.

Airspace was reopened about four and a half hours after the incident and there were no reports of casualties.

Second Brigadier General Siavash Mihandoust, the top military official in Isfahan, told state media that air defence batteries hit “a suspicious object” and there was no damage.

ABC News and CBS News had reported earlier that Israel had carried out a military operation in Iran.

Italy’s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said the US told the Group of Seven (G7) foreign ministers that it had been “informed at the last minute” by Israel about an attack on Iran.

“But there was no sharing of the attack by the US. It was a mere information,” Tajani told reporters in Capri, Italy, where the G7 ministers met.

However, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken refused to confirm reports about the Israeli attack, during a news conference in Capri.

“I’m not going to speak to that, except to say that the United States has not been involved in any offensive operation,” Blinken said.

Iranian media said no strikes were launched on Iran from outside the country, and the attack was believed to have been carried out using small quadcopters that would have to have been launched from inside Iran.

Reporting from Tehran, Al Jazeera’s Dorsa Jabbari said Iranian media were downplaying the incident.

“The location in Isfahan province is an Iranian military airbase that belongs to the country’s army, and not the Revolutionary Guards [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, IRGC]. I think it’s important to highlight that,” she said. “This base houses multiple squadrons of F-14 Tomcat fighter aircraft.”

“We also understand that the air defence systems over the city of Tabriz in the northwestern part of Iran were also activated,” Jabbari reported.

‘No damage’ to nuclear facilities

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed that “there is no damage” to Iranian nuclear sites as the United Nations nuclear watchdog’s chief Rafael Grossi called for restraint and said nuclear facilities should never be targeted in military conflicts.

The Association of Bureau De Change Operators of Nigeria
(ABCON) said the Bureau De Change (BDC) operators were
buying dollars at N980/$ at the open market and selling at
N1,020/$.

This was confirmed by the President of ABCON, Aminu
Gwadebe, while featuring on a Channels Television
programme, Business Incorporated, where he stated that
the naira has appreciated faster than expected against the
United States Dollar.

Gwadebe applauded the government and the Central Bank
of Nigeria for its efforts so far, saying it’s the first time in
the last 15 years that the exchange rate for the dollar in the
parallel market is less than that at the official window.

He acknowledged that there is now calmness in the market
as speculation which has been one of the major
destabilisation factors is no longer there.

Gwadebe said: “Our quote rate we buy at N980 and we sell
at N1,020 as at now.

‘’There is a lot of confidence, we have seen how the central
bank treasury bills have been oversubscribed and we have
seen how they have also corrected the flows of diaspora
remittances. Now we are having a chunk of diaspora
remittances coming in because of the so many policies of
the central bank that tried to calibrate how the inflows
should be coming in even though there is a lot of gaps that
is not coming that is still externalised in the diaspora
window.’’

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One thousand residents of Eti-Osa Local Government in Lagos State have benefited from Sanwo-Olu Food Palliative
distributed by Chairman, Saheed Adesegun Bankole, for Governor Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu .

The free food package, simultaneously in all 57 LGs and LCDAs,
came as a directive by the governor to address needs of Lagosians.

The governor, who celebrated his daughter’s wedding, launched the
initiative to show gratitude to residents.
Bankole, represented by his vice, Omooba Adeyanju, hailed the
gesture.
He said the distribution has an impact on lives, providing them with
support during these challenging times.

The federal government has deployed a team of officers to monitor the activities of its Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), as part of measures at ensuring the full implementation of its Performance Management System (PMS).

The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HoCSF), Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan, said this on Tuesday in Abuja at a retreat on PMS for federal permanent secretaries.

The development is coming on the heels of the Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Policy Coordination, Hadiza Bala-Usman’s launch of the ‘citizens delivery tracker’ of federal government officials, which she said will use empirical data to evaluate the performance of ministers.

Speaking at the retreat in Abuja, Yemi-Esan said the most focal enabler to bring about the rapid and sustainable implementation of PMS is ‘culture change’.

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