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martphreak:
I just hope my certificate won't bear that yeye name sha

Don't comment on issues you know nothing of.

The Department of the State Security Service in Kano State, has arrested one of the dreaded kidnapping kingpins, who allegedly organized the recent attack on Nassarawa State Deputy Governor, Emmanuel Akabe where three Policemen and a civilian were killed.

DAILY POST gathered that the suspect, Muhammad Sani Akazakwai, was apprehended at his mother’s residence in Kano during the week while treating the wounds he apparently sustained during a gun duel with the police.


A source told our reporter that, “We have arrested him and his mother with another Mallam, who allegedly provides charms for him at Rijiyan Zaki Quarters of Kano while treating the wounds he might have sustained from gun duel with the Police.”

The security source, who confided in our correspondent, explained that Sani Akazakwai after attacking the Deputy Governor of Nassarwa State escaped to Kano for treatment of his wounds.

The source said, “While interrogating him, we recovered 50 Ak47 rifles, which he claimed were inherited from his father.


” We also recovered hundreds of GSM sim cards and other valuables from him.”

The kingpin further told the DSS that two other of his henchmen were still in the bush with seven AK47 rifles that they snatched from the dead police officers.

“Akazakwai is one of the dreaded kidnapping Kingpins who have been terrorising North Central for quite a long time,” said the source, adding that already, serious manhunt has been launched to get others at large.


“Muhammad Sani Akazakwai is a serious criminal, who has been on the wanted list of the security agency, what happened was a breakthrough for us.

“We nabbed him with 50 AK47 rifles one can imagine what he is doing with them,” the source added.

Source : https://dailypost.ng/2019/08/30/dss-arrests-mastermind-attack-nasarawa-deputy-gov-recovers-50-ak-47-rifles/

"If sincere advice is anything to go by, Mr. President should take certain necessary steps. One, he should consider the Northwestern West security as a priority and personally take charge."

It was exactly nineteen minutes past midnight, few moments into Thursday the 22nd of August. I had gone to bed. My eyes were already closed and sleep was descending quietly. Somehow, unlike many people I don’t normally switch my hand phone at night. There are usually no calls during that time except when I initiate them. But who could this caller be? I asked myself as I picked my phone which was vibrating by the bedside. For the past several weeks there have been renewed security challenges in the rural areas of Batsari and western part of Jibia local Governments. This is a place where my maternal relations are spread. On my fathers’ side I have no relations in this area. My father hailed from Bugaje ward in the eastern part of Jibia local Government. Thus back and front, as Hausa speakers will put it, I am from Jibia Local Government. I wish I had relations in Niger Republic so that I can be visiting the neighbouring country from time to time like many settlers in my native Jibia town do. But I have none. The last time I visited Maradi, the nearest Nigerien town to Jibia was more than thirty years ago.

So even as I stretched my hand to pick my inexpensive android phone, I thought it must be one of my relations calling. At times like this, they sleep during the day and spend their nights on guard. Of course, there is usually little they can do to confront the heavily armed bandits. To compound their problems, Governors of North western states met recently in Katsina and outlawed volunteers popularly known in the area as ‘yan sa kai’ which are the Northwest equivalent of civilian JTF in the North East. The most unfortunate thing is that the politicians did not provide any alternative.

Another problem is the recent peace initiative in Zamfara state. Somehow His Excellency the President sat in Abuja watching a PDP Governor reconciled with bandits and like magic it began to work. People who have confessed killing hundreds are now free. To worsen the situation, the level of criminality in his own state of Katsina rose immediately, with none of himself, his Governor and their party raising doubts as to whether or not the opposition had a hand in the crimes in the first place. But whosoever is behind it does not seem to be their business, anyway. After all, the honourable Hajiya minister has observed that Nigerians are too many.

In situations like this I usually call some of the villagers when I wake up at late hours of the night and I am always sure to get them. We shall talk for a few minutes before I go back to bed or do something else. They only call me at late hours when there is a criminal attack in their area. There is nothing I can do either. A Muslim will usually pray and I do. So this call must be from one of them, I thought. And I was right. It was one of my uncles. This one is younger than me but unlike me he did not have the privilege of going to the whiteman’s school. He is a farmer.

There was an ongoing attack in the nearby village of Zandam which is about two kilometers away, he told me. They could hear the sound of gunshots from their position. There was no need to call the people in Zandam in that situation. The DPO had already been informed but only for the sake of it. His men were to come about five hours later from Jibia which was only ten kilometers away. We lamented and prayed over the phone before hanging up. I then made two unsuccessful calls to Jibia and waited for a sleep that had gone away for the night. Some thirty minutes later when I called him he told me in a very low tone that the bandits were already in his village and immediately switched off.

But Zandam was not the first town to be attacked in the renewed violence in Jibia LGA. A day earlier, another village called Tsayau was attacked and four of its dwellers killed. There is something interesting about Tsayau. Literally, you can say there are two Tsayaus separated by a stream. One of them is our own Tsayau in Jibia LGA. The other Tsayau is in Niger Republic. Over the past few years, Nigerian Tsayau has been attacked several times, but Nigerien Tsayau has never experienced a bandit attack due to the vigilance of the Nigerien security forces.

A day before the Tsayau attack, there was another attack in Garin Gado about six kilometers out of Jibia. Wherever they go, the bandits rape, maim, kill and take away animals and in many cases women with them. They also burn assets especially cars and motorcycles.

The next time I spoke with uncle was in the morning. But even before we spoke, I got information from my cousin in Zandam that one Sani was killed during the night attack. His offence? The criminals asked for money and he showed them a fifty Naira note which he confessed was the last money he had. They shot him. In another household they attempted to take a small child and the mother stood in their way. They shot her and her husband and left them in blood. They were taken to hospital after the bandits left the village. They took away many cows whose exact number could not be verified by my Zandam sources. But most of the animals are ones used for farming.

My uncle confirmed to me when we spoke later that fifteen cows were rustled from his village. No woman was taken by the bandits.

The next night I received another call. The bandits struck again. This time it was Mallamawa fadi ka gurje a distance of less than ten kilometers west Zandam. By the time they left, 13 women forcefully left with them, in addition to the ones they raped and dumped. Animals were taken and property burnt down.

The next day (Friday) in the afternoon some cattle rustlers were intercepted by the Nigerian Army around Gurbin Baure along Jibia – Gusau highway. Two of the cattle rustlers were killed and three arrested. The animals were taken back. This is probably what made the larger gang to launch a reprisal attack on traders returning from Jibia market on Gurbin Baure – Shimfida road off the highway. This took place on Sunday. The Army came to the rescue but ran out of ammunitions and had to retreat. Eight vehicles, three of them belonging to the Nigerian Army were burnt to ashes by the bandits. The deaths and injuries are better imagined. But the Police later announced that only three people were injured.

As I m writing this piece, another village Tsambe in Jibia Local Government was attacked last night.

But Jibia is not the only place currently under attack. Batsari, Safana and other local governments in Katsina are having their own share of the renewed attacks. For example, on Monday the 27th of August, Wurma in Kurfi Local Government was attacked. More than two hundred bandits speaking with Zamfara accent arrived the village at around 11pm and spent more than three hours searching from house to house and room to room. They later kidnapped 42 people, 41 of them women and girls. This is in addition to the property they took along with them and the one they destroyed.

President Buhari seems to underestimate the level of crime taking place in deep areas of Katsina State. Even people like me who are not security experts know that the approach of Federal Government cannot work. How can a Commander-in-chief who has ordered his Army to rout criminals wherever they are allow a Governor to provide a hideout for the same criminals in the name of reconciliation? As things are, Zamfara state serves as the base for the bandits where they resort to after launching attacks in Katsina state.

But even without Zamfara, the Federal Government’s method of sending the Army to guard the highways and Air force to target bandits’ locations is another blunder. This has resulted in the highways being heavily guarded and the deep areas exposed to criminality. And because both the Army and Air Force have no knowledge of the area and are apparently not using any intelligence report, damages have reportedly been inflicted on innocent people with criminals left untackled.

If sincere advice is anything to go by, Mr. President should take certain necessary steps. One, he should consider the North West security as a priority and personally take charge. Two, Mr. President should abrogate the peace accord in Zamfara and use the full force of Federal Government to bring an end to banditry. Three, if an end is to be seen to this menace, civilian JTF must be established consisting of youth from the communities affected. Our communities are ready to provide the young people to be trained to work with regular security forces. The method of leaving soldiers to operate only on highways should be past.

Source: http://www.opinionnigeria.com/jibia-a-week-of-bloodbath-and-what-we-expect-of-government-by-prof-abdussamad-umar-jibia/amp/

successmatters:
"If it walks like a dog, barks like a dog and looks like a dog, it's most probably a dog".

In 1966, fulani mobs killed many pregnant women and cut open their bowels. Since then no other recorded cases of such by any tribe and now the same crimes are happening where cow herders are located. The same people will be the most likely culprits.

They have been doing it in recent times as well: Herdsmen rip open pregnant woman’s womb, bring out unborn childin Benue.

Source: https://dailypost.ng/2018/05/29/benue-herdsmen-rip-open-pregnant-womans-womb-bring-unborn-child/

Suspected Fulani herdsmen, on Sunday attacked, raped and inserted stones and stick into the private part of a pregnant woman in Yogbo town, Makurdi, the Benue state capital.

The incident happened when the woman was relaxing with her husband who escaped when the men started shooting.

DAILY POST gathered that the heartless herders used sticks to pierce through her private part to kill the unborn child.

They pulled out both the child and the woman’s womb leaving her at the mercy of death.

Upon her husband’s report, soldiers came to pick her corpse but discovered that she was still alive.

She was rushed to Bishop Murray Hospital for treatment.

It was learnt that Mrs. Magdalyne Dura, the Adviser to Governor Samuel Ortom, on Development Cooperation, SDGs/ NEPAD; a cleric, Rev Father Mbachie and Mrs. Josephine Haba visited the maternity ward of Saint Theresa’s Hospital Makurdi where the victim is currently receiving treatment.

They were in the hospital to represent a Faith Based Organization which settled bills for the treatment of the pregnant woman.

When contacted by DAILY POST, the Benue State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, ASP Moses Yamu, however, said he was not aware of the incident.

rhythyson:
This crime has all the signature of my Israeli brothers, herdsmen no dey do ritual killing.

They have done worst than these in the past:


NEWSBenue: Herdsmen rip open pregnant woman’s womb, bring out unborn child:
Source: https://dailypost.ng/2018/05/29/benue-herdsmen-rip-open-pregnant-womans-womb-bring-unborn-child/

Suspected Fulani herdsmen, on Sunday attacked, raped and inserted stones and stick into the private part of a pregnant woman in Yogbo town, Makurdi, the Benue state capital.

The incident happened when the woman was relaxing with her husband who escaped when the men started shooting.

DAILY POST gathered that the heartless herders used sticks to pierce through her private part to kill the unborn child.

They pulled out both the child and the woman’s womb leaving her at the mercy of death.

Upon her husband’s report, soldiers came to pick her corpse but discovered that she was still alive.

She was rushed to Bishop Murray Hospital for treatment.

It was learnt that Mrs. Magdalyne Dura, the Adviser to Governor Samuel Ortom, on Development Cooperation, SDGs/ NEPAD; a cleric, Rev Father Mbachie and Mrs. Josephine Haba visited the maternity ward of Saint Theresa’s Hospital Makurdi where the victim is currently receiving treatment.

They were in the hospital to represent a Faith Based Organization which settled bills for the treatment of the pregnant woman.

When contacted by DAILY POST, the Benue State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, ASP Moses Yamu, however, said he was not aware of the incident.

StOla:
A terrorist considers physical assault to be courageous while filming the premeditated act, yet same terrorist screams to high heavens that he is being denied his own human rights?

If no one has been arrested, it is because no one has pressed charges.

For that, the terrorists should be thankful for Ekweremadu's naivety or his stupidity.

Now that the terrorist has praised the German police for being civilized, does he consider his own terrorist miscreants and barbarians in that society as part of the civilized humans?

All terrorists are the same. They exploit the liberalism, civility and legal protections of the society as loopholes to stay off prosecution, while they enforce their will on others with threats, fear, assault and murder.

Or is this not the same terrorist who said any Igbo who does not obey his own mandated sit at home order, deserves to die?

If an act of terrorism has been committed the German authorities will not wait for charges to be pressed before opening an investigation.

helinues:
Nigerians are setting their house on fire.. Hope you can all relocate and leave inside bush..

How many are the Fulanis that everybody starts tagging them with any crime .

This is unfair to be honest. It is unfair oo

Many enough. Last time I checked there are over 20 million of them in West Africa. And they are all migrating to Nigeria presently.

lordparcel:
Where is the Cow?

The Fulani do not go reaving and raping with their cattle. They are a functional and highly mobile militia.

There are numerous videos on line that show them with AK47 and no cattles, e.g.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=em_qPs4GI-E

kayusely70:
Why speaking out now?

Did you read the report at all? They have been crying out without ceasing. They have even been reporting to the authorities who are, unfortunately, complicit.

Gandollaar:
Please stop mentioning RUGA, it's dead and buried. But who verified it was herdsmen that did it?

There were survivors

Without the Igbo's Nigeria will be nothing in football!

aishapmbtoto:
These guys will always excel where there is no quota system to restrict them. I tire for una

angelboy01:
The life of a man is nasty brutish and short.
Karl Max

That's not Max, pls.

angelboy01:
The life of a man is nasty brutish and short.
Karl Max

That's no Max, pls.

SalamRushdie:
(just saw the sarcasm)

First hand information from where ? You can see his corpse there and you are still saying nonsense...what is post even about ? Are you saying Fulanis are not killing people in Benue?

He is just being sarcastic.

Homeboiy:
we igbos don't care about the speech

Until the start slaughtering you like chickens. Remember South Africa?

manuelfolarin:
Can God smoke weed?

Yes, that is why He is the Most HIGH God!

kenodrill:
"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't than to live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is"...Albert Camus.

Only cowards reason thus.

GoroTango:
Point of correction esteemed Nobel Laureate, Buhari did not declare IPOB a terrorist organization because he lacks the power to do so. It was a legitimate court of law with legal jurisdiction who did so. IPOB are terrorists.

Please, stop distorting history. It was Buhari's government that first declared IPOB a terrorist organization without doing the needful, which was approaching a competent court of law. It was only after this monumental blunder was pointed out by lawyers like Saraki the Senate president that the attorney general finally went to court to correct the unfortunate error.

BlackMbakara1:
There's no proof this is in Nigeria or the men are herdsmen...besides fulanis are not only found in Nigeria.

Give us something concrete.

Even when robbers or would be assassins attacks, they are called Fulani herdsmen...

They language they are speakers is nothing but Fulfude or Fulani language, and the village in the background is an occupied Tiv settlement. We know our killers!

BlackMbakara1:
There's no proof this is in Nigeria or the men are herdsmen...besides fulanis are not only found in Nigeria.

Give us something concrete.

Even when robbers or would be assassins attacks, they are called Fulani herdsmen...

They language they are speaking is nothing but Fulfude or Fulani language, and the village in the background is an occupied Tiv settlement. We know our killers!

cuteemperor:
Okay! I have seen the video, but if I may ask what exactly make you think they are Fulani herdsmen, and how are you sure this is Nigeria..

I know a lot of people in this country are rather emotional instead of rational, and do not ask questions. That is exactly how Buhari became our president in the first place.

So your attacks are welcomed, still I choose to use my brain.

They language they are speaking is nothing but Fulfude or Fulani language, and the village in the background is an occupied Tiv settlement. We know our killers!

Myketuale:
How can I reply comment on nairaland??

Click on (quote) below.

funlord:
Fulani gangsters...not herdsmen! This new set don't even have any business with cattle...they are just a bunch of heartless bastards working on an agenda for some highly placed idiots!

They are Fulani mercenaries here to fight for their herdsmen brothers.

Onnasucs1:
This is very very untrue. If you compare the admission list of A.B.U to that of U.N.N, it is very apparent that the northern universities are even more liberal. Go through the names the lecturers in both schools you'll know the truth.

That's because there is a shortage of manpower in the North my friend.

deafeyez:
The same MATHEMATICS question can be approached in different ways and the same answer gotten.

So you're equating mathematics with religion?

BeeBeeOoh:
What do these people tell all these young girls that always make them agree to blow up themselves??

The same thing pastors usually tell believers that make them to abandone their children as witches and wizards or that makes people torture and burn women and the elderly to death or to stop taking medication for nonexistent miracles, etc.

Author: Jerrywright Ukwu

- President of the World Bank Group, Jim Yong Kim, sent tongues wagging in Nigeria recently

- Kim had revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari asked the World Bank to focus on the north

- There are evidences that Jim's comments are true despite the denial from the presidency

A report by The Punch indicates that the comments of the president of the World Bank Group, Jim Yong Kim, which sparked controversy in Nigeria recently, are true.

Kim had revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari asked the World Bank to focus its developmental projects in northern Nigeria.

Despite denials by the presidency, documents quoted in the report showed that the development bank had indeed focused its projects in the north.

According to findings, a huge chunk of the financial institution-backed projects in partnership with the federal government is concentrated in northern Nigeria.

Documents on the World Bank website, projects.worldbank.org, showed that out of the 14 World Bank-sponsored projects in the country, seven are exclusively for the north, while six others are meant for the whole nation (southwest, southsouth, southeast, northwest, northeast and north central); and the remaining one is for Lagos state.

Titled ‘Projects and Operations’, these projects were listed under June 2015 – June 2017 projects.

The implication is that in addition to solely getting the lion’s share of the projects, the north also shared in the remaining 50% with the southwest, southeast and southsouth.

The projects exclusive to the northern region worth $1bn are: Multi-Sectoral Crisis Recovery Project for northeastern Nigeria ($200m; Borno, Yobe and Adamawa); State Education Program Investment Project ($100m; northeast states); Community and Social Development Project ($75m; Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, Taraba, Bauchi, and Gombe); Youth Employment and Social Support Project ($100m; Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, Taraba, Bauchi, and Gombe states).

Others are Additional Financing Nigeria State Health Investment Project ($125m; Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe) and the Third National Fadama Development Project ($50m; selected area in the northeast). The seventh northern project worth $350m is for the Kaduna state Economic Transformation Program-for-Results Project $350m. The KSETPRP, which was approved in June 2017, is expected to close on March 31, 2021.

Projects worth $2.9bn were earmarked for the nation which northern states are also expected to benefit from. They are: Better Education Service Delivery for All ($611m); Mineral Sector Support for Economic Diversification Project ($150m); NEITI Reporting Compliance ($0.32m); the Polio Eradication Support Project ($125m); National Social Safety Nets Project ($1.8b); and $200m-Agro-Processing, Agricultural Productivity Enhancement and Livelihood Improvement Support Project specifically designed for Kano, Kaduna, Lagos, Cross River, Kogi, Enugu and three other states.

There was also the Third Lagos State Development Policy Operation ($200m), a stand-alone project which was approved on June 26, 2015 and ended on December 31, 2016.

The World Bank documents did not contain any programme or project specifically designed for the southeast, southsouth and the middle-belt regions since Buhari got into power.

Shedding light on why half of the projects were exclusively allocated to the north and no special projects for the other regions, the World Bank boss at a press conference in Washington DC, United States, on Thursday, October 12, had disclosed that the bank focused more on the region based on Buhari’s request.

“You know, in my very first meeting with President Buhari, he said specifically that he would like us to shift our focus to the northern region of Nigeria and we’ve done that. Now, it has been very difficult. The work there has been very difficult.

“Focusing on the northern part of Nigeria, we hope that as commodity prices stabilise and oil prices come back up, the economy will grow a bit more. But very, very much important is the need to focus on what the drivers of growth in the future will be,” Kim said.

President Buhari has been severally accused of nepotism by leaders of southern regions, especially as regards his appointments.

Recently, the chairman of the political committee of Afenifere, Professor Banji Akintoye, stated that President Muhammadu Buhari had been fuelling secessionist agitations with his words and body language towards those calling for the restructuring of Nigeria.

Akintoye, a renowned historian, said the things being said by officials of the federal government were creating the impression that “there is hard determination to hold on to the status quo and that is creating anxiety across the country.”

Culled from naij.com

Khd95:
what is hypocrisy about a man that signs guy law against her own daughter?
SHOULD he because of her own daughter betray Nigeria culture and tradition....If she has chosen her way like that should her father now go about with placard supporting guy.

The hypocrisy here is that such laws are meant only for the poor and downtrodden. They rich are safe from them. Check out sharia and its application so far.

Kbanka:
Which kind of journalist is this?

Was it only the northern legislators that signed anti-gay bill?

North has the most homosexuals yet they dont have any Bobriskys or Denreles. Anty Kemi, we don dash una from that side the award.

But they have a lot of Dan Daudu's. There are definitely more homosexuals in the North.

Kbanka:
Which kind of journalist is this?

Was it only the northern legislators that signed anti-gay bill?

North has the most homosexuals yet they dont have any Bobriskys or Denreles. Anty Kemi, we don dash una from that side the award.

But they have a lot of Dan Daud

From Paul Osuyi, Asaba

Leader of the Miyyeti Allah Cattle Dealers Association in Delta State, Musa Mohammed aka Daro had been arrested for alleged complicity in series of kidnapping and armed robbery in the state.

The 56-year old suspect was arrested with eight others who are said to be his relatives.

He has been charged as an accessory to the crime of kidnap and armed robbery, according to the Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Zanna Ibrahim.

Ibrahim said his men acted on a tip-off and arrested herdsmen residing in the bush behind Asaba Airport.

He alleged that Mohammed’s house was used as arsenal where his gang members keep the weapons for operations, adding that kidnapped victims were also kept there.

The police boss said the Miyetti Allah leader cannot claim to be innocent as he was aware of the criminal activities of his relatives.

“The police have arrested eight herdsmen from a community of herdsmen resident behind the Asaba Airport.

“The head of Meyetti Allah is the one who keeps the arms used in kidnapping and armed robbery operations. All the persons arrested are his relations; they are either his sons, cousins or nephews.

“He has been charged to court as an accessory, because he knows the activities of his children and he tolerated their criminal acts.


“The arms are kept in his house, kidnap victims are kept in his house. He is the leader of the Fulani group in Delta State .We will not tolerate anyone who partakes in criminality,” the CP warned.

Source: The Sun News