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Sunday, 1 May 2016
Following intelligence reports, a battalion of Operation Lafiya Dole stormed this Boko Haram bomb factory in Ngala town, Borno State.
Apart from killing some insurgents and destroying the factory, plenty of materials for producing Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs were recovered, including, but not limited to 20 gas cylinders of various sizes prepared and ready for explosives insertion, primers, gun powder, electric wires and tape recorders.
See photos.
On Friday, troops of the 22 Brigade on mobile fighting patrol raided Yerwa and kaluketu renamed "Abuja Town" by Boko Haram insurgents.
The raid led to the killing of four Boko Haram terrorists and recovery of 2 AK-47 rifles with registration numbers 58010938 and 58008270 respectively.
Other items recovered from the terrorists according to Army spokesman, Col Sani Usman were 29 rounds of 7.62mm special ammunition, 1 Dane gun, 1 Bow and Arrow, 2 Laptop computers and 6 mobile telephone handsets.
The troops also recovered a big truck and 5 motorcycles from the insurgents.
Troops of 3 Battalion 22 Brigade acting on intelligence information carried out a preemptive attack on Boko Haram insurgents on Sunday to foil imminent terrorist attacks on military and civilian targets in the area of Wunbi in Kala Balge Local Government Area of Borno State.
Army spokesman, Col Sani Usman confirmed the development in a statement he released on Sunday.
"The pre-emptive attack was carried out after information was received about the devilish intention and location of the terrorists. While on a patrol to foil the attack troops encountered the terrorists at Tatakura village 20km South West of Wumbi. There was heavy exchange of fire at the end of which 9 Boko Haram terrorists were killed.
"Troops captured 3 AK-47 rifles, 1 Fabrique Nationale rifle, 1 General Purpose Machine Gun, a 60mm Mortar Tube, 1 Rocket Propelled Grenade 7 (RPG 7) Tube, 1 G3-Machine Gun and 7 Fabrique Nationale Magazines.
"Other recovered items also included 108 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition, 1 Energa grenade, an RPG 7 Bomb as well as three 60mm mortar bombs and 2 motor cycles.
"Unfortunately, 6 of our troops sustained gunshot wounds and have been evacuated for treatment. They are all in stable condition and responding to treatment.
"Citizens are once again requested to always provide any useful information they have about suspected persons to the security agencies."
This is the most important chair in Naija. Only the President gets to sit on it.
This is where the President signs decisions that affect the lives of millions of Nigerians for good or otherwise.
This is where President Buhari will be sitting when he signs the 2016 budget into law.
Photo by Bayo Omoboriowo, personal photographer to President Buhari and official photographer to the State House, Abuja.
The Arewa Consultative Forum has washed its hands off a story purporting that it has appointed Senator JKN Waku to be its observer at the trial of Senate President, Bukola Saraki at the Code of Conduct Tribunal.
The General Secretary of the forum, Colonel JIP Ubah (Rtd) said in a statement in Kaduna that at no time did any of its organs consider sending anybody to represent it at the tribunal in any capacity.
“Therefore, the ACF totally dissociates itself from the statements credited to Senator JKN Waku in the story. Sen. JKN Waku is on his own.
“The ACF is a nonpartisan, and foremost umbrella organisation committed to northern development and national unity. It is not in the tradition of the ACF to take sides or interfere in judicial processes,” he said.
Saturday, 30 April 2016
The decision by the 19 governors of Northern states under the umbrella of the Northern States Governors Forum, NSGF to take sides with Fulani herdsmen has touched on raw nerves in other parts of the country.
The NSGF had after its meeting in Kaduna on Friday taken exception to the labeling of Fulanis as criminals following repeated destruction of farmlands, houses and killings by herdsmen in their host communities in the North Central, South South, South West and South East regions of Nigeria.
The Northern governors had said that it was an insult to label Fulanis criminals for criminal activities committed by herdsmen.
Reacting to the position of the NSGF, Afenifere, a pan Yoruba socio-cultural organization told the 19 Northern states governors to bury their heads in shame for tacitly supporting the criminal activities of Fulani herdsmen.
Here is a statement issued by Afenifere spokesman, Yinka Odumakin on Saturday.
“It (the northern governors’ position) is a sign of unfeeling, uncaring for any group today to come out and say that those who have been causing problems and killing people in the Middle Belt and the South are not Fulani herdsmen. They have killed in Agatu land, Enugu; a traditional ruler was killed in Delta State; they killed Chief Olu Falae’s guard and also kidnapped Chief Falae himself. For some people to gather and call themselves northern governors, and have no sympathy for lives than to be defending the Fulani herdsmen, shows clearly that it is a tragedy of monumental proportion to be in the same country with these elements. You also begin to wonder if the blood of human beings runs in their veins because anybody that has human blood running in his veins will not come and say that Fulani herdsmen are not responsible. What nonsense.
“I think the northern governors should bury their heads in shame. I do not think they are fit to be in the comity of civilized human beings. If the attackers are not Fulani herdsmen, where have they struck in the North-West? Why are their activities only in the Middle Belt and in the South? That is the question these northern governors should answer. When militants were blowing up pipelines in the South-South, were they not called Niger Delta militants? Do they want us to call them Yoruba herdsmen?”
In its reaction, the Ijaw Youth Council, IYC described the position of the Northern governors as a tacit support for Fulani herdsmen terrorism.
“The statement by the northern governors is disappointing and a tacit support for criminality and the ongoing Fulani herdsmen terrorism.
“If they are interested in peace in Nigeria, they ought to be more concerned about the implication of the activities of the Fulani herdsmen rather than a perceived insult on the Fulani race.
“The IYC condemns the stand taken by the northern governors and calls on southern leaders to brace up for the challenges ahead.
“Furthermore, we wish to state that part of the reason Boko Haram grew to become a national problem was the tacit support given to them by northern political leaders and this Fulani herdsmen terrorism is taking the same pattern; hence it must be taken seriously,” said IYC spokesman Eric Omare in a chat with Vanguard.
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