It was jubilation yesterday in Taraba State as police re-arrested the suspected kidnap kingpin, Alhaji Hamisu Bala Wadume, who confessed that soldiers assisted him to escape after being nabbed by the slain policemen. In a statement yesterday in Abuja, the Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), DCP Frank Mba, said Wadume was re-arrested in the late hours of Monday, 19th August
Read moreA bandit, Aliu Musa, after his arrest revealed that his gang gets their weapons delivered to them by a helicopter. The 20-year old on Wednesday narrated that he once watched helicopter drop weapons for his boss inside Dinya Forest in Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State. “I once saw that aircraft with fans on its head (helicopter) drop weapons
Read moreDaily, an estimated seven million litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), better known as petrol, valued at N1, 085t is smuggled from Nigeria to neighbouring West African countries. With daily consumption of about 52 million litres of petrol per day according to the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), The Guardian understands that only about 45 million litres are eventually circulated
Read moreBuratai Pledges Timely Completion Of 171 Battalion Barracks, Commends Troops The Nigerian Army yesterday reiterated its commitment to ending the Boko Haram’s insurgency and restore peace and stability to the North East. Incoming Theatre Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, Major General Olusegun Adeniyi, stated this at the burial of five fallen heroes at the Nigerian Army Cemetery, Maimalari Cantonment in Maiduguri,
Read moreThe Nigerian Army has urged South-East and Cross River state residents not to panic over massive movement of troops, military vehicles and weapons as it holds a week-long military exercise. The Deputy Director, Army Public Relations 82 Division, Col. Aliyu Yusuf, made the appeal in a statement issued to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Enugu. Yusuf
Read moreMr Emmanuel Okoro, the Controller of the Nasarawa State Command of the Nigeria Correctional Service, on Thursday, refuted reports by a section of the media that claimed there was a jailbreak at the Keffi Old Prison. Okoro denied the news while speaking to newsmen in Lafia, adding that what happened at the prison was a reaction by some angry prisoners
Read moreA bill newly assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari has given lifeline to condemned inmates who have exhausted all grounds of appeal from the lower court to apex court and have their condemnations upheld after spending 10 years in confinement. The law has also changed the Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS) to Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS). According to law, the Correctional
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