Youths are Currently on the streets of some Northern cities over the widespread killings in the region

 Youths are currently on the streets of some Northern cities over the widespread killings in the region.

Although Nigeria is currently facing a high wave of insecurity, bandits and terrorists have stepped up attacks in the north despite efforts of the government to contain them.

The protesters, who are wielding placards, have been sighted in Kano, Bauchi, Zamfara and Sokoto States.

They are also in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)

Chanting songs of peace, the protesters called on President Muhammadu Buhari and governors to show more interest in tackling insecurity. TAP HERE TO CONTINUE READING

Tension As Boko Haram Attack Borno

Militants from the Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly known as Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād have attacked a Civilian Joint Task Force base at Mainok, Borno State, killing two officers.

Sources told SaharaReporters that the terrorists who disguised themselves as military men and came in what looked like a military convoy, went straight to the base and attacked the personnel.

They said many other vigilantes fled into the bush during the attack.

Since the death of JAS leader, Abubakar Shekau, ISWAP has been consolidating its grip on locations around Lake Chad.

Police Arrest Bandits, rescue two person kidnapped in Abuja Community

Following armed bandits attack on a community, Piri in Kwali Area Council of the FCT and the reported kidnapping of some persons and alleged killing of a housewife, the Police have rescued 2 out of the 3 persons confirmed to have been kidnapped.

A top source told Vanguard that crack operatives of the anti-kidnapping squad were mobilized to the scene of the incident and tracked the bandits to the hills and forests around Kwali where the kidnappers were encountered before two of the victims were rescued.

Reps fume, threaten arrest as FCT minister shuns summons

The House of Representatives has threatened the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mohammed Bello, with arrest if he fails to honour the invitation extended to him by the lawmakers.

The House had on November 9, 2021, resolved to summon the minister over the growing insecurity and infrastructural decay in the nation’s capital.

The House had unanimously adopted a motion moved by the Deputy Minority Leader, Toby Okechukwu, which was titled, ‘Urgent need to arrest the fast deterioration of the Federal Capital Territory.’

Obasanjo, faithless suitor, unblinking political philanderer – Akande

A former Interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Bisi Akande, said in his new book that he knew former President Olusegun Obasanjo to be a faithless suitor and an unblinking political philanderer.

In his autobiography, ‘My Participations,’ which was presented in Lagos on Thursday, the former Governor of Osun State recalled how the “assassination of Bola Ige left us rudderless.”

He said, “We were like sheep without a shepherd. The AD had lost its lodestar for guidance and we were left on the open sea like a floundering ship. Soon, the sharks were circling.