Thank God For Buhari Govt, Security Is Better In Nigeria – Adesina

The special adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on media and publicity, Femi Adesina has declared that the current administration has made remarkable progress in fighting insecurity in Nigeria.

According to the presidential media aide, a lot of challenges still remain but for those who think and see objectively, things are a lot better, he observed.

Mr. Adesina made the observation on Thursday during an appearance on a Channels TV interview programme where he submitted that Nigerians should be thankful to God for what the Buhari administration has done so far.

“As challenging as security is, even now, we are still not where we were.”

“You would look at some areas of security, if you are true and dispassionate and you will have cause to thank God that things are better in this area,” he said.

Comparing the current government with past administrations, Mr. Adesina said many things have improved and there is hope that pending issues will also be sorted out.

“There are some areas of security where things are a lot better than they used to be. There are still some challenging areas but there is assurance that those areas will be sorted out within the lifespan of this administration,” the media aide said.

Meanwhile, five students out of the 73 earlier kidnapped by bandit terrorists from their Secondary school in Kaya, Maradun LGA of Zamfara State, have escaped from their captors.

Naija News had recalls that terrorists on Wednesday morning abducted students from the school located in Governor Bello Matawalle’s hometown.

The gunmen who came on motorcycles stormed the school shooting sporadically.

Five Students Escape From Bandit Terrorists In Zamfara

Five students out of the 73 earlier kidnapped by bandit terrorists from their Secondary school in Kaya, Maradun LGA of Zamfara State, has escaped from their captives.

Naija News had recalls that terrorists on Wednesday morning abducted students from the school located in Governor Bello Matawalle’s hometown.

The gunmen who came on motorcycles stormed the school shooting sporadically.

“There was an abduction of students just now in Kaya town, Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara state. The gunmen who were in large number came to Kaya Junior Secondary School and abduct large number of students,” a source had said.

A teacher in the school had revealed that he and others managed to escape by running away under the cover of farms near the school.

He disclosed that the bandits stormed the school in the hours of 11 am and 12 pm.

Speaking to BBC Hausa on Thursday, a father of one of the escaped students, all women, said his daughter returned home around 1am.

The father said his daughter told him that the bandits divided them into two groups, and in the process of dividing them, she and four others managed to escape.

He added that two of the children who escaped are currently being treated at a hospital.

Enugu Assembly Passes Anti-open Grazing Bill

 

The Enugu State House of Assembly, on Thursday, passed the anti-open grazing bill into law.

It was gathered that after going through the bill on a clause by clause consideration, lawmakers passed the bill

It was reported that following the passage, the Assembly would send the bill to Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi for his assent.

The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association had asked the Assembly to extend passage of the bill for one month in other to give them enough time to make and input.

Meanwhile, the member representing Danmusa local government area of Katsina State House of Assembly, Aminu Garba, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of betraying the trust of the people of his home state.

While decrying the worsening state of insecurity in the country and increase in attacks by bandits in Katsina State, he asked; “the people of Katsina gave him (Buhari) the highest votes in Nigeria when he was contesting but what do we have to show for it?”

Naija News reports that the lawmaker’s outburst is coming after the state governor, Bello Masari advised Katsina residents to defend themselves against banditry, saying: “People can’t fold their hands and watch being killed. If they abandon their villages where will they go and when will the killings end?”

Danmusa has now cried out that the people of his constituency were being killed and an uncountable number of cattle rustled by bandits because security agents in the area are overwhelmed and not “combatant enough.”

He maintained that President Buhari can bring an end to the insecurity within seven days, adding, however, that the attitude of the president is that of betrayal as he has abandoned the people of the state.

Police confirm abduction of 73 students by terrorists in Zamfara, as governor seeks forgiveness

 

Shehu Mohammed, the state Police spokesperson confirmed the news in a statement issued on Wednesday evening.

Mohammed said that Ayuba Elkanah, Commissioner of Police in the state has “deployed a search and rescue team that was mandated to work in synergy with the military to ensure the safe rescue of the abducted students.”

According to him, the commissioner appealed “to the general public, especially parents and relatives of the abducted students, to exercise patience and continue to pray for the success of the ongoing rescue operation,” adding that security has been beefed up at Kaya village and environs in order to prevent further attacks.

Terrorists had on Wednesday, abducted a vice principal and 73 students from the school, killing a police officer in the process.

Matawalle seeks forgiveness

Meanwhile, Zamfara governor, Bello Matawalle of Zamfara has appealed to residents to intensify prayers for God’s intervention to end banditry in the state, while also requesting the populace to pray for forgiveness.

The governor made the call during a special prayer session organised by the Ulamau Consultative Committee (UCC), held all over the state.

The governor who attended the prayer at the Gusau Central Mosque said it had become imperative for the citizens to complement the government and security operatives’ efforts to tackle the rampaging bandits.

”Prayer is the only powerful weapon that can solve any calamity on the people. We must seek Allah’s forgiveness,” he said.

The special prayer session was observed in all the Juma’at mosques in Zamfara.

Popular Pastor Disgraced And Forced To Marry Corpse Of Fiancée Who Died During Forced Abortion

Founder of Life Transformation Praying Ministry, in Akwakuma, Owerri, Rev Dr Sucess Emeka has been disgraced and forced to marry the corpse of his fiancée for aborting her pregnancy, which later resulted in her death to save his reputation.

According to reports, pastor Emeka started dating Chioma Okoye 5 years ago and they got engaged in 2020 and started planning their wedding.

However, Chioma, 32, became pregnant while wedding plans were underway but the pastor rejected the pregnancy, claiming it would damage his reputation.

The family of the deceased alleged that the Pastor drugged Chioma’s drink and took her to the hospital asking the doctor to terminate the pregnancy. The doctor is said to have refused but the pastor allegedly insisted.

Unfortunately, Chioma reportedly started vomiting blood during the procedure and reportedly died before her family could intervene.

Wilfred Okoye, in the family statement, said, the autopsy showed the pastor tried to perform the abortion while she was unconscious before taking her to the hospital after his technique failed

Despite her death, Chioma’s family made the pastor marry her corpse before her funeral.

She was buried on Tuesday, August 31 in Umuahia, Abia.

Amnesty International Has No Right To Exist In Nigeria – Presidency

The Nigerian Presidency has declared that Amnesty International, a non-governmental organization that fights human rights abuses, has no legal right to exist in the country.

In a statement issued by Garba Shehu, media aide to President Muhammadu Buhari, the presidency criticized Amnesty International over its ‘support’ for pro-secession groups like IPOB.

The statement read, “Amnesty International’s latest salvo at Nigeria is but more of the same.

“Again, they have decided to side with terrorists, before the liberty of those they injure, displace, and murder.

“Speaking the language of universal human rights, Amnesty International deploys it only in defense – even outright promotion – of those that violently oppose the Federal Government of Nigeria. 

“Parroting the line of Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB, a proscribed terror organization, they work to legitimize its cause to Western audiences. This puts them in bad company. Controversial American lobbyists are paid hundreds of thousands of dollars annually to do the same, laundering IPOB’s reputation in Washington DC.

“IPOB murder Nigerian citizens. They kill police officers and military personnel and set government property on fire. Now, they have amassed a substantial stockpile of weapons and bombs across the country. 

“Were this group in a western country, you would not expect to hear Amnesty’s full-throated defense of their actions. Instead, there would be silence or mealy-mouthed justification of western governments’ action to check the spread of 'terrorism'.

“Despite Amnesty’s self-proclaimed mandate to impartially transcend borders, unfortunately in Nigeria, they play only domestic politics. The international NGO is being used as cover for the organization’s local leaders to pursue their self-interests. Regrettably, this is not uncommon in Africa. There is nothing wrong with an activist stance; there are claims of neutrality when all facts point to the opposite.

“Amnesty International has no legal right to exist in Nigeria. It must open a formal investigation into the personnel that occupies their Nigerian offices. They should reject the outrageously tendentious misinformation they receive and bring some semblance of due diligence to the sources they base their claims on. Currently, we see none.

“The Nigerian government will fight terrorism with all the means at its disposal. We will ignore Amnesty’s rantings. Especially when it comes from an organization that does not hold itself to the same standards it demands of others.”

India Arrests Two Nigerians Among Notorious Four-man Drug Cartel

The Narcotic Control Bureau on Tuesday has arrested four persons in which two are Nigerians in connection with a case registered against alleged drug peddler Ajay Singh alias Mamu and actor Armaan Kohli.

Following the questioning of the two accused, a follow-up operation was launched by the NCB at various places in Mumbai, and the agency seized a total of 118 gram mephedrone and 13 grams of cocaine and arrested four persons, including two Nigerians, making a total number arrested to be six.

According to GhanaWeb, an official said that as part of the follow-up operation, the NCB seized mephedrone and intercepted Mohammed Ajaz Sayyed alias Chiya Bhai from Juhu Gal after his name cropped up in the investigation.

Based on the initial interrogation of Chiya Bhai, one Imran Ansari was caught for his alleged role in dealing drugs from Sayyed on Monday. The names of two Nigerian nationals came to the fore in their questioning.

Accordingly, a team of officers intercepted one Nigerian, Uba Chinoso Wizdom, with a commercial quantity of mephedrone at Nalasopara late Monday night. He was allegedly the main supplier of mephedrone in this case.

The NCB intercepted the other Nigerian, Nwachiyaso Israel Nwachukwu alias Sam, with a commercial quantity of mephedrone and intermediate quantity of cocaine early Tuesday at Aarey Milk Colony, Mumbai.

“During the operation, he attacked the NCB team and one officer was injured. He was rushed to the nearest government hospital. Nwachukwu has been residing in Mumbai for five years and running the African drug cartel. He was the main trafficker of this international link as the cocaine seized has South American origin,” an official said.

The official noted that with this action they have busted a major drug network supplying cocaine to the high-end party circuits in the city.

Another African drug cartel member was apprehended with the seizure of intermediate quantities of mephedrone and ecstasy. The Nigerian national, identified as Sunday Okeki alias Sunny, was arrested from Nalasopara on Tuesday.

 “The intercepted person works as a bouncer/bodyguard and is an actor by profession,” the official added. An official said that he worked in fight scenes with top Bollywood actors.

FG says it’s disbursed N56bn to over 1m Nigerians as Covid-19 survival fund

Nigeria’s federal government says it has disbursed N56.8 billion to over 1 million persons and businesses under the survival fund scheme.

Minister of state, industry, trade and investment and chairperson of the survival fund steering committee, Maryam Katagum, who made the disclosure at a news conference on Tuesday in Abuja, explained that the scheme targeted 100,000 beneficiaries, but that as at the time the portal closed, only 65,976 applications were received, of which 50,032 scaled the pre-qualification test and were shortlisted.

She also flagged off the guaranteed offtake scheme which according to her, is the last track of the government’s micro small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) survival fund scheme.

The initiative is a component of the Nigeria economic sustainability plan (NESP) which was developed by a committee headed by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo.

“To date, we have successfully disbursed the sum of N56,842,780,000.00 to 1,079,323 including those registered under CAC,” she said.

“The federal government is set to roll out the last component of the survival fund known as the guaranteed off-take scheme (GOS).”

According to the minister, Covid-19 pandemic caused a drop in demand for corporate and household products and commodities.

She noted that the commencement was delayed due to issues from other programmes such as failed payments, balancing value and ensuring equity among states.

On the issue of verification and pre-qualification, the minister said the beneficiaries must be Nigerians with valid BVN and have a staff strength of not less than three.

The minister said the survival fund had also made great progress in other schemes that had been implemented.

Police arrest lady for pouring a 10-year-old girl with hot water mixed with pepper for breaking a plate. (Graphic Photos)

 

Abia State Police Command have arrested one Mrs. Zazi David for allegedly pouring her 10-year-old house help with hot water mixed with ground pepper because she broke a plate.

According to the command’s spokesperson, Geoffrey Ogbonna, Mrs. Zazi also allegedly forced the girl, identified as Ifunanya, to drink the mixture.

It was gathered that the suspect was arrested after a patent medicine dealer she took Ifunanya to, raised alarm over her condition.

The suspect had also on several occasions meted inhuman treatments on the maid said to be an orphan, resulting in visible marks of assault on her body.

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