As the country marks the 2021 Armed Forces Remembrance Day, Friday, the Presidency has declared that the activities of Boko Haram insurgents have been weakened compared to what obtained in 2015.
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Afeez Hanafi
Wednesday, July 22, 2020 will linger in the minds of workers at a pharmaceutical store on Old Ife Road, Ibadan, Oyo State. Around 8.40pm on that day, two robbers captured in a four-minute Closed Circuit Television footage had stormed the facility. In a split second, one of them – a tall young man in an overall black sportswear – brought out a gun tucked in the inner pocket of his clothes while the other, clad in black jean trousers and a white T-shirt, brandished a firearm he had wrapped in a black polythene bag.
The man in the white T-shirt swiftly filched a phone on the counter before joining his accomplice to ransack the drawers where they stole some cash; perhaps all that the store made from sales for the day.