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Governors take kidnapping, killings concern to Buhari Alao Abiodun With insecurity boiling over in the country, North’s governors cried out on Thursday and took their concern to President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa. On Wednesday, bandits killed an estimated 83 people in multiple attacks in three local government areas of Zamfara State. On Presidential order, a Special Military Operation was launched at 8:30 am yesterday from Mare Local Government to rid Zamfara of the “frequent and horrifying” activities of bandits, according to a statement by Presidential spokesman Garba Shehu. File photo of Nigeria s President Muhammadu Buhari. Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS Host Photo Agency (Photo by Anton Novoderezhkin\TASS via Getty Images) ....
Insecurity: Our nation is bleeding now DEFENCE MINISTER On …Govt compiling report on political, religious, ethnic ‘opponents’ …Confirms arrest of Boko Haram sponsors in Kano …Bandits attack Kaduna hospital, kidnap 2 nurses …We have epidemic of kidnappings and abductions NMA President …Traditional ruler, 5 others killed in Benue By Chioma Obinna, Peter Duru, Johnbosco Agbakwuru & Ibrahim Hassan Minister of Defence, Major-Gen. Bashir Magashi, retd, said yesterday Nigeria is currently bleeding., following the state of insecurity in the country. This came on a day bandits attacked the General Hospital in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State, abducting two nurses on duty, barely 24 hours after bandits invaded Greenfield University in same Kaduna, killing a staff and and abducting 23 students. ....
Eldest man in the community, Aho Zoola, alleged that gunmen suspected to be herders attacked the villagers at about 2:00am, shot sporadically and killed the two people. Zoola according to the report of one of Governor Samuel Ortom’s media aide, narrated that the attack on their rural abode came to them as a surprise because they never had any issues with herders. The media aide, Jimmin Geoffrey, had stated that the governor was returning from a burial in the area when he had a stop over to sympathise with the villagers who are already displaced from their homes and assured them that he would do everything possible to get security agencies to the area. ....