04/28/2021 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – Boko Haram terrorists have increased their territory by raising their flags in Kaure, a town in […]
Where is the country heading to? asks Sonnie Ekwowusi
Amid the bloodletting, violence, kidnappings, banditry, drum beats of war and secession threats, the questions which both Nigerians and non-Nigerians are asking at the moment include: Quo Vadis, Nigeria? Where are you going Nigeria? To Golgotha? To Somalia? To Southern Sudan? Last week was the bloodiest and most fatal week in recent times in Nigeria. About 240 people were murdered and more than four dozen were kidnapped. Six persons were killed in Ekiti on April 20th; 40 students of Greenfield University, Kaduna were kidnapped on April 21st out of which five or six had been killed; 18 kidnapped in Oyo State on April 22nd; 45 people killed in Zamfara on April 22nd; another 83 persons murdered in Zamfara on April 23rd. Is it time out for Nigeria? Niger State Governor Abubakar Bello alerts the country that jihadists had overrun about 50 communities in Kaure and Shiroro local government, and hoisted their flag as evidence of conquest
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Tunde Razaq Adebayo Minna
Tunde Razaq Adebayo Minna
Published 30 April 2021
Following the confirmation of the presence of Boko Haram in Niger State by the Niger State Governor Abubakar Bello, it has been gathered that about 65 communities in Niger State have resorted to negotiating and signing a peace deal with the insurgent to avoid future raids.
This development came few days after the terror group displaced more than 5,000 villagers from their homes in some local government areas in the state.
Though the Nigerian Army said it was unaware of Boko Haram’s incursion into Niger State, Wasiu Abiodun, the police spokesperson in the state, said he could not dispute Bello’s claim about the influx of the terrorist group into the state.
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Tension and beating of war drums in Nigeria under the political leadership of a president who progressively fades away from public arena in preference for issuing of incongruent and incoherent press statements from his media minders, has reached dizzying height.
There is now a unanimity of agreement from across political spectrum that President Muhammadu Buhari has not only failed but has manifested unambiguous signals that he does not want to drive the process of eradicating Nigeria of these threats of war. He seems to be the character blowing the firestorm of ethno religious conflagration through his actions, inactions, ambiguous and incoherent public statements.
Boko Haram fighters have reportedly hoisted the Islamist group s flag in a remote district in Niger State, Nigeria s Middle Belt region, and seized the wives of fleeing residents, the state s governor has said. I am confirming that we have Boko Haram elements in Niger State, around Kaure. They have taken over the territory . They have installed their flag, said Niger State Governor Abubakar Bello, in a widely circulated video on Monday.
Mr Bello disclosed, during a visit to an Internally Displaced Persons Camp in the state capital Minna, that more than 3000 people had been ousted from their communities by Boko Haram and other criminal gangs locally known as bandits.