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Several states, including Zamfara and Kaduna, have come under repeated attacks by suspected hoodlums.The attacks have left many dead with many properties destroyed. On Saturday, some protesters marched to the presidential villa in Abuja over the persistent killings in Zamfara. In a statement by Garba Shehu, his spokesman, Buhari said his mind is constantly preoccupied with the insecurity challenges in the country. The president described as “ridiculous”, claims that he is indifferent to the incidents. He explained that as human, he understands the pains of the victims of the attacks. “How can I be happy and indifferent to the senseless killings of my fellow citizens by bandits?,” Buhari asked. "I am human and I understand the pains of the victims and their families who have been traumatized and impoverished by constant ransom demands by bandits. "The politicization of tragedy reveals the darkest sides of our primitive politics. Almost every week, I summon my security chie...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday urged herdsmen and farmers to live peaceful. He also disclosed that that his government was deeply worried about the incessant attacks on Benue’s rural communities, and vowed to end the menace “very soon”. Responding to remarks by various stakeholders during a Town Hall meeting in Government House, Makurdi, on Monday, the President also urged them to show restraint and allow the security agencies to handle the untenable situation. His words: “The governor and I, and others here know that we will leave one day, but the relationship between farmers and herders will continue. “I urge you to keep in touch with them and advise them to live peacefully. Nigeria has over 250 ethnic groups with different cultures and nobody can question God for putting us together.” Recalling his Civil War era memories with military officers from Benue State, he noted that his nostalgic experience with such persons would never allow him to do harm to the state....

The traditional ruler of Obosi community in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra state, Igwe Chidubem Iweka has warned the Buhari government to urgently deploy troops to communities under herdsmen siege. He said only the Nigerian Army can prevent further bloodletting and not the Police. The monarch told newsmen in his Obosi Palace that the herdsmen who had already attacked farmers in Benue, Taraba, Ekiti, Delta and Adamawa states, may spread their tentacles to other states of the federation and continue with their killing spree. He described as very unfortunate, herdsmen invasion of people’s farm lands in the name of grazing their cattle. “Nobody is against them grazing their cattle but people are against tampering with peoples’ farm lands. It is as if the placed priority on their cattle than peoples lives and lands. “Federal government should send Army to go after the herdsmen and defeat them because they have declared war on innocent citizens and ought to be...

Reno Omokri, former Presidential aide has berated President Muhammadu Buhari for failing to visit Benue State, following killing perpetrated by Fulani herdsmen. The former Personal Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan said Buhari prefered to visit his “gay cows” in Daura, Katina State than visit Benue. In a tweet via his social media handle, the former presidential aide stressed that Buhari’s action had shown that cows were more important to him than the lives of Benue people. The United States Pastor wrote: “The funny thing is that President Buhari has still not visited Benue where killer Fulani herdsmen killed Nigerians but he has visited Daura to tend to his 150 gay cows that don’t increase in number. “It seems his cows are more important to Buhari than Benue people.” Meanwhile, dozens of people on Monday embarked on a protest at Trafalgar Square, London, condemning the incessant killing of innocent Nigerians by suspected Fulani herdsmen in ...

A group, the Movement Against Fulani Occupation has made a serious allegation about the Miyetti Allah group plotting a coup in Nigeria. According to a Vanguard report, the Movement Against Fulani Occupation, MAFO, a civil society organisation against the activities of herdsmen in Benue State, has warned that the activities of herdsmen in parts of the country was a clear indication that the Miyetti Allah was planning a coup against the Nigerian states. This is just as suspected herders, on Sunday night, attacked a village in Kwall district of Irigwe chiefdom, Plateau State, leaving one person dead and another injured, the State Police Command confirmed yesterday. The attack was said to have occurred at about 9p.m., when unsuspecting villagers were retiring to bed. The State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, ASP Mathias Tyopev, told Vanguard:   On Sunday, at about 9p.m., unknown armed men attacked three people at Dundu-Maiyanga village of Kwall district, Bassa Loc...

The Nigerian Air Force has deployed some of its air assets to Plateau state in a bid to maintain peace in the state following reports of attacks. In a statement by NAF on Thursday, October 19, it explained that the deployment was ordered by Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, the chief of air staff. “The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has deployed some of its air assets and personnel to Jos, the Plateau State capital, to support Operation SAFE HAVEN to maintain peace and curtail senseless killings as well as possible spread of violence in some parts of the State. The deployment was ordered by the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS) Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, in compliance with the directive of the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Muhammadu Buhari, to ensure that an end is put to the current spate of violence and killings in the state.

It was another moment of grief Monday morning in Nkiedonwhro village, Bassa Local Government Area in Plateau State when at least 27 people were massacred in their sleep by gunmen suspected to be cattle herders. The latest is about the third in the wave of attacks on the local government area since the state government imposed an indefinite dusk-to-dawn curfew on the local government council last Friday. By Monday evening, the remains of the 27 victims of the attacks had been given a mass burial amidst wailing and outpouring of emotions in the village. The incident followed a similar deadly attack in the same local government area on Saturday, leading to the deaths of six persons. Confirming Monday’s incident, the National President of Irigwe Development Association (IDA), Mr. Sunday Abdu, indicted the soldiers attached to the Special Task Force (STF), saying the soldiers had gathered the villagers for the suspected herdsmen to kill. He said the soldiers had gathered the vict...

More than 20 people are feared dead in an early morning attack on Nkyie Dongwro village in Miango district of Bassa Local Government Area in Plateau State. The attack is the second in less than 24 hours after six people were killed in a late-night sneak attack on Ta’agbe village, also in Miango. Gunmen have continued to attack communities in spite of a curfew imposed by the state government on Bassa LGA. Before Monday’s attack, the government had vowed to identify and prosecute all those behind the attack on Ta’agbe village. It had also warned that any person or group found to be providing refuge and escape for perpetrators of the act would not be spared the wrath of the law.

The Eldorado Park community in South Africa is in mourning following the brutal rape and murder of a four-year-old girl, Shaynice Talla, who went missing on Wednesday afternoon, September 28. A search ensued for the missing child, and after the four-hour search, her body was found in a drain at the koppie in Extension Two, Westside, at 11pm same day. A man believed to be the perpetrator of this gruesome act has been apprehended, and is in police custody. Residents say the man did not act alone, and until more facts on the case come to light, the community is in an uproar over the horrific way in which her young life was taken. She will be laid to rest on Wednesday 4th October.

A notorious serial killer, Basiru Barau, aka Gojen-Mallam, has been arrested by the Katsina State Police Command. Barau, aged 25, said to be linked to three homicides cases in the state ran out of luck on Wednesday. Kaduna Spokesperson of the Nigeria police, DSP Gambo Isah, confirming the arrest before newsmen on Wednesday said no fewer than three murder cases had been committed by Barau. “The Katsina State Police Command wishes to inform the general public that it has succeeded in arresting a wanted notorious serial killer, Basiru Barau, alias Gojen-Mallam, of the Tudun Wada area of Funtua, Katsina State. “The suspect is a notorious member of an unlawful society of social miscreants otherwise known as Kauraye. He had been declared wanted by the command in connection with three homicide cases alleged to have been perpetrated by him and his group “On July 30, 2014, the suspect was alleged to have attacked one Aliyu Abubakar, aged 22, of Hayin Low-cost Estate, hacking him to dea...