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1. Police in Abuja, yesterday, said there was no truth in the reports making the rounds that the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) is under the siege of terrorists. FCT Commissioner of Police, Bala Ciroma said police, military and other security agencies were working hard to ensure the safety of residents.
2. The Ondo State government has returned 42 persons of Hausa extraction who recently relocated to the state from the north. The Commander of Amotekun Corps, Mr Adetunji Adeleye, said the men claimed they came for security training at a private firm in the state.
Gunmen have reportedly killed an unspecified number of policemen and three Customs Officers at various checkpoints in Rivers State.
The incident occurred on Saturday night between Omagwa -Isiokpo – Elele communities in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers state, along the Port Harcourt – Owerri road.
In a statement issued yesterday, the River State Police Command confirmed the attack on the security personnel but did not say if any officer was killed.
According to the statement signed by the Police Public Relations Officer in Rivers State, Superintendent of Police Nnamdi Omoni, the Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Eboka Friday “has launched a full-scale investigation into the dastardly attack with a view to arresting the perpetrators and bringing them to justice.”
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Operatives from the Federal Operations Unit, Zone A, of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) stormed Oja’ba market in Ibadan, Oyo State, in the early hours of Saturday, and went away with an unknown number of bags of rice, loaded in five trucks.
They were said to have broken into warehouses, stores and shops containing the bags of rice to carry out the act.
However, a reliable source, who craved anonymity, told Sunday Tribune that the operatives had to leave hurriedly, as some area boys at Mapo and Oja’ba areas started pelting them with stones in the dark, as they were carrying the rice bags inside the trucks brought for the operation.
Eromosele Abiodun
Importers and customs agents operating at the nation’s seaports have called on the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Col Hameed Ali (rtd) to promote the acting Controller, Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone A, Ikeja, Yahaya Usman and officers of the unit that intercepted explosives and Indian hemp smuggled into the country from Benin Republic.
The clearing agents said automatic promotion for the officers and Usman’s elevation to a full-fledged controller would serve as morale booster to other officers in the service.
The agents described the seizure as spectacular due to the current security threats and increased crime rates around the country, especially in the South-East and Northern part of the country