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Punch Newspapers Sections Adebayo Ayinde There were strong indications on Tuesday that the Nigeria Governors’ Forum might opt for dialogue with bandits and people affected by their atrocities  to address insecurity in the country. The Chairman of the NGF, Dr Kayode Fayemi, gave this indication when he led some members of the forum on a  solidarity visit to the Niger State Governor, Sani Bello, in Minna, the state capital. Recall that gunmen on Wednesday last week stormed  Government Science College, Kagara in the Rafi Local Government Area of the state and abducted 27 students and 15 wor...

YOU would think that security crises would be minimised in a country whose head of state has a military background. And yet, Nigeria is so

Punch Newspapers Sections Kayode Idowu and Dogara Bitrus NO fewer than seven hunters were blown apart on Tuesday by landmine about 30 kilometres away from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The landmine, which scattered the vehicles of local hunters searching for suspected Boko Haram members, who had rustled cows from communities in Jere Local Government Area of the state, also got 19 other hunters injured. Both Senator Kashim Shettima, representing Borno Central in the Senate, and Ahmed Satomi, representing Jere Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, confirmed the incident on...

Kankara kidnap: The security loopholes On …Why kidnap of students may continue By Evelyn Usman Nigerians were greeted last week with the   news   of   kidnap of more than 300 students- all boys, from the Government Science Secondary School,Kankara, Katsina state. The mode of operation in the abduction of the students who never envisaged an impending danger , was same as that of 276 girls abducted from the Government Girls Secondary School, in the remote town of Chibok , Bornu State, on April 14, 2014, by the Boko Haram sect. Worry Arms wielding strangers were said to have invaded the...

Share TO the chagrin of many a Nigerian, President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to honour his promise to address a joint session of the National Assembly slated for December 10 to answer questions on security issues. The president had been invited via a resolution of the House of Representatives to address the house on the deteriorating security situation in the country. The house’s summons was personally conveyed to the president by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Honourable Femi Gbajabiamila, out of courtesy and to underscore the seriousness of the national concern on the ...