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Border corruption: Security agents, smugglers worsen subsidy crisis, flout Buhari’s order The Punch Amarachi Orjiude, Stephen Angbulu, Olaide Oyelude, Tunde Oyekola, Adeniyi Olugbemi, Justin Tyopuusu, Dogara Bitrus, Olufemi Olaniyi, Hindi Livinus and Daud Olatunji Published 29 June 2021 Nigerian businessmen, security agents smuggle petrol for Cameroonian rebels, says source Smuggling done by residents – Customs Troops can’t engage in such criminal activity – Army Facts have emerged about how security agents and border communities aid smuggling of petroleum products, t...

Punch Newspapers Sections Dogara Bitrus, Maiduguri Published 30 April 2021 Members of Boko Haram have taken over farmlands and farming activities in Ggeidam town, in the Geidam Local Government Area of Yobe State. The insurgents, who displaced majority residents of the town, were also said to have taken to preaching jihadist sermons to the few remaining people, mostly aged men and women, while also giving cash to them. Gambo Abdullahi, an indigene of Geidam residing in Damaturu, said the town was still being occupied by the insurgents, while the Nigerian army troops were restricted to the we...

Punch Newspapers Sections Kayode Idowu and Dogara Bitrus Published 5:05 am Kayode Idowu and Dogara Bitrus Published 5:05 am  Boko Haram insurgents on Friday attacked the hometown of the acting Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali, in Geidam, Yobe State. The Yobe attack was not the first time the terrorist group would invade the hometown of the head of a security agency. They had raided the villages of former Chief of Air Staff, the late Alex Badeh, and ex- Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, in Adamawa and Borno states respectively when they were in service. The attackers invaded Alka...

Punch Newspapers Sections Dogara Bitrus Published 12:21 am Dorcas  Musa, in this interview with DOGARA BITRUS, recounts  her experience in the insurgents’ camp and how she managed to escape from his captors How were you abducted? Five of us were abducted on the onion farm in Tulhun Maya village near Baga, where we were weeding, when the insurgents came. When they got to us, they asked us if we were from Baga town and we answered in the affirmative, and they said that our parents and brothers had mobilised against them and as such, they would take us away in retaliation for what our pare...

Punch Newspapers Sections Adelani Adepegba and Dogara Bitrus Published 12:41 am Published 12:41 am  The Nigerian military has repelled the Boko Haram attack on Damasak town after over 12 hours of takeover by Boko Haram insurgents. This was confirmed by the Chairman of Mobbar Local Government Area, Mustapha Kolo , at the Government House in Maiduguri on Thursday. According to the chairman, the insurgents operated in Damasak town from 5pm on Tuesday till around 3pm on Wednesday, burning down structures and dislodging the army base, leading to the residents fleeing in their thousand to neighbo...