The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye is confident that Nigeria’s security challenges will end soon.
Pastor Adeboye said this in his monthly first Sunday telecast streamed on the church’s social media platforms.
“Very soon, all the acts of terrorism, all the acts of banditry, all kinds of evil actions will come to end,” the revered cleric noted, citing the book of 1 Samuel 17.
IPOB said the sit-at-home would be a show of support for Kanu, who is currently in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS).
In a statement issued on Sunday by Emma Powerful, IPOB spokesperson, the group also asked Igbo businessmen and women outside the south-east to shut down their businesses in support of Kanu.
“Following our earlier declaration of one month lockdown of Biafra land should the Nigeria Government fail to bring our Leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to the court on October 21,” the statement reads.
“We, the global family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), request our brothers and sisters in Oduduwa Republic and Middle Belt including Igbo and Biafra businessmen and women, traders, who is doing business outside Biafra land to shut down his or her business for us to demonstrate our resolve for the emergence of our new nation Biafra and support for our leader Mazi Nnamdi KANU and others who are facing similar fate with us to join us in sympathy protest.
“All lovers of Biafra including Christian communities in the north and other parts of Nigeria, who receive unnecessary humiliation, intimidation and killings from Fulani terrorists, bandits and murderous herdsmen should understand that time has come for all victims of Fulani impunity and atrocities to unite together for resistance.
“We advise all oppressed people in Nigeria to be prepared for the one month sit-at-home if the federal government of Nigeria and the Department of State Services, DSS fail to produce Nnamdi Kanu in court on the next court adjourned date.
The news reaching the OSUNREPORTERS NEWS has it that a popular Yoruba broadcaster, Otunba Olatunbosun Abe popularly known as ‘Hìnpèlé o’, died after a brief Illnesses.
His death was announced on Sunday morning by the Chairman of Osun State Chapter of Freelance and Independent Broadcasters’ Association of Nigeria, Otunba Adekunle Abolade Dodoede where he expressed saddest moment over the sad incident.
“Up Fiban !!! It is with sad heart I announce the passage of Baba Hinpele, he gave up the ghost this morning at Lautech Hospital, Osogbo. All FIBAN members that are available in Osogbo should please join me there by 8am. May Allah grant him eternal rest,” Dodo-Ede announced.
Olatubosun Abe was an Ijesha man, Ilesa in Osun State and one of the respected elders of FIBAN in Osun and Nigeria who worked for more than 30 years as a freelance broadcaster across many local radio stations in the southwest, and more recently at Gold and OSBC Radio Stations.
At the time of filing this report, his lifeless body was set to be deposited at the mortuary as no official announcement about the deceased’s burial.
Bandits can be won over by showing them respect and understanding, says controversial Islamic cleric Ahmad Gumi.
Mr Gumi, a self-appointed mediator for the brigands that have been wreaking havoc in many northern states, says his interaction with the bandits have been easy because he always “goes through the door.”
“I go through the door, not the window. If you go through the door, you will go in and come back safely,” Mr Gumi said while fielding questions from students at a lecture in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria on Wednesday.
The Islamic cleric said if the bandits are given a listening ear, their resolve would be softened and would become more amenable to abandoning their violent ways.
A student had asked why the bandits have not kidnapped him despite his numerous visits to their den.
Mr Gumi explained thus: “When we meet them we don’t speak, we give them the microphone to speak even for one hour.
“When we first approached them we saw that they were holding their warrant ready to fire. By the time we finish our meeting, they will hand in their weapons and we will be taking pictures.”
“So this is the power of human interaction which is what we are here to study as social scientists. That is the approach,” he added.
The Edo State Police Command has arrested two suspected cultists who allegedly tortured and humiliated a lady identified as Queen Perri following a viral TikTok video she made on social media.
Edo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Philip Ogbadu disclosed this while addressing journalists after the monthly state’s security meeting at the Government House in Benin City.
He said two of the boys involved in the torture of the lady have been arrested and in police custody, while the command has intensified search for the other culprits.
Ogbadu said the girl is alive and being taken care of at a health facility in the state, as against the news making the rounds on social media alleging that the girl had died.
According to him, “It was alleged that the girl was killed. She is alive, but because of the social stigma that may be attached, we will not bring them out now. However, you will see the boys later.”
Reassuring the commitment of the security agencies in the state to the security of lives and property of citizens, the Police Commissioner stated: “We have already drawn an operation for the ember months. Very soon, you will see an improvement in our operations; the military too are coming out to launch an operation from Monday on Ehor Road. Definitely, it’s going to be safe during the ember months.”
The Katsina Police Command has recorded another breakthrough with the arrest of a bandit kingpin who confessed to have lost count of people he has killed or kidnapped.
50 years old Surajo Mamman, popularly known as ‘Kutaku’, said he is the second in command
to Sani Muhidinge, a wanted notorious bandit on government watchlist hibernating in Rugu forest, between Katsina and Zamfara States.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP. Isah Gambo, paraded the notorious bandit alongside others before newsmen on Wednesday at the state police headquarters.
“I have been involved in kidnapping and other banditry related crimes for a very long time now. I cannot remember the exact number of people I have killed or kidnapped but they are many.
“Actually, I didn’t really see anything wrong with my involvement in the act until I was arrested. But my eyes are opened now.”
He further confessed to have participated in so many attacks, kidnapping and cattle rustling in villages at Dan Musa, Safana, Dutsinma and Batsari LGA of the state.
A yet-to-be identified gunmen have brutally attacked Anambra Federal House of Reps Member, Hon Chris Azubogu’s Convoy at Nnobi.
The unknown gunmen also killed one of his drivers.
The medical professional was killed alongside his driver and police orderly while returning from a meeting on Tuesday night, per family sources.
Suspected killer herdsmen on Tuesday killed Chike Akunyili, a prominent medical doctor and husband of late public health expert and NAFDAC chief Dora.
Mr Akunyili was returning to Enugu from a meeting in Onitsha when the gunmen opened fire on his vehicle, killing him instantly with his driver and police orderly, according to family sources interviewed by Peoples Gazette on Wednesday morning.
The remains of the three had since been deposited at the hospital ahead of burial and police investigation.
Mr Akunyili until his death was running St Leo’s Hospital, one of the biggest in Enugu. He graduated first class and spent his professional career treating citizens across the country, including many on charitable grounds.
“He was travelling along the Old Onitsha Enugu Highway when they struck,” a family said under anonymity because he was not asked to publicly comment on the matter until a formal statement has been issued.
Mr Akunyili lost his wife to cancer in 2014. He was survived by their six children.
Police spokespersons in Anambra and Enugu did not return calls seeking comments from The Gazette on Wednesday morning.
The attack came amidst raging insecurity in the South-East, fuelled largely by armed herdsmen, separatist agitators and even security forces.
On September 4, herdsmen operating along Benin-Ore Expressway fatally shot Jide Sowore, Omoyele’s younger brother. Authorities promised an investigation, but no outcome has been made public more than three weeks on.
Catholic Pontiff, Pope Francis, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to find ways to stop the killing of Nigerians across the country.
Lamenting what he described as the senseless killings of Nigerians by suspected jihadists, the Pope called on the Federal Government to guarantee the safety of all citizens.
The Holy Father expressed his sentiments of prayerful solidarity with Nigerians over last weekend’s killing of over 40 people by armed religious militia in Southern Kaduna during his usual Wednesday General Audience at the Vatican City.
He said it was not only in Southern Kaduna that people were being massacred, stressing that everywhere in the country, Nigerians are being killed.
“I learnt with pain the news of the armed attacks that took place last Sunday against the villages of Madamai Abun, in northern Nigeria.
“I pray for those who have died, for those who have been injured and for the entire Nigerian population. I hope that the safety of all citizens in the country will always be guaranteed,” the Pope added.
Unknown assailants have killed Chike Akunyili, the husband to late ex-DG of NAFDAC, Dora Akunyili in Abuja.
Reports have it that Chike Akunyili was killed in the early hours of Wednesday in Abuja.
But a source close to the family, who preferred anonymity, has confirmed the killing but declined further comment
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