Five Days After, President Buhari Fails To Visit Zabarmari, Address Nation
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Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to visit Zabarmari, the community in Jere Local Government Area five days after the gruesome massacre of farmers and discovery of 78 bodies following an attack by Boko Haram insurgents.
On Sunday, the State Governor, Prof. Babagana
Zulum, attended the burial of the first set of bodies recovered after the Saturday attack.
The governor offered his condolences and provided financial assistance to families of the victims.
On Monday, Borno State Deputy Governor Umar Usman Kadafur and the former governor of the state Kashim Shettima led some National Assembly members and party leaders to Zabarmari.
On the same day, a Federal Government delegation led by the President of the Senate, Dr Ahmad Lawan, arrived in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, to commiserate with the people.
On Tuesday, Edward Kallon, the United Nations Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, visited the burial ground of some of the victims and met community members.
“There is no word to describe how I feel after my visit to Zabarmari communities yesterday. It is with great sadness and indignation that I met the families of the victims of Saturday’s violent attack to extend my most sincere condolences on behalf of the United Nations”
Edward said in a tweet shared on Wednesday.
Many are wondering why the president with a fleet of aircraft at his disposal has not visited Borno to meet families to offer his condolences and reassure them of their safety and justice for the victims.
Neither has the president spared a few minutes to speak on national television or to the media to reassure Nigerians of his commitment to the protection of lives and property.
Northwestern Nigeria Falling Into Firm Grip Of Terrorists
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A sub-region well known for its poverty headcount, north-western Nigeria has become a home to thousands and different terrorists who continue to challenge the security apparatus deployed by the government to resist them.
The sub-region is troubled and has been stained with blood as banditry, cattle rustling, kidnapping for ransom, pillage, and other forms of criminality by different terror gangs intensify in 2020.
The Deradicalised (1): One Man’s Journey From Almajiri To Jihadist And Then IDP
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Bye, Boko Haram
“We started hearing about the Safe Corridor programme over the radio and they also threw flyers in the bush, which contained messages about it in English, Kanuri, Arabic, and Hausa,” narrates Usman.
Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters had launched Operation Safe Corridor (OSC), a multisectoral programme, in 2015 and kickstarted it a year later. Its aim was to “rehabilitate repentant Boko Haram militants and reintegrate them back into their respective communities as ..
Sokoto Communities: Terrorised By Armed Groups, Abandoned By Government
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The protracted violent crimes in Isa, a Local Government Area in Sokoto State, Northwest Nigeria, have destroyed family structures with a significant number of people losing their assets and earnings following demands for ransom by terrorists.
A large number of people have relocated entirely from the affected communities to several places where they may survive. But the government has so far not taken significant steps in tracking the displaced and catering for their general well-being.
Army Officers On Training Exercise, Encounter Terrorists In Jaji Forest
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Nigerian Army Officers on routine infantry training exercise in a forest area in Jaji, about 35 km northeast of Kaduna on Wednesday ran into some terrorists known for banditry in the Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Northwest Nigeria.
The Army officers were conducting a ‘Bush exercise’ as part of Nigerian Army School of Infantry programs for officers undergoing Commanders Course and Commanding Officers’ Course training in Jaji Military Cantonment.
Anambra Oil: SEEPCO Gets Six Months Deadline To Conduct EIA On OML143 Fields
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Sterling Oil Exploration & Energy Production Company Limited (SEEPCO), the company exploring petroleum products in OML 143 Oil Field in two communities in Anambra State, Southeast Nigeria has six months to conduct and conclude Environmental Impact
Assessment (EIA) on its activities in Ameshi and Enyie fields.
Specifically, the exercise (Dry and Wet Season data gathering) must be conducted between December 2020 and May 2021 while the company is mandated to make full disclosure of the status of the Amesti and Enyie oil
‘You’ll Be Dealt With Severely’: MOPOL Warns Unpaid Officers Contemplating Protest
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The Mobile Police (MOPOL) unit 31 in Asaba, Delta, warns that any of its officers deployed in the counterinsurgency fight in Borno State who protest over unpaid allowances will be “dealt with severely”.
The threat was contained in a wireless message circulated on Friday.
HumAngle had reported on November 3 that MOPOL officers assigned to Operation Lafiya Dole had not seen their special operational allowances in over five months.
“Any time we talk about our allowance, they would threaten to dismiss us. They have been threatening that nobody