Nigerian Air Force Sets to Induct Newly Acquired Power Helicopters By Austin Peacemaker, Abuja NIGERIA The Nigerian Air Force is set to induct its newly acquired Agusta 109E Power Helicopter on Tuesday, 28 January 2020, by 10:00am at the Eagle Square, Abuja. The Force Spokesman, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola confirmed this to journalists through a press release on Friday evening 24 January 2020. “This is to inform the general public that the Nigerian Air Force will be inducting its newly acquired Agusta 109E Power Helicopter on Tuesday, 28 January 2020, by 10:00am at the Eagle Square, Abuja.” He stated. Daramola added that rehearsals for activities that […]

BECO MOURNS THE MURDER OF ROPVIL DALEM AND CONDEMNS WORSENING TERRORIST ATTACKS. The gruesome and inhuman murder of one of our promising youths, Ropvil Dalem, from Pakshin LGA, by the Boko Haram terrorist group, in far away, Borno state, stands condemnable in all its ramifications. The accompanying comment of the youthful Terrorist murderer clearly illustrated the level of heartlessness of the murderers, across age groups. It further brings to the fore the fact that Plateau indigenes have been targeted by Boko Haram and its affiliates, for attacks, both at home and outside. It will be recalled that the slained Ropvil was abducted, on the 9th January, 2020, alongside our daughter, […]

22-1-2020 Good morning my brothers and sisters. We have just seen the devastating video of the devilish killing of one of our son, Ropvil Daciya by the blood thirsty Boko Haram sect. We are of information that he was abducted on his way to school in Maiduguri and which led to the unfortunate video going round of his killing. As MUCDA we are deeply pained that this has also come to our door steps directly as our own brothers from other cultures on the plateau have also had a share at one point in time of this devilish and inhumane act of taking people’s lives. At this point we condemn […]

Boko Haram: Leah Sharibu is doing fine, though I didn’t see her – says Jennifer Samuel, rescued aid worker By Dickson S. Adama, Jos Jennifer Ukambong Samuel, the Plateau State indigene and aid worker attached to Alliance for International Medical Action , who was released to her family recently by the Boko Haram insurgents, has disclosed that the missing Dapchi schoolgirl, Leah Sharibu, is doing fine in captivity. She disclosed this on Sunday in Jos, Plateau state capital, after she was reunited with her family. Daily Trust reports that Jennifer was abducted alongside eight others in the Northeast last December. She was abducted along Borno-Monguno road enroute Jos at about […]

PRESS STATEMENT OPERATION AMOTEKUN: Yoruba World Congress to hold Solidarity Walk Tuesday January 21st …Says South West Governors Must Not Backdown …Akintoye, Kila and other Yoruba leaders to lead walk… The Yoruba people within and beyond the shores of Nigeria have been urged to come out in their large numbers on Tuesday 21st January 2020 to stage a protest rally in support of Operation Amotekun, a security network recently established by Governors from Western Nigeria to wage war against the spate of insecurity ravaging the zone. The protest code-named “Amotekun Solidarity Walk” which is being organized by Yoruba World Congress ; an umbrella body of all Yoruba Socio-cultural and Self […]

How Abducted Plateau Aid Worker’s Mother Received News of Her Release Masara Kim Usman The joy was deep, the celebration was huge, words were out of reach as MK yesterday rushed to the family house of Miss Jennifer Ukambong Samuel, the Plateau aid worker abducted by Boko Haram on December 22, 2019. Rumors started filtering at about 4:30pm that the hostages had been freed. Jenny’s family representatives had attended a two-day meeting with her employers in Abuja. They had barely arrived Jos when a call came that they should return to the Nigerian capital city the next day. No reasons were given but MK was already tracking official sources in […]

Five aid workers abducted by Boko Haram insurgents last December have been released, security sources have told PREMIUM TIMES. The workers, two females and three males, were kidnapped on December 22 after a gang of gunmen believed to be Boko Haram terrorists ambushed their vehicle between Monguno and Damaturu. According to the sources, who spoke to PREMIUM TIMES, on strict conditions of anonymity, the release of the five abductees was facilitated by the State Security Service. “It is a big day for us here in Borno with the release of the five abductees, ” the source said. The source said five abducted arrived at the DSS office in Maiduguri at […]