Security Reports

25 Jul Security Reports

Bandits have released six from a group of 28 people they had been holding for 67 days, as Sallah gifts to their community in Katsina State.

* The police have confirmed three officers were injured after armed bandits on Friday attacked the Maraban Jos Divisional Headquarters in Kaduna State. The police spokesperson in the state, Muhammed Jalige, said the gunmen attacked the facility at 11 a.m. on a mission to loot the armoury but the officers repelled the attack and successfully defended the armoury.

* Boko Haram militants overran an army base in Sagme, Cameroon’s Far North region on Saturday, killing at least seven soldiers and wounding several others,

* Masked gunmen snatched National Examination Council of Nigeria NECO final year examinations papers, they mistook for money, ‎at  Government Secondary School Unguwar Sarki, Kaduna.

* Abductors of over 150 pupils from an Islamic school at Tegina in Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State are still holding onto the children despite receiving N30million as ransom, The children were abducted on June 30, after which the bandits demanded a N200m ransom to release them. Following negotiations, this was said to have been reduced to N50m.