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Yobe To Copy Hiroshima In Post Insurgency Recovery – Gov Buni

Yobe To Copy Hiroshima In Post Insurgency Recovery – Gov Buni

Yobe state Governor, Hon. Mai Mala Buni, has identified leadership determination, community resilience and timeliness as key to the restoration process of the post-insurgency recovery plan.
Hon. Mai Mala Buni, Yobe sated Governor has specified leadership determination, community stability and punctuality as fundamentals to the rehabilitation procedure of the aftermath of an insurgency-ridden society
He made this public on Monday during Matsuyama Kazuyoshi, Japanese Ambassador to Nigeria’s courtesy visit to him.
Mamman Mohammed, Director General, Press, and Media Affairs to Governor Buni in a press statement issued
Mozambique Attacks Sees Beheading Of Three Indigenes

Mozambique Attacks Sees Beheading Of Three Indigenes

As the spate of insurgency and Islamist violence rises in northern Mozambique, at least three people have been beheaded in a new outbreak, the police reported on Wednesday.

“Last Friday, terrorists invaded some farms in the first village in Macomia district and beheaded three citizens and kidnapped some women,” provincial police chief Vicente Chicote told AFP.

“After that, they went to another farm where they beheaded more people,” he added.

On Sunday, the insurgents attacked the village of Chicomo, where a gunbattle broke out with military forces there, Chicote said.

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Nigeria Ready To Help South Sudan, Fight Insurgency - Buhari

Nigeria Ready To Help South Sudan, Fight Insurgency – Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday pledged his administration’s readiness to lend a helping hand to South Sudan in fighting insurgency and restoring cohesion to the country following recent disturbances.

The President made the pledge while receiving in the audience at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Hon. Albino Mathom Ayuel, Special Envoy of President Salva Kiir Mayardit of South Sudan.

Speaking to the Special Envoy, he recounted the situation the administration met on the ground in the North East in 2015, and how great strides have been taken in comparison with the present days.

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France To Withdraw Troops From Mali After Decade-Long War

France To Withdraw Troops From Mali After Decade-Long War

France on Thursday announced that it has commenced the process of withdrawing troops from Mali due to a breakdown in relations with the country’s ruling junta, after nearly a decade of fighting a jihadist insurgency.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that the Mali deployment has been heavily challenged with problems for France — of 53 French soldiers killed serving in West Africa’s Sahel region, 48 of them died in Mali.

‘Multiple obstructions’ by the military junta that took power in August 2020 meant that the conditions were no longer in place to operate in Mali, disclosed a statement signed …

We Are Working With FG To End Insurgency - Niger Gov

We Are Working With FG To End Insurgency – Niger Gov

Just a few days after accusing the federal government of Nigeria of abandoning the state in the fight to check insurgency, Niger State Governor Abubakar Sani Bello has now recanted saying that his administration is working with the federal authorities to bring an end to banditry in parts of the state.

Bello made this new disclosure in Minna on Tuesday when he received the Indonesian Ambassador in Nigeria, Mr. Usra Hendra Harap, who paid him a courtesy visit at the Government House in Minna.

‘We are seeking the assistance of the federal government for a coordinated operation to end banditry

US Sues For Free, Fair Election Ahead Of Ondo Poll

US Secretary Of State Pompeo Visits Kabul Amid Crises

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday, a pool report said, amid an ongoing political crisis, a raging Taliban insurgency and rising coronavirus cases.

Pompeo was set to meet with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani along with his archrival Abdullah Abdullah, who also claims the presidency, following a contested election last year.

The visit comes just a day after the Afghan government and the Taliban held their first discussion on arranging prisoner exchanges — a key step in a broader push for peace following a withdrawal deal signed between Washington and the militants last …

Civilian JTF, Hunters Equipped To Battle Insurgency

The battle against insurgency and banditry in the North East has received a boost with the sustained training programme for Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF), vigilance group and hunters on counter-terrorism to provide intelligence gathering for the military to secure members of their communities.

The volunteer security outfit, made up of young men and women have contributed immensely to the success recorded by the military on the fight against Boko Haram in the North East. Sadly, some members of the CJTF have paid the supreme price, working round the clock to protect members of their communities from invasion by insurgents

Why We Conducted Counter Insurgency Exercise In Osun

The  Nigerian  Air Force (NAF), Thursday conducted a counter insurgency operation exercise at Ipetun Ijesa, Osun State with a warning to terrorists and other criminal groups terrorizing the peace in the south west to stay clear or have themselves to blame.

The exercise codenamed ‘Buje Ekun’ took place along the Akure-Oshogbo Expressway.

Chief Of the Air Staff, Air Marshall Sadiq Abubakar who gave the warning, said the NAF, was more than ever before ready to rid the South West region and indeed the country of criminals.

He has therefore warned all those in the habit of breaching the peace of …

Death Of Al-Baghdadi’ll Not Weaken Insurgency – Expert

World leaders reacted with gusto to the news of the death of the leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, following a raid on his hideout in the Syrian village of Barisha. He had detonated an explosive vest after running into a tunnel in an escape bid as US forces’ trained dogs went after him. The euphoria his ignoble exit was apparently informed by the thinking that the world would now have some respite from the brutal activities of a terrorist group that has spread its fangs across the world.

In this report, a security expert and …

End insurgency Now, Baba Aladura Tasks FG

The Prelate of the Eternal Sacred Order of the Cherubim and Seraphim Worldwide, (Dr.) David Bob-Manuel, has called on the Federal Government to end insurgency.

He made the call while dedicating the Oil Mill Branch and Akpajo Branch II Pro-Cathedral of the Eternal Sacred Order of the Cherubim and Seraphim Worldwide in Port Harcourt Rivers State.

He said the leadership of the Order was worried about the endless insurgency in parts of the country and would appreciate if the government and Nigerians work to end it.

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“We, of the …

Army Dares Ndume To Prove 847 Soldiers Lost To Insurgency

Army Dares Ndume To Prove 847 Soldiers Lost To Insurgency

•Masari, Tambuwal seek subvention for North-west govs to end banditry

The Nigerian Army yesterday asked Chairman of Senate Committee on Army, Senator Ali Ndume, to prove his claim that 847 soldiers had been lost to Boko Haram insurgency in the last six years.

This is coming as Governor Bello Masari of Katsina State and his counterpart in Sokoto State, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, yesterday called on the federal government to provide a special security subvention to North-west states ravaged by banditry to adequately fund the peace deal and other security operations initiated by the governors.

Ndume, who spoke with reporters …