Police: Islamist Gunmen raid Adamawa village, raze church, LG secretariat

The suspected Islamist gunmen riding on motorcycles on Thursday morning launched coordinated attacks on the Song Local Government Council secretariat in Adamawa State together with a police station in the area.

The Adamawa Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Muhammed Ibrahim confirmed that the attack by the assailants claimed five lives, including that of a two-year-old infant who was allegedly hit by a stray bullet. The reports also has it that one soldier and two policemen were killed in the attack that saw the hoodlums also burning down both the council secretariat and the Song Police Station.

Two British Nationals, Ten Nigrian Arrested For Crude Oil Theft

Two Britons and ten Nigerians have been arrested by the JTF on charges of trying to bribe a military officer to facilitate oil theft, the military said on Friday.

The British High Commission has also confirm that two British men were arrested in Nigeria in connection with an alleged attempt to steal oil.

3 killed, 4 injured in Gwoza, as vigilante arrests six Boko Haram suspects in Maiduguri

Six suspected members of the Boko Haram were on Wednesday arrested by the Vigilante Youths Group at a petrol station while buying fuel for the sect’s operations in the Sambisa Forest. Another three suspects were arrested by the vigilante youths on the Maiduguri-Biu road, while attempting to sneak into Maiduguri metropolis to buy food items and fuel.

According to a vigilante youth, Yakubu Isa, the terror suspects came in two pickup vehicles with empty drums to buy fuel at one of the petrol stations on Bama road.

“I took courage to mobilize some of our members to the petrol station, because the three suspects were in military uniform taking fuel at the station, but the soldiers patrolling this road do not refuel their vehicles at any of the petrol stations, but at a single designated point in the Government Reservation Area (GRA).

“When we confronted them, one of them said that the fuel is for their generating sets. When their explanations were not convincing to us, I alerted the soldiers in that sector, and we handed them over for further investigation”.

On how the other three suspects were arrested, he said: “they sneaked into Maiduguri last night to replenish their food items and fuel at a shop on Damboa road. They used two vehicles, before we intercepted and arrested them on this road. With these evidences we found on these insurgents, we handed them to soldiers for further investigation”.

A military officer attached to one of the Joint Task Force (JTF) sectors in Maiduguri, who spoke in confidence, confirmed the incident.

Prior to the arrests, gunmen suspected to be members of the sect attacked the border village of Wala in Gwoza council area of Borno State, killing three residents.

Four villagers were also injured in the attack which also led to the setting ablaze of houses and shops.

Confirming the incident, the former council chairman, Dr Ibrahim Bulama said the insurgents came on two motorcycles from the Sambisa Forest, before attacking the village in the early hours of Monday.

He said other property destroyed in last Monday’s attacks included five houses and three shops, located on the Maidugri-Gwoza road, adding that with the arrival of soldiers to the village on Tuesday, the villagers are going on with their daily activities.

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