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eaglestares.blogspot.com It is no longer a joke, what the security of the country has become. Nowhere in the country is safe now and everyday Nigerians live in the fear of the unknown. If they turned to North, it is Boko Haram and bandits; South, it is kidnapping; West, it is armed robbery cum bandits and Middle Belt, it is herdsmen. Nothing however gives fillip to the seeming state of helplessness that Nigeria has found herself than last week, when three suicide bombers blew themselves up in a busy market outside Kondura, Borno State and the only thing President Muhammadu Buhari could say was to commit the bombers to God. As if that wasn’t enough despair to contend with, the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai too came out to say the reason the insurgents were doing well against the Nigerian Army was because his men at the warfront were not committed. What a leader there is! Yet, insecurity has continued to escalate in all parts of the country, as parents, according to UNICEF, ar

eaglestares.blogspot.com The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday re-arraigned an American, Marco Ramirez, at an Ikeja Special Offences Court for allegedly defrauding three Nigerians of $1.2 million on the pretext of securing green cards for them. Ramirez was re-arraigned before Justice Mojisola Dada on an amended 12-count charge of conspiracy and obtaining under false pretence. Ramirez was arraigned alongside his companies – USA Now LLC; Eagle Ford Instalodge Group LP and USA Now Capital Group. The EFCC said that Ramirez committed the offences between February 2013 and August 2013 in Lagos. Ramirez is alleged to have defrauded Ambassador Godson Echejue, Mr Abubakar Umar and Mr Olukayode Sodimu of the money. The offences contravene Section 1 (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, No. 14 of 2006. The American and his companies were previously arraigned in June 22, 2017 before Justice Josephine Oyefeso, on a 16-count charge

  Maiharaji Altine   eaglestares.blogspot.com The District Head of Yankaba town in Kaura-Namoda Local Government Area of Zamfara State, Alhaji Buhari Ammani, his three wives and his son were abducted by bandits in the early hours of Friday. Also abducted were four of his neighbours, Mallam Ibrahim, Alhaji Samaila, Isah Yankaba and Aminu Maikano, while Saddik Abubakar was killed in the process. Narrating how the incident happened, the chairman of the local government, Alhaji Isa Abdullahi,  said the bandits stormed the town around 1.30am and kidnapped the district head, his wives – Jimmma, Asma,u and Lami as well as his son, Kabiru – before abducting others   Abdullahi said the hoodlums, who rode to the town on motorcycles,  operated unchallenged for many hours because it was raining heavily, and that many people in the town were not aware of what was going on. He added that efforts made by some residents to inform the security agencies of what was happening were unsucce