Sahara Reporters Latest News Today Wednesday 30th March 2022
Sahara Reporters Latest News Today and headlines on some of the happenings and news trend in the Country, today 30/03/22
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Police Engage 20 Hoodlums Who Attacked Dangote Refinery, One Killed
One hoodlum was killed on Tuesday during an attack on the Dangote Refinery located in the Lekki Free Trade Zone of Lagos.
Dangote Refinery is an oil refinery owned by the Dangote Group that is under construction in Lekki, Nigeria. Dangote Group was founded by Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man.
The Lagos State Police Command made this known in a statement on Tuesday.
The spokesperson for the command, Benjamin Hundeyin, in a statement titled ‘Police Foil Attack On Dangote Refinery’, said the police engaged the hoodlums in a shootout, leading to the killing of one of them.
The statement read, “Security operatives in the early hours of yesterday, Monday, March 28, 2022, foiled an attempted attack on Dangote Refinery, Lekki Free Trade Zone, Lagos.
“Armed hoodlums numbering about twenty who gained access to the refinery through the lagoon side were repelled while attempting to cart away already-installed armoured cables in the refinery.
“The hoodlums on sighting security operatives fled the scene. One of the hoodlums was hit in the ensuing gunfire and died on the way to the hospital.
“Investigation has commenced with a view to arresting the fleeing attackers.”
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BREAKING: Nigeria To Miss 2022 World Cup After Draw With Ghana
Nigeria’s senior men’s national football, Super Eagles will not be at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar after the team drew with the Ghanaian national team on Tuesday.Super Eagles had a 1-1 draw with the Ghanaian team, Black Stars in a tough match at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja.
Nigeria was also held to a 0-0 draw last week in Ghana. Tuesday’s result brings to a close the dream of Nigerians to see the Super Eagles at the next World Cup.
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BREAKING: Several Soldiers, Terrorists Killed As Gunmen Attack Niger State Community
At least seven soldiers of the Nigerian Army and more than 20 terrorists were killed during an attack by gunmen on Kabo Village in the Gurara Local Government Area of Niger State on Tuesday.
The terrorists, who earlier attacked the village on Monday and killed three persons, returned to the community on Tuesday where they were engaged in a gunfight with Nigerian Army personnel.
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SaharaReporters reliably gathered that apart from the soldiers and terrorists killed during Tuesday’s incident, the number of civilian deaths rose from three on Monday to about 12.
The development has forced more residents of the community to abandon their homes for other parts of the state considered to be relatively safe.
Terrorists suspected to be Fulani herders arrived in Kabo village in large numbers on Monday afternoon, shooting sporadically in different directions.
Most residents of the village were said to have been hit by bullets while fleeing into nearby bushes for safety.
When contacted by SaharaReporters over the development, the spokesperson for the police in Niger State, Mr Wasiu Abiodun, promised to get back with details and updates on the situation but had yet to do so as of the time of filing this report.
On March 17, 2022, armed men killed a police officer during an attack on Bangi Divisional Headquarters in the Mariga Local Government Area of the state.
A day before that incident, bandits killed four police officers including a divisional police officer, Muhammad Umar, and four vigilantes in the Magama council area of the state.
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Kaduna Train Attack: Trade Union Congress Confirms SaharaReporters’ Report, Says Secretary-General, Kwara Chairman Killed
President of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, Comrade Quadri Olaleye, has confirmed the killing of the Secretary-General of the union, Comrade (Barr.) Musa-Lawal Ozigi and Kwara State Chairman, Comrade Akin Akinsola.
Both union members were killed on Monday night during an attack by terrorists on a Kaduna-bound train.
The terrorists had attacked the train and its occupants, killing some of them. Some others were injured while an unspecified number of persons were also abducted.
Olaleye said the late union members were on an official assignment.
He said they were going for a programme slated for Tuesday, March 29, 2022.
SaharaReporters had reported that the TUC lost two of its members in the attack. The newspaper earlier reported that the Secretary-General of the TUC, Barrister Musa-Lawal Ozigi, was among the passengers killed when terrorists bombed and derailed an Abuja-Kaduna train and abducted scores of passengers on Monday evening.
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BREAKING: Trade Union Congress Lost Two Members, Secretary-General And Kwara Chairman, In Abuja-Kaduna Train Attack By Terrorists
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SaharaReporters also learnt on Tuesday that the Kwara State Chairman of the TUC, Comrade Akinsola Akinwunmi, was also killed during the attack.
“We lost our SG (Secretary-general) and the Kwara State Chairman,” a source in the TUC on Tuesday told SaharaReporters.
“Barrister Musa-Lawal Ozigi is dead. He was among those who were attacked yesterday by bandits in Kaduna-Abuja railway.”
It was learnt that Ozigi served as General Secretary, Construction and Civil Engineering Senior Staff Association (CCESSA), an affiliate of TUC for almost 20 years before he joined the Congress in 2012.
Akinsola was an employee of Dangote Flour Mill under OLAM.
“We call on the government at all levels, especially the Federal Government to rise up to the occasion to stop the killing of innocent Nigerians. As it stands, nowhere is safe now – we can not travel by air, the road is not safe and neither is the rail. Is Nigeria a failed state? It is unfortunate.
“The Congress condoles with the families and friends of our comrades and the good people of Kogi State for this irreparable loss. May God rest their souls,” Olaleye said in the statement.
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BREAKING: Kaduna Receives Passenger Manifest On Attacked Train, Reveals Eight Bodies Recovered, 16 Injured
The Kaduna State Government has received the passenger manifest for the attack on the Abuja-Kaduna train, the state commissioner for internal security and home affairs, Samuel Aruwan, has said.
Aruwan said eight bodies had recovered, while 26 others were injured.
The commissioner in a statement said many others were unaccounted for, adding that the search for them was ongoing.
He said, “The Kaduna State Government has received from the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), the detailed passenger manifest for the Abuja-Kaduna train service AK9, which was attacked by terrorists on Monday.
“The documents received showed 398 passengers bought tickets for the trip, but 362 were validated as having boarded the train through the recognized turnstile.
“The passenger manifest does not include NRC staff and security officials who were on board.
“Furthermore, security agencies have reported that eight bodies were recovered and 26 persons were injured during the attack.
“Investigations are still ongoing to ascertain the status of the passengers who were onboard the train and remain unaccounted for at the time of this update. Search operations are also being sustained.
“Citizens are requested to contact the Kaduna State Emergency Management Agency on the phone line 09088923398, to make enquiries or provide information regarding passengers who were on board the Abuja-Kaduna train AK9.
“Further updates will be communicated to the public.”
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E2%80%99s-immediate-resignation-threaten Kaduna Train Attack: Southern Youth Groups Call For Buhari’s Immediate Resignation, Threaten Mass Protest
The Coalition of Southern and Middle Belt Youth Leaders Assembly (COSMBYLA) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign immediately over his administration’s failure to protect the lives and property of Nigerians.
COSMBYLA is the umbrella body of all the youth groups in the South East, South-South, South West and Middle Belt regions.
The group was reacting to Monday’s attack on the Abuja-Kaduna train by terrorists in which eight persons have been confirmed killed. Many were also injured while a yet-to-be-ascertained number of persons were kidnapped.
A statement issued by its President General, Goodluck Ibem, COSMBYLA, on Tuesday threatened mass protests should President Muhammadu Buhari fail to resign from office.
The coalition described the incident as a sign that the government “has surrendered Nigerian sovereignty to terrorists”.
It said, “We are at a crossroads and only the immediate resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari will bring us out of this present quagmire. Nigerians are sick and tired of excuses, what we need now is positive results
“We sympathise with the families of those who lost their loved ones to these terrorists who have defeated President Buhari to take over the sovereignty of our dear nation which our founding fathers fought so hard to achieve.
“We demand that President Muhammadu Buhari must resign immediately for his inability to protect Nigerians. If he fails to resign immediately as demanded, we will mobilise for a protest march until he resigns his office as President of the country. A stitch in time they say saves nine.”
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Nigerian Varsity Students Blast President Buhari, Describe Him As ‘Enemy’
The National Association of University Students (NANS), Osun State chapter has lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari over the persistent strike action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities.ASUU had embarked on a four-week warning strike on February 14th to press home its demands, with the prominent ones being the renegotiation of the ASUU/FG 2009 agreement and the sustainability of the university autonomy by deploying UTAS to replace the government’s “imposed” (IPPIS).
Other demands include the release of the reports of visitation panels to federal universities, distortions in salary payment challenges, funding for revitalisation of public universities, earned academic allowance, poor funding of state universities and promotion arrears.On March 14, the association extended the strike action by another two months to afford the government more time to address all of its demands.Osun NANS Chairman, Eruobami Ayobami in a statement on Tuesday threatened ‘drastic action’ if the Muhammadu Buhari failed to meet up with the demands of the lecturers.Ayobami described the President as ‘enemy of Nigerian students’, adding that the government derives joy in poor and substandard educational system.The statement read, “It is a generic conceived orientation that the best investment any visionary country could focus on, is its educational system, anywhere in the world, remains the bedrock and sole condiment of rapid national growth and development.“Unfortunately, as students with patriotic mindset and optimism directed towards the great expectations our course should be receiving from the country where our natural responsibility by birth is to project everything we become into its betterment, it is sad to arrive at the reality that our interest rests with the least of attention from the leaders we have entrusted with it.“For years and still counting, it has become glaring that the issue of the feud generated through the seemingly unending clash of interests between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, that has desisted to fade away in any bit has undoubtedly become an insurmountable hinderance for the academic proceedings of all affected Nigerian students, who happens to be the majority.“Any ASUU strike that surfaces over time, the current one inclusive, is always surrounded with several stories and claims from the end of ASUU and corresponding counterclaims from the Federal Government. Regardless, all are still pointers to the fact that our leaders seem to be picking fun in all these disruptions caused to our lives.“Despite the relentless wailings and yelling from the students whose lives are being toyed with and our parents whose only retirement plan are us, their children, such issues like this that have us as the bearers of the brunt are noticed to be consistently addressed with the least of readiness and promptness from our leaders. “This has been pushing us and to which adaptation has been our incapacitated response, but now, we are at the wall and we may have no choice but to respond with severe agitations. In the course of this, the leadership of this association is hereby using the responsible medium to call on all necessary offices, emphasis on the Federal Government, to see this as an urgent port of call as it should be and make all necessary provisions and adjustments that will not only fix this current ASUU strike, but also for continuous sustainability of our academic system afterwards with immediate effect.“It’s evident that the Federal Government derives joy in poor and substandard educational system.”The students’ union further threatened to take action, stressing that they had been pushed to the wall, and left with no other choice.
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REVEALED: Names Of Victims Of Kaduna-Abuja Train Attack Admitted At 44 Army Reference Hospital
At least 16 persons are currently admitted at the 44 Army Reference Hospital, Kaduna following Monday’s attack on the Kaduna-Abuja train.
A list containing the names of the 16 victims was shared on social media by Punch.
The names of the victims include Haruna Muhammed, Mohammed Modibo, Ibrahim Wakala, Yakubu Nuhu, Abdulahi Yahaya, Ismail Saidu, Abdumalik Rasheedat, Umar Mohammed.
Also on the list are Hadiza Umar, Musa Ishawan, Aisha Yusuf, Mohammed Ameen, Abubakar Hauwau, Aliyu Sulaiman, Olaosebikan Bilikisu and Mrs Leola Abdulbasit.
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Terrorists on Monday evening attacked the Nigerian Railway Corporation train going from Abuja to Kaduna and abducted some of the stranded passengers.
SaharaReporters had on Monday obtained victims’ accounts which confirmed that some other persons were shot dead by the rampaging terrorists who operated for hours due to the absence of the Nigerian military and other security agencies.
Hours after this, the Nigeria Railway Corporation, announced the suspension of its Abuja-Kaduna train service.
SaharaReporters had reported that two cleaners and workers of the attacked Abuja-Kaduna train identified as Loretta and Abdul were confirmed dead.
There were at least 970 passengers on board the train, according to sources familiar with the train service.
SaharaReporters on Monday reported that out of 15 patients brought to St. Gerald’s Catholic Hospital in Kaduna as at the time, two had been confirmed dead, including a lady medical doctor with the hospital, Chinelo Megafu.
“A former Deputy Governor of Zamfara Malam Ibrahim Wakkala was equally shot on the leg. Out of 15 patients brought to St. Gerald’s Catholic Hospital, two are dead including a lady medical Doctor with St Gerald’s.
“Two females moved to 44 Reference Hospital because of bullet wounds; they could not be treated at St Gerald’s,” the source had said.
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E2%80%99s-party-2023 Atiku’s Cousin Dumps PDP, Urges Nigerians To Reject Ex-Vice President’s Party In 2023
As former Vice President Atiku Abubakar declares his intention to contest the 2023 presidential election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), his cousin, Dr. Umar Ardo has warned Nigerians against voting for the party in 2023.
Ardo, who is Atiku Abubakar’s cousin, on Monday, dumped the PDP and defected to the Social Democratic Party (SDP), describing the PDP as “a party under hostage”.
A four-time governorship aspirant and adviser to the former Vice President Atiku on Political Matters, Ardo has warned Nigerians against voting for the PDP in 2023, stressing that doing so would amount to the worst electoral miscalculation.
Speaking in Kojoli, Atiku’s birthplace in the Jada Local Government Area, Ardo said he defected to the SDP “because PDP has become a lawless institution ruled by few party oligarchs”.
He noted that SDP’s robust and flexible constitution which is ideal for engendering growth and development of an egalitarian society like Nigeria attracted him to the party.
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On why he didn’t join the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Ardo said, “I joined the SDP with good intention and with a commitment to building a virile and prosperous democracy and well-being of our people.
“We are not driven into this enterprise by ambition to attain a high position in society, rather we are driven by the zeal to change the low position of our society within the comity of nations.”
Ardo also mocked the APC leadership, saying it has been taken over by former PDP members.
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Nigeria vs Ghana: Football Officials, Others Injured During Stampede At Abuja Stadium
An unnamed official of the Nigeria Football Federation and the chairman of Ogun State Football Association, Ganiyu Majekodunmi, were reportedly injured during a stampede at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium in Abuja on Tuesday.
This comes as Nigeria was preparing for a crucial World Cup qualifying match between Super Eagles and the Ghanaian national team, Black Stars, The Punch reports.
It was learnt that the incident occurred at the VIP entrance gate of the stadium as fans overpowered security operatives to force their way in.
It was gathered that Majekodunmi landed on his knees and suffered some bruises after he was punched by the fans.
Some of the ball boys also suffered varying degrees of injuries.
Thousands of fans, who had waited impatiently outside the gates for over two hours, became unruly and forced themselves into the stadium at 3:25pm.
Goal.com Online Editor, Shina Oludare, who was at the scene, said he was assaulted by soldiers, who saw him recording the chaos.
Recounting his ordeal, Oludare wrote on Twitter, “While recording a stampede scene at the entrance of the M.K.O Stadium, the military (three army & several policemen) attacked me, flogged d hell out of me & broke my phone despite identifying myself as a journalist with my accreditation hung around my neck.
“The zeal to work has disappeared and I don’t know where to start. I just hope we don’t record any casualties
“Organisation zero, crowd control zero. Nigeria, we love disgracing ourselves. was not given a chance to express myself as slaps landed on my face. In my over 12 years in this profession, I have never been this humiliated.”
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