On Monday, August 1, 2022, a community organisation known as Katagum Division Development Initiative (KDDI) launched one of its planned programs titled “Awareness on Drug Abuse” at Jama’are Local Government Area of Bauchi State. Several inhabitants of Jama’are communities joined the KDDI youths during the campaign rally.
Jama’are NDLEA officers, local government representatives, Nigerian Red Cross representatives, and social welfare representatives participated in the event. The program was observed at Wabi Academy, major streets, market places, and the Emirs’ Palace.
The Emir, Alhaji Nuhu Ahmed Wabi Mni, was highly impressed with the organisation’s effort. He urged the people of the Katagum community to support the fight against drug abuse.
The organisation calls on the general public to join them in achieving their goals.
The Nigeria Police Force confirmed the kidnapping of three kids in Kogi State.
This was contained in a statement issued on Friday night by SP William Ovye Aya, the public relations officer for the Kogi State Police.
Early reports claimed that unknown gunmen attacked Kaduna Estate in the Ajaokuta Steel Township Complex, Kogi State’s Ajaokuta Local Government Area, on Wednesday night in order to kidnap their victims.
According to information from a family source, the kidnappers sought N100m in order to release their victims.
In the statement, Aya made a hint that Kogi State Commissioner of Police CP Edward Ogbuka had sent members of the Police Mobile Force, CTU, and Quick Response Unit on the hunt for the kidnappers with the goal of freeing the kids and putting the criminals to justice.
It may be remembered that lately, in Jida Bassa, Ajaokuta Local Government, gunmen ambushed three police officers and five vigilantes, killing them all.
Kogi in the North Central part of Nigeria has also been one of the states badly hit by the activities of gunmen.
Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, disclosed that the state had finished preparation that would enable it to establish state-owned security outfit to tackle banditry and other crimes.
Mohammed said this when he paid a condolence visit to the family of a 75-year-old Jauro Katu Mai Dakkuna who was killed by bandits while kidnapped in Shafa community of Alkaleri Local Government Area.
According to him, the State is making arrangement to recruit over 2000 youths that will man the security outfit across the 20 LGAs of the state to safeguard lives and properties.
The Governor alleged that the bandits that operated in the area have local collaborators.
“There was no how somebody from somewhere in Zamfara would visit that secluded place of Shafa hamlet to kill somebody unless he has an informer and collaborator. As the security agencies have always said, such thing could not happen without collaboration with some obnoxious elements within us.
“We have to fear God in all our dealings, we have already requested the two district heads to make sure they become circumspect, to look inward because we too were looking so that they can arrest all these issues of compromise, information being given to the bandits.
“Reports reaching me the day before was some locals were supplying foodstuff to the bandits in the forests, so we are aware of such retrogressive tendencies, there are some few dissident security operatives that are compromising with the bandits.
“So, we are requesting the commissioner of police and the brigade commandant to effect a change or redeployment of the guards here who have over stayed in their duty posts to have been conniving with the bandits,” he said.
He assured residents that a feedback mechanism will be put in place to improve the security situation.
“We are establishing a system of feedback, and I had some people within us are even feeding the bandits in their secluded places by giving them grains and flour to feed, that is the report I got, and we are going to take measures against such people wherever they are and no matter how close they are to us,” he stressed.
The Governor advised the people to give the government information through their local authorities such as the LG chairman, councilors, district, village and ward heads for prompt action to prevent any breakdown of law and order.
The Kano state Road and Traffic Agency (KAROTA) has arrested an impersonator defrauding drivers at night.
The 27-year-old young man impersonated the agency staff on duty around 12 midnight on Monday.
The suspect, identified as Lukman Abdullahi, appeared on night duty on Monday when he was apprehended.
According to the Agency Public Relations Officer, Nabulusi Kofar Na’isa, the suspect was apprehended wearing KAROTA uniform, disguising as their Staff.
Kofar Na’isa added that the agency got the report of the suspect using its name, manhandling commuters but did not get to meet him until now.
The Managing Director of the agency, Baffa Babba Danagundi, called on the general public to report officials who engage in misconduct, bribery and corruption as they will be charged accordingly to court.
He added that once investigation is completed, the suspect will be handed over to the police for onward investigation before the law.
Unknown shooters abducted a woman patient on her sickbed in Zaria Local government Area of Kaduna State on Thursday.
The shooters were said to have arrived at Anguwar Malamai village in Kakeyi, Zaria, where they abducted the woman to an unknown destination.
The Daily Reality learned that the incident reportedly occurred around midnight on Thursday.
It was gathered that no sooner had the bandits arrived than they proceeded to the residence of Alhaji Shu’aibu Dallatu and abducted his wife.
Speaking, one of the residents disclosed, “The bandits arrived at the residence purposely to kidnap the household, Alhaji Shuaibu Dallatu, because on arrival they asked some young men who sleep in the shop outside the house of his whereabouts.
“Meanwhile, Alhaji Dallatu, who was fully awake attending to his sick wife, overheard the conversation and quickly sneaked out.
“They bundled her into a waiting car and started shooting into the air as they made their exit,” he stated.
The Police Public Relations Officer in Kaduna, Mohammed Jalinge, could not be reached as at the time of filing this report.
The Governing Council of the Kaduna State University, led by Mallam Hussaini Dikko, has approved the appointment of 6 senior academics to the rank of Professors and seven others to Associate Professors, respectively.
According to a statement by the university’s public relations officer, Mr Adamu Nuhu Bargo, those promoted are; Dr Matoh D. Dogara (Professor of Geophysics), Dr Gaius Jatau (Professor of Economic and Social History), Dr Peter Ayuba (Professor of Applied & Computational Mathematics), Dr Fu’ad Sirate Sheriff (Professor Arabic Language), Dr Tukur Abdulkadir (Professor of International Relations & Strategic Studies), and Dr Nasir Murtala Ibrahim (Professor of Arabic Literature)
Those promoted to the rank of Associate Professors are Dr Binta Kasim (Associate Professor in the Department of Mass Communication), Dr Bashir Kayode Sodipo (Associate Professor in the Department of Physics), Dr Ahmed Buba (Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science), Dr Aliyu Isa Suleiman (Associate Professor in the Department of Nigerian Languages and Linguistics), Dr Patrick Noah Okolo (Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences), Dr Ahmed Bello (Associate Professor in the Department of Education) and Dr Ahmed Shehu( Associate Professor in the Department of Nigerian Languages and Linguistics).
The heavy downpour has wreaked havoc in Jigawa communities, leading to the destruction of many houses, shops and prosperities worth millions of naira in the areas.
The rain that started Monday night, 1st August 2022, lasted for hours and had claimed the lives of yet to be identified a number of people, especially small kids.
The Daily Reality gathered that the communities affected included; Hadejia, Kafin Hausa, Kiri-Kasamma and some parts of Garun-Gabas, Tandanu and Bulangu of Jigawa state, respectively.
Our reporter gathered that the flood has also washed away many farms in the communities, and the development that the residents decried has struck terror in them.
Climate change that leads to flooding is one of the serious challenges rocking many countries, which affects people’s lives and health in various ways.
Victims of flooding
In another similar situation, a morning downpour in Bajoga town of Funakaye Local Government Area of Gombe State had claimed the lives of people and destructed houses and shops in the community.
Climate change: More floods in Nigeria
Experts have foresighted that there would be more floods in Nigeria in the next two months because of climate change.
The Director General/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), Prof Mansur Bako Matazu, has warned Nigerians to brace up for more rains in the next two months.
Mu’azu disclosed this on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Monday, August 2nd, 2022, while speaking on flooding wreaking havoc across Nigeria in recent weeks.
However, Mu’azu also lamented that Nigerians keep cutting down trees and dumping refuses in drainage channels.
He added that the NiMeT CEO organisation had issued several advisories about flooding earlier, to which Nigerians failed to adhere.
In his words, Matazu said: “There will be increased rainfall intensity in the next two months or so. This is the most active period – July, August and September. We are going to see more floods.”
NEMA: 233 LGs in 32 states prone to flooding
No fewer than 233 local government areas in 32 states and the Federal Capital Territory have been predicted to experience flooding in 2022.
Flooded street
The Director-General, National Emergency Management Agency, Mr Mustapha Ahmed, raised the alarm Tuesday in Abuja.
Ahmed, who said the discovery was a result of the 2022 Seasonal Climate Prediction, stated, “Efforts must be made to mitigate and respond effectively to flooding.”
A 17-year-old girl, simply identified as Safiya from Garin Dau village in Warawa Local Government Area of Kano State, has been found lifelessly hanged.
Residents of the village who spoke to BBC Hausa Service said they were shocked by the incident because the late teenage girl was a calm and responsible girl.
According to some villagers, the girl might have killed herself because of the forced marriage her parents planned to do for her.
However, the parents and other sources in the family countered the allegation, adding that she was not through with her secondary education yet not to talk of marrying her off.
Kano State Police Command confirmed that the young lady had been found dead, but an investigation has commenced to ascertain why she hanged herself.
Police Public Relations Officer, SP Abdullahi Kiyawa, added that it is the investigation that they can confirm whether she committed suicide by hanging herself or not.
Late Safiya was a class 2 junior secondary school student before her sudden death.
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has fined Trust Television Network (Trust TV) N5 million for exposing banditiry.
In March 5th, 2022, the station aired a documentary titled “Nigeria’s Banditry: The Inside Story” that went viral.
According to the station, the NBC, in a letter dated August 3, 2022, which was signed by its Director General, Balarabe Shehu Illela, said the fine was imposed on Trust TV because its broadcast of the said documentary.
NBC argued that the documentary contravened sections of the National Broadcasting Code.
In a statement, the management of Media Trust Group said, “While we are currently studying the Commission’s action and weighing our options, we wish to state unequivocally that as a television station, we believe we were acting in the public interest by shedding light on the thorny issue of banditry and how it is affecting millions of citizens of our country.
“The documentary traces the root of the communal tensions and systemic inadequacies which led to the armed conflict that is setting the stage for another grand humanitarian crisis in Nigeria.
“It presents insights into the intersection of injustice, ethnicity and bad governance as drivers of the conflict. It also aggregates voices of experts and key actors towards finding solutions, including those of the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Senator Saidu Mohammed Dansadau, who hails from one the worst hit communities in Zamfara State.”
Dr Aminu Magashi Garba Foundation (AMG) has donated the sum of one million naira to a Youth Academy Initiative (YOSPIS) Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022.
Zainab Nasir Ahmad, the YOSPIS Executive Director, disclosed this during the first anniversary of the Youth Academy Initiative.
Speaking at the event, Ahmad unveiled some of the achievements they recorded so far to include a popular live radio program, Hasken Matasa, which targeted more than two million audience.
However, she added that it was part the achievements they so far recorded the collaborative empowerment of 150 women, celebrating World NGO Day in partnership with Kano State Special Adviser on Non-Governmental Organisations.
Other achievements include; Sensitizing 14 Communities in Kano on Menstrual Hygiene and donating sanitary pads to seven hundred adolescents girls in commemoration of World Menstrual Hygiene Day, initiating a monthly seminar series to the civil society organisations, supporting persons living with disability with sanitary pads at Tudun-Maliki Special Education School among others.
Yet, we have lot of challenges – Zainab
It is no longer bizarre that successes and challenges go hand in hand. Zainab also went on to mention some of the challenges she faced since her resuming duty as the Executive Director.
She decried inadequate source of funding, lack of permanent office space and official vehicle as part of the challenges faced by her organisation in the last year.
She added that YOSPIS is seriously engaged in writing and submitting proposals to potential donors, mobilise resources from members and other stakeholders.
Dr Aminu Magashi has also called on the stakeholders to engage and contribute more for youth development for the better Nigeria.
