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Police Arrests Suspected Bandit Kingpin Linked With Killing Of Seminarian

<p><img width="650" height="350" src="https://www.naijanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/suspected.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://www.naijanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/suspected.jpg 650w, https://www.naijanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/suspected-300x162.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px" /></p> <h2>The <a href="https://www.naijanews.com/topic/Kaduna-State-Police/">Kaduna State Police Command</a> has said it has apprehended the suspected mastermind of the September burning of Saint Raphael’s Catholic Church at Fadan Kamanta during which the seminarian was killed.</h2> <p>The suspect, identified as Yakubu Saidu was arrested on Thursday by police operatives at Zangon Urban.</p> <p>The spokesman of the Kaduna Police Command Mansir Hassan announced the development via a statement.</p> <p>The police said that the suspect confessed his involvement in the attack and the killing of the seminarian and that one of his gang members – from Fadan Kamanta facilitated the assault and is on the run.</p> <p>His arrest comes about seven months after bandits attacked the church’s rectory and killed Stephen. They also set the parish house ablaze after a failed attempt to abduct two priests working in the parish.</p> <p>Kaduna is one of the states worst hit by banditry in the country and has in recent years witnessed attacks on religious centres and public places among others.</p> <p>In 2022, they attacked the Kaduna-Abuja rail line, killing some and injuring others.</p> <h2>Terrorists Release Seven Persons Kidnapped In Kaduna</h2> <p>Meanwhile, <a href="https://www.naijanews.com/2024/03/18/breaking-terrorists-release-seven-persons-kidnapped-in-kaduna/">terrorists</a> have released seven out of over 14 people kidnapped in the Dogon Noma-Ungwan Gamo community in the Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State over the weekend.</p> <p><strong>Naija News</strong> reported that the kidnap occurred in the early hours of Saturday when a large group of bandits invaded the Dogon Noma community and abducted the victims.</p> <p>However, <strong>Naija News</strong> gathered that the gunmen released the seven captives unconditionally on Monday afternoon 48 hours after their abduction.</p> <p>A family member of one of the freed persons, Mohammed Aliyu, informed Premium Times that the terrorists did not give the released captives any reason for the release.</p> <p>He said the group of released captives includes three women, three men, and a nursing mother, adding that they have been reunited with their families.</p> <p><strong>Naija News</strong> reports that the upsurge in bandit attacks intensifies the concerns in the region, as the development comes just a week after a staggering 61 people were abducted in the Buda community, also within Kajuru LGA.</p> <p>A resident of the community, Aminu Kajuru, who holds a traditional title in the emirate, lamented that the area is now under siege.</p> <p>He said the bandits ordered residents to come out of their houses and abducted them.</p> <p>This recent abduction underscores a worrying trend in Kaduna State and surrounding areas, where communities are increasingly under threat from bandits and criminal gangs.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.naijanews.com/2024/03/23/police-arrests-suspected-bandit-kingpin-linked-with-killing-of-seminarian/">Police Arrests Suspected Bandit Kingpin Linked With Killing Of Seminarian</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.naijanews.com">Naija News</a>.</p>

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All Four Suspects Arrested After At Least 133 Killed in Moscow Concert Attack, 145 Injured 

<p>Few days after President Putin secured victory in Russia's presidential elections, a deadly shooting in Moscow has claimed 133 lives.</p> <p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.arise.tv/all-four-suspects-arrested-after-at-least-133-killed-in-moscow-concert-attack-145-injured/">All Four Suspects Arrested After At Least 133 Killed in Moscow Concert Attack, 145 Injured </a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.arise.tv">Arise News</a>.</p>

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Why I Can’t Fight Tinubu – PDP Governor Explains

<p><img width="1000" height="600" src="https://www.naijanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Governor-Eno-and-Tinubu-1000x600.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Governor Eno and Tinubu" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://www.naijanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Governor-Eno-and-Tinubu-1000x600.jpg 1000w, https://www.naijanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Governor-Eno-and-Tinubu-590x354.jpg 590w, https://www.naijanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Governor-Eno-and-Tinubu-400x240.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px" /></p> <h2>Akwa Ibom State Governor, Umo Emo has reiterated that he will continue to collaborate with President Bola Tinubu despite their political affiliation.</h2> <p><strong>Naija News</strong> reports that Eno made this known while receiving hundreds of decampees from various opposition parties, including the APC, Young Progressives Party (YPP), New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), and others, into the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state.</p> <p>The governor noted that he couldn't fight President Tinubu or allow his administration to engage in unhealthy rivalry with the federal government, which could negatively impact the development of the state and the people, as articulated in his administration's 'Arise Agenda'.</p> <p>He vowed that he would never work at cross purposes with the centre, as doing so would only strain the relationship between the state, which depends on the centre for monthly cash for its development.</p> <p>The PDP governor warned the defectors against bringing bad influence into the party, especially insulting political leaders.</p> <p>He said:<em> "I cannot fight President Tinubu, we cannot fight the centre. We have only one President of Nigeria and we must not attack or insult him. We will not use Akwa Ibom's money to fight the centre because if you fight the centre, the centre can no longer hold.</em></p> <p><em>"You can't fight the person that gives you money and resources and expect him to continue to give you. If we use Akwa Ibom money to create trouble with the centre, and use it to be traveling to Abuja every day, it is the people that will suffer."</em></p> <p>Governor Eno noted that since his assumption of office in the last 10 months, he has effectively used the resources from the centre to fix physical infrastructure, including roads, provide social services—education, health, gratuity payment to retired civil servants, and care for the aged, maintaining that such a robust relationship with the centre cannot be truncated by politics's sentiment.</p> <p>He, therefore, enjoined the returnees to acclimatize themselves to the PDP fold as equal stakeholders while directing the State PDP Chairman, Elder Aniekan Akpan, to ensure equal rights and privileges for them in their new political home.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.naijanews.com/2024/03/23/why-i-cant-fight-tinubu-pdp-governor-explains/">Why I Can’t Fight Tinubu – PDP Governor Explains</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.naijanews.com">Naija News</a>.</p>

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