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  • Boko Haram attacks Michika, bombs bank

    Boko Haram insurgents have attacked Michika town in Michika Local Government Area of Adamawa State, razing the only commercial bank building in the town.

    The Nation gathered Tuesday morning that the insurgents got into the town about 7 pm Monday after overpowering the military formation in the town.

    Witnesses said the insurgents seized control of the town for a while, scaring hundreds of residents into surrounding bushes until soldiers arrived from Madagali following a reinforcement call from military authorities.

    Michika lies in the northern part of Adamawa State, an immediate neighbour to Madagali Local Government Area which was haunted by Boko Haram in the weeks and days to the February 16 and March 9 general elections.

    In the Monday attack on Michika, the insurgents bombed the Union Bank of Nigeria branch, the only banking facility in the town.

    Sources said the insurgents also burnt houses in Koppa village as they fled towards Sambisa with soldiers and mobilised local hunters on their trail.

    The Adamawa State Police Public Relations Officer, Othman Abubakar who confirmed the attack in a telephone interview with our correspondent Tuesday morning, said his information did not indicate any human casualty and that security agents had brought the situation under control.

  • Suicide bomber dies trying to kill Adamawa residents

    The Police in Adamawa State confirmed Sunday evening that a female suicide bomber trying to bomb people in a crowd in Shuwa, Adamawa State succeeded only in killing herself.

    The Police Public Relations Officer, Othman Abubakar, who confirmed the development to The Nation correspondent, said a second suicide bomber who similarly attempted to detonate a bomb strapped on her, was stopped from doing so by security agents.

    “While the first one killed herself as she sought to kill others, the second one was saved from herself and her targets,” Othman said.

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    Shuwa is in Madagali Local Government Area (LGA), a place that has in recent weeks and months been haunted frequently by the Boko Haram insurgents.

    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had announced a couple of months to the ongoing elections, that following security advice, elections would take place in the Madagali LGA in only three towns, which happens to include Shuwa.

  • One dies, two injured in Yola street fight

    One person has died and two others injured in a street fight in a community in Yola, the Adamawa State capital.

    The Nation correspondent gathered Thursday that the incident happened at the Jambutu area of Yola North Local Government Area Tuesday night during a clash among youths returning home from a party.

    The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Othman Abubakar, who confirmed the incident, named the deceased as John Jada.

    “Youths returning from a night outing engaged each other in a fight at Rumde Baru in Jambutu. One John Jada was fatally wounded and he later died,” the PPRO said.

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    He added that two people who were wounded had been taken to hospital while the police arrested three people over the fight, namely Shamsudeen Abubakar,  Aliyu Musa and Muhammed Abba.

    The incident came against reduced criminal activities across Adamawa State. The state has been relatively crime-free since the election season began about two weeks ago, something which a security personnel recently described as a direct result of the political engagements.

    The personnel said, “The cime-minded ones as well as the law abiding ones around the state have been engaged by our politicians. They have no idle time to get to mischief. That’s why the state has been resting from issues of crime.”

  • Boko Haram kills five in Adamawa

    Boko Haram insurgents attacked three communities in Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa State Monday night, dislodging policemen on routine duty and wreaking havoc on the town.

    A security officer who spoke on the incident on condition of anonymity Tuesday morning said the insurgents killed three people, destroyed 20 shops and three cars and carted away valuable items.

    The anonymous security officer named the communities affected as Shuwa, Kirshingari and Shuari.

    This latest attack confirms fears over the security situation in Madagali, the only local government area in Adamawa State where the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had earlier said voting would take place in only three communities, including Shuwa.

    Residents said the insurgents who arrived in several vehicles about 7pm Monday, took over Madagali until soldiers from Gulak and Michika intervened to engage the insurgents in a battle that lasted for about two hours.

    The Commander of 28 Task Force Battalion in Mubi, Lt Col Haruna, said the insurgents had been repelled.

    The Police Public Relations Officer in Adamawa State, DSP Othman Abubakar, assured that a combined team of security personnel had brought the situation under control.

    Madagali is one of the seven LGAs in Adamawa State that Boko Haram once seized. The situation remained so bad in the area just before elections in 2015 that the elections did not hold there and the neighbouring Michika LGA.

  • Police couple, two others killed in fire outbreak in Adamawa

    Police couple, two others killed in fire outbreak in Adamawa

    A police Inspector, identified as Bobbo, his wife, Sgt. Grace, their daughter and a constable have been burnt to death in an early morning fire at Karewa Police Barrack in Yola.

    The Adamawa Command Public Relations Officer, Othman Abubakar said the incident occurred around 1:00 am and the cause of the fire is being investigated.

    “Inspector Bobbo, his wife Sgt. Grace, their daughter and a newly recruited constable who is a relation that is squatting with them were all killed in the unfortunate incident,” Abubakar said.

    Some residents of the barracks who spoke to our reporter said efforts to put off the fire and rescue the victims were not successful due to the burglar proof in the house.

    “Many people have installed burglar proof due to petty thefts being experienced in the barrack,” a female resident who spoke under anonymity said.

    Meanwhile, Adamawa Deputy Governor, Mr Martins Babale has visited the barrack to sympathize with the residents over the incident.

    NAN

  • Police confirm killing of four in Adamawa

    Police confirm killing of four in Adamawa

    The Adamawa Police Command has confirmed the killing of four people at Kamale village in Michika Local Government Area of the state.

    The command’s Spokesman, SP Othman Abubakar, told the newsmen that the member representing Michika/Madagali Federal Constituency, Rep. Adamu Kamale, narrowly escaped the attack.

    Abubakar, who did not give details of the incident, however said that the attack was carried out by unknown gunmen who came with a list, going from house to house calling the names of their victims.

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    Abubakar said no arrest was made and that investigation is ongoing.

    Meanwhile, a new Commissioner of Police, Mr Ibrahim Yerima, has assumed duty in Yola.

    Yerima, who assumed duty on Friday, was until his appointment the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Armament Operations, Force Headquarters, Abuja.

    Yerima took over from CP Moses Jitoboh.

    NAN

  • Four policemen kill in Adamawa

    Four policemen kill in Adamawa

    Adamawa State Police Command has confirmed the death of four of its men in a clash with gunmen in Numan local government area of the state.

    The command spokesman, Othman Abubakar, who confirmed the incident in Yola, said the four policemen were on patrol when the incident occurred.

    Abubakar said the identity of the gunmen has not been ascertained.

    He said the command was still investigating the incident and has stepped up security in the area with support from the military.

    “We don’t want to work on speculations and I want to urge the public and media to shun rumour mongers and speculations that would further raise tension in Numan and its environs,” Abubakar said.

    NAN

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  • Mob kills policeman for shooting passenger in Adamawa

    A mob on Thursday killed a police inspector along the Wuro-Dole-Pariya Road in Girei local government area of Adamawa State.

    The Spokesman of Adamawa State Police Command, Othman Abubakar, said the incident occurred following a misunderstanding between some bus passengers and a routine patrol team along the road.

    Abubakar, who did not give details of the misunderstanding, said it led to the deceased opening fire which killed one of the passengers.

    He said the late inspector was mobbed to death, adding that the police had recovered his corpse and gun with eight rounds of live ammunition.

    An eyewitness, who simply identified himself as Sadiq, said the incident followed a disagreement over a N50 bribe.

    According to him, the driver of the vehicle in which the late passenger was travelling in offered a N50 bribe to the policemen but they insisted on collecting N100.

    He said a passenger challenged them and that led to a hot argument.

    “The deceased policeman shot the passenger and injured another person in the bus.

    “Angry about what happened, a mob attacked the inspector who was trying to escape and lynched him,” Sadiq said.

    NAN

  • Police foil robbery in Yola, arrest two

    Police foil robbery in Yola, arrest two

    The Police Command in Adamawa on Tuesday said it had foiled an armed robbery at the old GRA, Jimeta, Yola, and in the process killed one suspect and arrested two others.

    The Command’s Spokesman, SP Othman Abubakar, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yola that the command received a distress call at 1 a.m. from one Alhaji Bakari that armed robbers had invaded his house.

    “When we received the call, we immediately deployed our Anti Robbery Squad to cordon off the area.

    “On sighting our men, the suspects opened fire on them and in the exchange of gunfire one of the suspect was killed and two others arrested,” Abubakar said.

    He said that the command would not relent “until the people are able to sleep with their two eyes closed”.

    The Police Public Relations Officer called on the people to always report any suspicious movement to the nearest security post for immediate response.

  • Many feared dead in fresh Adamawa attack

    Many feared dead in fresh Adamawa attack

    Many people were feared dead on Thursday in a fresh attack by Boko Haram Islamists in Ghumbili community in the Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa.

    The attack comes a few days after a similar incident in a neighbouring village in the Local Government, known as Mildu, where seven people were killed by the insurgents.

    Confirming the attack, the Chairman of Madagali Local Government Council, Mr Yusuf Muhammed, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the attack lasted from 11 p.m. on Wednesday to 3 a.m. on Thursday.

    He said that the jihadists burnt no fewer than 60 houses and looted foodstuff.

    “They looted foodstuff, killed livestock and burnt the village completely,” he stated.

    Muhammed said that the exact number of dead and injured people had yet to be ascertained and that villagers who escaped the attack were currently taking refuge at Gulak, the headquarters of the council.

    But the Spokesman of the Police Command in Adamawa, Mr Othman Abubakar, who also confirmed the attack, said that no life was lost.

    He said, however, that houses were destroyed in the attack–the latest in a string of deadly blows on mainly soft targets in Nigeria’s troubled northeast.

    Speaking on the development, the Executive Chairman of the Adamawa State Emergency Management Agency, Mr Haruna Furo, said that only one person was killed and that many houses were destroyed.

    Boko Haram appears to have raised its onslaught in recent weeks in its eight-year bloody insurgency that has claimed thousands of lives.