The Directorate of state security said it has arrested all members of the dreaded ‘BASALUBE’ kidnap gang operating in Kogi- Lokoja and Abuja – Kaduna highways. The Nigerian secret police made this known in a statement released and signed by its spokesman Tony Opuiy said the Service embarked on a series of joint operations across the country. One of those arrested is Lawal MOHAMMED, a suspected financier and armourer of the Basbule kidnap gang operating in Kogi State.

The Nigerian Army has reacted to widespread claim by one Sergeant David Bako that the recent abduction and eventual release of the Dapchi schoolgirls was hatched on April 19th, 2018 at the State House. Recall that Bako had alleged that the abduction was stage-managed and executed with N80 million.

The Inspector General of Police, Ibriahim Idris has recanted an earlier statement that Boko Haram members were set to release Leah Sharibu, the only Christian Dapchi School girl still in captivity. The IGP in a statement issued by the Force PRO, Jimoh Moshood said he was misquoted. The statement read in part;

The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday dismissed all the 13-count charge of money laundering and passport fraud preferred against Sylvester Ngwuta, a Justice of the Supreme Court. Ngwuta is accused of receiving bribes and is standing trial for a 13-count charge at the court.

The Police, Army and the Department of State Security (DSS) have said that they have successfully burst a planned kidnap and abduction of students from the Gombe State College of Islamic and Legal Studies in Nafada, a border town with Yobe State. Briefing journalists in Gombe, the State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Shina Tairu Olukolu,

Residents of Takum and Ussa Local Government areas of Taraba state have raised alarm that marauding herdsmen carrying out attacks on them are now using machine guns to their people, despite ongoing military operation. Chairman of Ussa Local Government Council, Mr. Rimamsikwe Karma, who stated this on Friday while speaking to newsmen said the marauding herders are not the regular herdsmen they had known, revealing that this ones are strange.