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VP Shettima Leads Tributes For Ex-Governor Bukar-Abba Ibrahim
VP Shettima Leads Tributes For Ex-Governor Bukar-Abba Ibrahim
By: Our Reporter
Vice President Kashim Shettima has expressed profound grief over the passing of former Yobe State Governor, Sen. Bukar-Abba Ibrahim calling it a “sad week” for the region.
VP Shettima, who paid a condolence visit to Governor Mai Mala Buni on Thursday, hailed the late former Governor Ibrahim as an “epitome of kindness,” an “icon of humility,” and one of the “last of the great titles of Yobe.”
“We are surely going to miss him,” he lamented. “It’s a sad day, a sad week for the people of Yobe, Borno, the North East and the nation as a whole.”
The Vice President emphasized the close ties between Borno and Yobe, calling them “siamese twins,” and expressed his condolences on behalf of President Bola Tinubu. He also highlighted Ibrahim’s legacy, including the Yobe State University, the Shehu Sule School of Nursing, and the Yobe State Polytechnic.
“But most importantly,” Shettima said, “we are all going to miss him for his simplicity, his kindness, his forgiving spirit and his abilities to embrace all tendencies.”
Responding, Governor Buni expressed his gratitude to President Tinubu and Shettima for their visit, saying, “We can’t thank you enough for supporting us at this very solemn moment.”
“Like you rightly captured, we are going to miss him in so many ways but we must take solace in the fact that we are all in transit awaiting our appointed times,” he added.
VP Shettima Leads Tributes For Ex-Governor Bukar-Abba Ibrahim
Bandits kill one, injure another in Katsina vigilante patrol ambush
By: Zagazola Makama
One person was confirmed dead while another sustained injuries when suspected armed bandits attacked members of a local vigilante group during a patrol in Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State.
Zagazola Makama report that the incident occurred on May 4 at about 4:05 p.m., shortly after a security coordination meeting involving vigilante members from Malumfashi, Kafur, Bakori, and Kankara LGAs held at the Kankara LGA Secretariat.
Two vigilantes, identified as Salisu Barde, 60, and Sule Abdul, 50, were injured in the ambush along the Kankara–Sheme road.
Security forces were promptly deployed a patrol team to the scene and evacuated the victims to the General Hospital in Kankara, where Salisu Barde was later confirmed dead.
Security sources have intensified efforts to arrest the fleeing attackers.
Bandits kill one, injure another in Katsina vigilante patrol ambush
Gunmen abduct special constabulary officer in Kaduna
By: Zagazola Makama
Armed men have abducted a 29-year-old special constabulary officer during a surveillance patrol at Tafida/Nalado area in Nariya, Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
Sources td Zagazola Makama that the incident occurred on Sunday, May 4, at about 5:00 p.m. when the patrol team came under heavy gunfire from the assailants.
The operatives engaged the attackers in a fierce gun duel, but one officer, identified as PC-SC Mohammed Ali was forcefully taken to an unknown destination.
The assailants also carted away the victim’s Jincheng 110 model motorcycle.
Following the attack, a combined team of personnel and operatives from sister security agencies were mobilized to the scene, and a search and rescue operation has since commenced.
Gunmen abduct special constabulary officer in Kaduna
Police inspector attached to OPHK dies while on special duty in Yobe
By: Zagazola Makama
The Police Inspector Pascal Okpabi, an officer attached to the 5 PMF Benin, who was on special duty with Operation Hadin Kai Joint Task Force, is dead.
Police sources told Zagazola Makama that the incident occurred on Saturday, May 4, at about 4:50 p.m., when the officer, who was posted to 233 Battalion, Damaturu, collapsed while on duty.
The sources said that the officer’s Unit Commander, ASP Ogwouno Ekene, reported that Insp. Okpabi was rushed to the University Teaching Hospital Damaturu, where medical personnel diagnosed him with partial stroke linked to high blood pressure.
He was confirmed dead at about 4:30 p.m. the same day while receiving treatment.
The deceased, who hailed from Ebonyi State, had his family duly informed, and arrangements for his burial are underway.
Police inspector attached to OPHK dies while on special duty in Yobe
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