.ISWAP insurgents kill Army Gen, Uba captured in Borno
.Tinubu vows swift action in rescuing kidnapped students, protect all Nigerians
.As Police deploy tactical units, military, vigilantes on rescue mission
.HURIWA queries FG’s utilization of N595bn budgeted in 2024 for community intelligence
.Atiku mourns Gen. Musa Uba
AHMED MARI, Maiduguri, JONAS EZIEKE, Abuja and IGNATIUS OKOROCHA, Abuja
The Police Command in Kebbi has confirmed the abduction of 25 female students of Government Girls’ Comprehensive Secondary School, Maga, in Danko/Wasagu Local Government Area of the state.
The Command’s Spokesperson, CSP Nafi’u Abubakar, disclosed this in a statement issued on Monday in Birnin Kebbi.
He said that at about 4 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 17, information was received that a gang of armed bandits, wielding sophisticated weapons and shooting sporadically, stormed the school.
Abubakar said police tactical units deployed in the school engaged the attackers in a gun duel.
“Unfortunately, the bandits had already scaled the school fence and abducted 25 students from their hostel to an unknown destination.
“Similarly, one Hassan Makuku was shot dead, while one Ali Shehu sustained an injury on his right hand,” he said.
He added that upon receiving the report, a combined team of additional police tactical units, military personnel, and vigilantes was deployed to the area and had begun combing the bandits’ routes and nearby forests, with a view to rescuing the students and arresting the perpetrators.
Abubakar said the Commissioner of Police, Bello Sani, reiterated the command’s commitment to safeguarding the lives and property of residents of the state.
The PRO appealed to the public to remain calm, vigilant, and to continue supporting security operations to ensure the maintenance of peace and stability. (NAN}
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.As Boko Haram, ISWAP insurgents kill Army General captured in Borno
Members of Islamic State of West African (ISWAP), fighters have murdered a Brigade Commander of the Nigerian Army that was allegedly abducted along Wajiroko, area of Dambia local government area of Borno state.
It could be recalled that there was a media report alleging the abduction of the Brigade Commander, 25 Task Force Brigade, Brigadier, General M Uba, but was denied by the Army headquarters…
The insurgents in a press statement issued on Amaq agency website in Arabic inscription said “Soldiers of the Caliphate kill a “brigade commander” in the Nigerian army after capturing him in a successful operation in Northern Nigeria”
” By the grace of God Almighty, the soldiers of the Caliphate were able to capture a “brigade commander” in the apostate Nigerian army, the day before yesterday, after he fled from an ambush set up by the Mujahideen on Friday near the town of (Wajiroko) in the (Borno) region.
After interrogating him, the Mujahideen killed him with their weapons”, the insurgents said.
…FG vows swift action in rescuing kidnapped students, recommits to protection of all Nigerians
President Bola Tinubu has vowed to rescue the abducted Kebbi Schoolgirls and to continue to carryout the duty of protecting lives and property in the country.
This was contained in a statement issued by the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Mohammed Idris on Monday in Abuja.
According to the statement, Tinubu reiterated that protecting every Nigerian, especially schoolchildren, remains a solemn responsibility of the State.
He condemned the reprehensible attack on innocent students and the killing of school officials who were carrying out their noble duty.
The president also expressed deep concern and solidarity with the families of the female students abducted from Government Girls Secondary School, Maga, in Danko/Wasagu Local Government Area of Kebbi State.
“We share in their pain and are firmly committed to bringing the girls home safely.
“Our security and intelligence agencies have been issued clear directives to locate, rescue, and safely return the students, and to ensure that the perpetrators face justice.
“The Federal Government will not relent until this objective is achieved. We assure Nigerians that strengthening internal security remains a top priority.
“The federal government is recalibrating the nation’s military, policing, and intelligence capabilities to more effectively prevent these attacks and respond with greater speed and precision whenever threats arise.
“Nigeria is also reinforcing cooperation with regional partners through ECOWAS, the African Union, and the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) to secure our borders and disrupt terrorist and criminal networks.
“We urge the public to remain calm and confident,” Tinubu said. (NAN)
…As police deploy tactical units, military, vigilantees on rescue mission
Police tactical units, military personnel and vigilante groups have been deployed for search and rescue of the twenty-five students of Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, Maga Danko district Danko/ Wasagu Local Government Area of Kebbi State who were abducted by armed bandits on Monday 17th November 2025.
The Spokesman of the Kebbi State Police Command CSP Nafiu Abubakar Kotarkorshi in a statement on Monday in Birnin-Kebbi said that at about 0400hrs, information received revealed that, a gang of armed bandits with sophisticated weapons, shooting sporadically, stormed the school and abuducted the students.
The police tactical units deployed in the school reportedly engaged them in a gun duel.
Unfortunately, the suspected bandits had already scaled through the fence of the school and abducted Twenty Five students from their hostels to an unknown destination.
Similarly, one Hassan Makuku ‘m’ was shot dead while Ali Shehu ‘m’ sustained injury in his right hand.
Upon receiving the unfortunate incident, a combined team of additional Police tactical units, military personnel and Vigilantes have been deployed to the area and they are currently combing the bandits’ routes and nearby forests, with a view to rescue the abducted students and possibly arrest the perpetrators of the darstardly act.
In a swift response, the Commissioner of Police, Kebbi State Command, CP Bello M Sani had reiterated the Command’s unwavering determination in safeguarding the lives and property of the residents of Kebbi State.
He equally appealed to the members of the public to remain calm, vigilant, and continue supporting Police operations for peace and stability to be maintained.
…HURIWA blasts FG over incessant incidents, queries utilization of N595bn budgeted in 2024 for community intelligence
The country woke up to the news of an early-morning attack on the Government Girls’ Comprehensive Secondary School, Maga, in the Danko Wasagu Local Government Area (LGA) of Kebbi State, North West Nigeria, and the abduction of scores of students by terrorists.
The incident begs answers as to whether the federal government truly invested massively towards school security initiatives in the Country as it claimed.
HURIWA has queried the whereabouts of a whooping sum of N595 billion reportedly budgeted for the publicly funded intelligence community.
In a media statement endorsed by the National Coordinator Comrade Emmanuel Nnadozie Onwubiko condemned the bloody attack of the girls Secondary school in Kebbi state by terrorists and blamed it on spectacular intelligence and security failures.
“We call on the heads of the security institutions, the armed forces, the Department of State Services and the Nigeria Police Force, to immediately activate mechanisms to chase these terrorists, rescue the hostages who are our daughters, arrest, neutralise or decimate the terrorists abductors or bring them to Swift justice.
We urge the government to put foolproof and sustainable security and intelligence gathering initiatives all across the country to prevent reoccurrence of such dastardly crimes of mass abduction of students.
Those who kidnap students are terrorists and must be dealt with in accordance with the extant counter terrorism laws of the Federation.
Government must realise that the primary duty it owes the citizens is to protect their lives and property from wanton terrorists attacks and mass killings,” HURIWA affirmed.
HURIWA has also charged the government to focus on implementing concrete measures to protect school children all around Nigeria instead of relying on conjecture, even as the Rights group blasted the Minister of Education Dr Tunji Alausa, for openly bragging in May of this year that there have been no school abductions in the country over the past 12 months.
Alausa spoke on Arise TV while reviewing the mid-term performance of the government on education and attributed the achievement to the current government’s focused policies and increased security spending.
Alausa stated that the government has implemented a safe school initiative with a central command centre in Abuja, manned by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps.
“I am the chief education officer of Nigeria now and I would tell you that no abduction has occurred in schools in the last 12 months.
This is not coincidence This is due to the clear, focused government policies of President Ahmed Bola Tinubu.
“The president has spent much on security like no government has done in the last 20 years. We are using both kinetic and non-kinetic strategies. I will leave the other details for the NSA to discuss.
But what we have done to make our schools safer…we have a safe school initiative that is in place,” he said.
HURIWA faulted the claims of the Education minister and maintained that the most recent daring and bloody attack on the Kebbi state government girls Secondary school demonstrates that the government relies more on propaganda and empty rhetoric rather than investing in real time substantial resources and deployment of trained manpower to provide security of lives and property of students in their schools.
HURIWA recalled that the Kebbi state terrorists attack took place around 4:00 a.m., shortly before dawn prayers.
Local sources say the attackers stormed the school premises, killing a staff member and injuring a security guard before escaping with several girls.
Residents of Maga, a community under the Danko Wasagu LGA, with its headquarters in Ribah, said that the assailants “have not gone far” and are believed to still be within reach.
They are calling for urgent intervention from both the Federal and Kebbi State Governments to prevent the terrorists from disappearing with the abducted students.
Security forces have yet to issue any official statement on the latest mass abduction of school children.
HURIWA recalled that in recent years, Kebbi State has witnessed a disturbing surge in school abductions, which is part of a broader pattern of insecurity plaguing the northwestern region.
Historicallyy, the most notorious incident occurred on June 17, 2021, when armed attackers stormed the Federal Government College in Birnin Yauri.
The assailants killed a police officer and abducted at least 80 students and five teachers.
The Rights group wondered why these attacks on students have been allowed to continue even when the nation by now should have learnt good enough lessons from the cases of previous incidents in Borno, Kaduna, Yobe and Kebbi states, just as HURIWA asserted that preventive law enforcement is much better than letting crimes happen before the security apparatus are activated to go after the terrorists.
“We wonder why the National Assembly members go to bed once they approve the massive budgets for security and intelligence community without carrying out efficient oversight functions on the relevant security institutions to compel the mainstreaming of the twin values of accountability and transparency.
There is a story making the rounds that the law makers deliberately undermine their oversight functions by compromising with the security heads because of pecuniary benefits.
.Atiku mourns Gen. Uba
I am deeply saddened and extremely shocked and disturbed by news making the rounds of the killing of Brig. Gen. Musa Uba by terrorists and the failure of the military hierarchy to clearly explain how it happened or what went wrong, as initial official denials indicated that this was not the case.
This for me is unequivocally a failure of political leadership as the President seems only more interested in decimating the opposition by all means possible, while forgetting his crucial role as Commander-in-Chief of our Armed Forces.
Gen. Musa’s death along with the deaths of some of the troops he was leading is one death too many and a bold terrorist resurgence our dear country can not afford.
I urge all citizens and our military leaders to take heart, as even this season shall pass away.
To Mr. President: the security of the lives of our people is your primary responsibility and you must live up to it or be humble enough to admit incompetence and either ask for help or resign.
If I was President, I would order the military to occupy Borno State or any state under siege by bandits or armed groups until they clear those areas. We must care enough for the men and women who put their lives on the line for our sake.
I offer my condolences to the Nigerian Armed Forces, the family of the bereaved and indeed to all Nigerians.
May this dark period pass over us as a nation, sooner than later. -AA
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