Secretaries to the State Governments (SSGs) of the 19 Northern States on Wednesday said they had evolved strategies to tackle the security challenges in the region.
The Coordinating Chairman of the SSGs Forum and Secretary to Niger Government, Daniel Shashere, said this at the opening of the forum’s meeting in Kaduna.
Shashere said members of the forum were meeting to agree on various methods to tackle the insecurity in the north and other issues that would attract development to the region.
He said the meeting was a prelude to the Northern Governors' meeting scheduled for Thursday in Kaduna.
``Items on the agenda include security situation in the north, organisational structure of the Northern Governors Forum and updates and discussions of the gains of the Sardauna Foundation. ’’
He said the northern leaders would not relent in the efforts to address insecurity to reposition the northern region for better economic growth.
``We are going to re-strategise and bring up possible solutions to the situation in the north. ’’
We will also give updates and discussions of the gains of the Sardauna foundation, the New Nigerian Newspapers, (NNN) and the Northern Nigerian Development Company.
``We will give update on the two committees that were set up to reposition the agricultural sector, the NNN and any other business that comes along.”
He said the forum was taking the steps to guide their principals on appropriate action that would move the region forward.
Robbers’ Stray Bullet Kills FRCN Reporter
Edo state chapter of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) was again thrown into mourning on Tuesday as a journalist with Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, (Bronze FM) Sashua Edeghagba was shot dead by gunmen suspected to be armed robbers.
He was allegedly hit by the stray bullet of the suspected robbers at about 7.30 pm along Dawson Street, Benin where he was said to have gone to repair his car.
Eyewitness accounts had it that Edeghagba who had finished repairing his car was playing around with friends at the mechanic workshop unknown to him that armed robbers were operating in a nearby house where a policeman lives.
The pandemonium caused by the robbery was said to have attracted residents of the neighbourhood who came out, but the robbers replied by firing sporadically and in the process, a stray bullet reportedly hit Edeghagba.
The policeman and a woman were said to have been shot by the armed robbers.
Edo State Commissioner of Police, Olayinka Balogun, who confirmed the death of the reporter said the robbers were firing bullets while escaping when the bullets hit the journalist and the policeman, who was the target of the robbery.
“Both the policeman and the journalist were rushed to the hospital, but the journalist died. Apparently no one knew him in the area as a journalist. The robbers didn’t come for him,” Balogun said.
Sashua Edeghagba was said to have joined the services of Radio Nigeria in July last year. His death brought to five the number of journalists that have lost their lives in Edo State in the last two months.
He is survived by a wife and three children.
Robbers Raid Ketu From House To House
Armed robbers last night raided from house to house in Ketu area of Kosofe Local Government in Lagos State.
Many residents suffered gun shot injuries and lost their valuables to the robbers who operated till the early hours of today.
The robbers arrived first on Davies Street at about 11 pm and snatched a car from a man who was attempting to enter into his residence.
They then snatched three ipads, carted away other belongings and fled under the crackle of gunshots, leaving residents petrified for hours.
They had snatched a Nissan Xterra SUV, (silver colour with plate number FKI520AA) close to the scene of yesterday’s attack when they raided the street on 21 April.
During that attack, they carted away 16 phones and a television set.
During yesterday’s operation, the robbers then went to many other streets, carted away belongings, emptied sitting rooms of their plasma TV sets, blackberry phones and money in several houses and shot several people. The raids continued in Ketu until the wee hours of today.
Not too long ago, the robbers invaded Wellness Pharmacy in Ketu and shot dead a corps member, shooting him three times (in the head, stomach and private part), and warning the dead corpse never to challenge them again.
The spate of armed robbery attacks has increased in Ketu area in recent months with many people shot at point blank and their belongings carted away.
“We are no more safe,” a resident told our correspondent this morning. “The poplice claim they do not have a patrol vehicle to pursue robbers. We are left on our own,” he said.
The requests are yet to be granted, as robbers continue to have a field day and residents are left at their mercy.
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