Police Hunt for 5 Schoolgirls Kidnapped by Bandits in Niger State Laleye Dipo in Minna The Niger State Police Command has begun a massive search for five school girls, their teacher and a security guard abducted by bandits from their Tulare Academy School, Maruba,
in Mariga Local Government Area of the state last Sunday. It was gathered that the bandits numbering about 36 came into the school on motorcycles on Sunday evening and started shooting into the air causing panic and in the process, they abducted
the five girls, their teacher and the security man. The bandits were said to have taken advantage of the remote location of the private boarding primary school, its lack of perimeter fence and communication to carry out the operation.
The school has now been deserted. However, Niger State Police Commissioner, Alhaji Adamu Unman who led heads of other security agencies to the school said, "a special technical squad and armed anti-kidnapping squad had been deployed to the area
to rescue the victims unhurt." He explained that the visit of the security chiefs to the scene was to enable them deploy additional security men to the school and the community to forestall future attack. Unman however said that no amount of pressure and
intimidation would deter the command from discharging its constitutional mandate of safeguarding lives and properties of people in the state, but appealed to communities in the state to Continued on page 5
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was yesterday sealed by the police and officers of the The national secretariat of Department of State Services the ruling All Progressives following conflicting court Congress, (APC) in Abuja, orders on the status of the
party’s National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole. An Abuja High Court had on Wednesday ordered Oshiomhole to step aside
and stop parading himself as the national chairman of the party. But the following day, he secured a controversial injunction from Justice Lewis
Allagoa of the Federal High Court, Kano, who ordered all parties in the suit to maintain status quo bellum. More security agents arrived
the national secretariat of the party yesterday morning, sealed it and barred everybody Continued on page 5
Coronavirus: Over 100,000 Now Infected in 91 Countries, Italian Suffers Depression 93 Turkish Airline passengers wanted Three new suspected cases in Lagos test negative FG releases N984m to combat virus Ndubuisi Francis and Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja, Segun James and Chinedu Eze in Lagos Coronavirus has infected more than 100,000 people across 91 countries globally, according to statistics released yesterday by French news agency, Agence France-Presse (AFP) and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering. The death toll reached 3,406, while the total number of infections, according to AFP, hit 100,002, after a surge in cases worldwide since Thursday, notably in virus hotspot Iran. The Johns Hopkins University’s CSSE also updated its global death toll to 3,460 people and the total number of cases to 101,733.
Also yesterday, while providing update on the state of the virus attack, the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire said only 55 of the 148 passengers on board Turkish Airlines with the Nigerian index case, an Italian, had come forward for testing. The figures showing over 100,000 infected globally by Coronavirus were compiled from data collected by AFP offices from the competent national authorities and information from the World Health Organisation. The over 100,000 figure is a grim milestone that now appears inevitable with selfsustaining clusters continuing to expand in South Korea, Japan, parts of Europe, Iran Continued on page 5
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FARE THEE WELL... President Muhammadu Buhari presenting a gift to the outgoing Iranian Ambassador to Nigeria, H.E Morteza Rahimi Zarchi during a farewell audience at the State House, Abuja…yesterday