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Major Tijjani Balarabe: Unmasking ‘Mastermind’ Of Taraba Police Killings, Wadume Escape by Lami Sadiq
Captain Tijjani Balarabe His name has been everywhere and on every Nigerian’s lips. His picture is all over the social media, yet nobody knows Captain Tijjani Balarabe’s life before the Taraba saga that made him a focus of public attention and keeps him so for weeks on end. Daily Trust on Sunday has dug up …
The Wadume Scandal: A Brutal Yardstick Exposing Nigeria’s Criminal Negligence in Fighting Kidnapping, Safeguarding Citizens, and Crushing Institutional Impunity by Lawson Akhigbe
Captain Tijjani Balarabe Alhaji Hamisu Bala—better known as Wadume Seven years after soldiers under Captain Tijjani Balarabe gunned down three police officers and two civilians in Taraba State to free a handcuffed kidnap kingpin, the Wadume affair remains a blistering indictment of Nigeria’s rotten security system. In August 2019, troops opened fire on an unmarked …
Alhaji Hamisu Bala (Wadume): from petty thief to billionaire kidnapper by Molly Kilete
Before the tragedy of August 6, 2019, his name hardly rang a bell. However in the days that followed, he made headlines. And as the intrigue unravelled, Nigerians were confronted with a picture of evil unseen since the fearful days of Lawrence Anini when his Benin-based bloodthirsty robbery gang terrorized Nigerians in the 1980s. While the …
Inside story: Why President, APC dumped Fubara by Punch Newspapers
Governor Siminalayi Fubara Governor Siminalayi Fubara. Credit: Rivers State Government House Fresh facts have emerged on how the Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, lost the backing of President Bola Tinubu and the leadership of the All Progressives Congress in the prolonged power tussle with his predecessor and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike. Sunday …
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