News Highlights for February

ICON publishes this weekly news bulletin to share brief updates and links on the conflict and increasing violence in Nigeria

This is our monthly news summary that ICON distributes weekly via our email list.

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02.21.22
 

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ICON is dedicated to helping make Nigerian news serve people better because an informed society needs up-to-date news. We make it easy for you to discover news from Nigeria.

ICON provides current headlines by linking to breaking news from credible and relevant news sources. Thanks for reading our weekly news update, “Nigeria: News You Can Use”, as we report the conflict and increasing violence, but also raise the voice of the vulnerable and persecuted in Nigeria. 

Please read and share … and don’t forget to check out our videos on our YouTube channel – ICON-PSJ Media.
 
Leah Sharibu’s Grim Anniversary: Four Years in Captivity
On February 19, 2018, a beautiful fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl named Leah Sharibu was among more than 100 girls kidnapped by ISWAP-affiliated Boko Haram terrorists. Their abduction took place at 5:30 in the afternoon, when the girls were unexpectedly seized at Dapchi Girls’ Science and Technical College. During the violent incident, four or five girls died in the back of a truck as they were roughly transported to Boko Haram’s encampment. Thankfully, following a month of horrific captivity, and after enduring death threats and unspeakable abuses, nearly all the surviving girls were freed by their captors on March 21………….…READ MORE

2023: Obasanjo Advocates Younger President To Stem National Insecurity
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has lent his voice to the call for a younger Nigerian president come 2023 to marshall a comprehensive and cohesive onslaught on insecurity in the country. President Obasanjo said the older generation should concern itself with providing guidance and knowledge to younger national leaders than be in a competitive race with them to make Nigeria better. He emphasized that old age comes with a wealth of experience and a reservoir of knowledge that can be tapped into by the younger energetic leaders. Obasanjo said this at the 2022 Murtala Mohammed Foundation annual lecture, which took place at the Shehu Musa Yar’ Adua Centre, Abuja………….… READ MORE 

Bandits Kidnap 22 Villagers, Injure Others In Fresh Kaduna Attack
No fewer than twenty-two people have been abducted in a fresh attack in Idon town in the Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State by gunmen suspected to be bandits. Naija News learnt that the assailants invaded the town on Wednesday morning at about 12:30 a.m. A resident of the community, Mr. Aboki Danjuma who confirmed the incident to newsmen explained that the gunmen stormed the village shooting sporadically. He added that they broke doors and windows while they injured at least four persons during the raid……..…READ MORE

DSS bars lawyers from visiting Nnamdi Kanu
Operatives of the Department of State Services on Monday, barred lawyers to the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, from meeting him in custody. Special counsel for the embattled IPOB leader, Aloy Ejimakor, made this known in a chat with The PUNCH on Monday. According to him, the secret police also prevented the lawyers from meeting Kanu last Thursday, an act Ejimakor said was in contravention of the order of Justice Binta Nyako of a Federal High Court in Abuja that Kanu have access to his lawyers twice a week – Mondays and Thursdays…………READ MORE
 
#FreeLeah Four Years A Captive Event
ICON and the Leah Foundation thanks all that were able to be a part of the ‘#FreeLeah Four Years A Captive‘ event on Feb 19th, 2022. We are grateful for all the words of encouragement and thoughts and prayers. As we continue to raise awareness about the conditions that lead to Leah Sharibu’s capture and the situation in Nigeria we urge you to continue to do the same. Get involved with the ‘Nigeria Petition’.

The youtube link above is where you can rewatch the event in case you missed it and share it with others. 
 
 
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02.14.22
 

ICON is Dedicated to Bringing the News from Nigeria
 

ICON is dedicated to helping make Nigerian news serve people better because an informed society needs up-to-date news. We make it easy for you to discover news from Nigeria.

ICON provides current headlines by linking to breaking news from credible and relevant news sources. Thanks for reading our weekly news update, “Nigeria: News You Can Use”, as we report the conflict and increasing violence, but also raise the voice of the vulnerable and persecuted in Nigeria. 

Please read and share … and don’t forget to check out our videos on our YouTube channel – ICON-PSJ Media.
 
Ortom accuses Buhari’s govt of working with Boko Haram insurgents, bandits
The Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom, on Wednesday slammed the Federal Government over the worsening insecurity in Nigeria. The governor had launched several attacks on President Muhammadu Buhari’s government over insecurity, economy, and other major national issues since last year. Ortom, who addressed a delegation of the Administrative Staff College of Nigeria (ASCON) led by the Director-General of the agency, Mrs. Cecilia Gayya, at Government House in Makurdi, asked Nigerians to hold the federal government liable for the killings by Boko Haram insurgents, bandits, and herdsmen in the country. He accused the government of working with the insurgents…………… READ MORE 


Report: 138 Killed, 101 Kidnapped in Just One Week in Nigeria
No fewer than 138 persons, including security personnel, were killed, while 101 others were abducted in violent attacks across the country in the last one week, Nigeria Security Tracker, published by former United States Ambassador, Mr. John Campbell, has said. The update said the violent attacks were largely perpetrated by terrorist groups, bandits, and other criminal groups, in addition to a few cases of extrajudicial killings. The latest update, which covered January 29 to February 4, showed an increase in the number of violent attacks, compared to the previous week. While 20 violent attacks were reported in the previous week, 29 attacks occurred in the week under review, an indication that the security situation had worsened……………READ MORE

T-E-R-R-O-R: How arms flood into Nigeria through 1000 illegal routes
An arrested terrorist in Sokoto, 33-year-old Musa Mohammed Kamarawa made a shocking revelation last week when he disclosed how he bought a gun truck worth N28.5 million for one of the terrorist leaders in Sokoto state. Kamarawa, a childhood friend of the notorious bandit kingpin, Bello Turji, who was one of the 37 arrested bandits confessed during interrogation how he had brought sophisticated weapons into Nigeria on many occasions. The question that bothers Nigerians therefore, is how terrorists are able to sneak in arms into the country without being detected by the customs and immigration officials. Information at Saturday Vanguard’s disposal revealed that most of these bandits sneak into the country between 12 midnight and 3 am, when it is certain that Immigration and Customs officers manning the land and sea borders are relaxing at their respective posts at the 84 regular and officially recognized routes into Nigeria.  …….…READ MORE
 
Feb 19 Live Stream Link

 

02.07.22
 

ICON is Dedicated to Bringing the News from Nigeria
 

ICON is dedicated to helping make Nigerian news serve people better because an informed society needs up-to-date news. We make it easy for you to discover news from Nigeria.

ICON provides current headlines by linking to breaking news from credible and relevant news sources. Thanks for reading our weekly news update, “Nigeria: News You Can Use”, as we report the conflict and increasing violence, but also raise the voice of the vulnerable and persecuted in Nigeria. 

Please read and share … and don’t forget to check out our videos on our YouTube channel – ICON-PSJ Media.
 
Epoch Times Reporter Released on Bail From Nigerian Prison
Luka Binniyat, whose reporting of massacres in Kaduna State provoked the ire of authorities, has been released on bail after enduring nearly three months in a Nigerian prison. Binniyat told The Epoch Times he will face prosecutors on Feb. 28 on the charge of cyberstalking, which legal experts have called controversial. “The conditions in the prison have deteriorated since I was held there in 2017. The prisoners are malnourished and I would say conditions are life-threatening,” Binniyat said. The journalist’s release was hailed by press freedom advocates and human rights watchers in Nigeria and the United States…………… READ MORE 


Insecurity: We’re tired of daily killings, 400 ethnic groups tell FG
About 400 ethnic nationalities in Nigeria on Thursday called on the Federal Government to be more proactive in dealing with the growing spate of insecurity in the country. According to them, Nigeria youths cannot continue to witness such mindless killing of Nigerians in their numbers on a daily basis. The nationalities under the aegis of Nigeria Ethnic Nationalities Youth Leaders Council said they have taken notice of the level of insecurity in the country which had now reached a very alarming level. ………..…READ MORE

Hunger is a constant for displaced communities in northeast Nigeria
“We ran. That was how I survived and got to this place,” says Tijani Umara, a 65-year-old who fled the Islamic insurgent group Boko Haram seven years ago. A nearby village had been attacked and “burnt into ashes”, he says. “They were coming towards us. When they approached my village we heard the gunshots, I asked my children to follow me, and we walked through the bush and hid until we found it was calm, then we sneaked and entered here.” Umara’s wife is dead and his eight children are unemployed, except for odd jobs such as cutting grass. He pays 1,500 naira (€3.17) a month for a single room, which four of them squeeze into. They sold what remained of their animals to buy food……..…READ MORE
 
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The Will To See: Nigeria Part 2 of 3 
Nigerian Christians are being massacred with impunity and Bernard-Henri Lévy is highly critical of Nigeria’s failure to protect innocent civilians. BHL’s new book/film ‘The Will to See’ reports from several conflict zones, including Nigeria. He raises concerns for places like Nigeria, where he notices a  reasonable call for Christians in Western countries to care more because of their solidarity of faith.

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