security increase as boko haram plans to use government number plates to beat traffic check points

THE military high command has warned all establishments under its purview to be wary of how they allow vehicles with Federal Government number plates into their premises.
A circular from the Defence Headquarters, signed by a two star-general, entitled: “Boko Haram plans to penetrate targeted Federal Government establishments,” disclosed that intelligence report had revealed that Boko Haram was planning to fix Federal Government number plates on their vehicles to facilitate penetration of government establishments by its fighters on bombing mission.
The report also revealed that the sect had commenced the procurement of used gas cylinders, airconditioners, compressors of refrigerators and metal scraps for the manufacture of Improvised Explosive Derices (IEDs).
Nigerian Tribune gathered that the military authorities have consequently warned against hurried checking of cars with Federal Government number plates by security operatives.
It directed security operatives to go further by checking the engines of vehicles and other parts.
Furthermore, they warned that extra vigilance should be maintained in checking all vehicles with military number plates or Federal Government number entering military establishments.
Following these new directives, security has been beefed up at the Defence Headquarters complex known as the “Boat House” and the Ministry of Defence headquarters also, called “Ship House.”
Also, all military establishments around the country have been directed to adopt similar security measures in their locations.
Search for sect members
Meanwhile, undercover security agents, on Monday, intensified their search for suspected Boko Haram members alleged to have arrived in Warri, Delta State, on Sunday.
Plain-clothes policemen and operatives of the State Security Service (SSS) were seen at areas usually congregated by the Hausas.
Nigerian Tribune sighted the security operatives at Hausa Quarters on the Warri-Sapele road, Ugbuwangwe, on the Nigerian Port Authority (NPA) Expressway and Ram market on the Effurun- Sapele road.
Security agents were, on Sunday, put on the red alert in Warri, Warri South Local Government Area, following a report on the arrival of three vehicles loaded with some suspected members of the Boko Haram members.
A highly placed source disclosed to Nigerian Tribune, on Monday that unlike other security agencies, operatives of the SSS were not taking the matter lightly, as they were combing everywhere to verify the truth or otherwise of the report.
“The SSS people are not taking the information with levity. They are combing everywhere to ensure that there is no threat to the people and facilities in the oil-rich town. The Joint Task Force (JTF) is also working towards verifying the information,” he said.
Coordinator, Joint Media Campaign Centre of Joint Task Force (JTF), Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Antigha, said the special security outfit was liaising with other sister security agencies in the state to verify the reported arrival of the suspected Boko Haram members.
He, however, said the report might have emanated from the usual arrival of vehicles bringing in goods from some northern states to Warri, which had been on for a long time.
“Let it not be that it is one of the vehicles that usually bring goods from the North that generated the report, but we are trying to authenticate it by reaching out to sister security agencies,” he said.
Apparently allaying the fear of residents of Warri and environs, Lieutenant-Colonel Antigha said the JTF had always maintained a high security alert and that was responsible for the tight security not only around oil installations in the Niger Delta but also in other states because of the recent security concerns in the country.

Teenager commits suicide because of love

The morning hours of last Tuesday, 6th September will forever remain indelible to residents of Yan Kaji in Yakassai area in the ancient city of Kano as a 17-year-old girl, Nafisa Ahmed Haruna poisoned herself to death because she was denied marrying her 25-year-old boyfriend, Sani Musa.
Nafisa was said to have consumed a poisonous insecticide popularly called ‘Ota-Pia-Pia’ after she was confronted and scolded by her mother for secretly dating Sani after the parents had earlier on halted the relationship and warned that she stop seeing him any longer.
Speaking to Weekly Trust, a family source said Nafisa’s mother scolded her all through the night prior to her death and threatened that there was no way they would allow her get married to the boy no matter how deeply they were in love and that prompted her to embarking upon the deadly mission. “The teenager was found lying unconscious, foaming at the mouth while the room she was lying in was filled with the pungent smell of the poisonous substance,” said the source.
Weekly Trust reliably gathered that the deceased had dated Sani for over two years before the parents insisted that she wouldn’t be allowed to marry him on the basis that he was unemployed and therefore could not cater for her if he marries her. It was further gathered that she had once disappeared with her boyfriend to an undisclosed destination were they spent days before deciding to show up. This happened when her parents openly showed their resentment for the relationship.
A source close to the boyfriend told Weekly Trust that the girl had earlier on indicated tendency of going to any length for the love of Sani. “But her parents insisted that she must stop seeing him. I can remember that when the parents introduced another suitor to her and he agreed to marry her, she and Sani disappeared. This happened five days into the just concluded Ramadan. The parents stood by their words and went ahead to halt the relationship.”
“God knows that we advised Sani to back out of the relationship considering the problems coming up but he insisted that they were deeply in love and could not simply path ways, which was very obvious but at a point, he decided to give it a trial by shunning her calls and refusing to see her. In fact, I even seized his phone so that they stop communicating while her parents kept her hostage to the extent of even stopping her from attending school, not until the worst happened,” said the source.
On Sani’s reaction to the incident, the source confirmed that he immediately went into comma after attempting to also commit suicide by stabbing himself with a knife when people around intervened. He has since then been unconscious.
“Immediately he received the news of his girlfriend’s death, he also attempted killing himself if not for our intervention. He broke a bottle and also tried using a knife but we stopped him, and from there, he went into a coma,” the source added.
When Weekly Trust visited the Yakasai residence of the deceased shortly after the burial rites were performed, the mother wouldn’t speak to the press, as she said she was still in shock.
Father of the deceased, Alhaji Ahmed Haruna only said he has accepted the tragedy as an act of God and only hope that people will help him in praying for the repose of his daughter’s soul and not concentrating on the cause of her death. “All I will say is may her soul rest in peace because as a Muslim, I believe that every soul must taste death, so I don’t see Nafisa’s death as extraordinary.”
Kano State Police Command however couldn’t confirm the story as the Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Magaji Musa Majiya said he was not aware.