Tag: Train Attack
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Kaduna train attack: Reps blast Service Chiefs over failure to honour invitation
The leadership of the House of Representatives on Wednesday in Abuja frowned at the failure of the nation’s service chiefs to appear at a strategic security meeting. The house leadership called the meeting in the aftermath of a series of terrorist attacks in Kaduna State.
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Train attack: Saraki lists 5 things government must do to end insecurity
Former President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has listed five things that the federal government must do to end the current insecurity across the country. In posts on his verified social media pages on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, Saraki, who presided over the 8th Senate’s 20-Point Security Recommendations which were forwarded to the…
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Train attack: Union wants evening operations abolished
Disturbed by the attacks on trains on an Abuja-Kaduna passenger train Monday night, the Nigerian Union of Railway Workers (NUR), asked the management of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, NRC, to suspend the night train operations on the route. The umbrella body of workers of the agency in a statement described as “regrettable” the inability of…
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Train attack: Sen. Anyim condemns attack, cancels campaign
A former Senate President and a 2023 PDP presidential aspirant Sen. Anyim Pius Anyim, has condemned the attack on a Kaduna-bound train on Monday, describing it as ‘barbaric and inhumane. He made the condemnation on Tuesday in Abuja in a statement signed by Ahmed Buhari, spokesman of his presidential campaign organisation.
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Kaduna train attack: Railway workers speak on death of TUC Secretary General
The Nigeria Union of Railway Workers (NURW) on Tuesday expressed shock over the death of General Secretary of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), Musa-Lawal Ozigi, in the Kaduna train attack on Monday night. The union’s Secretary General, Mr Segun Esan, in an interview in Lagos, described the incident as shocking and devastating.
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Train Attack: Buhari directs immediate implementation of security solution
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the immediate conclusion of all the processes for the implementation of the integrated security surveillance and monitoring solution for the Abuja to Kaduna railway line. He also directed the Nigerian Railway Corporation management to speedily repair the damaged lines and resume normal service without delay while the integrated security surveillance…
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Tinubu cancels 70th birthday celebration over Kaduna-Abuja train attack
Kaduna-Abuja train attack calls for sober reflection
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Abuja-Kaduna train: What Army Chief said during visit to scene of terror attack
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya, on Tuesday visited the scene of the Kaduna-Abuja train attack and ordered troops to intensify search and rescue operations as well as hunt down the terrorists. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, said this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja.