President Jonathan Attends Year-End Church Service, Assures Nigerians of a Safer, Happier 2013

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President Goodluck Jonathan has assured Nigerians of a safer and happier 2013, as measures have been put in place to checkmate the scourge of terrorist attacks across the country.

The president, in a remark during the year-end Church service at the Ekklisiyar Yaruwa a Nigeria (EYN – Church of the Brethren in Nigeria), Utako, Abuja, on Sunday, December 30, told the congregants that the Federal Government has not only changed its strategy on the anti-terror war, it has also come up with fresh measures to curtail attacks by the Islamic sect.

He said some of the fresh measures had started yielding the desired dividends, adding that the government would do everything possible to ensure that the activities of the Boko Haram do not cause inertia in governance in the New Year.

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Kaduna-based newspaper demands release of detained editor, reporter

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In less than 12 hours that the State Security Service agents, soldiers and policemen arrested a Kaduna-based newspaper, Al-Mizan’s Editor, Mallam Musa Muhammad Awwal, and a reporter, Mallam Aliyu Saleh, the management of the newspaper have asked the security agents to released its staff with an immediate effect.

In a statement issued by the newspaper’s Editor-in-Chief, Ibrahim Musa, he disclosed that over 40 security agents in 10 cars and an Armoured Personnel Carrier swooped on Aliyu’s home in Rigasa, Kaduna and manhandled him with other occupants in his house before he was arrested alongside his wife.

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Red Alert: Robbers target ATMs, hotels, drinking spots in Lagos

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One of the major advantages of a cash-less economy often touted by analysts is that the use of Automated Teller Machines reduces crime.

However, CRIME DIGEST investigations show that criminals now prefer to loiter around ATMs installed outside bank premises at odd hours of the day and pretend to be engrossed in one activity or another, while waiting to pounce on potential victims.

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