Insecurity: 154 killed, 9 kidnapped in separate attacks across Nigeria, last week

At least 154 people were killed in different attacks across Nigeria last week. Another nine people were kidnapped in separate incidents, according to Newspaper reports.
According to online medium Premium Times, the various attacks were confirmed by the security agencies or families of the victims. They were perpetrated by various non-state actors including the Boko Haram and suspected armed herdsmen.
Only lately, Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto attended the funeral of 25 persons killed in an attack by bandits.
The presidency had announced the death of “scores of people” in the attack in “three communities in Rabah Local Government Area (LGA) of Sokoto State.”
The statement by Garba Shehu, who signed as President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesperson, stated that Buhari “expressed deep shock and sadness” over the incident.
The bandits who were in large numbers raided Kalhu, Tsage and Geeri villages near Gandi.
The attackers were said to have engaged in indiscriminate shooting from around 5 pm on Saturday till early Sunday morning, after which they carted away hundreds of cows, sheep and other valuables.
Also, some students of Plateau State University were attacked by suspected herdsmen on Sunday, killing one undergraduate and raping another female.
In a separate incident, a woman, Olawumi Adeleye, and her stepson, Destiny Paul, were abducted on the Airport Road, in Osi town in Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State.
The victims were said to have been kidnapped by armed persons on their way from church on Sunday evening.
According to a family member, suspected herdsmen blocked the road with cows, forcing the victims, who were in a Lexus car, to stop. They were thereafter abducted and taken to an unknown destination by the bandits.
A family source stated that after some hours, the kidnappers contacted the woman’s husband and demanded N10 million ransom.
Also, the Ebonyi State Police Command confirmed the killing of two children in the Umuogoakpu-Ngbo community, Ohaukwu Local Government Area of the state, by yet-to-be-identified persons.
The assailants attacked the family of Benjamin Oke and butchered his seven-year-old son, Chinonso, and his other four-year-old son, Chukwudi, in the presence of their mother on Sunday.
The Ebonyi State Police Command’s spokesperson, Loveth Odah, said two persons were arrested in connection with the incident.
The Ondo State Police Command, on Tuesday, arrested a herdsman, who was said to be among a team of kidnappers, who attempted to abduct the monarch of Osi in Akure North Local Government Area of the state, David Olajide.
On the same day, gunmen stormed Rigasa Community of Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State and abducted four women including a nursing mother.
The police later said all victims apart from the nursing mother had been rescued.
Also, the village head of Garin Labo in Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State was also abducted at about 1 p.m. on his farm.
Gunmen on Wednesday attacked travellers on the Ife-Ibadan Expressway at Ikire and shot dead an employee of the Atakumosa West Local Government Area of Osun State, Samson Adenipekun.