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Suspect butchered child in Plateau, nine others missing

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4 years ago

September 10, 2022

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Following the reported case of nine missing children between ages five and 15 in Mado village of Tudun Wada in Jos North of Plateau State. A suspect, Dickson Andrew Ali, aged 27 has been arrested for allegedly stealing children in the village.

Newsmen learned that the incident happened at about 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday.

Dickson was allegedly exposed through a call he made to an accomplice before the security personnel was alerted.

The suspect confessed to having stolen nine children together with his accomplice while he killed one of the victims himself. According to the suspect, he removed the victim’s body parts and sold the parts to one Alhaji in Nasarawa State.

“I sold each child at the cost of N300,000,” he added.

In a recent development, the Plateau State Police Command has arrested 9 suspected persons for child trafficking; cultists, and armed robbery who are terrorizing innocent citizens in the state.

State Police Commissioner, CP Bartholomew Onyeka disclosed this on Friday in Jos while parading the suspects who were arrested in different locations in Plateau state for various crimes.

He explained that the suspects were arrested with life-threatening rifles, which can unleash terror on residents at any slide provocation.

He said, “On 7 September 2022, while acting on a tip-off that two suspected children traffickers were about to be lynched by irate youths of Tudun Wada community, patrol team led by Divisional Police Officer of ‘A’ Division, CSP Obinna Simeon immediately move to the scene and rescued the suspects.

“The suspects are Dickson Andrew Ali, aged 27, and Mathew Dakum, aged 34, both male of Tudun Wada, Jos. On interrogation, the suspects confessed that sometime in the month of July 2022 they were contracted by one Jennifer to be abducting and sending children to an orphanage home in Abuja for purpose of attracting funds from an NGO.

He said efforts are on to arrest the said Jennifer and the owner of the suspected illegal orphanage home, Abuja.

CP Onyeka stated further, “On 4 September 2022 while acting on credible information from an impeccable source, police operatives attached to ‘A’ Division of the Command arrested two suspected Arrow cultists namely; Mathew Ayuba 19, of Alheri community, Jos, and one Samuel Ngbede, aged 25 of Jenta Makeri, Jos.

“The duo that is on the wanted list of the police were arrested at Kabong, Gada-biu in an attempt to launch an attack on the community. Exhibits recovered from the suspects upon instant search include one locally made pistol. The police have already launched an aggressive manhunt for other members of the gang still at large.”

CP Onyeka said that one Lukeman Suleiman was arrested for killing his son, Nazif Ridwan after physical combat that culminated in the death of the son.

He said that Suleiman used a piece of wooden plank and hit his son severally on his head and that the son died after rushing him to the hospital.

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FG graduates 744 repentant terrorists under Safe Corridor programme

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24 minutes ago

April 16, 2026

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A total of 744 repentant terrorists have graduated from the Federal Government’s De-radicalisation, Rehabilitation and Reintegration Camp under Operation Safe Corridor.

Most of the participants were from Borno (597), followed by Yobe (58), Kano (15), Bauchi (12), and Adamawa (10), Abia (2), Akwa Ibom (1), Anambra (2), Ebonyi (3), Enugu (1), Katsina (3), Kebbi (1), Kogi (5), Nasarawa (4), Niger (2), Plateau (2), and Sokoto (2).

The group also included foreign nationals: one each from Burkina Faso and Cameroon, two from Chad, and four from the Niger Republic.

At the graduation ceremony held in Gombe, the Chief of Defence Staff, General Olufemi Oluyede, said the programme is a strategic effort to address the root causes of insurgency, stressing it is not an amnesty but a measure to reduce reoffending and curb extremist recruitment.

“This is not a reward but a deliberate approach to reducing violence, weakening recruitment pipelines, and fostering long-term stability,” he said.

He noted that combining military operations with rehabilitation is key to achieving lasting peace, urging the graduates to embrace reintegration and shun violence.

The coordinator of Operation Safe Corridor, Brigadier General Yusuf Ali, said participants underwent psychosocial support, vocational training, and reorientation programmes to prepare them for reintegration, describing it as a collective responsibility.

“This process is about rebuilding identity, restoring values, and preparing individuals to return as responsible members of society,” he said.

Ali added that the programme equips participants with the skills needed to reintegrate and contribute positively to national development, noting that reintegration requires collective support from government, communities, and families.

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It’s not just you — Bluesky is (sorta) down

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54 minutes ago

April 16, 2026

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Bluesky’s website and app are still struggling on Thursday after experiencing service interruptions that COO Rose Wang attributed to a denial-of-service attack.

According to the social network’s status page, the issues began around 2:42 a.m. ET time on Thursday and have continued since.

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Currently, the Bluesky site and app will load at times, slowly, and other times will throw error messages.

For instance, switching to a particular feed within the app displays a message that says “This feed is currently receiving high traffic and is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later. Message from server: Rate Limit Exceeded.”

Popular feeds like Discover or the official Bluesky Team’s feed are seeing this problem, though users’ own personal feeds may launch.

Other times, like when trying to visit a user’s profile, the site will just display an error message, forcing you to refresh and try again.

Bluesky protocol engineer Bryan Newbold remarked around 3:46 a.m. ET, “oof, our services are getting pretty hard tonight.”

The company has not officially shared what’s causing the slowdown or provided an estimated time for a fix.

Bluesky has not yet responded to a request for comment.

The service disruptions are impacting Bluesky, but other communities running their own infrastructure on the underlying protocol that powers the decentralized social network appear to be functioning for the time being.