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JOS: Crisis Takes Toll On Residents

LAST WEEKEND’S CRISIS IN JOS HAVE STARTED TAKING TOLLS ON RESIDENTS OF THE CITY AS THOUSANDS OF THEM HAVE BEEN RENDERED HOMELESS, WHILE PEOPLE WHOSE HOUSES WERE NOT BURNT ARE LIVING IN THE FEAR OF MOLESTATION BY HOODLUMS.

MOST STREETS ARE DESERTED AS P

EOPLE APPEALED TO THE GOVERNMENT FOR THE SUPPLY OF WATER AND FOOD ITEMS.

MEANWHILE, FRESH OUTBREAKS HAVE BEEN RECORDED IN ZOLOLO JUNCTION, MASALACHIN JUMAA AND BAUCHI RING ROAD IN SPITE OF CURFEW IMPOSED ON THE CITY. THREE PEOPLE WERE LEFT DEAD IN THE NEW UPRISNG.

POLICE SAY MORE THAN 60 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED BETWEEN LAST SUNDAY AND NOW.

...As Northern Leaders Condemn Crisis

LEADING NORTHERN NIGERIAN SOCIO CULTURAL ORGANIZATION, THE AREWA CONSULTATIVE FORUM HAS CONDEMNED THE RENEWED CRISIS IN JOS, PLATEAU STATE CAPITAL, CALLING ON THE GOVERNMENT TO DEAL WITH THE PERPETRATORS.

FORUM SPOKESPERSON, ANTHONY SANI OBSERVES THAT NO SOCIETY CAN THRIVE ON THE BASIS OF ITS FACTIONS, BE IT RELIGIOUS OR ETHNIC, BUT BY TOLERANT ACCOMMODATION OF ONE ANOTHER.

THE FOREMOST NON-POLITICAL, NON GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION ADVISES RELIGIOUS, POLITICAL AND COMMUNITY LEADERS TO BRACE UP AND WORK ON THEIR DIFFERENCES RATHER THAN INSTIGATING THEIR FOLLOWERS AGAINST ONE ANOTHER.

ACF COMMENDS THE SECURITY AGENTS AND THE PLATEAU STATE GOVERNMENT FOR BRINGING THE SITUATION UNDER IMMEDIATE CONTROL.

Four Kidnapped Expats Released In Abia

SIX DAYS AFTER THEY WERE KIDNAPPED IN PORT HARCOURT, THREE BRITONS AND ONE COLOMBIAN HAVE BEEN FREED BY THEIR KIDNAPPERS.

THE POLICE SAY THOUGH NO ONE HAS BEEN ARRESTED IN RESPECT OF THE KIDNAP, THE HOSTAGES WERE RELEASED UNHARMED IN ABIA STATE ON MONDAY AFTERNOON.

THE FOUR EXPATRIATES WHO ARE CONTRACTORS FOR ROYAL DUTCH SHELL, NIGERIA WERE SEIZED BY SUSPECTED KIDNAPPERS WHO DEMANDED 300 MILLION NAIRA RANSOM.

MEANWHILE, IN A FRESH DEVELOPMENT, GUNMEN HAVE KIDNAPPED THREE NIGERIANS FROM THEIR SHIPPING VESSELS IN RIVERS STATE.