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NAF helicopters The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says the Air Component of Operation HADARIN DAJI has destroyed bandits’ camp and neutralised dozens of bandits in air strikes it conducted at Doumbourou Forest in Zamfara. Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, who announced this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, said the operation was conducted on Saturday. ”The operation was executed yesterday, May 25, pursuant to human intelligence (HUMINT) reports indicating that some locations within the forest were being used by the bandits as hideouts, including a group of huts belonging to a notorious kingpin named`Dangote.’ “Accordingly, following confirmatory Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), an Alpha Jet aircraft was detailed to attack the bandits’ camp leading to the destruction of their structures and neutralisation of close to two dozen bandits,” he said. Daramola said the NAF, working in consonance with other securit

The remains of the deceased LASTMA officer By Kazeem Ugbodaga Tragedy struck in Apapa area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria on Sunday as a female officer of the Lagos State Traffic Management Agency, LASTMA, was crushed to death by a trailer. PM News gathered that the horror incident occurred on Sunday morning. The name of the deceased officer was giving as Arogundade Remilekun, whose station base was Apapa Zone 36. It was gathered that the officer was at the back of the truck when the tragedy occurred. The trailer was said to have reversed without her knowing and crushed her to death immediately. Her remains had been evacuated from the scene of the tragedy. Her demise has brought mourning to the LASTMA family. LASTMA officers have been object of attacks and killings in recent times. In 2016, the Zonal Head of LASTMA, Apapa, identified Bakare was beaten to death by suspected okada riders and touts in Apapa area of Lagos Bakare was killed at Point Road, Apapa while enf