Terrorist Attack: Nigeria Police hold prayers for seventeen officers murdered in Yobe

The Nigeria Police has held prayers for the seventeen constabulary officers who paid the ultimate terms pursuing a violent onslaught connected the Nigerian Army Special Forces School, Buni Yadi, Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State, successful the aboriginal hours of 8th May, 2026.

DAILY POST reported that respective gallant unit of the Nigerian Army besides made the eventual sacrifice portion courageously repelling the attack.

Speaking during the prayers, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Olatunji Rilwan Disu, said their sacrifice represents the highest signifier of patriotism and work to the nation.

Disu noted that the Nigeria Police Force, peculiarly the Police Mobile Force, continues to support hundreds of unit crossed the North-East portion successful associated operations with the Armed Forces and different information agencies, confronting coercion and convulsive extremism daily.

“Our officers proceed to enactment their lives connected the line, often nether highly hard conditions, truthful that each Nigerian household tin slumber astatine nighttime with a measurement of information and peace,” helium said.

He said, “We privation each Nigerian to feel, and to cognize successful their hearts, that determination are men and women successful azygous who aftermath up each greeting with 1 purpose: to serve, to protect, and if called upon, to springiness everything. 

“Behind each fallen serviceman is simply a household near behind, a aboriginal chopped short, and a federation that...