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10Oct By MosesianNo Comments

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19 traders including two biological brothers killed as bandits attack Sokoto market

At least 19 traders were killed by bandits who attacked a weekly market at Unguwan Lalle in Sabon Birni Local Government Area of Sokoto State. It was gathered that the attackers stormed the market at about 3pm, on Friday, October 8, shortly after all the traders had returned from the Juma’at congregational prayers. Two biological brothers, Shafiu and Muhammau, who trade in hide and skin were among those killed. The attack also left several others injured, majority of whom are currently receiving treatment at the General Hospital, Sabon Birni. It was further learnt that Unguwan Lalle market is among the popular markets in the eastern part of Sokoto state and is being patronised by traders from different parts of the state and from Zamfara, Kebbi and neighbouring Niger Republic. ...

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8Oct By BobbyNo Comments

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Kaduna: Bandits release 5 Bethel School students, matron

Bandits have freed five more students of Bethel Baptist School in Maraban Damishi under Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Nigerian Baptist Convention President, Rev Israel Adelani Akanji made the confirmation Friday night. “Glory be to God. Five of our Bethel Baptist High School students and the Matron have just been released to us this evening, October 8. “We thank God and trust that the remaining four students will also be released. Thank you for your prayers and support”, his terse statement read. Two weeks ago, the abductors released ten students from their den. Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Chairman in Kaduna, Rev John Hayab, announced the release. With the last development, six students are still held hostage. A source close to the Christian ...

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8Oct By MosesianNo Comments

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Nigeria can’t have peace without justice – Reno Omokri condemns arrest of Chiwetalu Agu

Former presidential spokesperson, Reno Omokri has condemned the arrest of veteran actor, Chiwetalu Agu. Agu was arrested by some Nigerian soldiers in Anambra state for wearing an outfit with the Biafra flag on it. Reno who reacted via his Instagram page, wrote; ''Miyetti Allah hold press conferences to threaten revenge on Nigerians and make provocative statements to the effect that Southern Nigeria belongs to them. Yet soldiers and DSS dont arrest them. Chiwetalu Agu wore a Biafran flag and was arrested. Where is the justice? In this same country, Sheikh Gumi has been campaigning for bandits and terrorists and singing their praises, and even telling them on camera that Christian soldiers are the ones killing them and thus they should not kill Muslims. He is free as a bird, w...

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6Oct By MosesianNo Comments

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MSF staff nurse, two others killed as bandits open fire on commercial vehicle in Zamfara

Medical charity, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Border, has condemned the killing of its staff nurse, Hassan Mohammad, by bandits in Zamfara State. It was gathered that Hassan, 37, and two other passengers were killed when bandits opened fire on a commercial bus along Shinkafi-Kaura Namoda road on Saturday evening, October 2. The MSF nurse was said to be returning to his work station in Shinkafi town when the bandits attacked the vehicle. MSF in a statement via Twitter on Tuesday, October 5, confirmed that armed men opened fire on the public transport vehicle in which Mohammad was travelling. “Mohammad’s tragic death is an example of the rising violence in North-West Nigeria that is deeply affecting the lives of the population and has driven tho...

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5Oct By MosesianNo Comments

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FG not treating bandits with kid-gloves – Lai Mohammed

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has countered claims of the federal government treating bandits with kid gloves. In an interview on Nigeria Television Authority, the Minister stressed that a criminal is a criminal and the claim is a divisive rhetoric being promoted by some naysayers. Mohammed said; “I think we have been dancing around nomenclature, a criminal is a criminal whether it is a bandit or terrorist and the same measure is being meted out to them. “That is why we find it ridiculous, the accusation that the federal government is softer on bandits than the separatists and other criminals. This is a fallacy, fake news and misinformation all into one, and this is the kind of divisive rhetoric being promoted by some naysayers." Maintaining that it wil...

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4Oct By MosesianNo Comments

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Bandits are terrorists in reality – Senator Bulkachuwa

Senator Adamu Bulkachuwa has said that bandits are terrorists and carry out attacks that not different from those of known terrorist groups. The Senator who is one of the latest high-profile Nigerians to have joined calls for bandits and their sponsors to be tagged as terrorists, made the claim in an interview on Channels Television on Sunday night, October 3. Bulkachuwa said; “We gave them the name bandit probably to just soft pedal because terrorism in the international arena is regarded as the most heinous crime that any group of people can engage in. “They are terrorists in reality. What else are they? Anybody that does not allow people rest, what is he?”

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4Oct By MosesianNo Comments

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FG waging full scale war against the Shiites, IPOB members and journalists and has continued to treat so called bandits with kid glove – Falana

Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, has accused the federal government of treating bandits with kid gloves while waging a war on Shiites, journalists and IPOB members. Falana in a statement released on Sunday, October 3, said bandits are not different from Boko Haram insurgents who are regarded as terrorists. He accused the federal government of “deliberately refusing” to declare bandits as terrorists. His statement in part reads; “For reasons best known to the Federal Government the criminal elements who are currently involved in the brutal killing of innocent people and abduction of thousands of people including primary school pupils in the North West Zone are called bandits and not terrorists,” the statement reads. It is undoubtedly c...

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3Oct By MosesianNo Comments

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Zamfara speaker’s father still in captivity as other family members regain freedom

Bandits have released five family members of Alhaji Nasiru Magarya, Speaker of the Zamfara State House of Assembly who were kidnapped alongside his father. Recall that Nasiru's family members were abducted at Magarya community in Zurmi Local Government Area of the state on August 5, 2021. The state police command has already confirmed that five of them have regained freedom. The state police commissioner, Ayuba Elkanah said the Speaker’s family members who were rescued on September 29, include Dahiru Sarki Magarya, Hauwa Mu’azu Magarya, baby Khadija, Usman Magarya and Okasha Abdullahi Magarya. Elkanah also disclosed that the police has intensified efforts to rescue the speaker's father.

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2Oct By BobbyNo Comments

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Kaduna govt begins enforcement of motorcycle ban, tricycle restriction

The Kaduna State Government on Saturday began the enforcement of the ban on motorcycles and restrictions of tricycles from 6 am to 7 pm. Recall that the state government had banned the use of motorcycles for commercial purposes, or riding to work, and also placed restrictions on tricycles. Tricycles will only be allowed to operate from 6.00 am to 7.00 pm. The government said the order which takes effect from September 30, 2021, was to curtail the activities of bandits. The enforcement on the ban of motorcycles for transportation or commercial purposes applies to everyone, including law enforcement agents who ride their motorcycles to their various places of work. Many workers, businessmen, and women, including law enforcement agents; police, NSCDC, immigration, Nigeria Correcti...

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2Oct By BobbyNo Comments

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Police arrest bandits kingpin, neutralize five others in Zamfara

The Zamfara State Police Command says it has arrested one Mr Bello Rugga, a notorious bandit commander terrorizing parts of the state. The state’s Commissioner of Police, CP Ayuba Elkanah, who made the disclosure while parading the kingpin alongside 21 other suspected bandits and their collaborators, on Saturday in Gusau, the state capital, said five others were also neutralized during a raid in Gummi Local Government Area of the state. The Commissioner revealed that the kingpin was a leader of a bandit gang who was earlier declared wanted by the command. “On Oct. 1, 2021, Police Tactical Operatives on Anti-Banditry Operation around Gummi axis, acted on intelligence report, stormed Gidan Bita, Malakar and Kagara forest, and arrested one notorious bandit’s commander, Bello Rugga. ...

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1Oct By BobbyNo Comments

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Nigeria at 61: Bad, selfish leadership causing Nigerians unnecessary pain – CAN

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has said it strongly believes that bad and selfish leadership over the years has caused what Nigerians are suffering for the past 61 years of the country’s independence. In a message, the CAN President, Rev. Dr Samson Ayokunle, explained that Nigerians are already suffering because they do not fear God, adding that today people are suffering from insecurity and other vices that make life very difficult for the common man. The CAN President noted, “We are already in the hands of the enemies because of our corrupt and sinful life. We are in pains of insecurity, inflation, unemployment, poverty is stirring many people in the face. Kidnappers and bandits do not allow us to rest.” He added that for the past years, bad and selfish leadership in...

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1Oct By BobbyNo Comments

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Bauchi: We paid N72m ransom to bandits in one year – Burra communities allege

Burra community in Ningi Local Government Area of Bauchi State has alleged that over N72 million was paid as ransom to bandits to secure release of many of their kidnapped kinsmen. This was revealed by the Chairman, Ningi LGA, Mamuda Hassan Tabla, while speaking with journalists in Bauchi, adding that there was an influx of strangers from Zamfara State in the area whose presence has resulted in increasing kidnap of the people. The council boss alleged that once anyone gets kidnapped in the affected communities, they used to take ransom to Zamfara State. He said that members of the communities were afraid of the activities of bandits, who he alleged had taken over people’s farms, a development that had put them in abject poverty as they paid ransom and they still lost their farms. ...

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1Oct By MosesianNo Comments

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Bandits want justice, equity and a sense of belonging – Sheikh Gumi

Islamic Scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has said that drug barons and gun runners turned Fulani herders into bandits who are now terrorising Northern states. The controversial cleric who made his views known at a peace conference organised by the Center For the Advancement of Human Dignity and Value held at Arewa House, Kaduna on Thursday, noted that the killings, kidnappings by bandits can only be stopped by hijacking them (bandits) from “these evil arms and drug dealers.” "When they are hijacked by evil people, drug addicts, gunrunners, we should not allow people to hijack them. Let us hijack them back to the society, this is what we need to do. They have dignity too, they should be respected and given all the human right everybody has,” he said. Gumi traced the problem of insec...

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27Sep By MosesianNo Comments

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Nigerian Army confirms ISWAP attack on military base in Sokoto, says troops eliminated scores of terrorists and bandits

The Nigerian Army has confirmed terrorists and bandits attack on a joint military base in Sokoto State. LIB had reported that 15 personnel including an NSCDC personnel identified simply as 'Sule Monkey' died in the attack. In a statement on Monday, September 27, the Director of Defence Information, Major General Benjamin Olufemi Sawyerr, said troops eliminated scores of terrorists who attacked Forward Operation Base (FOB) at Burkusuma in Sabon Birni Local Government Area of the state. According to the statement, the failed attack, which took place around 5:30 am, September 26, 2021, in the remote border settlement with Niger Republic, was swiftly repelled by troops. Unfortunately, there were some level of casualty recorded on the part of own troops during the encounter. ...

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26Sep By MosesianNo Comments

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Bandits kill two, abduct teacher in Kaduna

An Arabic and Islamic studies teacher in Kuregu community in Zaria Local Government of Kaduna State, has been abducted by bandits. Daily Trust reported that two people were also killed during the incident which occurred around 10pm on Friday September 26. An eyewitness told the publication that the deceased were just at the wrong place at the wrong time, because the bandits came asking for houses of wealthy individuals in the community when they came across them. It was learnt that they were shot before the Islamic studies teacher in the community was abducted.

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25Sep By MosesianNo Comments

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Farmers in Katsina state lament as bandits prevent them from farming

Farmers in Katsina state are lamenting about the activities of bandits which prevent them from going to their farms to cultivate food items. In an interview with DailyTrust, the farmers say bandits storm their farms to either abduct them, kill them or tax them before they can even cultivate on their farms. A report by DailyTrust states that every household in Batsarin-Alhaji had to pay N500 to the bandits from the last farming season. Thereafter, the bandits demanded that the villagers supply them with fertilizer. The villagers had to tax themselves to purchase the fertilizer. Sa’adu Nuhu Batsari, 65, a large-scale farmer told the publication he stopped tilling three of his farms of 20 hectares each for over two years due to insecurity, lamenting that the heightened banditry is ...

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24Sep By MosesianNo Comments

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Police arrest three female members of syndicate supplying fuel to bandits in Katsina

The Katsina State Police Command has arrested three female members of a syndicate supplying fuel to bandits in a forest in the state. Spokesperson of the command, SP Gambo Isah, who paraded the suspects at the police headquarters on Thursday, September 23, said they were arrested by a team of policemen on patrol along Katsina - Jibia road. The suspects are Dija Umar, 50; Ummah Bello, 45; and Nusaiba Muhammad, 16, all of Malali Quarters, in Katsina Local Government Area of Katsina. “The fact of the case is, the syndicate was arrested by a team of policemen on patrol along Katsina – Jibia road, concealing PMS in their travelling bags neatly, reasonably suspected to be supplies to the bandits hibernating in the fringes of Jibia forest," Gambo stated. "In the course of investig...

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20Sep By BobbyNo Comments

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NSCDC reacts to video of ‘officer’ confessing to being bandit

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has dismissed a viral video purporting that a member of the corps confessed to being a bandit. In the viral video, the suspected bandit, Mr Abdullah Saidu, called himself personnel of the corps. This is contained in a statement issued by the NSCDC spokesperson, Mr Olusola Odumosu, in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Saidu was arrested in connection to a group of armed bandits terrorising some parts of Koton Karfe Local Government Area of Kogi. The spokesperson said that the NSCDC has set up a team to investigate the available records to confirm the authenticity of Saidu’s claims that he was the corps personnel. “The general public shall be adequately briefed on subsequent findings. “Based on the afor...

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20Sep By BobbyNo Comments

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Kogi: 11 bandits neutralized, victims rescued

No fewer than 11 bandits have been neutralized in Kogi State by vigilantes. The bandits were neutralized in Koton Karfe Local Government Area of the state. Onogwu Muhammed, the Chief Press Secretary to the State Governor, Yahaya Bello, disclosed this in a statement, NAN reports. Muhammed said security operatives acting on intelligence also apprehended an officer of the Nigeria Civil Defence Corps (NCDC), Insp. Abdullahi Saidu, who alongside a friend supplies the criminals with weapons. Muhammed added that the NCDC officer is also alleged to be giving security information to the criminals to undertake their heinous crimes. “A group of bandits terrorising some parts of Koton Karfe Local Government Area of Kogi State have met their waterloo. “As officers of the State’s Vigil...

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18Sep By BobbyNo Comments

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10 Bethel Baptist students released in Kaduna

Bandits have released 10 kidnapped students of Bethel Baptist High School, Kaduna, on Saturday, while 21 others are still being held, Rev. John Joseph Hayab, state Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) confirmed on Saturday. According to him, 10 students were released this evening and have reunited with their parents. “We are now hoping that the remaining 21 who are still with the bandits will be released,” he said. Recall that bandits had kidnapped scores of Bethel Baptist students in Kaduna in June. They have been released in batches after payment of huge sums as ransom.

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18Sep By BobbyNo Comments

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Miyetti Allah confirms kidnappers killed Chairman in Kaduna

Miyetti Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has announced the death of Alhaji Abubakar Abdullahi, also known as Danbardi, the association’s Chairman in Lere Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The association announced this in a statement by its National Secretary, Othman Ngelzarma and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday, in Abuja, saying that the deceased, aged 58, was killed by kidnappers on Friday. “The death of Abubakar brings to five the number of MACBAN officials killed either by bandits, kidnappers or cattle rustlers this year across the country”, the statement said. Ngelzarma stated that Abdullahi’s lifeless body was found by the roadside on Friday, after being kidnapped from his home in Lere on Sept. 16 and ransom paid. “Al...

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18Sep By MosesianNo Comments

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Troops Rescue Army Major Abducted During Bandits Attack on NDA

Major CL Datong, who was abducted when bandits broke into the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) in Kaduna, last month, has regained freedom. Bandits attacked the NDA on August 24, 2021, killing two senior officers in the process. On Friday night, the Deputy Director Army Public Relations 1 Division, Nigerian Army, Colonel Ezindu Idimah, announced the rescue of Datong from the kidnapper's den. Idimah said the operation leading to his rescue brought about the destruction of several identified bandits’ camps in Afaka- Birnin Gwari areas of the state. According to him, scores of bandits were killed during the operation, particularly, in the late hours of September 17, 2021. “The troops arrived at a camp suspected to be the location where Maj CL Datong was being held. At the camp, the t...

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18Sep By MosesianNo Comments

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Bandits kill Miyetti Allah chairman in Kaduna after he failed to pay N20m ransom

Gunmen suspected to be bandits have killed the Chairman of Lere Local Government branch of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) Kaduna State, Alhaji Abubakar Abdullahi Damba. The Fulani community leader popularly known as Dambardi, was killed in the early hours of Friday, September 17, in his village, Lere. The State Chairman of the association, Alhaji Haruna Usman Tugga, who confirmed the incident in a press release said the gunmen stormed the residence of the deceased at about 2am and brought him out According to Tugga, the kidnappers demanded N20m naira but he told them that he does not have such an amount. The bandits insisted that he must raise the money or they would kill him. The deceased took them to some butchers who raised only N250,000 for ...

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17Sep By MosesianNo Comments

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We backed out of dialogue with bandits because they deceived us – Governor Matawalle

Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara state has said that Zamfara state backed out of dialogue with bandits because they deceived his government. Answering questions from state house correspondents after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, held at the presidential villa in Abuja on Thursday September 16, Matawalle said the state now enjoys relative peace. According to the Governor, they opted to fight bandits to a logical conclusion after realizing that the bandits had deceived them. He said; “They have deceived us. Some of them did not follow what we agreed with them. We thought it was something we could continue with them, but we later realised that they had deceived us. So, we had to back out of it and decide to fight them to a logical conclusion. “As you know, we ...

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16Sep By BobbyNo Comments

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Police arrest female suspects supplying petrol to bandits in Katsina forest

In line with the Katsina State security challenge containment order, the Police Command on Wednesday paraded a 25-year-old lady with six gallon of petrol concealed in her hijab. According to the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP Gambo Isah, the lady identified as Rashida Hussaini is allegedly an informant and supplier of petrol to bandits in the forest. SP Gambo said Rashida packaged the commodity in used bottled water containers, then stack them in a sack and a handbag before hiding it under her hijab while heading to an unknown location. According to the report, the suspect who was intercepted by a team of policemen on routine patrol around Kofar Guga on Jibiya Road, claimed she was from Daddara village in Jibiya Local Government Area but later said Gombe State th...

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15Sep By MosesianNo Comments

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FG is ready to listen to bandits and settle them without much costs – Minister of Police Affairs, Muhammad Dingyadi

Minister of Police Affairs, Muhammad Dingyadi has said that the federal government is ready to listen to repentant bandits and settle them without much costs, as part of the solutions to the insecurity issue in the north-west and north-central regions of the country. Dingyadi said this on Tuesday September 14, during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today. Commenting on the ongoing military operations against bandits in Katsina, Zamfara, Sokoto and other states where their activities have been alarming, he said the present administration intended to reintegrate repentant bandits into the larger society, saying the government would closely monitor those who have turned a new leaf to ensure they do not return to their old way of life. He said; "Anybody willing to ...

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12Sep By BobbyNo Comments

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Panic as bandits allegedly send threat letter to four Sokoto communities

Residents of Dange/Shuni Local Government Area of Sokoto have been thrown into panic and confusion after bandits allegedly sent a threat letter notifying them of impending attacks.   Recall that fleeing bandits, who escaped from military onslaught in Zamfara state, had attacked Tureta Local Government Area of Sokoto on Wednesday, where they killed six and ransacked shops and houses for foodstuffs.   The threat letter written in Hausa language was reportedly found under a tree in Kwanar Kimba village of Shuni on Saturday, September 11.   In the letter, the marauding bandits listed Shuni, Kwanar Kimba, Rikina and Dange as targets of the impending attacks.   The bandits also boasted that no force can stop them from carrying out their planned attack....

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12Sep By MosesianNo Comments

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No more amnesty for bandits – Governor Matawalle

Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara state has said that the amnesty offer for bandits have been taken off the table as they rejected it before now. Matawalle who spoke in Gusau, Zamfara state capital said bandits are now seeking for dialogue following the ongoing offensive carried out by the military in the state. The Governor appealed to residents to be patient and support new security measures put in place to flush out bandits and their collaborators to restore peace in the state, and also warned politicians against giving any form of support to bandits to perpetuate their evil acts. Matawalle said; “My administration will no longer grant amnesty to bandits as they have failed to embrace the peace initiative earlier extended to them."

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12Sep By BobbyNo Comments

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Zamfara NLC prays for Nigeria over growing insecurity

The Zamfara State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has organized special prayers over the insecurity in the state. The NLC State Chairman, Sani Haliru, while addressing the press said there is nobody in the state who can claim to be free from the ugly development. “We are all living in perpetual fear in our own state. The situation is getting worsened on daily basis” he lamented” He said bandits kill and kidnap anyone at sight, explaining that recently, a chairman of a Union in Maru Local Government Area of the state, Abdul Wahab was kidnapped. “A nurse was also kidnapped but later released but since she was released, she has been going from one sickness to the other” He said the chairman of the state civil service, Ibrahim Sidi was also kidnapped, saying that th...

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8Sep By BobbyNo Comments

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Herdsmen/farmers clashes: Involve only states interested in grazing reserves – Shehu Sani tells FG

Former lawmaker representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Senator Shehu Sani, on Tuesday, said the atrocities committed by bandits and armed herdsmen will rubbish any thought of reviving grazing routes in Nigeria. Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari had in July approved the recommendations of a committee to review “with dispatch,” 368 grazing sites, across 25 states in the country, “to determine the levels of encroachment.” The move, according to a statement by presidential spokesperson, Femi Adesina, was to curb the bloody clashes between herders and farmers across the country. However, Senator Sani, who wrote on his verified Facebook wall on Tuesday, added that, the federal government should only involve states interested in such projects. He wrote; “The atrocities ...

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7Sep By BobbyNo Comments

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Air strikes kill bandits in Kaduna

Identified bandits’ hideouts in Kaduna State have been destroyed by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF). A logistic facility and camp used by the outlaws hiding at Kawara Forest in Igabi Local Government Area of the state were struck. Scores of them died after an attack aircraft dispatched for reconnaissance mission exposed their location. The ISR platform discovered a large gathering of men dressed in black clothes with rustled cattle around Kawara village. A military source told PRNigeria that on sighting the air component, the bandits ran and hid in between cows. After clustering at a water crossing point, they were struck in successive passes by the aircraft. Those who tried to scamper for safety were neutralized, the officer revealed. “A reverse trail back to t...

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5Sep By MosesianNo Comments

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Bandits kidnap Traditional Ruler in Niger state

Suspected bandits have kidnapped Dr. Mahmud Ahmed Aliyu, the Dodo of Wawa (Gbere) in Niger State. The traditional ruler was kidnapped from his palace in Wawa, a suburb of New Bussa, the headquarters of Borgu local government area, in the presence of his wives around 9:30pm on Saturday, September 4. It was gathered that the bandits carrying guns and cutlasses, stormed the palace, went straight to his apartment and whisked him away to an unknown destination. Aliyu is the 16th Dodo of Wawa and a PhD holder in Environmental Science from the Malaysian National University, Kuala Lumpur. The family has, so far, not received any call from his abductors. Spokesperson of the Niger State Police Command, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, who confirmed the incident, said that police and vigilantes ...

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5Sep By MosesianNo Comments

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Bandits abduct wife and two children of Katsina assembly member

Wife and two children of Katsina assembly member, Ibrahim Aminu Kurami have been abducted by bandits. The bandits invaded the Kurami home town of the lawmaker representing Bakori constituency in Katsina House of Assembly on motorbikes and cars around 8pm on Saturday night. Daily Trust reported that they blocked the Funtua-Katsina road for minutes, while the abduction of the Kurami family went on at his home. A source told the publication; “Immediately after Ishaa’i prayers we started hearing gun shots in the town, before we know it they already positioned themselves in the strategic places of the town to avert any possible move by the residents to engage them. “They went straight to the to the home of the Honourable Member and made away with his wife and two children.” He...

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3Sep By BobbyNo Comments

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Repent or face God’s wrath – Cleric warns bandits

The Chief Imam, Sambo Dan-Ashafa Jumu’at Mosque, Gusau, Sheik Abdullahi Dalla-Dalla, has issued a stern warning to bandits to repent or face the wrath of God. NAN reports that the cleric gave the warning In his Jumu’at service sermon on Friday. He said the killing of innocent persons and violation of human rights would lead to God’s anger, if the culprit fail to change their evil ways. “My call to the bandits is that they should repent and stop the killing of innocent souls. They should surrender their arms before God’s anger comes upon them. “These are very serious issues of concern for all and as Muslims, we need to keep praying ceaselessly. “We need to pray and ask for God’s intervention to address the worsening security situation in our country ’’ Dalla-Dalla said....

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3Sep By BobbyNo Comments

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Joint security team kills bandits in Niger

Scores armed bandits have been gunned down in Basa community of Shiroro Local Government Area in Niger State. They were killed by a combined team of Joint Security Task Force in the early hours of yesterday in a gun battle. Though the actual figure of the casualties could not be ascertained, it was gathered that a total of 15 motorcycles were recovered from the bandits. Other items recovered from the bandits include food items. This was following a distress call by members of Basa community on the attack launched by the bandits. DAILY POST gathered the combined team of Police, Nigeria Security and Civil Defense and Corps (NSCDC); and vigilante members swung into action and met the bandits at Magami village, where they engaged them in a gun battle. Eyewitness account said ...

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31Aug By Ajiboye IfeoluwaNo Comments

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Gunmen invade Oyedepo’s church, abduct members

Unknown gunmen suspected to be bandits have attacked a branch of Living Faith Church Worldwide at Osara community, along Lokoja-Okene road in Adavi Local Government Council of Kogi State. DAILY POST gathered that the kidnappers, who invaded the church premises when some of its members were rehearsing during the weekend, abducted at least three members. The assailants were said to have stormed the area, shooting sporadically to scare away interveners before whisking the victims to an unknown destination. The Chairman of Adavi Local Government Council, Joseph Omuya Salami, confirmed the development to newsmen on Monday evening through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Habeeb Jamiu. According to him, the chairman had visited the scene in company of the Divisional Police ...

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29Aug By MosesianNo Comments

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Bandits kill two as Troops Rescue three Kidnapped Commuters in Kaduna

Two persons have been killed by bandits in Makoro Iri village in Kajuru Local Governemnt Area of Kaduna State. The State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, who confirmed the incident in a statement on Sunday, August 29, said troops rescued three commuters kidnapped by bandits. "Bandits invaded the remote village and shot dead the duo identified as Gideon Mumini and Barnabas Ezra," he stated.   "In another development, troops of Operation Safe Haven rescued three travelers from armed bandits along the Gidan Waya- Godogodo road in Jema'a LGA. The travelers were abducted by armed bandits who barricaded the road. Troops responded to a distress call and pursued the bandits, rescuing the trio identified as Jibril Salisu, Happy Sunday, and...

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29Aug By MosesianNo Comments

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What Buhari has done to bandits is worse than declaring them terrorists – Garba Shehu

Presidential aide, Garba Shehu has dismissed claims of preferential treatment in the handling of matters concerning bandits and other people posing threats to the nation’s stability in the Northern region of the country. Shehu who was asked in interview with BBC Pidgin on Saturday August 28, why the Federal Government had not declared bandits and criminal herdsmen, "terrorists" or outlawed them just as it proscribed IPOB, alleged that what the Buhari-led administration has done to bandits is worse than declaring them terrorists. He said that while there is a subsisting order by the President to shoot any bandit on sight, there is no such order against the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Shehu said; “What the Buhari administration has done to the arms-wielding b...

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28Aug By MosesianNo Comments

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No ransom was paid by Niger state government to secure release of Islammiya students – Senator Musa

Lawmaker representing Niger East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Mohammed Musa has said that the Niger state government paid no ransom to secure release of abducted Islammiya students. Though some news platforms reported that over N60m and new motorcycles were given as ransom to the bandits, Senator Musa in an interview on Channels Television noted that the Niger State Government has repeatedly said it would never pay ransom to the bandits. He said;   “The Niger State Government has made it very categorically clear and one of the policies of the state government His Excellency initiated, there is no payment of ransom for whatever reasons. “I so much agree with him (Governor Abubakar Bello) because the more you give the ransom, the more the trade wi...

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28Aug By Ajiboye IfeoluwaNo Comments

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Kaduna: Bandits kidnap four in Zazzau Emirate

Suspected bandits on Friday kidnapped four persons in Zangon Shanu and Unguwar Liman in the Sabon Gari Local Government Area of Zazzau Emirate, Kaduna State. Dr. Usman Abdul, a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, who lived in Sabon Gari Local Government told DAILYPOST this evening that three males and a house wife were kidnapped by bandits who stormed the villages around 1.am on Friday morning. According to him, no ransom has been demanded as the bandits have not contacted the relatives of the victims. The Kaduna State Police Command has confirmed the bandits attack. A statement on Friday by the spokesperson, ASP Mohammed Jalige, read: “three male and one female victim were kidnapped.’’ According to Jalige, the command had deployed offi...

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28Aug By Ajiboye IfeoluwaNo Comments

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Police confirms release of 18 kidnapped students, staff of Zamfara College, two killed

The Zamfara State Police Command has said that in collaboration with the state government and other critical stakeholders, it has successfully secured the unconditional release of 18 abducted students and staff of Zamfara State College of Agriculture and Animal Sciences, Bakura. It could be recalled that on Monday, 16th of August, 2021, suspected bandits invaded the School and abducted the victims to an undisclosed hideouts. According to the State Police Spokesman, SP Mohammed Shehu since then, the police command under the leadership of Mr. Ayuba Elkana in collaboration with the Zamfara State Government and other Critical Stakeholders have been intensifying search and rescue strategies with a view to rescuing the abducted victims hale and hearty. “The abducted victims who were bro...

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28Aug By Ajiboye IfeoluwaNo Comments

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32 Bethel Baptist High School students regain freedom

32 students of Bethel Baptist High School, Damishi, Kaduna State today regained their freedom from suspected bandits. Recall that on Monday, 5th July, 2021, over 100 students were abducted from the Bethel Baptist High school, Damishi, Kaduna. Some of the students had earlier been released while others regained their freedom on health grounds. Confirming the release of the students today, the state chairman, Christian Association of Nigeria, Rev. John Joseph Hayab told DAILY POST that 31 students are still in the hands of their abductors. According to Rev. Hayab, “We should continue to pray for the remaining students, believing that one day, they too will be released to us. We are still begging the bandits to please see reasons with to us and release the children so that they will ...

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27Aug By Ajiboye IfeoluwaNo Comments

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Bandits release Islamic students kidnapped in Niger after three months

More than 70 Islamiyya school pupils kidnapped from Tegina community in Niger State have been released. A large number of bandits stormed the village late May and took the students. A security agent told PRNigeria Thursday night that the ex-captives are on their way to Minna from Birnin Gwari. Tegina is located within Rafi Local Government Area of Niger. One person was shot dead and another critically injured during the attack. The Salihu Tanko Islamiyya school was built by a retired Immigration officer. In February, bandits abducted some staff and students of Government Science College, Kagara in Niger. The citizens were released about 10 days later after ransom was paid.

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26Aug By MosesianNo Comments

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This government is incompetent and reprehensible and the vice-president is not an exception – Comedian, Mr Macaroni

Comedian Mr Macaroni has lashed out at the Buhari-led administration over an alleged incompetence. The Instagram comedian who was reacting to the recent attack on the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) by suspected bandits and the widespread insecurity in the country, recalled how he had high hopes that Osinbajo would bring about positive change in the country’s socio-political landscape in 2015. Mr Macaroni stated that those who defend the vice-president always admit that the government is incompetent with excuses like "as much as the VP wants to make things work, he has no power to." He reiterated that this present government is a failure and the Vice-President is not an exception. According to him, terrorists are being pampered and forgiven while innocent citizens are being tar...

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26Aug By MosesianNo Comments

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Bandits allegedly broke into Five Flats at NDA before Fleeing

  The armed gang which carried out an attack at the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) barracks in Afaka, Kaduna State, on Tuesday August 25, allegedly broke into five flats. Daily Trust reported that a memo it obtained revealed that the bandits operated successfully because troops did not respond to distress call on time. It read;   “The response time of troops to the crime scene on that day was slow as the bandits successfully broke into five different flats in the same block and swiftly withdrew before the intervention of troops." Two senior officers were shot dead while a major was abducted in the incident. Another officer who sustained injuries is currently being treated in the hospital. General Lucky I...

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26Aug By MosesianNo Comments

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One of the Victims of the NDA attack identified as husband who was expecting his first child after 4 years of marriage

  Flight Lieutenant Chinecherem Okoronkwo has been identified as one of those killed when bandits attacked the Nigerian Defence Academy. Bandits on Tuesday, August 24, attacked the permanent site of the Nigerian Defence Academy in Kaduna State, killing two officers and abducting one other officer who was later found dead. Chinecherem Okoronkwo, who was killed by bandits on Tuesday, was expecting his first child with his wife after four years of marriage, before tragedy struck, a family source told LIB.   Until his death, Flt Lt. Okoronkwo was the Head of Department, Department of Laboratory Services, Nigeria Defence Academy, Kaduna.   He got his first degree from University of Calabar where he was...

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25Aug By Ajiboye IfeoluwaNo Comments

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NDA attack: DHQ begins investigation, says CCTV operators were awake

The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has insisted its personnel in charge of the closed circuit television (CCTV) were awake when suspected bandits invaded the Nigeria Defence Academy (NDA) in Kaduna on Tuesday. During the attack, two officers were killed, while another was abducted. Some reports claimed those monitoring the CCTV fell asleep during the incident. However, in its statement on Wednesday, DHQ said “the allegation is untrue”. DHQ spokesman, Benjamin Sawyerr, said: “It is perhaps important to mention that the AFN as a professional force consists of highly trained personnel who are dedicated to their duties of protecting the lives and property of all Nigerians. “Let me use this opportunity to reiterate that the NDA authorities, acting on the directive of the Chief of Def...

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25Aug By MosesianNo Comments

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Bandits abduct widow 24 hours after her husband’s death in Katsina

  Suspected bandits have abducted the widow of Alhaji Rabe Bello Kofa, the former head of Kofa village in Kusada Local Government Area of Katsina State who died on Tuesday, August 24. The armed bandits stormed the widow's residence and abducted her in the early hours of today Wednesday, August 25. A resident, who spoke anonymously to DailyTrust, said the bandits went straight to the house of the village head, who died on Tuesday and abducted some members of the bereaved family, including his widow.   “The village head of Kofa, who was an elder brother to a former Speaker of the Katsina State House of Assembly, died on Tuesday and was buried on the same day in accordance with Islamic rites. Unfortunately, some gunmen entered the ho...

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25Aug By MosesianNo Comments

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Nigerian Army denies reports its officers manning the CCTV at the NDA were asleep before the attack

The Nigerian Army has denied media reports claiming its officers manning the CCTV at the Nigerian Defense Academy NDA in Kaduna were asleep before the bandits attacked the institution in the early hours of Tuesday, August 24. A report by The Cable alleged that the officers who were assigned to observe the CCTV of the institution were allegedly sleeping on duty before the attack. A statement released by the spokesperson of the Defence Headquarters, Maj. Gen. Benjamin Olufemi Sawyerr, says the allegation is false. The statement in part reads   ''The attention of the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) have been drawn to a news publication by Cable online news media claiming that personnel on duty at the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) CCTV monitoring room w...

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24Aug By Ajiboye IfeoluwaNo Comments

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Plateau: Security forces kill 6 bandits who murdered Police IRT officers

The Nigerian military has confirmed the elimination of 6 bandits that specialized in kidnapping people in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State. The troops of Operation SAFE HAVEN (OPSH) and Police units neutralised the syndicate. The forces found weapons belonging to the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) the assailants killed – 3 AK-47 rifles. Major Ishaku Gaji Takwa, Military Information Officer, in a statement said operation involved the Divisional Police Headquarters at Mangu. The late IRT officers earlier made a distress call that bandits attacked them and took away their guns. “The criminals were immediately trailed and neutralised after a gun duel with the troops”, Takwa said. The remains of the IRT members and the eliminated gang members were recovere...

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