Troops of Operation Forest Sanity have neutralised two terrorists and cleared several camps and hideouts in Chikun local government area of Kaduna state, the state government has said. The Kaduna state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan, said in a statement on Tuesday evening that the troops dislocated several bandits from their camps, while recovering six Read More
Bandits have killed the village head of Mulo, Alhaji Usman Garba, in Mashegu local government area of Niger state. The state commissioner of Internal Security and Humanitarian Affairs, Emmanuel Umar, stated this in a press briefing in Minna on Friday. The commissioner said three other villagers were abducted by the bandits along with the traditional ruler before he was murdered Read More
Air strikes on identified bandit hideouts across Giwa, Igabi and Chikun local government areas of Kaduna state have enabled 10 kidnapped citizens to escape, while troops dislodge a camp and recovered motorcycles and weapons in Birnin Gwari. The Kaduna state government said in a statement signed by the Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr. Samuel Aruwan, that the Read More
Troops have discovered the corpses of two female kidnap victims and rescued three others alive, while destroying bandits’ camps during fighting patrols in Chikun, Kachia and Kajuru local government areas of Kaduna state. Kaduna state government in a statement signed by the state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan, Wednesday, said the troops of Operation Forest Read More
The Kaduna state Police Command on Friday disclosed that it had arrested a bandit and recovered five operation motorcycles following a shoot-out with the bandits on Galadimawa Tumburku Road in Giwa local government area. The command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Muhammed Jalige, in a statement issued Friday, said the police working on an intelligence that some bandits were about Read More
Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has condemned reported kidnap of nine person along the popular Calabar -Akamkpa – Ugep federal highway by men suspected to be bandits. A press statement personally signed by the governor and made available to Blueprint Calavar, Wednesday, read in part: “I condemn in the strongest terms, the attack and kidnapping of some motorists Read More
Security forces have killed an alleged notorious bandits’ commander, Dogo Maikasuwa, just as another bandit died from gunshot wounds, while others escaped with varying degrees of injuries following a gun duel with soldiers, in Gengere-Kaso Forest around Chikun and Kajuru boundary. A statement signed by Kaduna state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr. Samuel Aruwan, said: “After an Read More
The Katsina state Police spokesman, SP Gambo Isah, has confirmed that bandits abducted 39 children while working on a farm in the Faskari local government area of the state. In a statement Wednesday morning, Isah said the children were abducted Sunday when the heavily armed bandits in their large numbers, invaded the farm where the children were working. “Yes, the Read More
The Conference of Civil Society for Peace, Security and National Development has passed a vote of confidence on the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Defence Intelligence Agency, (DIA) and the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) “for the tremendous successes recorded in the renewed war against insurgency, banditry and criminality in the country in the past one month.” The Conveners Read More
A Civil Society Organisation, Northern Youth Network, has commended the Nigerian military for the tremendous successes it has recorded in the renowned determination to put an end to the activities of ISWAP/BokoHaram, banditry and criminality in the country in the past one month. The Convener of the group, Mallam Abdulrahman Ahmed, sent the commendation in a press release at the Read More
The Bauchi state Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Abdulrazaq Nuhu Zaki, on Friday disclosed that 69 people that were abducted by bandits had been rescued by a combined effort of security agents and vigilantes. Nuhu Zaki made the disclosure while fielding questions from newsmen on the infiltration of bandits, kidnappers into Toro, Alkaleri, Tafawa Balewa, and Ningi local Read More
The Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) has temporarily halted its stopover at the Ajaokuta train station following bandit attacks on commercial buses close to the vicinity of the station, Blueprint has gathered. Blueprint correspondent gathered that the management of NRC took the decision in order to avert a repeat of the Abuja-Kaduna train attack where terrorists killed scores of passengers and Read More
“When the deaf man beats a drum for you to dance, just dance…” AbdulChukwudi. According to online news outlet Premium Times, gunmen, believed to be bandits, killed at least 43 people including 30 soldiers and seven mobile police personnel in an attack on a mining site in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State, local sources have said. The Niger Read More
In the book The Impact of Banditry on Nigeria’s Security in the Fourth Republic: An Evaluation of Nigeria’s Northwest by Rosenje, Musharafa Olapeju (PhD) and Adeniyi, Oluwatobi Peter, both of the Department of Political Science, Tai Solarin University of Education, first published on 30/04/2021, the authors posited that “Banditry is fast becoming alarming in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic to the extent Read More
The baby girl recently delivered in bandits camp by a pregnant woman kidnapped from the Kaduna train.
Zamfara state government has deposed the emirs of Zurmi, Atiku Muhammadu, and his Dansadau counterpart, Hussaini Umar, over their alleged links with bandits. The government also sacked the district head of Birnin Tsaba, Sulaiman Ibrahim, for the same offence. The press secretary to the deputy governor, Babangida Zurmi, told Premium Times that the decision was taken Wednesday evening following the Read More
The Managing director of Nigerian Bank of Agriculture (BoA), Alwan Hassan, have reportedly been released nine days after he was kidnapped by bandits during Abuja-Kaduna train attack. The bank’s chief executive was released alongside some other passengers who were abducted during the attack, Blueprint reports. The gunmen who used explosives to derail the train before raining its occupants with bullets Read More
Bandits Sunday besieged Tsafe Town, the headquarters of Tsafe local government area of Zamfara state and killed three people. A resident of the area who narrowly escaped the attack told Blueprint on telephone that the bandits stormed the town around 8:00pm on motorcycles. “The bandits began shooting sporadically at people and as I am talking to you, I narrowly escaped Read More
Kaduna state Governor Nasir El Rufai has admitted the Nigerian authorities know the camps, the identities and listen to the conversations of the armed groups terrorising large swaths of the North-west region. The governor spoke after some terrorists ambushed and attacked a Kaduna bound train coming from Abuja Monday evening. At least eight people were killed during the attack which lasted for almost two Read More
Hoodlums suspected to be bandits invaded nine Village in Giwa local government area of Kaduna state in the early hours of Friday and killed 50 people. A resident of one of the neighbouring villages, Danlami Mai Unguwa, told Blueprint that the bandits, who invaded the villages in their tens, started shooting sporadically into the air before attacking homes. The witness Read More
A special prayer was weekend offered for slain soldiers and vigilante members killed in battle with armed bandits in Kanya village of Danko/Wasagu local government area of Kebbi state. The special prayer which was held at the Dukku Army Barracks, Birnin kebbi was attended by Governor Atiku Abubakar Bagudu and other top government officials. The special prayer was held to Read More
Bandits have released the village head of Guga in Bakori local government area of Katsina, Alhaji Umar, and 35 other residents of the village after collecting N26 million as ransom. The victims spent 29 days in the kidnappers’ den before they were released late Sunday evening. Premium Times had reported how the bandits stormed the village on February 7, killed Read More
Bandits on Thursday attacked motorists, killed five people and burnt down a petrol tanker in Manini village, near Kuriga, along Birnin Gwari – Kaduna highway, Birnin Gwari local government area of Kaduna state. The chairman, Brinin Gwari Vanguards for Security and Good Governance, Alhaji Ibrahim Abubakar Nagwari, said in a statement on Friday that two of the people killed including Read More
A group, Northern Youth Network (NYN), has eulogised Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) and other military forces for their sustained onslaughts against bandits and other criminal elements. The group said the recent airstrikes and ground operations that resulted to killing of many terrorists including the Kingpin, Dogo-Umaru, Mallam Buba Danfulani and 41 others was an indication that the end of banditry Read More
Bandits Friday attacked Kagoro town and its environs in Kaura local government area of Kaduna state killing 11 people and leaving many others injured. Though the authorities have yet to confirm the attack, a local source who craved anonymity said the bandits stormed Kagoro in the early hours of Friday and started shooting sporadically and attacking everybody on sight. After Read More
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