Death toll in the attacks in Shiroro local government area of Niger state has risen to over 60 as bandits continued the savage, sacking eight more villages and displacing over 1,000 people. Our correspondent gathered […]
The newly sworn-in governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle, has led security agents to bandits’ camps and hideouts near Wonaka town in Gusau Local Government Area of the state. A statement by the governor’s spokesman, […]
Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina state a while ago announced that kidnappers and bandits in the state will get the ultimate sentence. The governor made this known shortly after signing two laws – the […]
Policemen on Saturday repelled attack on Kakangi, a border town with Niger state, in Birnin Gwari local government area of Kaduna state, killing three bandits, while others escaped with bullet wounds, two policemen were however […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned latest bandit attacks in Gandi District of Rabah local government of Sokoto state, which reportedly claimed 30 people. The President said he was shocked and saddened by the latest violence […]
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai has said at the end of the python dance, ” the python must have swallowed all the hoodlums, bandits, kidnapper, political thugs, militants others in the […]
As part of its measures to end armed banditry, Zamfara state government has announced the immediate suspension of two district heads in Maradun and Birnin Magaji local government areas for given permission to buy and […]
Ten communities of Mada town in Gusau local government area of Zamfara state, have been sacked by bandits. The latest banditry in North West came on the heels of 23 travelers being kidnapped in the […]
With the death, early in March, 2018, of the notorious armed bandit, Buharin Daji, terrorising villages in Zamfara State it was thought the orgy of violence imposed on the communities was over. But the palpable […]
By Sanusi Muhammad Gusau No fewer than 12 persons have been reported killed by suspected gang of kidnappers in different communities of Maru, Kaura Namoda and Talata Mafara local government councils of Zamfara state at […]
On the night that my friend, Dr Ibrahim Adam Mailafiya was killed I had a premonition of a certain tragedy but had no idea what it was. As I do on Fridays before retiring to […]
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