Suspected bandits on Saturday killed at least 12 persons and injured several other persons in Na’ikko village, Giwa local government area of Kaduna State. The state’s Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr. Samuel Aruwan, who confirmed the attack to journalists on Sunday, urged the victims to take recourse in the law and shun
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Troops of `Operation Thunder Strike’ have rescued two kidnapped women at Gadanin Gwari in Gwagwada District of Chikun Local Government Area (LGA) just as the police have also rescued two other persons abducted at Kurmin Idon axis of Kaduna-Kachia Road in Kajuru LGA. This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Samuel Aruwan, the
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Suspected bandits have kidnapped 14 persons including the widow of Barrister Mathew Kola Ojo, the former Zonal Chairman of Kogi West of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The victims were abducted on Monday morning, January 25, at Iffe, in Ijumu Local Government Area of Kogi State. It was gathered that five of the victims excluding the
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The Zamfara State Police Command on Sunday confirmed the killing of eight people by suspected bandits who invaded Janbako Community of Maradun Local Government Area of the state in the early hours of Sunday The command made the confirmation in a statement by its spokesman, SP Mohammed Shehu, adding that the bandits launched an aggressive
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Gunmen, suspected to be bandits struck again on Sunday along Birnin Gwari-Kaduna Highway killing nine travellers, including infants in Zankoro village, Kaduna State. Also, the bandits were said to have kidnapped 11 people on the same day at Dan Kungi village in the Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of the state. The Chairman of Birnin
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Troops of Operation Hadarin Daji have rescued 23 kidnapped victims comprising 18 women and five children in Katsina State, the Defence Headquarters has said. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, in a statement on Wednesday, said the rescue operation took place on Tuesday at Wurma Village in Kurfi Local Government Area of the
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An angry mob of villagers have killed six bandits in Sanga and Lere local government areas of Kaduna State, according to the state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, in a statement on Friday. In the statement, Aruwan said the bandits stormed the communities from a neighbouring state to attack the people
Read moreTragedy struck in Galadimawa in the Giwa Local Government Area of Kaduna State, when heavily armed gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on people in the area killing five traders and two vigilantes in the process. The incident was confirmed on Thursday by Samuel Aruwan who is the state’s Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs
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The Air Force has on Thursday neutralized several bandits and suspected cattle rustlers during raids on their hideout in the Kwiambana Forest area of Kaduna State The airstrikes which took place on November 12, 2020, were carried out following reports that close to a hundred bandits armed with high-caliber weapons on motorcycles had rustled a
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Two repentant bandit leaders namely: Sale Turwa and Muhammed Sani Maidaji, Wednesday evening, handed over 8 AK 47 and 2 AK 47 respectively to governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State during a security meeting with heads of security agencies in the state The two repentant leaders were presented to the Governor by the state’s
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Several armed bandits have been neutralized in airstrikes executed by the Air Component of Operation Hadarin Daji at a location West of Wagini in Katsina State. The air interdiction mission was conducted on 8 October 2020 employing a force package of Nigerian Air Force (NAF) fighter jets and helicopter gunships after credible Human Intelligence reports
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No fewer than 42 persons including women were kidnapped by Bandits on Saturday in an attack in Gobirawar Cali village, in the Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State. Malam Abdullahi, an indigene of the village said on Saturday after one AK-47 rifle was seized from a suspected bandit who entered the village for a
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Suspected bandits have killed the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Gidan Madi police station in Tangaza local government area of Sokoto state. The incident happened on Thursday night, September 16. The gunmen also killed another police officer said to be the DPO’s orderly before abducting two wives of a prominent businessman in the area. According
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The Defence headquarters on Monday disclosed that troops fighting banditry, kidnapping and cattle rustling in the North Central states, at the weekend storm Hideouts of the criminal elements in Benue and Nasarawa states and during the operation, killed some bandits, arrested four others and destroyed their camps. Making this known in a statement, Coordinator, Defence
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Troops of Operation Sahel Sanity of the Nigerian Army have arrested 418 bandits and 315 illegal miners in the North-West. The Acting Director, Defence Media Operation, Brig.-Gen. Bernard Onyeuko, stated this while briefing newsmen on the success recorded by the Army Operation at the Special Army Super Camp 4, Faskari, Katsina State, on Saturday. Onyeuko
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