Bandits have invaded three communities in Kaduna State on Monday killing a security guard and kidnapped about 15 persons, including a village head. According to reports, the attacked communities are Kuriga, Komo and the Millennium City, all in Chikun Council. The Kaduna Police Command was however yet to confirm the incidents as the Police Public
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In spite of the Lockdown occasioned by the rising cases of COVID 19 in Katsina State in the North West of Nigeria, bandits are having a field day killing people and kidnapping others for ransom. Three villages in three different Local Government Areas were attacked as confirmed by the Katsina State Police Command Spokesperson, SP
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Zamfara Commissioner of Security and Home Affairs, Alhaji Abubakar Dauran, on Thursday confirmed the killing of seven persons by bandits at Malele village, Mutunji District of Dansadau emirate in Maru local government area of the state. Dauran told newsmen in Gusau that the incident occurred on Tuesday at Malele village. The commissioner said: “The Emir
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Bandits have abducted four persons that included three JAMB candidates who sat for the Saturday’s Unified Tertiary Joint Matriculations Examination in Kaduna State. Police in Kaduna, on Monday, confirmed the incident. The police said the four were kidnapped at Ungwan Yako Village, Birni Gwari Local Government Area of the state. The fourth person was said
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The Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari, says the killings that took place in Katsina over the weekend were done in retaliation of what the farmers had done to the bandits earlier. The police had on Saturday claimed they didn’t know the cause of the attacks. According to the President, however, bandits had been subjected to jungle
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Bandits were reported to have attacked mourners at Okokolo in Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State. According to a resident of the area and one-time supervisory councillor in Agatu LG, John Ikwulono, the gunmen in the late hours of Tuesday stormed Okokolo at the time people were mourning the death of Mrs George Ikwulono
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The Northern Coalition for Peace and Development has asked the Federal Government to initiate talks with bandits towards ending banditry and other crimes across the country. The group’s National Secretary, Alhaji Attahiru Adamu, also said at a press conference held in Kaduna on Tuesday that the clamour for the sack of the nation’s service chiefs
Read moreBandits have invaded the residence of former Vice-Chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Prof. Abdullahi Mustapha, and kidnapped his 35-year-old daughter and mother of three. The bandits it was learnt attacked the residence located at Hayin Malam Jama’a in Sabon Gwari Local Government Area in Zaria, Kaduna State on Friday night at about 11:30
Read moreThree persons were reportedly killed and another 50 critically injured when bandits attacked Grumana Community in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State on Saturday afternoon. The Chairman of Shiroro Local government Area, Alhaji Suleiman Chukuba, confirmed the attacks to our correspondent on phone, about 4:30pm. Chukuba said this latest attack makes it the fifth time the
Read moreAfter the payment of N8m ransom, Bandits release children of Kaduna State based medical doctor, Philip Ataga. They were kidnapped along with their mother at Juji community, Chukin Local Government Area of the state on Friday, January 24, 2020. The kidnappers killed the mother during a negotiation on N120m ransom they demanded. The abductors thereafter
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Report making the rounds has it that bandits have attacked Nollywood actors along Ogbomoso-Ilorin Expressway, on their way to a movie production. It was gathered that the incident which left a personal assistant of one of the actors dead happened on Monday morning at Otte area of the Expressway. According to the report, the bandits
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Some heavily armed men have invaded Juji Community in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The bandits it was gathered kidnapped the wife of a popular medical doctor, children as well as his security guards on Saturday morning. The gunmen reportedly attacked the community at 10pm Friday night where they engaged the police for
Read moreNo fewer than 29 people were feared killed by bandits in Babban Rafi village of Gummi Local Government Area of Zamfara State. An eye witness and an indigene of the village, Malam Musa Ibrahim, who escaped being killed, told The Punch reporter on the telephone that the bandits arrived at the village on the early
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