…the Bandits later released four victims with a message that they would accept only new naira notes for ransom Bandits have abducted forty six persons in Batsari and Funtua local government areas of Katsina State at the weekend and reportedly demanded new Naira notes for ransom. Sources claimed that in Karare village of Batsari Local
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…suspected bandits, a few days ago, attacked and kidnapped a businessman in the same Area Bandits have reportedly opened fire on residents of Katsina, killing two persons, and abducting three others. The incident sources claimed happened on Sunday. A resident in the area who pleaded for anonymity said the bandits were operating from the forest
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Three students of the Umaru Musa Yar’Adua University, Katsina, have died in a road crash. Two others also sustained serious injuries in the accident, which occurred on Tuesday. It was learnt that the vehicle that the students boarded to their home towns after they had completed their examination for the day was involved in the
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Katsina State governor, Aminu Masari, on Monday inaugurated a 21-man committee to investigate the fire incident that destroyed Katsina Central Market on March 22. The committee, headed by Commissioner of Works, Housing and Transport, Alhaji Tasiu Dandagoro, with Mohammed Sani as Secretary, has four weeks to submit its report. The governor mandated the committee to
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No fewer than three Senior Secondary Students were on Tuesday kidnapped from a Community Secondary School (Day school) in Runka town, Safana Local government area of Katsina State. Information gathered from the area revealed that the gunmen stormed the area in their numbers and kidnapped the students on their way home and after closing from
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There are confirmed reports from Katsina State that armed bandits attacked villages in Sabuwa Local Government Area killing three people on Monday night. Residents said the attackers also took away about 50 people, mostly women and children, during the attack. A local resident told the BBC that bandits had broken into shops and stolen goods,
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Gunmen suspected to be bandits have reportedly kidnapped no fewer than 17 married women in the Faskari Local Government Area of Katsina State. According to Katsina Post, the women were intercepted on Thursday on their way to a wedding ceremony. “The incident happened when the women were on their way from Unguwar Rimi village to
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The Katsina State Governor, Aminu Bello Masari, said on Wednesday the college students abducted by armed bandits in the state last week had been located in a forest in Zamfara. The governor, who disclosed in a chat with the Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), however, dismissed the claim that the students were
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The home state of President Muhammadu Buhari was attacked by bandits in the wee hours of Monday 10 August killing over 200 people and setting ablaze several houses. The DAILY VENDOR News was informed that armed bandits attacked two communities under Kurfi Local Government Area of Katsina State shooting indiscriminately at the sight of anything.
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The banditry attacks in the North Central State of Katsina continued unabated despite the operation of the military to flush them out. The bandits on Monday Killed not less than 18 Persons, abducted the All Progressives Congress in Matazu Local Government Area of Katsina State, Yusha’u Dissi, and a woman when they attacked some villages
Read moreDespite the military onslaught ordered by President Muhammad Buhari to get rid of banditry, kidnapping and sundry crimes, three persons were reportedly killed in attacks on some villages of Dandume Local Government Area of Katsina State on Monday 22 June 2020 morning . The Daily Vendor News reports that the bandits attacked Maikwama village where
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Nastura Ashir Shariff, Chairman of Board of Trustees of the Coalition of Northern Groups, has been arrested and currently being detained at the Nigeria Police Force Headquarters in Abuja, the DAILY VENDOR reports. He was arrested and moved to Abuja shortly after the peaceful protests in Katsina State demanding action from government over the rising
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The Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari is presently in a closed-door meeting with the Inspector-General of Police, Muhammed Adamu, the Director-General, Department of State Services, Magashi Bichi, the National Security Adviser, Babagana Mungono, and the Katsina State Commissioner of Police, Sanusi Buba. The team arrived at the Katsina Government House on Wednesday. According to sources
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The President of Nigeria Muhammad Buhari has been asked to declare a state of emergency in his own Katsina State. The call is made by the ndigenous people of Katsina based in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja . In a statement made available to The DAILY VENDOR News on Monday in Abuja, the group under
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…As protest rock some parts of the state over insecurity President Muhammad Buhari State of Katsina is under siege as Bandits launched attack in Kadisau community of Faskari Local Government at about 7.37 pm on Tuesday 9th June. Also, youths lay siege in the busy Kankara Katsina road around the Yantumaki village in Danmusa local
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