The Katsina State Police Command says it has killed eight suspected bandits in Batsari local government area of the state. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Gambo Isah, disclosed this in statement on Saturday in Katsina. He said that on Aug. 6, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) Batsari, led Operation Puff Adder to Zamfarawa village
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Armed Bandits continued their onslaught in Katsina killing another Traditional Ruler in Mazoji, and not less than 50 people in Matazu Local Govt of Katsina State in his house in the wee hours of Saturday June 13 2020 This comes barely three weeks after the murder of the district head of Yantumaki in Danmusa Local
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The military has announced that at least 135 bandits have been killed in camps in Katsina and Zamfara states, destroying their buildings. This is according to the Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, who said this in a statement on Saturday revealed that the bandits were killed following airstrikes conducted on Thursday and
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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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Gov. Aminu Masari of Katsina State has confirmed nine new cases of COVID-19 in the state. Masari made this known while briefing newsmen on Sunday in Katsina. “We sent samples of 287 suspected persons to the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) for screening. “From the sample, nine tested positive for COVID-19. Four of the
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The Katsina State Government, on Wednesday, says a first suspected case of coronavirus has been recorded in the state. The Permanent Secretary, in the state Ministry of Health, Dr Kabir Mustapha, made this known to newsmen in Katsina. Mustapha said that the patient, who returned from Malaysia, developed some symptoms that warranted further investigations. According
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Katsina State House of Assembly chamber was turned into a weeping arena on Tuesday over the recent killings of over 30 villagers in Batsari Local Government Area of the state. The member representing Batsari constituency, Alhaji Jabiru Yau-yau, raised the issue at plenary under matters of urgent public interest. News Agency of Nigeria reports that
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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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Terrorists on Friday evening killed no fewer than thirty people in Tsauwa and Dankar villages in Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State. At Tsauwa where twenty-one people were killed, efforts were still being made on Saturday evening to bury some of the victims. Majority of the victims in the village were old people and
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Three people were said to have lost their lives in a ghastly road accident that occurred along Katsina-Jibia road on Sunday morning The accident involved three vehicles; a bus, a lorry and a car. It waslearnt that over-speeding on the part of the drivers of the vehicles caused the accident which occurred at 2 a.m.
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The Katsina State police command have arrested a 19-year-old housewife, Rabi Shamsudeen, for allegedly stabbing her husband to death at Danjaku village in the Malumfashi Local Government Area of Katsina State. The incident happened early Monday morning. The spokesman for the Katsina police command, SP Gambo Isah, said Rabi allegedly stabbed her 25-year-old husband, Shamsudeen
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Gov. Aminu Masari of Katsina State has signed an Executive Order prohibiting the use of motorcycles and tricycles between 7 p.m. and 6 a.m. across the state. The state Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice, Alhaji Ahmed El-Marzuq, who announced this on Wednesday in Katsina, said the dusk-to-dawn curfew takes effect from Jan. 20. He explained
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Eight members of a family were reported killed in a gas explosion that rocked a house at Dan Musa, the headquarters of the Danmusa Local Government Area of Katsina State. According to neighbours, the victims included three women and five children. They said the incident occurred on Saturday evening when one of the victims was
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