•NAFDAC director-general, Mojisola Adeyeye, and alcohol in sachets The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has linked banditry in Nigeria to the indiscriminate consumption of alcohol. The Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Mojisola Adeyeye, stated th...
•MOPOL The police will intensify its role in curbing kidnapping, banditry and other criminal activities with the revival of its somewhat moribund Police Mobile Force (PMF), otherwise known as MOPOL. “The fighting arm of the police is back,” the Inspector-General said at the weekend. Tunji Disu, who toured police barracks in Lagos, spoke exclus...
•Tinubu The people of the Lata Nna community in the Patigi local government area of Kwara State have written a Save Our Soul (SOS) letter to President Bola Tinubu over persistent cases of banditry, kidnapping and other forms of criminality in the area in the last two years. In a letter by the secretary of […]
•Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State has reaffirmed his administration’s opposition to negotiating with bandits, insisting that peace agreements with criminal groups remain unacceptable despite renewed discussions about local truce arrangements in parts of the state. The governor stated this during an in...
Residents of at least 21 villages in Sokoto State have fled their homes following repeated threats and attacks by bandits. The villages affected include; Gidan Kare, Kaware, Chabi, Dattabi, Janwake, Sha Rana, Darbekami, Gidan Sule, Kuruwa, Mahuta, Dantayawa, Kawala, Bagirbe, Tsattsagi, Katsira, Imasa, Bela, Hura Girke, Galadimmai and Asha Ruwa...
In the past, the Kurmin-Daudu community in Kawu Ward, Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, could boast of a magnificent primary health center. However, the facility has since been left in ruins due to the fear of bandit attacks. Kurmin-Daudu, located over nine kilometers from Kawu, is inhabited mostly by peasant [&h...
•Kwara Police PRO, SP Adetoun Ejire-Adeyemi The Kwara State Police Command has confirmed the receipt and subsequent release of six vigilante members who were earlier arrested by personnel of the Nigerian Army in Edo State. The Command, in a statement yesterday by its Police Public Relations Officer, SP Adetoun Ejire-Adeyemi, said the vigilante...
•Fagbohun The President of the African Confederation of Old Catholic Churches and the Presiding-Bishop of the Old Catholic Apostolic Church Nigeria, Most Reverend Dr Oluwaseun Fagbohun, has called on Christian leaders across denominations to rise above fear, political correctness, or compromise, to speak boldly against terrorism, regardless of...
Seven Cameroonians have been arrested at Imande-Agbatse community in the Kwande Local Government Area of Benue State, a border town between Nigeria and Cameroon. The arrest happened yesterday Monday, 1 December 2025, as they have been suspected of being involved in criminal activities. According to Zagazola Makama, a security and counterinsurg...
•Bandits Stakeholders in the agricultural sector have called on the government at all levels to join forces to tackle insecurity and the effects of climate change to mitigate food shortage in Nigeria in 2026 as already predicted by global bodies. Recall that on Tuesday the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned that the growing [&...
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