•Governor Mbah of Enugu State Enugu State Governor Peter Mbah has transmitted an executive bill to the Enugu State House of Assembly to checkmate criminal activities among native doctors, herbalists and related persons in the state. The proposed legislation entitled “Maintenance of Internal Security, Vigilance and Order”, also outlaws money ri...
•Armed Fulani herdsmen A human rights organisation, the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety), has raised the alarm that 950 locations, especially forests, across the South-East communities are under the occupation of bandits and destructive Fulani herdsmen. According to Intersociety, the criminals operate fr...
•IGP Egbetokun and Governor Kefas Taraba State governor, Kefas Agbu, has opened up on the circumstances surrounding the killing of his sister, Atsi kefas, reportedly shot by kidnappers along Wukari-Chinkai road last year. Kefas revealed that a police escort attached to his mother’s escorts shot and killed his sister while travelling from Jalin...
•Bandits No fewer than 100 heavily armed bandits yesterday stormed three communities in Munya Local Government Area of Niger State, killing an unspecified number of villagers, burning homes, and looting properties, including rustling over 200 cattle. The affected communities — Zagzaga, Chibani, and Kuchi — were attacked in a coordinated operat...
•Bandits Bandits suspected to be members of the Lakurawa terrorist group attacked a church in a community in Danko-Wasagu Local Government Area of Kebbi State on Sunday, abducting eight female worshippers. The Chairman of Danko-Wasagu LGA, Hussaini Aliyu Bena, confirmed the incident to journalists via telephone. He said the bandits stormed Zag...
•Bandits The Katsina State Chapter of the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has expressed deep concern and strong condemnation over the renewed spate of deadly attacks by armed bandits across southern parts of the State, mostly in Funtua, Sabuwa, Kankara and Faskari LGAs. The Coalition, in a statement yesterday, signed by its State Coordinato...
•Wild dog eating Bandits terrorising North West residents have fed newborn twins to dogs, according to Hon. Aminu Sani Jaji, the lawmaker representing Kaura Namoda and Birnin Magaji federal constituency of Zamfara State. In a chat with newsmen today, Jaji said the victim was abducted from a community in Zamfara while pregnant. He said while [&...
•Yakubu Dada and late wife, Lami Bandits have reportedly killed a woman simply identified as Lami. The victim was kidnapped alongside her husband, Yakubu Dada, on the Kontagora Road in Niger State, on October 31, 2024. The abductors, who had earlier collected a N10 million ransom from the family, are now demanding an additional N20 […]...
•Bandits Communities across the North West gathered in Kaduna today to express deep concerns over emerging threats linked to conflict and violent extremism, warning of growing alliances between bandits, old insurgent groups, and kidnappers. The communities also raised alarm over the increasing radicalisation of youths in Internally Displaced P...
A security operative who sells state’s arms and ammunition to bandits has been arrested by Directorate of State Services (DSS). The operative (yet-to-be named) was arrested with a cache of arms which he planned to sell to criminal elements for N4 million, reports The Nation. He was arrested alongside 53 others by the Kaduna Command […]...
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