Tag: bandits

Governor Bago says Niger State has reached a tipping point where citizens must take responsibility for defending their communities.

Bandits have attacked two villages in Kaduna State, kidnapping nine people.

Terrorists, locally known as bandits, abducted the locals from Buzugu and Rayau villages in the Bukkuyum Local Government Area of ...

Residents told PREMIUM TIMES that the attackers stormed the town on Tuesday evening, moving from house to house.

“On arrival at the general area, the troops made contact with the terrorists along the powerline axis and immediately engaged ...

The Nigerian leader spoke in a nationwide broadcast to mark Nigeria's 65th Independence Anniversary

Among those abducted was a lawyer identified as Barrister Ahmad, and traders returning from the New Bussa weekly market

On Thursday, the Nigerian Army arrested five men at a checkpoint along Share after six AK-47 rifles were allegedly found ...

The Commissioner for Information, Bala Zango, said the move was aimed at bolstering collaboration between formal security agencies and local ...

Police spokesperson, Adetoun Ejire-Adeyemi, said a security team stormed the forest in the wake of Tuesday’s bandit attacks in Motokun ...

The Kwara State Police Command confirmed the incident in a statement on Wednesday, noting that the attacks occurred on 23 ...

The crisis intensified days ago when local vigilantes received intelligence that bandits were preparing to invade the Isanlu Isin community.

The usual narrative frames bandits, jihadists, and religious extremists as “criminals and terrorists.” The study, however, takes a nuanced approach ...

Sani Shinkafi, a former National Secretary of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), accused federal security agencies of neglecting intelligence ...

Residents and local authorities said the assault began late on Friday and stretched into the early hours of Saturday

On Wednesday, Governor Dikko Radda visited Mantau village where bandits killed 25 persons and burnt down at least 20 houses.

The governor also approved 20 million for graveyard renovationin each LGA bringing it to N680 million for the entire 34 ...

According to the governor, 32 people were killed — 20 in the mosque and 12 outside — while 20 houses ...

The governor announced immediate relief of ₦500,000 to each affected household alongside impactful projects such as school, hospital and mosque ...

"Yesterday, they killed five farmers. The day before, they killed seven. Wallahi, the farms are inaccessible anymore."

Residents said Tuesday's attack followed the killing of a cattle herder by suspected vigilante groups from Wamba in the neighbouring ...

The command spokesperson, Nafi’u Abubakar, disclosed this in a statement released in Birnin Kebbi on Saturday.

The bandits have become so audacious that they now operate in daylight, earning them the nickname ‘Solar’.

The terrorists leaders decried the exclusion of Fulani community members from social services and amenities, including healthcare.

The state police spokesperson, Adetoun Ejire-Adeyemi, confirmed the development in a statement on Sunday. She identified the slain police officer ...