The Anambra State Police Command in Nigeria’s Southeast, has apprehended a man suspected of supplying arms and food to unknown gunmen terrorizing the state. According to a statement by the command’s spokesperson, SP Ikenga Tochukwu, the suspect was arrested during an intelligence-driven patrol conducted by a Police-led Joint Security Force in the Pillar-Pole area of […]
Students and staff members of Federal University Gusau in Zamfara State, who were kidnapped by bandits, have regained their freedom after seven months in captivity. Security analyst and counter-insurgency expert, Zagazola Makama, confirmed the release in a report via X on Monday. The victims were reportedly kidnapped during an attack in the Gusau area in […]
Bandits attacked a church service in the Bakinpah-Maro community of the Kajuru local government area in Kaduna state on Sunday, leaving three people feared dead and 30 others reported kidnapped. Although the Police authorities were yet to comment, the former chairman of Kajuru LGA, Cafra Caino, confirmed the incident, noting that the assailants, who arrived […]
Three hoodlums and two police officers have died in separate attacks on Sunday night and early hours of Monday in Imo and Anambra States. Police operatives in Imo state on Sunday night repelled an attack on Njaba Divisional Headquarters by hoodlums suspected to be affiliated with the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Njaba police […]
Residents of Irete Autonomous Community in Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State, Nigeria, are currently enveloped in palpable fear after suspected herdsmen invaded and machete two siblings few days ago. Our correspondent learnt that since Wednesday, members of the community have been plagued by persistent insecurity issues, primarily attributed to attacks by armed […]
Armed bandits have blocked the ever-busy Gusau – Funtua highway, kidnapping unspecified number of travellers. Yusuf Tsafe, a commuter who is still stranded around the area told Channels Television that the bandits stormed the highway in the early hours of Thursday and mounted a roadblock around the Tazame axis of the road. According to him, […]
Governor Dikko Radda of Katsina state has again weighed in on the ongoing security challenges bedeviling the state. Speaking during an interview with DW Hausa, Radda specifically said only 32 police officers are patrolling one Local Government Area (LGA) in the state. The governor, who didn’t state which of the LGAs, said it comprises 10 […]
The people of Moriki town in the Zurmi Local Government Area of Zamfara State are in fear as the deadline given them by notorious bandit kingpin, Bello Turji, to pay an imposed N30m levy expired. But reacting to the development on Tuesday, the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Musa, described the bandit kingpin as […]
At least three people were killed and five others injured when unidentified gunmen attacked the Isionye community, which borders Enugu Ukwu and Nawfia in the Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State. Reports indicate that the armed assailants, disguised as land buyers, lured their victims to the site before launching their brutal attack. Local sources […]
At least two nurses and an unspecified number of patients have been reportedly abducted by gunmen from a primary healthcare centre in Kaduna state. The abductors were said to have invaded the health centre in Kuyallo, Birnin-Gwari LGA of the state on Monday morning. Musa Alhassan, a leader of the vigilante group in the area, […]
