A notorious bandit kingpin Bello Turji has embraced the peace initiative of the Zamfara State Government as part of efforts to end banditry in the north-western state. Zamfara Deputy Governor of Zamfara State, Senator Hassan Nasiha, disclosed this during a conference on security in Gusau, the State capital organized by the Students Union Of […]
No fewer than eight villages in Augie Local Government Area of Kebbi have been deserted due to attacks by bandits, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The vilages are Zagi, Tungar Rafi, Tungar Tudu, Keke, Kwaido, Sabongarin Kwaido, Tungar Chichira and Tattazai. Residents of the villages moved out in droves after bandits attacked […]
Halimatu Atta, a 90-year-old woman, who was abducted from the Kaduna-bound train in March, has regained freedom. She was released alongside her daughter and two other victims, according to Kaduna-based Publisher, Tukur Mamu, who negotiated the release of some of the victims. “I can confirm that earlier on Friday, four additional victims of the […]
Malam Tukur Mamu, the media consultant to controversial Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has said that many of the hostages held by the terrorists that attacked the AK-9 Abuja-Kaduna train passengers on March 28 have fallen ill in the terrorists’ den. Mamu, a former negotiator and Publisher of Kaduna-based Desert Herald newspaper, who stated […]
Zamfara State government has signed into law a death penalty on anybody found guilty of banditry, cattle rustling, cultism, or serving as a bandits’ informant. This was announced by Governor Bello Matawalle in a broadcast to the people of the state on Tuesday morning. Matawalle said, “On the 28th of June this year, I […]
Troops of Operation Hadin Kai, operating in the North-East region, have rescued another Chibok girl and three others, abducted by Boko Haram terrorists over eight years ago. Boko Haram terrorists had in April 2014 kidnapped 276 female students mostly Christians aged from 16 to 18 from the Government Girls Secondary School in the town […]
On March 28, a Kaduna-bound train was attacked by gunmen, with several persons killed, injured and abducted. Relatives of the abducted victims have held several protests in the country, urging the government to rescue their loved ones. President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday, met with the relatives of the abducted victims in Abuja, where […]
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has accused the Defence Headquarters of allegedly publishing fictitious attackers of St Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo state where no fewer than 40 worshippers were murdered on June 5. IPOB alleged that the names of Owo Catholic Church attackers published by the Defence headquarters were not the actual […]
Men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence, Sokoto State command have rearrested a suspected international terrorist that earlier escaped in their custody using diabolical means The suspect Alhaji Koire was rearrested alongside his accomplice Buba Magaji in a forest in Silame Local Government Area of Sokoto State in a covert operation led by […]
Terrorists are consolidating their grip on communities in Kaduna with a “parallel” government and “permanent operational base” in the North-western state near Nigeria’s capital Abuja, Governor Nasir El-Rufai has told President Muhammadu Buhari, PREMIUM TIMES can exclusively report. Mr El-Rufai warned the president of the terrorists’ consolidation in a late July memo, sighted by […]
