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Nigerian Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, is under fire after allegedly being linked with terrorism and banditry in the country. Matawalle is alleged to have procured vehicles for bandit leaders, including a notorious kingpin, Bello Turji, and others while serving as Zamfara State Governor. Current state governor, Dauda Lawal, who appeared on a […]
Continue ReadingA bride has to remove her wedding gown and ran into the bush to escape abduction by bandits who attacked them while she was being taken to her matrimonial home in Niger state, Nigeria. According to reports, the bride was being taken from a village in Paikoro LGA to Kuta, headquarters of Shiroro LGA, when […]
Continue ReadingA senior police officer and four other police personnel lost their lives on Saturday during a gun battle with bandits in Gurara Local Government Area of Niger State, Nigeria. The Paiko Divisional Police Officer, SP Mukhtar Sabiu, was killed when he led his men to dislodge armed bandits who were sighted around Kwakuti-Dajigbe villages in […]
Continue ReadingReports coming in say bandits attacked Kafin Koro Community in Paikoro Local Government Area of Niger State, Nigeria in the early hours of Sunday have burnt a Reverend Father, Isaac Achi of Saint Peter and Paul Catholic Church, to death. According to a family source, Rev. Father Achi was first abducted in Madalla and spent […]
Continue ReadingThe condition of insecurity affecting many Nigerians has long surpassed bearable proportions; it is only a matter of time before even our inept president is viscerally touched. Several reports indicate that members of the Nigerian political class also get a bitter taste of the medicine Nigerians have been made to swallow but the peak of […]
Continue ReadingOne Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Aminu Umar Dayi, in charge of Dutsinma Area Command in Katsina State, Nigeria, was ambushed and killed by bandits in a fierce gun duel on Tuesday, July 5. According to reports, the late Aminu led a police team to Kurfi where they killed one of the bandits’ commanders. Angered […]
Continue ReadingKuje Medium Prison came under heavy bombing and gun attack by unknown terrorists on Tuesday night, July 5, manifestly to free jailed criminals. The terrorists were said to have fired gunshots and threw high-capacity bombs in the area in order to achieve their aim. Reports say a source from the prison stated that the State […]
Continue ReadingArmed bandits have killed a Divisional Police Officer (DPO) named DSP Abdukadir Abubakar Rano, in Jibia local government area of Katsina State, Nigeria, during an attack on Magama section of Jibia town. Katsina State is president Muhammadu Buhari’s home State. According to residents of Jibia, the gunmen attacked the town at about 3a.m. on Wednesday, […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Government has eventually declared a group of people being called bandits as terrorists. Sequel to a very long footdragging, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami SAN, gazetted a court ruling that ordered the Nigerian government to declare bandits as terrorists. Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court sitting […]
Continue ReadingJudge of Nigeria’s federal high court sitting in the federal capital territory, Abuja, Nigeria, Justice Taiwo Taiwo, has in a ruling on Friday, declared the activities of the “Yan Bindiga Group” and the “Yan Ta’adda Group” and other similar groups in any part of the country, especially in the North-West and North-Central geopolitical zones, as […]
Continue ReadingA young man identified as Ishaku has been killed by bandits one month to his wedding in Kaduna, Nigeria. According to varsity lecturer, Sama’ila Yunusa DanMairo, the deceased was among three people killed when bandits attacked Unguwar Shukau community in Ikara Local Government area of Kaduna state last week Tuesday, November 16. Ishaku and his […]
Continue ReadingNot less than seven policemen were killed on Monday November 8, in an ambush carried out by bandits near Zonai village in Magami district in Gusau Local Government Area of Zamfara State, Nigeria. The policemen were reportedly returning from duty after mounting a check point near Zonai village along Gusau-Magami-Dansadau road, when the armed gang […]
Continue ReadingOperatives of the Amotekun Corps in Ondo State, Nigeria, have intercepted a bus loaded with 500 pieces of daggers concealed under the seats. Also intercepted were weapons with different seizes of knives and guns concealed inside Tigger nut bags. 18 people suspected to be bandits were arrested with the vehicle while two other buses escaped. […]
Continue ReadingPoliticians tend to get into trouble when they tinker with language to conceal mischief. Former US president Donald Trump, the most advertised quintessential linguistic idiot, was in the habit of getting lost in a forest of simple distinctions. He could not distinguish between truth, facts, fiction and faction. He tinkered with ‘alternative truth’ instead and […]
Continue ReadingLike the Senate did on Wednesday, Nigeria’s House of Representatives, on Thursday, asked the President, Muhammadu Buhari, to designate bandits, who have dominated the North-West and parts of the North-Central geopolitical zones, and their sponsors as terrorists. Chairman of the House Committee on Defence, Babajimi Benson, at the plenary on Thursday, moved a motion of […]
Continue ReadingNigerian senate has asked Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari to declare bandits as terrorists. Buhari was also asked by the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly to declare known leaders of bandits in the country wanted and track them wherever they are for arrest and prosecution. The lawmakers also appealed to the president to direct the […]
Continue ReadingAmong the many victims of violent crimes in the last few days is a Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Luka Benson Yakusak. He was abducted on Monday evening by gunmen who invaded his house in the Ikulu Chiefdom of Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The kidnap happened two days after the killing of […]
Continue ReadingGovernor of Kaduna State, Nigeria, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has said the way bandits and Boko Haram terrorists operate is different from that of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) led by Nnamdi Kanu. While speaking to BBC Pidgin, El-Rufai stated that bandits are not calling for the break up of Nigeria but are just […]
Continue ReadingPublisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, has shared photos of how the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, was paraded after his recent arrest and how bandits are allegedly treated in Katsina state. Sowore described the “differential treatment: as “Nigerian apartheid system”. He wrote; “Compare and Contrast: The Bandits from Katsina […]
Continue ReadingA member of the Zamfara state House of Assembly, Mohammad Ahmad Walin Jengeru, has been shot dead by suspected bandits It was gathered that the lawmaker was killed by the gunmen along Sheme- Funtua Road in Katsina State on Wednesday morning, June 30. The Clerk of the Zamfara House House of Assembly, Saidu Anka, who […]
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