Tag: BANDITS
Nothing wrong with granting amnesty to Zamfara bandits – Lai Mohammed
Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed says granting amnesty is not new and that Zamfara State Governor Bello Matawalle should not be criticised...
How Sheikh Gumi found bandits security forces didn’t see – Adamu...
A former All Progressives Congress presidential aspirant Adamu Garba says the renowned Islamic scholar Sheikh Abubakar Gumi found bandits and held peace talks with...
7 ‘repentant’ bandits surrender AK-47 rifle, others in Zamfara
Seven “repentant” bandits have surrendered their weapons in Zamfara State to embrace the state’s peace accord, the government said on Friday.
Governor Bello Matawalle’s spokesman...
Zamfara replies ex-official’s allegation of giving cars to bandits
Zamfara State Governor Bello Matawalle has denied allegation he supplied vehicles to bandits in the state.
A former chairman of Maradun Local Government Area of...
80 Katsina students abducted in fresh attack
The police in Katsina on Sunday confirmed that 80 pupils of Hizburrahim Islamiyya, an Islamic school in Mahuta, Dandume Local Government Area of the state...
Bandit helped me escape after Katsina abduction – JSS student
Tsanni Mani a student of Government Science Secondary School Kankara, Katsina State has narrated how he escaped from bandits on December 12.
Mani’s school was...
37-year-old ECWA pastor killed, wife abducted in church raid
Gunmen have killed a 37-year-old pastor with the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) in Chikuba town of Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State.
Reverend...
Bandits abduct students in Katsina school after Buhari’s arrival
Suspected bandits on Friday night invaded Government Science Secondary School Kankara in Katsina State and abducted a number of students yet to be ascertained.
This...
50 reportedly killed in Kaduna as bandits raid villages
Bandits have reportedly killed 50 persons in Kerawa,
Rago, Marina, Zariyawa, Hashimawa, and Unguwar Barau villages, all of Igabi
Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
The attack...
Troops rescue 3 farmers in Kaduna, kill bandit
Troops of Operation Thunder Strike have rescued three villagers abducted from their farms on Wednesday in Maro village along Kaduna-Abuja highway.
The Deputy...