Tag: banditry

The Minister of Defence, Badaru Abubakar, has expressed confidence that the end of Banditry is near, urging the troops to synergize with ground ...

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Zamfara State Command has vowed to discipline, dismiss, and prosecute the officer of the command, ...

The Katsina State governor, Dikko Radda, has accused some security personnel and government officials of aiding banditry which he says has now turned ...

Bandits in Katsina State who had abducted 55 persons mostly women while escorting a bride on Friday have released a video threatening to ...

Kaduna State Governor, Senator Uba Sani, has said that poverty and unemployment are responsible for the incessant security breaches in the North West. ...

VICE President Kashim Shettima has said poor governance has a “direct bearing” on the spate of banditry and kidnapping in the north-west geopolitical zone. ...

Bandits in an attack on Kafin Koro Community in Paikoro Local Government Area of Niger State in the early hours of Sunday have ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed anguish over the ambush and killing of 7 personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, ...

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC says seven of its personnel have been killed by suspected bandits in Kaduna state, alongside ...

The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Lucky Irabor says 613 rehabilitated low-risk repentant terrorists will be transferred to their state governments for ...

Katsina State Police Command has arrested a community leader of Gobirawa village in Faskari Local Government Area, Malam Surajo Madawaki for complicity in ...

Katsina State Executive Council has approved the payment of N2,671,330,300 to carter for the needs of widows and orphans left behind by the ...

Nigerian troops attached to ‘Operation Hadarin Daji’, have neutralized scores of terrorists at Yar Tashar village in Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara ...

Zamfara Government’s Anti-Thuggery Standing Committee has arrested three suspects for allegedly supplying SIM cards, drugs, illegal substances and sexual enhancers to bandits. The ...

At least two persons have been shot dead, while others were abducted after armed bandits invaded the Abdulsalami Abubakar General Hospital, Gulu in ...

Federal Government on Wednesday announced that the remaining 23 passengers abducted from a Kaduna-bound train on March 28, have been released. Secretary, Chief ...

A joint security checkpoint mounted close to the 35 Battalion of the Nigerian Army along Katsina- Jibia Road came under terrorist attack on ...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 90-year-old suspected supplier of illicit drugs to bandits, Usman Adamu, in Mailalle, Sabon ...

Two expatriates, two drivers and two Police Inspectors working with royal ceramic company limited in Ajaokuta local government area of Kogi state were ...

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has imposed a fine of N5 million each on Multichoice Nigeria Limited, owners of DSTV, TelCom Satellite Limited ...

Mukhtar Shuaibu, one of the kidnapped victims of the Abuja-Kaduna train attacked on March 28, has narrated how he was accidentally shot by ...

Bad news they say, spreads like wildfire and so was the news of the plan by terrorists to abduct Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari ...

The federal government says it will sanction the BBC and Trust Tv for airing documentaries that allegedly glorify and fuel terrorism and banditry in Nigeria. ...

BANDITS, on Thursday evening, attacked a village in Giwa Local Government Area of Kaduna State, abducting 24 people in the process.  It was ...

As part of proactive measures to prevent infiltration of bandits into Kwara state through the boundary at the Vobera forest in Kaiama local ...

Zamfara State police command has arrested seven security personnel involved in aiding and abetting banditry activities in the state. This was made known ...

The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, says gunmen suspected to be herders attacked him on his farm near Tyo-mu, along Makurdi-Gboko Highway on ...

Irked by the assassination attempt on Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State , former President of the Senate , Senator David Mark has ...

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has directed all security agents to shoot at anyone seen with Ak-47 rifles in the country. This was disclosed by ...

Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Monday held a security council meeting with commanders of various security agencies in the state amid assurance ...