BY IDIBIA GABRIEL Local sources said 15 women and one man have so far been confirmed abducted during the Saturday’s early morning raid by bandits on Dogon-noma community in Kujuru LGA of Kaduna. The sad incidents which occurred yesterday came barely three days after one person was killed, and eight women kidnapped in the Banono […]
Bandits who, over the weekend abducted 502 persons, including women and children, are still holding on to their captives. They were all abducted within a period of 48 hours at different locations. About 287 pupils and teachers were abducted at a primary and secondary school premises at Kuriga, in Kaduna State. Also about 200 women […]
…CSOs urge deployment of service chiefs to hot spots …Action cowardly, says FG, assures of safe release of victims BY IDIBIA GABRIEL & UKPONO UKPONG Barely 48 hours after the abduction 287 pupils and teachers of Government Secondary School and LEA Primary School at Kuriga, Kaduna State on Thursday, bandits, in another renewed onslaught against […]
Bandits who abducted seven residents of Kuduru, a neighbouring community of Bwari Area Council in Abuja, have demanded for N290 million ransom to release the hostages. The residents, including a pregnant woman, three children and four adults, who have spent one month and four days in captivity were abducted on January 28 at the Kuduru […]
BY ORIAKU IJELE It was a grueling experience as more than 24 students of the Federal University of Gusau were abducted in the early hours of Friday after bandits invaded the Sabon-Gida community of the Bungudu Local Government Area of Zamfara State. A student of the school, who asked to be anonymous for security reasons […]
BY IDIBIA GABRIEL Shocking details have emerged following the latest attack by bandits on Catholic priests in Kaduna State. In what has been described as a narrative of testimony and miracle, how they dastardly attack, ended up with few casualties in spite of the ferocious nature of the attack, has remained a mystery to local […]
Bandits on Thursday killed 15 locals and wounded several others in Kaduna communities. Resident in Giwa LGA of the state, Alhaji Musa Bawa said about 11 locals were killed while several others sustained gunshot injuries. Confirming the attack in a statement on Friday, Samuel Aruwan, Commissioner, Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Kaduna State, […]
Terrorist bandits have kidnapped 39 children working on a farm in Mairuwa community of Faskari Local Government Area of Katsina State. Naija News learned that the bandits in their numbers invaded the community on Sunday and proceeded to abduct at least 39 children who were working on the farm. The gunmen were said to have […]
Suspected bandits have reportedly killed over 30 members of the local vigilantes otherwise known as Yan Sakai in a gunfight near Gidan Dan Inna community in Auki district, Bungudu Local Government Area of Zamfara State. A resident of the community whose brothers were killed, Idris Ambomade narrated the incident to journalists in Kaduna on Tuesday. […]
Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle has called on the military to persist in taking the battle to the bandits’ doorstep as a major panacea to the lingering insurgency in the state. Governor Matawalle made the inference when he received a visiting team from the Army War College of Nigeria who were on a study visit […]
*As FG delegation condoles Gov. Masari over Commissioner’s assassination President Muhammadu Buhari has dispatched a high-level security delegation to Sokoto and Katsina States in response to the recent spike in activities of bandits. Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, confirmed this development in a statement on Friday […]
ANDREW OROLUA, ABUJA. The troops have engaged some gang of armed bandits terrorizing residents of Rijana village and travellers along Abuja – Kaduna hIghways and neutralized 45 of them. Acting Director of Defence military Operations, Brigadier General Benard Onyeuko disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja while giving a summary of military operations in the past […]
ldibia Gabriel, Kaduna About 12 people were on Tuesday killed in Jangari Bagoma community in Birnin Gawri Local Government Area of Kaduna State by bandits. An unaccountable number of persons yet to be ascertained were also reportedly injured when the armed bandits invaded a farm early morning of Tuesday. Two of those killed are labourers, […]
*Demand N1m for each victim, torchlight, foodstuff ldibia Gabriel, Kaduna Bandits have reportedly declared war on the innocent citizens in Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State, according to latest reports from victims’ relations and families. Only between Sunday and Monday, an uncountable number of people have been abducted by the bandits from the […]
By ldibia Gabriel, Kaduna It was a essemblance of Walen Wall, as tears rolls freely by parents, sympathizers and other church members, when Bandits released over 60 emaciated looking church members kidnapped in kaduna, after many weeks in captivity. Coincidentally, the victims were however released a day after over 50 other persons were reportedly abducted […]
The Federal Government through the office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, said a court has granted the FG’s request to label bandits groups as terrorist organisations. This was disclosed in a statement by Dr Umar Jibrilu Gwandu, Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations, Office of […]
Ninety insurgents have been killed in the North East and 128 bandits have also been neutralised in the North West and North Central within the past two weeks. Acting Director of Media Operations, the Defence Headquarters (DHQ), Bernard Onyeuko, made this known at a press briefing on Thursday in Abuja. He disclosed that troops of […]
Suspected bandits have killed at least seven policemen in an ambush near Zonai village in Magami district in Gusau Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The policemen, residents said, were returning from duty where they mounted, on Monday, a checkpoint near Zonai village along Gusau-MagamiDansadau road when the armed gang opened fire on the vehicle […]
*Narrates how 46 persons were kidnapped in a day BY IDIBIA GABRIEL, KADUNA The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Kaduna State Chairman Rev. Joseph John Hayap has decried the sufferings of the people of Kaduna State. Rev. Hayap who made the assertion in an interview also stated that the insecurity situation is getting worse with […]
The Minister of Defence, Maj. Gen. Bashir Magashi (rtd), has said that the need to follow due process was responsible for the delay in declaring bandits as terrorists. Magashi, who stated this on Friday, in Maiduguri, while fielding questions from newsmen, added that there was a procedure that needed to be observed before such a […]