Villagers in Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State have fled their ancestral homes due to incessant attacks by armed bandits and mass abduction of Persons. Photos shared online showed the villagers filing out in their numbers this…
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Respected And Powerful People in Zamfara Are Behind Banditry And Killings – Governor Matawalle Says
Zamfara State Governor Bello Matawalle has alleged that respected and powerful people are sponsoring terrorists in the state. Zamfara State has suffered a series of bandit attacks in recent times. On Tuesday, April 12, bandits abducted five female…
Bandits have invaded a residential area in Tsafe town, the headquarters of Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State and abducted five students of the College of Health Science and Technology, Tsafe. It was gathered that the heavily…
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“The Bandits Are Fulani From Nigeria And Other Neighbouring Countries” – Emir of Bungudu Recounts His 32 Days Experience in Kidnappers’ Den
The Emir of Bungudu, Zamfara State, Alhaji Hassan Attahiru, has recounted his experience in kidnappers’ den. The monarch who regained freedom on Saturday, October 16, 2021, after 32 days of captivity, was kidnapped by bandits alongside his police orderly along the Kaduna-Abuja highway while they…
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state has asked the federal government to declare the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association (MACBAN) as a terrorist organisation”. In a statement released hours after the federal government gazetted an order designating bandits as terrorists, Ortom alleged that…
Governor Nasir El-Rufai has shared what he thinks should be done in the fight against banditry in the country. The Kaduna state Governor said security operatives should carpet-bomb forests where bandits are, as the trees can be replanted later.…
Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal high court in Abuja has declared the activities of Yan Bindiga and Yan Ta’adda bandit groups as acts of terrorism. The presiding judge gave the order on an ex parte motion filed by…
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Four UNIABUJA Staffs Alongside Their Children Abducted As Suspected Bandits Attack The Staff Quarters
Four members of staff of the University of Abuja and their children are said to have been abducted after suspected bandits attacked the University’s staff quarters in the early hours of Tuesday, November 2. The University broke the news on…
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The Clock of Your Ultimate Destruction is Ticking – Buhari Tells Bandits After 43 People Were Killed in Sokoto
President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to report of 43 people being killed at Goronyo town, in Goronyo LGA of Sokoto state by bandits. The attack was carried out in a market in the area between Sunday October 17 and Monday…
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted the 6-year-old twin daughters of the Owalobo of Obbo Ayegunle in Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State, Oba Samuel Adelodun. The children, Taiwo and Kehinde, were kidnapped alongside some…
The Kano Film Censorship Board has banned the showing or selling of movies displaying kidnappings, drug addiction, and snatching of GSM phones in the state. The Board Executive Secretary, Ismaila Naaba Afakallah, said the ban has become a necessity to curb…
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The Country is Sinking, The NDA Attack is Just The Elementary Part, The Secondary Part of it is Still Coming – Mbaka
Spiritual director of Adoration Ministries, Enugu, Nigeria (AMEN), Ejike Mbaka has reacted to the attack at the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) which led to the death of two military officers and abduction of another. Mbaka who reiterated that the arrest of…
Khadijat Isiaq, the abducted 300-level Mass Communication student of Kwara State University (KWASU) has been rescued by the police. Six suspects linked to the abduction of Khadijat were also arrested by the policemen. The command’s spokesman, Okasanmi Ajayi confirmed that…
Eleven hostages have escaped from bandits’ camps at the outskirts of Sabon Birni town in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, who disclosed this in a statement on Thursday, August…
28 abducted students of Bethel Baptist High School, Damishi, Kaduna have been released by bandits after spending 20 days in captivity. Joseph Hayab, Kaduna state chairman of the Christian Association of Nigerian (CAN) confirmed the release of 28 students. Recall that a total…
The government has been criticised for its failure to tackle the country’s kidnapping crisis Kidnappers in Nigeria have seized a man who was sent to deliver a ransom payment to secure the release of dozens of abducted school children.…
A man has been arrested for attempted kidnapping after a five-year-old boy was dragged into a car in broad daylight in New York City. A street camera filmed the moment the boy’s mother rescued her son by pulling him…
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The DSS Should Use Same Application They Used To Attack Igboho’s House On Bandits And Kidnappers of School Children in The North – Comedian I Go Dye
Stand-up comedian, I Go Dye has asked the Department of State Services (DSS) to employ same method they used in raiding Yoruba secessionist, Sunday Igboho’s house on bandits and kidnappers of school children in the Northern region of…
Members of Katsina State Peoples Democratic Party Social Media Organization have started sharpening their skills in the use of locally made catapults for self-defense against armed bandits. The exercise is tagged “Operation Catapult Shoot”. According…
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Heartbreaking Photos of One of The Fathers of The Abducted Students Praying For The Rescue of His Child
Heartbreaking photos of a father of one of the abducted students of Bethel Baptist Secondary school, Kaduna state, praying at the exit hole broken by the bandits while escaping with the students. An unspecified number of students were abducted…