Estimated Reading Time: 1The Zamfara state police command has arrested one medical doctor and seven other persons for allegedly aiding and abetting banditry across the state. The state commissioner for information, Ibrahim Dosara, disclosed this at a press briefing held in Gusau on Thursday, saying that the medical doctor was[Read More…]
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Kaduna abduction: Parents give Kaduna Government 48 hours to rescue 39 students
Estimated Reading Time: 4Parents of the abducted students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, Mando in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, have given the Federal and state government a 48 hours ultimatum to rescue their children. This is coming after they appealed to the United Nations, Nigerian[Read More…]
Breaking: 56 Houses burnt as terrorists attack 3 LGAs in Kaduna
Estimated Reading Time: 1Thirteen people have been killed and seven others injured by the terrorists during separate attacks in Zango Kataf, Chikun, and Kauru local government areas of Kaduna state. In a statement issued Friday by the Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, the armed bandits killed[Read More…]
Breaking: Niger State government orders the closure of all public secondary schools
Estimated Reading Time: 2Niger State government has ordered the closure of all public secondary schools in the state for two weeks. This decision was reached after an interface between the state government and officials from various security agencies in the State. The state’s Commissioner for Education, Hajiya Hannatu Jibrin Salihu,[Read More…]
Terrorists that attacked in Kaduna are from neighbouring states – Commissioner
Estimated Reading Time: 1The Kaduna State Government says that the terrorists behind the attacks on the state are from neighbouring states, hence there is no justification to negotiate with criminals who have nothing on the table. The State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan told Channels Television[Read More…]
Nigerian press are criminals for branding terrorist herders as criminals – Sheikh Gumi
Estimated Reading Time: 2Sheikh Ahmed Gumi, a Kaduna-based Islamic cleric who has been advocating peace deals with terrorist herders, has described Nigerian journalists as criminals for branding the terrorists as criminals in their reporting. He stated this when he appeared on Arise TV programme, Arise News on Wednesday night. He[Read More…]
Not all bandits in the north are criminals – Zamfara Governor
Estimated Reading Time: 3Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle has claimed that not all the notorious bandits terrorising the northeast region are criminals. Mr Matawalle said this after having a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Thursday. The governor said most of the bandits took up[Read More…]
In Kaduna, bandits have killed some Nigerian Air Force personnel in an ambush
Estimated Reading Time: 1Bandits have killed some Nigerian Air Force personnel in an ambush in Kaduna State. The incident occured, on Saturday, when the troops of the 271 NAF detachment foiled an ambush set up by a group of over 100 bandits at Ungwan Laya near Birnin Gwari. in a[Read More…]
Sheikh Ahmad Gumi says bandits are gathering money made from ransom to acquire anti-aircraft missiles to repel military attack
Estimated Reading Time: 2Ahmad Gumi, a prominent Islamic cleric, says bandits are gathering money made from ransom to acquire anti-aircraft missiles to repel any attack from security forces. Gumi had met with some suspected bandits in a forest in Zamfara state. After the meeting, he asked the federal government to[Read More…]
Zamfara Government proposes RUGA settlements for repentant bandits
Estimated Reading Time: 1The Zamfara State Government says it plans to build Ruga settlements for repentant bandits. It said it already granted amnesty to all the repentant bandits who surrendered their weapons and embraced peace accord initiated by the governor, Bello Matawalle. The Special Adviser to the governor on Public[Read More…]
