Popular Islamic Cleric, Sheikh Abubakar Gumi, made the trends across social media platforms in Nigeria on Friday following his meeting with kidnappers. The Sheikh urged the...
An Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, on Thursday reportedly met with the kidnappers of the Kagara schoolchildren. Ripples Nigeria gathered that the criminals relayed their demands...
The Minister of Defence, Major Gen. Bashir Magashi (retd), on Wednesday, challenged Nigerians not to leave the fight against insecurity to the military alone. The minister,...
Renowned Islamic scholar, Sheikh Abubakar Gumi has accused the Nigerian military authorities, saying they do not want the fight against insurgency to end because they make...
The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday frowned at state governors in the North-West negotiating with bandits, insisting that such negotiation is fuelling banditry in the country. The...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has come to the defence of the Governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle, saying it is unfair to...
Bandits have killed 23 persons in attacks across five local government areas of Kaduna State in the last 24 hours. The state’s Commissioner for Internal Security...
Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai on Monday, February 8, warned that efforts by a prominent northern Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi to ensure bandits embrace peace...
A notorious leader of bandits, Auwalu Daudawa, and six members of his gang on Monday, February 8, repented and surrendered 20 AK-47 rifles and one RPG...
Suspected bandits on Saturday killed 19 persons in Birnin Gwari and Kajuru local government area of Kaduna State. The state’s Commissioner for Security and Home Affairs,...
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has lamented the invasion of farms in different parts of the country by herdsmen and their cows. The Islamic group, while...
Kaduna based popular Islamic scholar, Sheikh Dr Aimed Abubakar Mahmoud Gumi, has reportedly visited bandits operating in forests around Shinkafi and Gumi local government areas of...
Suspected bandits on Saturday killed at least 12 persons and injured several other persons in Na’ikko village, Giwa local government area of Kaduna State. The state’s...
Troops of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Thursday killed several suspected bandits in air raids in Birnin Gwari, Giwa, Igabi, and Chikun local government areas...
Residents of Bassa community in Shiroro Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger State have been left in shock following an early morning attack that saw bandits...
Abuja is under siege. Terror lives and breathes here. Citizens are kidnapped every day from their homes but sadly, some of these tragedies escape outrage and...
Armed bandits on Sunday attacked some communities in Munya and Paikoro local government areas of Niger State and killed three persons. The bandits who stormed the...
The Niger State governor, Abubakar Sani Bello, on Saturday proposed the same punishment for kidnappers, armed bandits, and their informants in the state. The governor, who...
Armed bandits on Friday killed at least six persons in separate attacks in Chikun and Giwa local government areas of Kaduna State. The state’s Commissioner for...
The Governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle has denied rumours making the rounds that he donated some new Hilux vehicles to repentant Boko Haram bandits in...
Worried by rising cases of bandit attacks on communities in Zamfara State, President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered his ministers and security chiefs to immediately end the...
The Director-General, All Progressives Congress (APC) Progressive Governors Forum (PGF), Salihu Moh. Lukman, on Thursday advocated for the death penalty for kidnappers, bandits and their beneficiaries....
Crime has no ethnic face. When criminality is defined according to ethnic origin or religion, social cohesion is threatened. There are people of criminal inclinations in...
The Zamfara State government on Tuesday dismissed reports of its alleged support for bandits in the state. An online media platform had on Tuesday accused the...
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has revealed that it lost one of its Special Forces (SF) personnel during a fierce gun battle with heavily armed Boko...
Armed bandits on Monday attacked Igabi and Zaria local government areas of Kaduna State and killed four persons. The state’s Commissioner for Internal Security and Home...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has confirmed the killing of no fewer than 35 Boko Haram terrorists and the recovery of many rustled cows stolen by bandits...
The Zamfara State Police Command on Sunday confirmed the killing of eight people by suspected bandits who invaded Janbako Community of Maradun Local Government Area of...
Armed bandits on Sunday killed five people including an 80-year old woman in some communities in Kaduna State. Other victims are ward head and three residents...
At least five policemen were reportedly killed on Friday after armed bandits attacked Farinruwa village in Birnin Gwari local government area of Kaduna State. The Chairman...
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Thursday killed scores of bandits terrorizing residents of Farin Ruwa in Birnin Gwari local government area of Kaduna State. The...
Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka has condemned the action of some northern governors in the country, who negotiate with bandits and other criminal elements, describing the...
The abduction of six siblings and one other girl by bandits in Kadauri village in the Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State has been confirmed...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits on Thursday attacked the Katarma village in Chikun local government area of Kaduna State and abducted an unspecified number of women....
The Governor of Niger State, Abubakar Sani Bello has said foreigners, especially from Mali and Sudan, are being recruited as bandits in the North through social...
The Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi, has accused desperate politicians of aligning with bandits in the South-East to destabilise Nigeria. Umahi stated this after a meeting...
Gunmen, suspected to be bandits struck again on Sunday along Birnin Gwari-Kaduna Highway killing nine travellers, including infants in Zankoro village, Kaduna State. Also, the bandits...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits on Friday killed 19 people in Kaya village, Giwa local government area of Kaduna State. Nine other persons were also injured...
Troops of Operation Hadarin Daji on Thursday rescued 10 persons held hostage by bandits in Katsina and Zamfara States. The Coordinator of Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen....
Suspected bandits on Monday killed an uncle to a member of the Katsina State House of Assembly simply identified as Rufa’i. The hoodlums also killed a...
The Southern Kaduna Peoples’ Union (SOKAPU), a socio-cultural group in the state, says some residents of Gbagyi community in the Chikun local government area of the...
An angry mob of villagers have killed six bandits in Sanga and Lere local government areas of Kaduna State, according to the state Commissioner for Internal...
The Defence Headquarters said the troops of Operation Whirl Stroke on Thursday foiled an attack on passengers traveling from Bayelsa to Jos, Plateau State. The Coordinator...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) claimed on Friday that troops of Operation Hadarin Daji had killed 38 suspected bandits in separate operations in Katsina and Zamfara States....
Tragedy struck in Galadimawa in the Giwa Local Government Area of Kaduna State, when heavily armed gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on people in the area...
Bandits have once again killed seven people, injured four, while three others were kidnapped in separate attacks in Chikun local government area of Kaduna State in...
The Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), Dr. Kayode Fayemi has called on state governors in the country to come down hard on banditry, kidnapping...
A monarch in Zamfara State, Alhaji Attahiru Ahmad, on Sunday urged the state Governor, Bello Matawalle, to authorize the use of weapons by residents of the...
About 80 students of Hizburrahim Islamiyya School, an Islamic school in Mahuta community in the Dandume local government area of Katsina State, were abducted on Saturday,...
