The order by President Bola Tinubu for the Nigerian military top brass to relocate to Sokoto State in a bid to flush out bandits and terrorists...
Bandits have finally released students and staff of the Federal University, Gusau, Zamfara State. The victims were abducted seven months ago by bandits. The victims were...
Troops of the Nigerian Army have killed four suspected bandits and rescued 20 hostages in Birnin Gwari and Giwa local government areas of Kaduna State. The...
Bandits on Sunday morning attacked two churches at Bakinpah-Maro Community in the Kajuru local government area of Kaduna State and killed three persons. They also abducted...
Outspoken Sokoto State-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Murtala Bello Asada, has again, accused Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, of sponsoring another notorious bandit leader identified...
Armed bandits on Thursday killed three soldiers and four police operatives along the Zamfara highway on Thursday. The state’s Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Dalijan, confirmed the...
Armed bandits have disrupted traffic on the busy Gusau-Funtua highway, abducting an unspecified number of travellers. According to Channels Television, Yusuf Tsafe, a stranded commuter, reported...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits on Monday attacked a Primary Healthcare Centre in Kuyallo, Birnin-Gwari local government area of Kaduna State and abducted several people, including...
A Sokoto State-based Islamic cleric, Mallam Bello Asada, has accused the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle of sponsoring several bandit leaders including Bello Turji,...
In response to recent video footage purportedly showing bandit leader Bello Turji seeking reconciliation with the government, the Arewa Elders Progressive Group has advised President Bola...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits on Wednesday attacked Magamar Jibia town in Jibia local government area of Katsina State and abducted three people. Five people, including...
In the early hours, suspected armed bandits killed a police officer and a local vigilante in Sokoto. Confirming the incident, state police spokesman ASP Ahmed Rufai...
In response to the escalating violence from terrorists and bandits in the North West, particularly in Zamfara, Sokoto, and Kebbi States, Dr. Bello Muhammed Matawalle, the...
The Federal Government has launched a military campaign against the bandits terrorising states in the North-West. The Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, disclosed this...
Troops of the Nigerian Army have killed nine suspected bandits and recovered dangerous automatic weapons and ammunition in Kaduna State. The army said in a post...
Troops of the Nigerian Army on Thursday killed eight suspected bandits during a fighting patrol in Birnin Gwari local government area of Kaduna State. The state’s...
The Katsina State Police Command has successfully foiled an attempt by bandits to kidnap a girl in Faru village, Jibia Local Government Area of the state....
A Nigerian soldier has practically put the blame for the inability of the Nigerian military in defeating terrorists and bandits and putting an end to insurgency...
The Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, has condemned the murder of the Head of Gatawa District in Sabon Birni Local Government Area of Sokoto...
Bandits on Wednesday abducted 10 people in the Moriki community, Zurmi local government area of Zamfara State. A resident of the community confirmed the incident on...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits on Wednesday killed 13 persons on their farms in the Alawa community of Shiroro Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger State....
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, has expressed sadness and condemnation over the kidnap and killing of the District Head of Gatawa in...
The abducted district head of Gatawa, Alhaji Muhammad Bawa, has reportedly died in bandits’ captivity due to non-payment of ransom. A family source disclosed the news...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits on Monday night abducted the wife and two children of the head of Galadimawa Village, Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna...
The Kaduna State Police Command has announced the arrest of two notorious gunrunners and an informant for kidnappers, as well as the rescue of two kidnap...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits reportedly killed six persons in four communities of Kauru local government area of Kaduna State on Monday. The terrorists also abducted...
Police operatives in Kaduna have rescued three kidnapped persons and killed a suspected bandit in the state. The spokesman for the state police command, Mansir Hassan,...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits in the early hours of Tuesday reportedly killed a lecturer with the Federal University, Dutsinma in Katsina State. The victim, Dr....
A group of over 30 terrorists attacked the Guto area of Bwari Area Council in Abuja on Sunday morning, killing one person and kidnapping four others....
Troops of Operation Safe Haven have successfully raided a forest in Plateau State, arresting bandits and arms couriers, and recovering several weapons. The operation, which lasted...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits on Saturday morning abducted the parish priest of St. Raymond Catholic Church Damba in Gusau, Zamfara State, Rev. Fr. Mikah Suleiman....
Troops of Operation Whirl Punch have killed several bandits in another coordinated attack in the Giwa local government area of Kaduna State. The state’s Commissioner for...
The Nigerian Army has resolved to deploy 5,937 soldiers who recently passed out from the Depot to fight bandits, cattle rustlers and criminals in the country....
The Nigerian military have reportedly killed one terrorist, Buharin Yadi, said to be one of the deadliest bandit leaders terrorising the North in the last decade....
The Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal has expressed his disappointment with the way the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) and the military have been allegedly handling the...
Social media users in Nigeria have called on former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to refrain from calling terrorists bandits after he released a statement condemning an...
Police operatives in Katsina on Friday killed three suspected bandits and rescued all the kidnapped persons in the state. The spokesman for the state police command,...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits have killed at least 30 people in separate attacks on communities of Dutsinma and Safana local government areas of Katsina State....
The Senate has urged President Bola Tinubu to overhaul the security architecture response to incessant attacks by bandits in the North-West and North Central regions, and...
Bandits have reportedly abducted no fewer than 26 persons in some communities in Niger State. The abduction occured in Mashegu and Shiroro Local Government Areas of...
The Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Police Command has intensified security measures in response to a suspected planned invasion by bandits. Commissioner of Police Benneth Igweh has...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits on Friday night killed seven persons and abducted 150 others in Kuchi village, Munya local government area of Niger State. The...
Troops of the Nigerian Army on Friday killed six suspected bandits in Kaduna State. In a statement posted on its X platform on Saturday, the army...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits have killed at least nine persons and destroyed six houses in Zurak and Dakai communities of Wase of Local Government Area...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits reportedly invaded Yar-Malamai village in the Faskari Local Government Area of Katsina State and abducted several people on Monday. The victims...
Kogi State government says some of the students of Confluence University of Science and Technology, Osara, Okene, who were kidnapped by bandits on Friday have been...
The Zamfara State government has distanced itself from purported plans by the Federal Government to negotiate with bandits in the state. The government was reacting to...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits on Monday killed an operative of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) identified as Mike Ode in the Shaapera...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits in the early hours of Tuesday kidnapped the manager of TAJ Bank in Zamfara State, Mansur Kaura. Eyewitnesses told journalists the...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits on Thursday night killed at least 24 persons and injured several others in four communities of Sabuwa local government area of...
