Bandits on Tuesday killed 29 people in Babban Rafi village in Gummi Local Government Area of Zamfara State. An indigene of the village, Musa Ibrahim, who...
The Zamfara State Government led by Governor Governor Bello Muhammad Matawalle has vowed to deal with unrepentant bandits who refused to embrace peace with a view...
At least four seminarians were on Wednesday abducted by armed bandits at the Good Shepherd Catholic Major Seminary in Kakau, Kaduna State. The Registrar of the...
The Niger State government has moved to mobilize the joint task force for the reinforcement and regular trail of bandits following an upsurge of attacks by...
A total number of 2,000 repentant bandits, who have terrorised Gusau, Zamfara, State, for years have surrendered after handing over 190 locally made rifles and shotguns...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday charged the security agents to hunt down criminal bandits and kidnappers wherever they are, saying the current security situation in the...
The Department of Petroleum Resources has told filling stations in Northwest state of Zamfara to stop supplying petroleum products to bandits in the area. The DPR...
The Nigerian Army claimed on Saturday that its troops have recorded remarkable successes in their onslaught on insurgents, bandits, kidnappers and other criminal elements nationwide. The...
Troops of Operation Thunder Strike have rescued three villagers abducted from their farms on Wednesday in Maro village along Kaduna-Abuja highway. The Deputy Director Army Public...
A councilor, Gambo Yarliyau, his wife and one-year-old daughter have been freed alongside two other unnamed victims by bandits who abducted them, the Katsina State Government...
The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Sadique Abubakar, on Friday revealed that the Nigerian Airforce was bridging the gaps in its operations as a way...
A directive has been issued to troops fighting bandits, marauders and other criminals in Zamfara, Katsina and Sokoto States, among others, to deal decisively with criminal...
At least 10 armed bandits have been killed by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), through its Air Component of Operation Hadarin Daji (OPHD) at forests near...
Panic rented the air on Wednesday evening when some bandits invaded Kwanar Mayanci, Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State, on motorcycles and looted residents’ belongings....
President Muhammadu Buhari has been advised on the need to consider giving amnesty to kidnappers and bandits terrorising the country in order for peace to reign...
The Inspector-General of Police, (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, on Thursday confirmed that Police alongside other security agencies and state governors had been in dialogue with bandits in...
Authorities of the Nigerian Army, police and other security agencies deployed in the ongoing war against banditry and kidnapping in Katsina State have launched investigations into...
The police in Zamfara State on Friday said bandits terrorizing the state had surrendered no fewer than 19 assorted rifles, to show they had agreed to...
Soldiers and some policemen have been mentioned as those fueling the activities of bandits and kidnappers in Katsina. This came as some repentant bandits made the...
Bandits in Katsina State on Wednesday met with the state Governor, Aminu Masari, insisting that they would not not accept any dialogue with government except their...
The timely arrival of the police officers attached to Operation Puff Adder saved the people of Tashar Kadanya village in the Batsaro Local Governorment Area of...
Two bandits terrorizing commuters along Kaduna-Abuja Road were killed on Sunday by troops of the 1 Division of the Nigerian Army, Kaduna. The troops were deployed...
Katsina State governor, Aminu Masari, on Thursday, declared his readiness to meet with bandits terrorizing the state at their hideout for dialogue in order to ensure...
Katsina State governor, Aminu Bello Masari, on Thursday met with representatives of bandits terrorizing the eight frontline local governments in the state in order to find...
A group of bandits on Thursday allegedly attacked and killed a Catholic church priest, Reverend Father David Tanko at Kufai Amadu in Takum, Taraba State. The...
Armed Bandits continued their assault on Katsina State, Northwest Nigeria, in an early Tuesday morning raid on Wurma Village in Kurfi Local Government Area of the...
A bandit, Aliu Musa on Wednesday revealed how weapons were supplied to his gang members in Katsina forest. According to him, the weapons were supplied with...
No fewer than four people have been killed at Tsayu village in Jibiya Local Government Area of Katsina State. The spokesman for Katsina police command, ASP...
Two women, Inno Abubakar Moriki, 55, from Moriki in Zamfara State, Halima Muhammad, 50, and Lawali Musa, a 13-yr-old boy from Isa Local Government Area of...
The Governor of Katsina State, Aminu Masari, has revealed the decision taken by Northern governors in regard to the activities of bandits and cattle rustlers in...
Herdsmen in the country have been banned from carrying arms publicly by Northern governors at a meeting with the Inspector General of Police, Muhammed Adamu in...
Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawella, has expressed delight in what he described as successful negotiation with bandits. This is coming as no fewer than 300 persons...
The people of Jimriwa Village in Kaura-Namoda Local Government Area of Zamfara State, on Saturday, took the corpse of one of their people killed by bandits...
Lawyers under the auspices of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Owo branch, Ondo State have said they would not defend any kidnapper or bandit caught in...
A Katsina Senior Magistrate Court on Tuesday ordered four members of a local vigilance group to be remanded in prison for the killing of 17 persons...
There was fear in Delta on Monday when some suspected bandits attacked an orphanage home, Saints Orphanage in Issele-Uku in Aniocha Local Government Area of Delta...
Armed bandits have reportedly killed a total of 27 persons in communities in Katsina State in fresh attacks, police and local sources has said. This is...
Nigerian Service Chiefs, on Thursday revealed that they have changed strategy in addressing the unending insecurity plaguing the country. They told this to State House correspondents...
The Nigeria Air Force on Wednesday, announced that its operatives have killed no fewer than 20 bandits in Zamfara forest. The NAF spokesperson, Air Commodore Ibikunle...
The peace being craved in Zamfara state appears coming to reality as commander of bandits on Tuesday, sent representatives to attend a peace meeting with stakeholders...
Troops of the Nigerian Army attached to Operation Harbin Kunama 3 have arrested about 25 bandits while others were killed in gun battles in Sokoto and...
As part of efforts to rid the country of banditry, troops of Operation Hadarin Daji have killed no fewer than 15 bandits terrorizing the citizens of...
The Nigerian Army has made good its threat to smoke bandits out of their hideouts in Moriki forest of Zamfara, if they failed to surrender. This...
Three members of suspected band of bandits have been arrested by the men of Nigerian Army, in Sokoto state. The army spokesman, Col. Sagir Musa, in...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday reassured Nigerians that his administration would soon bring violent killing of Nigerians by bandits and other criminal elements to an end....
One Bawa Gomna, a Suspected kidnap kingpin, has been arrested by troops of the Nigerian Army alongside 20 bandits suspected to have been responsible for terrorising...
Despite a warning from government, and the police, against the extrajudicial killing of suspected bandits in the state, Zamfara State Volunteers Group Association have said they...
Bandits operating in Niger State, North-Central, Nigeria, sustained their attacks on Shiroro Local Government Area of the State on Thursday. The attacks, which started on Sunday,...
Fifty people have been confirmed dead after a Saturday evening attacks on Isa and Rabah Local Government Areas of Sokoto State. According to reports, the victims...
Three brothers have been killed on their farm by bandits in Zaka village, Safana Local Government Area of Katsina State. Their corpses which were accompanied by...
