Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has identified unemployment as the major reason for the rising spate of criminal activities like banditry and kidnapping in Nigeria. OBJ who...
In a move geared towards curbing the spate of banditry attacks in Zamfara State, Governor Dauda Lawal, on Wednesday, signed an Executive Order prohibiting the use...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Abbas Tajudeen, on Wednesday, vowed that the House will hold security agencies accountable for every penny allocated to them...
Minister of State, Defense, Bello Matawalle has visited the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to attend a conference of Ministers of Defence from Africa, Europe and Arab...
The Nigerian government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the United States for the training of commanders of the Police Special Intervention Squad (SIS)...
Nigeria’s Vice President, Kashim Shettima has revealed that President Bola Tinubu has approved N50 billion for the take off of the Pulaaku Initiative in selected northern...
The Sokoto State government has signed into law a bill to establish a Community Guards Corps to complement efforts of mainstream security agencies in the fight...
The Sokoto State House of Assembly has approved a proposal by Governor Ahmed Aliyu to establish a Community Guards Corps in the state in a bid...
The Minister of Solid Minerals, Dele Alake, has alleged that powerful Nigerians involved in illegal mining were responsible for criminals activities, including sponsoring terrorism, and banditry...
Ahmad Sani Yerima, a former governor of Zamfara State, said that those who engage in banditry do so out of a combination of illiteracy and poverty....
Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has reiterated President Muhammadu Buhari’s assurance that insecurity, especially banditry and terrorist acts in the country will end by December. The...
The Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, on Friday challenged Nigerians to find solutions to rising crude oil theft and insecurity in the country instead of focusing...
A former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Prof. Usman Yusuf, says even if one million Tucano jets are deployed against Fulani herdsmen...
Samuel Ortom, the Governor of Benue State, on Tuesday, reminded the international community that the federal government is unwilling to use the heavy stick against homicidal...
The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Saturday promised to end banditry in six months if elected the country’s president in 2023. Wike, according to a...
The Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, claimed on Friday that he has a template to end the country’s insecurity. Insecurity has been a major challenge in...
The Zamfara State government has sent 97 Islamic clerics on Lesser Haji to Saudi Arabia to seek God’s intervention on the banditry in the state. This...
The leader of the notorious bandit group in Zamfara, Bello Turji, on Sunday explained why insecurity persisted in Zamfara. In a chat with Daily Trust in...
A former Borno Governor, Sen. Ali Modu-Sheriff has expressed optimism at the elimination of terrorism and banditry as the Zamfara State Government battles to tackle the...
Five residents of Atisa community in Kurmin Masara, Zangon Kataf local government area of Kaduna State, have been killed, while several houses were razed after suspected...
Despite the war against terrorism, the Kaduna Government has published a report containing the exact figures of lives lost to the menace in the past year....
The All Progressive Congress (APC) in Zamfara State on Tuesday rejected the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) demand for Governor Bello Matawalle’s resignation over the growing insecurity...
Last week, President Muhammadu Buhari, inadvertently called attention, once again, to the effect that his governance efforts may not be impacting well when he begged Nigerians...
The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has detailed the genesis of banditry across the country. Amaechi, who featured in a Channels Television’s programme, “Hard Copy,” on...
The Presidency on Sunday revealed the importance of the bilateral ties between Nigeria and Turkey towards the war against the spiralling insecurity in the country. This...
The fight against notorious bandits raining terror and kidnapping students in Northwest Nigeria took a new dimension in September as the government explored shutting down telecommunications...
The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has implored the Federal Government to entrench state policing by granting governors unilateral powers to secure their respective domains. According to...
The Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, has ordered the immediate shutting down of telecommunications networks in 14 of the 23 local government areas of the state...
Northern traders lost N447 billion to banditry, #EndSARS protest and general insecurity in the North. National President of Northern Traders Union, Mohammed Ibrahim has said that...
An Islamic cleric, Sheikh Nuru Khalid, has come out hard on President Muhammadu Buhari over insecurity and the activities of bandits in the country, saying the...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has lauded the release of abducted Nigerian students in the past few weeks by their abductors, but lamented the fact...
Two members of the Katsina State House of Assembly, on Monday, broke down in tears during plenary while deliberating over the escalating insecurity situation bedevilling the...
Due to the unending series of insecurity, banditry, abductions and killings in different parts of the country, President Muhammadu Buhari has scheduled a meeting with Security...
Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State has given an insight into how cattle rustling snowballed into the current spate of kidnapping and banditry in the...
The Governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle, has warned that the escalating insecurity and banditry in the North-West can ‘swallow” the entire country if necessary measures...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan, has advised the Federal Government not to use “bullets and other forces of arms alone” to fight banditry, armed robbery, and other...
President Muhammadu Buhari has attributed the inability of his government to develop Nigeria to the lingering insecurity in the country. Buhari said this at a dinner...
A Kaduna State Security Incidents Report for the Second Quarter of 2021 presented to Governor Nasir El-Rufai on Tuesday, has shown that 222 persons were killed,...
The Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, said on Tuesday he knows the individuals behind kidnapping, banditry, and other forms of criminality in the state. Mohammed...
True is the saying that, when it rains, it pours. And if the last few weeks have told us anything in Northern Nigeria, it is that...
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Thursday, responded to the Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi who had compared the movement to criminal bandits. Gumi had...
The controversial Islamic cleric, Sheik Ahmed Gumi, who has continuously canvassed amnesty for the bandits in northern Nigeria, has said that banditry in the region is...
A cleric, Sheik Abubakar Gumi has alleged that a number of Nigerian security operatives are involved in acts of aiding banditry in the country, as the...
Zamfara State governor, Bello Matawalle, has tasked the state residents to ensure communities are rid of bandits and criminals. Matawalle made this call during his statement...
The Catholic Bishop of the Sokoto diocese, Matthew Kukah, has berated the Federal Government over its lack of empathy and concern towards the populace as kidnapping...
Following the spate of banditry and insecurity in Zamfara State, the state governor, Bello Matawalle, has suspended the Emir of Dansadau in Maru Local Government Area...
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno has urged the new Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Maj.-Gen. Farouk Yahaya, to sustain the fight against insurgents, bandits, and other...
Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, the Sultan of Sokoto and President General, Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), has uged government at all levels to come...
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Usman Baba, has pledged to ensure the elimination of banditry and terrorism across the country. Baba made this call on...
The Kaduna State Government continues to face severe criticism over its treatment of workers, which according to the organised labour, is responsible for the security challenges...
