Bandits on Saturday released 10 out of the 13 abducted staff of the Zaria local government council in Kaduna State. The bandits had on November 8...
The Federal High Court, Abuja, last week declared bandits attacking communities in the North-West and North-Central parts of Nigeria as terrorists. This and four other stories...
Iba Gani Adams, the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, has raised an alarm suggesting that bandits and kidnappers have relocated to Kwara and Kogi States respectively. Adams...
The Northern Youths Council of Nigeria (NYCN) has lauded the declaration of bandit groups (Yan Bindiga and Yan Ta’ada ) as terrorists by Justice Taiwo Taiwo...
The Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, said on Friday the declaration of bandits as terrorists would not end the country’s insecurity. Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the...
Police operatives in Zamfara have arrested a 30-year old woman who specialised in the supply of arms and ammunition to bandits in Zamfara, Sokoto, Katsina, Kaduna,...
The Federal High Court, Abuja, has, in a ruling on an ex-parte motion filed by the Federal Government, designated bandits in the country as terrorists. In...
Days after commissioning a school for Fulani herdsmen in Kaduna State, Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has taken a team of medical personnel and Islamic clerics...
President Muhammadu Buhari, while calling out bandits for their nefarious activities, last week, mocked them for living in what he called a fool’s paradise. He also...
Armed bandits reportedly returned to the Abuja Kaduna Road and abducted many travellers on Monday. Prior to this, the gunmen had attacked people on the same...
The controversial Islamic cleric, Ahmad Gumi, said on Sunday the unity of Nigeria was the primary reason for his often derided advocacy for bandits. Gumi, who...
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Farouk Yahaya, on Sunday, charged troops to eliminate suspected bandits and kidnappers and take their weapons. Yahaya made the call...
A community leader in Zagzaga village of Munya Local Government Area of Niger State, has confirmed the abduction of 70 people from the village by bandits....
The Secretary to the Katsina State Government, Alhaji Inuwa Mohammed, said on Thursday bandits killed 213 people and abducted 676 others in the state in just...
At least nine persons have been confirmed dead in fresh bandits’ attacks on three villages in Sabon Birni Local Government Area of Sokoto State. The spokesman...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday condemned the killing of 15 people in Goronyo and Illela Local Government Areas of Sokoto State. The bandits had in separate...
Armed bandits have killed at least 15 persons in Illela and Goronyo local government areas of Sokoto State. The state Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, confirmed the incidents...
Police operatives in Katsina on Sunday repelled an attack by bandits on Gidan Duka village, in Kankara local government area of the state and rescued 11...
Senator Ibrahim Gobir, representing Sokoto East on Wednesday, lamented the failure of security agencies to protect communities affected by banditry in Sokoto State. Gobir, who stated...
The Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) on Monday dismissed the reports on the arrest of a Nigerian Air Force (NAF) operative, Sgt. Torsabo Solomon, over the attack...
Bandits on Saturday killed two out of the 66 abducted worshippers of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Chikun local government area of Kaduna State. The hoodlums abducted...
The Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle, said on Friday politicians frustrated the government’s reconciliatory move with bandits in the state. The governor initiated dialogue with bandits...
The House of Representatives on Thursday promised to provide the Nigerian Army with the necessary support in the fight against bandits and Boko Haram insurgents in...
The Kaduna State Government has confirmed the elimination of various terrorists’ camps across the state through aerial bombardment by military fighter jets. This was stated on...
The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) on Wednesday joined the growing call for President Muhammadu Buhari to declare bandits as terrorists in the country. In a statement...
Controversial Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has, once again, kicked against any attempt at labelling Northern bandits as terrorists, and has instead advocated for a blanket...
Senator Shehu Sani, who represented Kaduna Central at the National Assembly has mocked the Federal Government, asking it to declare bandits, terrorising the North-West and parts...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits reportedly killed two worshippers at a Baptist Church in Kakau Daji, Chikun local government area of Kaduna State on Sunday. The...
Armed bandits have abducted at least nine people at Dangilmi community, Kachia Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The community is a few metres away from...
The Minister of Defence, Major-Gen. Bashir Magashi (rtf) on Friday, explained why the Federal Government has not declared bandits wreaking havoc in the North-West part of...
The Nigerian Airforce Base in Gusau has disclosed that its operatives from the 207 Quick Response Group Base Gusau, on Tuesday, intercepted about 1,000 Litres of...
Former media aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri has slammed a renowned Islamic cleric, Ahmad Gumi for always coming to the defence of bandits wreaking...
Kaduna based controversial Islamic scholar, Sheikh Abubakar Gumi has advocated for clergymen of Igbo and Yoruba extractions to talk to members of the Indigenous People of...
Kaduna based controversial Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has warned against declaration of bandits as terrorists, saying such action from government will come with a prize....
The Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures in Nigeria on Saturday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to declare banditry and kidnapping as acts of terrorism in the...
Traditional rulers in Ningi Emirate in Bauchi State, particularly district, village and ward heads have been warned against conniving with criminals to perpetrate evils in the...
Bandits on Wednesday night attacked a train on the Kaduna-Abuja route, blowing up the rail track. The Nigerian Railway Corporation has suspended indefinitely train services on...
A former lawmaker representing Kaduna Central in the 8th Senate, Shehu Sani, on Thursday narrated how he escaped death when the train he boarded traversing the...
The Kaduna State Government has revealed that at least 888 people were killed in violent attacks by bandits across the state in the last nine months....
The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, on Wednesday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to declare bandits causing mayhem in the North-West as terrorists. El-Rufai, who made the...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits on Wednesday abducted 13 passengers at Konar Barau village, Rafi local government area of Niger State. The state’s Commissioner of Police,...
The Kaduna government said on Tuesday over 50 bandits were killed by troops during operations in Birnin Gwari local government area of the state. The state’s...
Gunmen on Tuesday killed three traditional rulers in Imo State. Eyewitnesses told journalists the hoodlums stormed the venue of the monarchs’ meeting at Njaba local government...
Police operatives in Kano have arrested two suspected suppliers of fuel to bandits in the state. The spokesman of the state police command, Abdullahi Haruna, who...
The Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, on Monday confirmed that at least 43 people were killed by bandits during an attack on a crop market at...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has stated that bandits are just criminals who don’t have an ideology compared to groups such as...
An attack by bandits on a village market in the Goronyo district of Sokoto State on Sunday has left about 30 people dead, the state government...
After 32 days in the hands of kidnappers, the abducted Emir of Bungudu in Zamfara State, Alhaji Hassan Attahiru, has regained his freedom. The development was...
No fewer than 12 people have been killed in an attack by bandits who invaded Sakajiki village in Kaura Namoda Emirate in Zamfara State. The incident...