Zamfara State Police Command has arrested 8 suspects over banditry-related offences, criminal conspiracy, robbery and fraud. Addressing newsmen at the State Police headquarters in Gusau, the police spokesman, S P Mohammed Shehu said 15 locally fabricated firearms were also recovered from the suspects. ”One hundred and forty-six rounds of AK47 …
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The Nasarawa State Police Command has confirmed the abduction of some pupils of LGEA Primary School, Alwaza, Alwaza community, Doma local government area of the state in the early hours of Friday. DSP Rahman Nansel, the state Police Public Relations Officer, who confirmed the incident, said already, a joint team …
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Troops of the Nigerian Army in a clearance operation killed bandits in Kachia forest on Tuesday. This was confirmed to Newsextra24 by a resident in the area, Musa Arungo. Samuel Aruwan, Kaduna State Commissioner of Internal Security and Home Affairs also confirmed the news in a statement. He said feedback …
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Nigerian Army Troops of Operation Forest Sanity killed eight bandits and seized six motorcycles during ambush patrols in the Chikun/Birnin Gwari general areas of Kaduna State. While confirming the development on Friday, Samuel Aruwan, the state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, said according to feedback to the Kaduna …
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Armed gunmen have reportedly killed two persons at the Abdulsalam Abubakar General Hospital Hospital, Gulu, Lapai Local Government Area of Niger State. They also kidnapped over ten persons including the hospital Doctor, the Pharmacist, among others. Newsextra24 gathered the incident occurred in the early hours of today, Tuesday at about …
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Bandits in Kaduna now collect ‘mudu’ of grains as ransom for kidnapped victims. Bandits terrorising the Birnin-Gwari local government area of Kaduna State have killed one resident and kidnapped 20. They however released six hostages they kidnapped last Saturday at Farm Centre after collecting 20 ‘mudu’ of rice, 20 ‘mudu’ …
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THE federal government has assured Nigerians that terrorists and bandits and their cohorts will never again hold sway in Nigeria. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who disclosed this at a joint press conference on security in Abuja on Monday, said as far as the “daunting security …
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Three persons killed while scores were reportedly abducted by bandits in Bali town, the headquarters of Bali Local Government Area of Taraba State. According to PUNCH, several sources in Bali via telephone said that the bandits who rode on motorcycles attacked and killed a personnel of Taraba Marshall at a …
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Bandits have killed two villagers when they attacked members of Ansaru terrorist sect “preaching” to locals in Birnin-Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State. According to Daily Trust, the terrorists were said to have stormed Damari village under Kazage Ward in Eastern part of the local government in an attempt …
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At least thirteen security operatives were killed when daredevil bandits attacked a mining site in Niger state. Three Chinese nationals and other persons were also kidnapped during the attack. The attack, which also claimed the lives of some civilians, was said to have occurred on Wednesday afternoon in Ajata, Aboki …
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