Police arrest 200 suspected bandits in Kaduna
The Police Command in Kaduna State, says its operatives have arrested 200 suspected bandits and 20 armed robbery suspects between January and March. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Mohammed Jalige, announced this during a news briefing at the Command’s Headquarters on Wednesday in Kaduna. Jalige also disclosed that the Command recovered 18 AK47 Rifles, […]
Bandits: Carpet bombing has never been a successful military operation — Arewa Youths tell El-Rufa’i
The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum ( AYCF) has told Governor Nasiru Ahmad El-Rufai of Kaduna State that carpet bombing has never been a successful military operation in history.
Zamfara communities bury over 60 killed by fleeing bandits
As Nigerian Air Force ( NAF) continued to pound notorious bandits in Zamfara forests, locals in villages such as Kurfa Danya, Kurfa Magaji Rafin Gero, Tungar Isa and Barayar Zaki in Bukkuyum and Anka Local Government Areas have cried over the loss of many loved ones shot and killed by fleeing bandits.
My 32 harrowing days in bandits’ den —Released victim
By Ibrahim Hassan-Wuyo “Immediately bandits sight military jet, they would chain us tightly and run away to mountain caves to hide. Soldiers do not come into the forest, only military jets do and we saw many military jets in the forest and even escaped being bombed to death, after an inferno that was triggered by […]
FG’s declaration of bandits as terrorists must be backed with action – CSO
By Peter Duru – Makurdi A Civil Society group, the Benue Coalition for Democracy, BCD, has said the federal government’s recent declaration of bandits as terrorists has vindicated Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state for his forthrightness and persistence on the matter; saying that the government should also back the pronouncement with action. President of […]
FG gazettes court order declaring bandits as terrorists
Over a month after the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja proscribed bandit groups as terrorists, the Federal Government, on Wednesday, officially gazetted the court order.
