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…Wants govt to rather compensate families of victims …Recommends joint operation in all states concerned …Says FG must live up to their responsibility …Reveals why past peace deals with bandits failed …90% of bandits who accepted amnesty were killed by other groups Current waves of insecurity in Katsina have continued to be a source of
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…Says no ransom was paid to the kidnappers Gov. Aminu Masari of Katsina State on Friday said that security forces have rescued 103 kidnapped victims. Masari made this known while addressing some of the rescued victims at the Government House, Katsina. “This is in continuation of the exercise that started with the recovery of the 344
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By Bashir Bello Emir of Daura, Alhaji Umar Faruq Umar has lost his younger brother, Abdullahi Umar, in a fatal motor accident along the Katsina-Daura road. Late Abdullahi died alongside two of his friends in the auto-crash that occurred on Sunday. Hundreds of sympathizers, prominent personalities including Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina have continued
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By Bashir Bello Katsina State is set to begin community policing with no fewer than 554 special constables. The state Commissioner of Police, CP Sanusi Buba disclosed this while addressing the indigene constables who recently passed out from the premier Police College, Kaduna. READ ALSO: Gang violence claims one at Ogoni village in Rivers CP
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…Foil bandits’ attempt to move rustled cattle By Bashir Bello & Ibrahim HassanWuyo NINE bandits were reportedly killed by troops in Kaduna State in a gun battle while attempting to cross over from the eastern part of the Kaduna-Abuja road to the western part, with a large herd of rustled cattle, yesterday. This came as
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…Kill 8 in Kaduna, Katsina …Passengers in commercial bus abducted in Edo By Aliyu Dangida, Ozioruva Aliu, Ibrahim HassanWuyo, Abdulmumin Murtala & Bashir Bello The security situation in the country is not abating as kidnappers are having free days in several parts of the country with over 22 people reportedly kidnapped; eight killed and many
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The Katsina police command on Sunday disclosed it has rescued 80 students of an Islamiya school kidnapped by bandits on Saturday night. The students according to the Command’s Public Relation Officer (PRO), SP Gambo Isah, were returning from an Islamic occasion when they ran into the bandits who had earlier kidnapped the four victims and rustled
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The Northern Governors’ Forum (NGF) has applauded the Federal Government, Katsina state government and the security agencies over the release of the abducted students of Government Secondary School, Kankara in Katsina state The chairman of the forum and governor of Plateau, Mr Simon Lalong, made the commendation in a statement on Friday in Jos. According
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***we’re used to sound of gunshots while in school ***fear God, bring perpetrators to book – Buhari tells top security officers By Bashir Bello – Katsina Abdulmajid Umar, a Junior Secondary School, JSS 2 student of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara and among the 344 students freed last night have called for the relocation of
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In what appears like a hint that the much-expected change in the leadership of security apparatuses will soon happen, President Muhammadu Buhari has said those that will remain as heads of security agencies next year will be extremely busy.
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