Tag: bandits

  Save the Children International says at least 1,683 learners were kidnapped in Nigeria between 2014 and 2022, 184 were ...

The police command in Kano has intercepted suspected explosive materials and illicit drugs in two separate operations in different parts ...

The Niger government has given a two-month notice to people living in hamlets around Kainji Lake to vacate the area ...

Nigerian security operatives, comprising the military and the Nigeria Police Force air wing components, have neutralised scores of bandits in ...

The newly elected members of the Fifth Northern Youth Assembly of Nigeria (NYAN) have pledged to support security agencies to ...

Army chief Waidi Shaibu has called for stronger support from traditional institutions to enhance intelligence gathering and boost ongoing security ...

The Kaduna Police Command has said that a veteran photojournalist, Umar Usman, was abducted by bandits in the Danhonu II ...

  Troops of the Joint Task Force (JTF), supported by the air component of Operation Fansan Yamma, have neutralised no ...

  Troops of the Joint Task Force (JTF) have successfully foiled an attempted incursion by bandits into some communities in ...

The Gombe Police Command has said that gunmen killed two persons and kidnapped four in an attack on the Pindiga ...

Suspected bandits on Friday reportedly stormed the Adanla community, a suburb of Igbaja in the Ifelodun Local Government Area of ...

  The Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Kelvin Aneke, has charged troops of Nigerian Air Force not to ...

  The chief of army staff (COAS), Waidi Shaibu, has charged troops of the 2 Division, Nigerian Army, to intensify ...

Bandits have attacked Ihalé and Olle communities in Kabba/Bunu Local Government Area of Kogi State, killing two persons and abducting ...

  The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a notorious supplier of illicit drugs to bandits operating in ...

  The troops’ operation is aimed at ensuring a peaceful harvest season and safe yuletide for residents. Troops of the ...

  Troops of Joint Task Force, Operation Whirl Stroke (OPWS), have killed three suspected bandits and recovered two motorcycles in ...

  Several members of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) have been killed by the Nigerian Air Force ...

The Nigerian Navy on Saturday completed the recruitment of 1,962 ratings to support ongoing joint military operations across the country. ...

  The police command in Sokoto State has arrested three suspected financiers of banditry and several other individuals linked to ...

  Abdullahi, a former Minister of Sports, alleged that the government was reinforcing the banditry “economy”. The spokesman of the ...

  The police command in Kogi has assured residents that their lives and property are safe in the force’s hands ...

Gov. Umaru Bago of Niger has ordered the immediate closure of all schools in the state following the abduction of ...

  The Zamfara Youth Network (ZYN) has described SaharaReporters publication alleging that Minister of State for Defence, Bello Mohammed Matawalle, ...

Troops of the Joint Task Force, Operation MESA, in the Shanono Local Government Area of Kano State, have repelled a ...

The Joint Security Task Force has apprehended a suspected logistics supplier involved in distributing hard drugs to bandits operating in ...

The Kogi government has intensified its crackdown on banditry and other criminal activities in the state. Jerry Omodara, security adviser ...

The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III, has urged the Nigerian Air Force and other security agencies to sustain their ...

The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III, has urged the Nigerian Air Force and other security agencies to sustain their ...

Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of Kwara has commended the people of Isin for resisting an early morning attack by armed bandits, ...

By SUNDAY ABBA, Abuja The Nigerian Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) has refuted the allegation by former Kaduna ...

The Federal Government, through the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA), has denied claims by Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, former ...

The Katsina State government has described as cowards, the bandits who attacked and killed 28 morning worshippers in a Mosque ...

The Katsina State Government has said bandits killed 13 people during morning prayer on Tuesday in a reprisal at Unguwan ...

The Katsina State Government has confirmed that 62 kidnapped victims escaped following an air strike on the camp of a ...

ABUJA - Bandits have again struck a community in Benue State, killing three persons. They attacked the Uikpam community of ...

The chairman, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, retired, Buba Marwa has called for collective action involving families, religious and community ...

The Katsina State House of Assembly has expressed serious concern over what it called the recent increase in bandits’ attacks ...

Gunmen, suspected to be bandits, in the early hours of Saturday, attacked four communities in Akure North Local Government Area ...

former NYSC Director-General, retired Brig.-Gen. Maharazu Tsiga. Abducted former NYSC Director-General, retired Brig.-Gen. Maharazu Tsiga. Bandits have reportedly attacked Tsiga ...