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Monarch of Agamọ Community in Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State, Oba Kehinde Falodun, has reportedly been killed by suspected bandits. The traditional ruler was reportedly murdered on Wednesday evening while resisting an attempt by the gunmen to abduct him. A source in the community said about 10 armed men stormed the palace […]
Continue ReadingBandits have attacked the National Park Service (NPS) office in Oloka, Orire Local Government Area of Oyo State and killed five persons, injured many others. The attack occurred at about 9:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 6, 2026. Preliminary information indicates that at least five NPS personnel were killed during the assault. As of the time […]
Continue ReadingThe United States carried out a strike against Islamic State militants in northwest Nigeria at the request of Nigeria’s government, President Donald Trump and the U.S. military said on Thursday, claiming the group had been targeting Christians in the region. “Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and […]
Continue ReadingWhether Nigerians should be given the right to bear firearms or not is an argument that recurs each time there is an uptick in security issues. It is a solution that has been proffered by ex-Generals like Theophilus Danjuma; politicians such as former House of Representatives majority leader Alhassan Ado-Doguwa and Senator Kabir Marafa, during […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, is under fire after allegedly being linked with terrorism and banditry in the country. Matawalle is alleged to have procured vehicles for bandit leaders, including a notorious kingpin, Bello Turji, and others while serving as Zamfara State Governor. Current state governor, Dauda Lawal, who appeared on a […]
Continue ReadingA bride has to remove her wedding gown and ran into the bush to escape abduction by bandits who attacked them while she was being taken to her matrimonial home in Niger state, Nigeria. According to reports, the bride was being taken from a village in Paikoro LGA to Kuta, headquarters of Shiroro LGA, when […]
Continue ReadingA senior police officer and four other police personnel lost their lives on Saturday during a gun battle with bandits in Gurara Local Government Area of Niger State, Nigeria. The Paiko Divisional Police Officer, SP Mukhtar Sabiu, was killed when he led his men to dislodge armed bandits who were sighted around Kwakuti-Dajigbe villages in […]
Continue ReadingReports coming in say bandits attacked Kafin Koro Community in Paikoro Local Government Area of Niger State, Nigeria in the early hours of Sunday have burnt a Reverend Father, Isaac Achi of Saint Peter and Paul Catholic Church, to death. According to a family source, Rev. Father Achi was first abducted in Madalla and spent […]
Continue ReadingThe condition of insecurity affecting many Nigerians has long surpassed bearable proportions; it is only a matter of time before even our inept president is viscerally touched. Several reports indicate that members of the Nigerian political class also get a bitter taste of the medicine Nigerians have been made to swallow but the peak of […]
Continue ReadingOne Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Aminu Umar Dayi, in charge of Dutsinma Area Command in Katsina State, Nigeria, was ambushed and killed by bandits in a fierce gun duel on Tuesday, July 5. According to reports, the late Aminu led a police team to Kurfi where they killed one of the bandits’ commanders. Angered […]
Continue ReadingKuje Medium Prison came under heavy bombing and gun attack by unknown terrorists on Tuesday night, July 5, manifestly to free jailed criminals. The terrorists were said to have fired gunshots and threw high-capacity bombs in the area in order to achieve their aim. Reports say a source from the prison stated that the State […]
Continue ReadingArmed bandits have killed a Divisional Police Officer (DPO) named DSP Abdukadir Abubakar Rano, in Jibia local government area of Katsina State, Nigeria, during an attack on Magama section of Jibia town. Katsina State is president Muhammadu Buhari’s home State. According to residents of Jibia, the gunmen attacked the town at about 3a.m. on Wednesday, […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Government has eventually declared a group of people being called bandits as terrorists. Sequel to a very long footdragging, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami SAN, gazetted a court ruling that ordered the Nigerian government to declare bandits as terrorists. Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court sitting […]
Continue ReadingJudge of Nigeria’s federal high court sitting in the federal capital territory, Abuja, Nigeria, Justice Taiwo Taiwo, has in a ruling on Friday, declared the activities of the “Yan Bindiga Group” and the “Yan Ta’adda Group” and other similar groups in any part of the country, especially in the North-West and North-Central geopolitical zones, as […]
Continue ReadingA young man identified as Ishaku has been killed by bandits one month to his wedding in Kaduna, Nigeria. According to varsity lecturer, Sama’ila Yunusa DanMairo, the deceased was among three people killed when bandits attacked Unguwar Shukau community in Ikara Local Government area of Kaduna state last week Tuesday, November 16. Ishaku and his […]
Continue ReadingNot less than seven policemen were killed on Monday November 8, in an ambush carried out by bandits near Zonai village in Magami district in Gusau Local Government Area of Zamfara State, Nigeria. The policemen were reportedly returning from duty after mounting a check point near Zonai village along Gusau-Magami-Dansadau road, when the armed gang […]
Continue ReadingOperatives of the Amotekun Corps in Ondo State, Nigeria, have intercepted a bus loaded with 500 pieces of daggers concealed under the seats. Also intercepted were weapons with different seizes of knives and guns concealed inside Tigger nut bags. 18 people suspected to be bandits were arrested with the vehicle while two other buses escaped. […]
Continue ReadingPoliticians tend to get into trouble when they tinker with language to conceal mischief. Former US president Donald Trump, the most advertised quintessential linguistic idiot, was in the habit of getting lost in a forest of simple distinctions. He could not distinguish between truth, facts, fiction and faction. He tinkered with ‘alternative truth’ instead and […]
Continue ReadingLike the Senate did on Wednesday, Nigeria’s House of Representatives, on Thursday, asked the President, Muhammadu Buhari, to designate bandits, who have dominated the North-West and parts of the North-Central geopolitical zones, and their sponsors as terrorists. Chairman of the House Committee on Defence, Babajimi Benson, at the plenary on Thursday, moved a motion of […]
Continue ReadingNigerian senate has asked Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari to declare bandits as terrorists. Buhari was also asked by the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly to declare known leaders of bandits in the country wanted and track them wherever they are for arrest and prosecution. The lawmakers also appealed to the president to direct the […]
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