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Sunday, 07 March 2021 05:50

Ogun police arrest 7 kidnappers who are members of same family

Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Police on Friday paraded a seven man syndicate that specialized in kidnapping in Sagamu area of the state. Parading the suspect in Sagamu, the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi said the kidnap syndicate made up of members of the same family. According to Oyeyemi, five of the syndicate, Oweniwe Okpara and three of his children namely; Samson Okpara, Bright Okpara and Eze Okpara as well as one Christian Ishaha and Emmanuel Joseph were arrested in Sagamu, while three others of his children; Godwin Okpara, Godspower Okpara and Mathew Okpara…

Saturday, 06 March 2021 05:22

Bandits kill 14 in attacks on Sokoto communities

Thirteen persons have been reported killed in an attack by bandits on Tara in Sabon Birnin Local Government Area of Sokoto State. The police said the attack occurred Thursday night. In their statement on Friday, the police were silent on the casualties but confirmed that one person was killed in another attack at Dingyadi in Bodinga Local Government Area of the state. Village head of Tara, Mainasara Muhammed, said they buried the corpses of 13 people killed in the attack. He said the bandits also rustled many livestock and burnt food silos. According to the traditional ruler, the gunmen invaded…

Saturday, 06 March 2021 05:21

Soldier arrested for supplying ammunition, uniforms to Zamfara bandits

Zamfara state government on Friday said a Nigerian soldier and his girlfriend were recently caught supplying ammunition and military uniforms to armed bandits in the state. The governor of the state, Bello Matawalle, represented by his deputy chief of staff, Bashir Maru, at a press conference, said the soldier was arrested by the military through community-driven intelligence. He, however, did not provide more details of the alleged incident, saying the state government was waiting for the military authorities to do so. “The military recently arrested an army officer and his girlfriend who were engaged in assisting bandits with military uniforms…

Saturday, 06 March 2021 05:20

Junior policeman arrested for stealing five AK-47 rifles

A police officer, Shedrack Igwe, working in the armoury section of MOPOL Base 28, Umuahia, Abia State, has been arrested with five AK-47 rifles he allegedly stole from the armoury. Igwe, a constable, was reported to have carted away the rifles from the armoury with the help of others, unnoticed. He was later arrested in Ikwo local government area of Ebonyi State where he hails from. He committed the act on March 2 after which he fled to Ebonyi state. Two days later, a combined team of police officers from Abia and Ebonyi States arrested and moved him to Abia…

Friday, 05 March 2021 03:55

Bandits kill soldier in Katsina; abduct man’s 4 wives, 56 others in Zamfara

An ambush by suspected bandits in Katsina State yesterday left at least one soldier dead and many others with varying degree of injuries in Marina village, Safana Local Government Area of the state. Suspected bandits have also abducted scores of villagers – numbering about 60 – at Ruwan Tofa village in Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State. Troops of the Special Army Super Camp 4, according to residents of Katsina village, were advancing on foot in the village at about 2p.m yesterday after returning from a joint security operation, when the armed militants opened fire on them from a…

Friday, 05 March 2021 03:54

Drug money funds terrorism, banditry - Lawan

The Senate, yesterday, claimed that the security challenges facing the country, especially terrorism and banditry, were funded by drug barons. Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, made this known when Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Buba Marwa, visited the National Assembly, Abuja, yesterday. He said drug barons provide terrorist groups as Boko Haram, bandits and kidnappers, with arms and ammunition to undertake criminal activities in the country. He said drug barons who engage in trafficking heroine, cannabis and cocaine, have made Nigeria a major transit route for their businesses, noting that this was responsible for the rise of…

Wednesday, 03 March 2021 03:36

Insurgents seize, then leave military stronghold in Borno town

Islamic State insurgents left the town of Dikwa on Tuesday after seizing and overrunning the humanitarian hub and government stronghold in northeastern Nigeria, two aid workers there said. An army spokesman had earlier on Tuesday denied reports by security sources, aid workers and residents that the town in Borno state had been overrun by militants. He said the attack was repelled and denied insurgents had trapped aid workers. But the fighting for Dikwa, home to almost 100,000 people, underscored the worsening security situation in northern Nigeria, where the security forces face growing challenges. Dikwa has been a flashpoint in an…

Wednesday, 03 March 2021 03:35

Bandits kidnap 50 passengers in Niger state

At least 50 passengers have been reportedly kidnapped by bandits on Tuesday along Tegina-Minna road in Rafi Local government Area of Niger State. According to a source in the area, the bandits blocked the road at Kundu town, a few kilometres from Zungeru town, when the three commercial vehicles carrying passengers ran into their hands. The passengers in the three vehicles were abducted and taken to an unknown destination while the vehicles were left by the roadside. In another development, armed bandits abducted unknown numbers of villagers at Gidigori town in Rafi Local Government Area, burning five cars and carting…

Tuesday, 02 March 2021 05:34

Former French president, Sarkozy, convicted of corruption, jailed

A Paris court found French former President Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of corruption and influence peddling on Monday and sentenced him to a year in prison. He can ask to serve that time at home and also plans to appeal. The 66-year-old, who was president from 2007 to 2012, was convicted of trying to bribe a magistrate in exchange for information about a legal case in which he was implicated. He will remain free while he appeals, but it was a blow to the retired politician who still plays an influential role in French conservative politics. It’s not the end of…

Monday, 01 March 2021 03:30

Bandits storm another school in Kagara, abduct 7 persons in town

Armed bandits have invaded Government Technical College, Kagara in Rafi local government area of Niger State. Sources disclosed that armed men broke into the school on Sunday night but met the place empty. Niger State government had shut all boarding schools after the abduction of students and staff of Government Science Secondary School, Kagara. The bandits, who were said to be targeting large-scale abduction, reportedly left the school in anger and moved to a nearby community where seven persons were abducted. “They found the school empty as students and staff have vacated following the closure of schools in the area,”…

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Monday, 01 March 2021 03:29

Bandits kill 7 persons in 3 Kaduna communities

Kaduna State Government said on Sunday that bandits killed seven persons in different parts of the state. Samuel Aruwan, Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, confirmed the incident in a press statement on Sunday in Kaduna. Aruwan said, “on a sad note, security agencies reported that bandits attacked some people in Kajinjiri village, Igabi local government area, and killed two residents”. He said one person sustained gunshot injuries and was receiving treatment at a nearby health facility. “Similarly, in Rago village, also in Igabi local government area, bandits killed two locals,” he said. He explained that in a separate…

Monday, 01 March 2021 03:28

NDLEA operatives arrest cross-border trafficker with N1bn cocaine concealed in yogurts

A 36-year-old suspected trans-border drug trafficker, Nkem Timothy, alias Auwalu Audu, has been arrested in Sokoto by operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. He was apprehended while trying to cross to Algeria through Niger Republic with 62 wraps of substance suspected to be cocaine weighing 1.550kg and with an estimated street value of about N1bn. Sokoto State acting Commander of the NDLEA, Bamidele Segun, according to a statement by the agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday, stated that the suspect was intercepted on a motorcycle around the Baggage area of the Illela border while trying…

Saturday, 27 February 2021 05:25

24 hours after, location of more than 300 abducted Zamfara schoolgirls unknown

An operation to rescue more than 300 girls kidnapped in Nigeria had failed to pinpoint their location by late on Friday, almost 24 hours after gunmen seized them in a raid on their school. The raid in Zamfara state, where the governor ordered all boarding schools to close immediately, was the second such kidnapping in little over a week in the country’s northwest, a region increasingly targeted by militants and criminal gangs. Zamfara police said they had begun search-and-rescue operations with the army to find the “bandits” who took the 317 girls from the Government Girls Science Secondary School in…

Saturday, 27 February 2021 05:22

OPC arrests four suspected kidnappers in Oyo forests

Oyo State chapter of Oodua Peoples Congress on Friday said it arrested four suspected kidnappers during its search of forests in the Ibarapaland area of Oyo State. The group under the supervision of the Oyo State coordinator of Gani Adams-led OPC, Rotimi Olumo, also made progress with the arrest of the second-in-command to the alleged dreaded kidnapper, Wakilu, one Isiaka Muhammadu. According to a statement by the Special Assistant on Media to Adams, Kehinde Aderemi, the arrests were made around 1pm on Friday during a search mission for Wakilu said to be terrorising the area. The statement noted that Muhammadu…

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