CRIME
Weeping As Bandits Kill 29 Persons In Fresh Attack In Kaduna
No fewer than 29 people have been killed in a fresh attack by bandits on Runji Village in Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The attack which occurred at about 10 pm on Saturday night comes barely three days after bandits killed eight people at the Atak’Njei community also in Zangon Kataf Local Government Area. The Kaduna State Commissioner...
Army Neutralises 35 Terrorists, Destroys 12 Camps In Sambisa Forest
The Nigeria Army Troops of the 21-Armored Brigade, Bama, Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK) and 199 Special Forces Battalion in collaboration with Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF), have killed 35 Boko Haram terrorists in the ongoing clearance operation in Sambisa Forest. The troops headed by one Brig. Gen. Victor Unachukwu a.k.a Emperor, made the unprecedented incursions into the Boko Haram hideouts...
How Gunmen Whisked Catholic Priest Away In Anambra
A yet-to-be-identified Catholic priest has been reportedly abducted at the Nnobi roundabout in the Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State. An eyewitness said the man who was driving a Lexus FX 300 with plate number Anambra GDD 882 PW was heading towards the Awka-Etiti direction when the gunmen waylaid him. “The assailants forcefully bundled the priest into their jeep...
Policeman Detained For Abandoning Duty Dies In Kogi Cell
A policeman serving under the Kwara State Police Command, Taiye Atobiloye, has died in a cell at the D Division of the Kogi State Police Command, following his detention for being absent from duty for two days at the Zone 8 Command, Lokoja, Kogi State. Atobiloye, with service number 232980, who was attached to the Oke Onigbin Division in Kwara...
Bandits Kill 2 Abducted Teenagers Who Attempted To Escape, Free 70 In Zamfara
Bandits have released 70 out of 85 victims abducted from Wanzamai village of Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara state. The victims were kidnapped three weeks ago on farmlands. They are mostly residents of Wanzamai, a community that had suffered series of bandits’ incursions in the past. While the children went to the bush to fetch firewood, the other adults were...
One Killed As Police Rescue 58 Abductees In Kogi
Police operatives have rescued 58 kidnap victims at Udulu Forest, Gegu LGA of Kogi State, bordering Sardauna Forest, Nasarawa State, and other identified kidnappers den in communities contiguous to the Federal Capital Territory. Spokesperson of the FCT Police Command, Josephine Adeh, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, saying the bandits/kidnappers on sighting the security team coordinated by the police,...
Security Forces Kill Two Gunmen, Arrest Robbery Suspects In Anambra
Security operatives in Anambra State have killed two gunmen and also arrested members of a robbery gang. The development followed joint operations by the police alongside the vigilantes, according to a Tuesday statement from the Anambra Police spokesman Ikenga Tobechukwu. “These joint operations yielded a major positive development on 7/5/2023 by 8:45 pm. The operatives while on routine patrol along Usmusiome...
We’ll Deploy Newly Recruited Army Personnel To Fight Boko Haram, ISWAP Terrorists — COAS
Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lieutenant General Faruk Yahaya, has said the Army will deploy the 6,251 newly recruited soldiers to contain the spate of insecurity in the nation. He said the country is faced with numerous security challenges occasioned by the activities of Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists, armed bandits, kidnappers, separatist agitators, religious extremists and other criminal elements. Lt. Gen. Yahaya...
Two Suspects Arrested Over US Consulate Convoy Attack In Anambra
The Police Command In Anambra State has said that two suspects have been arrested in connection with Tuesday’s attack on the US Consulate Convoy in Ogbaru Local Government Area. Preliminary investigations conducted by the police revealed that seven persons were killed in the assault. Of the seven, three were US Consulate officials and four were Mobile Police escorts. Speaking on the...
NSCDC Sets Up Special Squad To Protect Schools
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps( NSCDC) has created a special squad to protect schools across the country against attacks. The Commandant General of the Corps, Dr Ahmed Abubakar Audi, disclosed this while making his keynote address at the opening session of the capacity-building courses for safe school administrators and managers held at the national headquarters of the NSCDC...
