A rights activist, Comrade Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman has thrown his weight behind the position of Osun monarch, the Aragbiji of…
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An Osun State High Court sitting in Ede has set to commence the hearing on the controversies surrounding the appointment…
Rights group has dragged police officers before the police authorities over corruption, bribery, illegal roadblocks, unlawful arrest and detention in…
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Gunmen suspected of being bandits raided Rijiya village in Zamfara State’s Gusau Local Government Area, murdering six people and kidnapping…
A conflict between farmers and herders in Gwomu community in Taraba State’s Karim Lamido Local Government Area resulted in the…
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) said on Wednesday that four suspected bandits had been apprehended in Sokoto…
At least 11 people have been slain after a swarm of bandits equipped with sophisticated weaponry attacked numerous settlements in…
A bandit invasion on Sakajiki village in Kaura Namoda Emirate in Zamfara State has claimed the lives of at least…
Gunmen kidnapped the twin daughters and three aides of Oba Samuel Adelodun, a traditional ruler in Kwara State. In a…
On Monday, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) announced the arrest of eleven alleged bandits and food suppliers…
Ngurore Police Station in Adamawa’s Yola South Local Government Area was attacked by gunmen suspected of being kidnappers, according to…
Notorious bandits attacked a market in Ungwan Lalle, Sabon Birni Local Government Area, Sokoto state, killing approximately 20 people. Several…
The Katsina State Police Command has confirmed the shooting of a man by operatives of the Nigerian Customs Service. Police…
According to police, gunmen suspected of being kidnappers stormed aa Police Station in Adamawa’s Yola South Lo1cal Government Area. In…
Five more kids from Bethel Baptist School in Maraban Damishi, Chikun Local Government Area, Kaduna State, have been set free by bandits. This was confirmed by the President of the Nigerian Baptist Convention, Rev Israel Adelani Akanji, on Friday night, October 8. “Glory be to God. Five of our Bethel Baptist High School Kaduna students and the Matron have just…
Gunmen attacked the Isu and Onicha-Igboeze communities in the Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi State on Thursday, killing at least ten people, including two police officers. Two police officers are said to have been killed in Isu, while others were killed in Onicha Igboeze. During the incident, two lawyers were also alleged to have been killed by the shooters. The two lawyers were in a vehicle when they were approached by shooters in a Lexus SUV, according to reports. The intruders were reported to have slain the lawyers, set fire to the SUV they were driving, and then fled with the lawyers’ vehicle. Gunmen and alleged security officers are said to have killed people in Onicha in the last three months. Last month, a woman and daughter of a monarch in the area, Elizabeth Agwu,…
During a shootout with agents of the Ondo State Security Network Agency, known as Amotekun Corps, a suspected kidnapper was slain by a member of his gang. According to reports, the deceased, named as Funmi Adenuoye, was accidentally shot dead by his colleague, Kunle, while attempting to flee from Amotekun Corps troops pursuing them during a kidnapping operation. The deceased and two of his gang members, Kunle and Tayo Ibrahim, were also said to have abducted a 58-year-old cement merchant, Alhaji Shakirudeen, in Ogun State on Wednesday. According to a source, the three kidnappers drove their victim to Okitipupa, Ondo State, with the purpose of negotiating a ransom there. The Amotekun Corps, on the other hand, struck and arrested Ibrahim, while Kunle fled.The Amotekun Corps was believed to be on the lookout for the kidnappers. “Our trustworthy intelligence network picked that certain criminals are driving carelessly,” said Amotekun Commander Chief Adetunji Adeleye. We didn’t know what was in the truck at the time, but their driving suggested concerns. So we set up an ambush for them in Ondo State’s Okitipupa area and apprehended them. “They engaged our men in a shootout and we were able to…
The Police in Zamfara State have rescued 187 people abducted and held captive by bandits in Tsibiri Forest in Maradun…
Ike Ekweremadu, the former Deputy President of the Senate, refuted claims that he had been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Thursday (EFCC). Senator Ekweremadu informed his supporters that there was nothing to be concerned about through his media aide, Uche Anichukwu. He said the report, like others before it, represented only the “unholy imagination of the authors and their…