The Nigerian Army has denied claims it’s colluding with marauding bandits who have been responsible for various crimes and atrocities against Nigerians and the Nigerian state. The Army was reacting to a

Three days after the violent kidnap of more than 80 students, a majority of them girls, and five teachers at the Federal Government College, Birnin Yauri, Kebbi State, in northwest

No fewer than 25 persons were feared killed by gunmen in separate attacks on communities in Nigeria’s North-Central Benue and Plateau States. While 12 persons were killed in Sabon Layi

The bandits who abducted 156 pupils of Salihu Tanko Islamiyya School in Tegina town of Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State 10 days ago have reduced the ransom they

Following fears of an alleged impending invasion of Abuja by terrorists and armed bandits, the Federal Capital Territory Police Command (FCT) Wednesday ordered the deployment of personnel in the borders

Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, Tuesday restated his opposition to negotiation with, and payment of ransom to bandits, saying the federal government should apprehend and kill the outlaws. “Nobody

Authorities in the north-western Nigerian state of Kaduna say gunmen have shot dead at least eight people and injured a number of others in a series of attacks on villages.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and a prominent Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, have called on Nigeria’s federal government to set up special courts to try bandits, kidnappers and bearers

The Nigerian Army on Monday warned a Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi and other opinion merchants to exercise restraint not to soil the reputation of the military by

Nigeria’s Senate President Dr. Ahmad Lawan on Thursday attributed the lingering insecurity in the country to the activities of drug barons. He accused those he described as drug barons of

The Niger State Government has expressed optimism of an imminent reduction in abductions and banditry following a meeting, in a forest in Shiroro Local Government Area of the state, of

Zamfara State Governor, Mr. Bello Matawalle, on Tuesday accused some alleged sponsors behind the abduction of almost 300 schoolgirls of a government secondary school in Jangebe of offering money to

Despite the abduction of the 317 schoolgirls from a government-owned secondary last week in Nigeria’s north-western Zamfara State, the state’s governor, Bello Matawalle, has said the incident will not deter

More than 300 schoolgirls have been abducted by suspected bandits from a Government Girls Secondary School in Mafara local government area of northwestern Zamfara state. The bandits invaded the school

Senior Nigerian lawyers on Wednesday cautioned against the ongoing appeasement of bandits, terrorising several states, particularly in the North-west, through dialogue between them and some governors as well as non-state

No fewer than 18 people have been killed and many others abducted following attacks by bandits on communities in Igabi and Chikun Local Government Areas of Kaduna State. The state