Bandits who attacked the Kaduna-Abuja bound train on March 28 have paraded their victims in an unidentified location suspected to be a forest. The gunmen were seen in the video putting on military camouflage and uniforms. The bandits made their captives call on the government to come to their...
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The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has called on Nigerians to help the government in the fight against bandits and insurgents by exposing the criminals living in their neighborhoods. Mohammed made the call during a Bond FM Radio programme in Lagos on Saturday monitored by the...
A group of pastors under the umbrella of Interfaith Alliance have staged a peaceful protest against the incessant attacks and killings by bandits in Kaduna State. The protesters are asking the Federal Government to step up actions against banditry with the aim of wiping them out. The protest comes...
The Federal Government on Wednesday in Abuja again enjoined social and mainstream media to stop giving oxygen to terrorists’ activities to check their nefarious acts. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, gave the admonition when he fielded questions from State House correspondents. The minister, who was reacting...
A large number of soldiers would have been killed by suspected gunmen in Kaduna State, if not for the intervention of aircraft of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), a video clip obtained by PRNigeria has shown. The gunmen who were bandit-terrorists launched an attack on a military base at...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Chief of Army Staff, LT General Farouq Yahaya on Tuesday warned members the Boko Haram insurgents, Islamic State of West African Province ( ISWAP), bandits, kidnappers, and other criminals to surrendered their weapons and embrace peace, as time is against them. General Yahaya...
At least 10 soldiers have been reportedly killed and some others injured by bandits proscribed as terrorists who attacked a military base in Birnin-Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The incident happened at about 6:30pm on Monday, security sources told Channels Television. However, the military authorities have yet...
Several locals have been killed by armed men suspected to be bandits during an attack on Tsafe town in Zamfara State. The assailants were said to have invaded the town which is the headquarters of Tsafe Local Government Area of the state on Sunday night. Neither the state government...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has lamented that the security challenges in the country are becoming more overwhelming as Nigerians are no longer safe on roads, in trains or at airports. “A situation where we are not safe on the roads, in the train, we are not safe at the...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has confirmed safety of 14 more passengers on board the attacked Abuja-Kaduna train of March 28, bringing the total safe passengers to 186. The NRC’s Managing Director, Mr Fidet Okhiria, confirmed this in a statement he issued on Sunday....
In simultaneous airstrikes, fighter jets of the Nigerian Air Force have eliminated over a hundred terrorists at Sangeko Forest in Zamfara, New Kusawa in Kaduna and Tumbuns in Borno State. In the Northeast, and after days of intelligence gathering, a ‘spy operative’ of the Nigerian military told PRNigeria that...
The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has vowed to hire foreign mercenaries to fight against terrorists following the Monday night attack on a Kaduna-bound train. He also stated that four others of the seven Northwestern states—Katsina, Zamfara, Kebbi, Sokoto—may join him to hire foreign mercenaries if the Federal Government...
A coalition of 50 Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) on Friday said that arms bearing by citizens for protection as suggested by a legislator was not the best option. The CSOs, at a news conference in Abuja, said that such acts might jeopardise the security architecture of the country as...
The death toll from a boat accident involving villagers fleeing attacks by gangs in Niger state has risen to 13 after five more bodies were recovered, an emergency services official said Friday. An overloaded canoe carrying mostly women and children capsized in a river as they were fleeing raids...
Gov. Nasir El-Rufa’i of Kaduna State on Thursday restated his call for massive bombardment of all forests inhabited by terrorists. He said this would contain current security challenges in the country. The governor made the call at a stakeholders meeting in Giwa, Kaduna State, where terrorists had been invading...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits have attacked a low-cost housing estate at Kofar Gayan in Zaria Local Government Area of Kaduna State and kidnapped six people including a Customs officer and his son. The police authorities are yet to confirm the incident but a resident of the area told...
Suspected armed bandits who kidnapped and killed some passengers onboard Abuja-Kaduna on Monday, have told the families of their victims to prepare the ransom which they will pay and secure the release of their loved ones. This was made public by a Twitter user whose relative was kidnapped. According...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The 36 states governors under the auspices of The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) have condemned the recent terrorists attack on Abuja-Kaduna train attack, stating that such violent attacks are becoming too many and it questions their collective capacity to govern. The governors, who condemned...
The Federal Executive Council (FEC), on Wednesday in Abuja observed a minute silence in honour of the victims of Abuja-Kaduna train attack. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the meeting, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, began with the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss...
I read a statement from the presidency last week accusing the opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, of trying to destabilise an already destabilised, dislocated, disjointed, crippled and demobilised country, presided over by an uncreative president. When I read the statement, I was almost tempted to conclude that it is...