A large group of bandits on Thursday attacked another community in Katsina State and killed five residents. Dangeza, a farming and business community, is one of several villages in Batsari local government area of the state under incessant bandits’ attacks. Recently, the district head of Batsari, Sarkin Ruman Katsina, Tukur Muazu, said bandits fleeing Zamfara […]
Continue Reading
Controversial Islamic scholar and preacher, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has warned that declaring bandits as terrorists will come at a price. The PUNCH earlier reported that speakers of the 36 state Houses of Assembly in Nigeria on Saturday called on the Federal Government to declare bandits and kidnappers as terrorists, adding that kidnapping and banditry should […]
Continue Reading
The Federal Government on Monday described report that the Nigerian Air Force paid N20 million to bandits in exchange for anti-aircraft gun seized by the bandits as fake news. The Wall Street Journal had reported on Sunday that masked men emerged from the forest on motorbikes, surrounding a young intelligence officer clutching a cash-filled bag.It […]
Continue Reading
Unidentified persons, yesterday, abducted a Catholic priest, Reverend Father Godfrey Mark Chimezie of St. Theresa’s Parish Umuahia, along the Enyiukwu road in Ohokobe Afaraukwu Community, Umuahia North Council of Abia State. An eyewitness said the incident occurred after the victim finished conducting the morning mass at St. Gabriel Okpuruie Afaraukwu and was forced out of […]
Continue Reading
