Tag: Bandits

Bandits release Bethel Baptist school student in Kaduna

Aminu Imam

One of the 121 abducted students of Bethel Baptist High School, Kaduna, has been released due to illness.  According to reports, he was brought back by two people who were abducted by the same bandits and were released after their people had paid a ransom.  A member of Bethel Baptist Church, who pleaded for anonymity, disclosed this to newsmen yesterday.  According to him, the parents of the released boy had taken him to the hospital and he has regained consciousness on Friday. The student, who also spoke with newsmen, remarked…

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“We receive weapons from DSS agents, split ransom payments” Bandits reveal

Aminu Imam

Armed bandits terrorising different parts of the country have disclosed that they have been receiving arms and ammunition from operatives of the Department of Security Service, (DSS), and often split ransom payments received at gunpoint. The criminals told Germany’s Deutsche Welle, in a recent report, that they “borrow weapons” from the State agents and then go to work to share ill-gotten gains together. The bandits also said some Police officers have been a part of the conspiracy that has fueled insecurity across Nigeria, which President Buhari has been accused of…

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Troops, Police operatives engage bandits on Kaduna-Zaria highway

Aminu Imam

The Nigerian Army troops and Police operatives, in the early hours of yesterday, engaged armed bandits in the Rigachikun axis of the Kaduna-Zaria dual carriageway, in Igabi LGA. According to reports, the bandits had earlier attacked a Fulani settlement belonging to a popular herder, Damina Kukumake, at Kukumake village The bandits, who kidnapped some members of the herder’s family, also rustled several cattle and were making their escape when security agencies received a distress call. The security personnel comprising troops of the Army and Nigerian Air Force, as well as…

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Benue: Bandits ambush Army convoy, cart away N28m cash, weapons

Aminu Imam

…Officer, soldiers missing A stockpile of military hardware with about N28 million cash has been reportedly carted away by marauding bandits who ambushed a select group of Nigerian troops on a reinforcement mission to quell pockets of communal clashes in Benue State, according to military sources. Citing an internal army communication, a source told newsmen that soldiers dispatched from Katsina-Ala LGA to deliver weaponry to troops in Oju LGA (171km from Katsina-Ala) were overrun by an armed militia said to be from the Konshisha district of the State, in an…

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Insecurity: Presidency reveals ‘shocking’ findings about Boko Haram, bandits’ sponsors

Aminu Imam

…Says “details will surprise many Nigerians” The Federal Government has made a shocking discovery of sponsors of Boko Haram and bandits, the Presidency has revealed. The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu, who disclosed this during a television prigramme yesterday, restated the claim that a link between kidnapping for ransom, banditry and Boko Haram sponsorship had been established. He said these sponsors, include some Bureau de Change, (BDC), operators with contacts abroad. According to him, there is evidence that money is being sent from United Arab Emirates…

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Niger: Local vigilante kill 9 bandits, arrest others while waiting to collect ransom  

Aminu Imam

A local vigilante group has neutralised no fewer than nine suspected bandits in Gulu town, Lapai local government area of Niger State, while waiting to collect ransom from families of abducted victims.  It was learnt that the bandits had earlier raided Gulu town a few days back during which some people were abducted and ransom demanded before they would be released.  According to an eyewitness, the relations of the victims had managed to raise the ransom and they contacted the bandits who gave directive to them on how to deliver the money. He said…

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5 killed as soldiers, bandits clash in Katsina

Aminu Imam

Four bandits and a soldier died when troops of “Operation Hadarin Daji” clashed with criminal elements on Thursday in Marina village, Safana local government area of Katsina State. The Director, Army Public Relations, Mohammed Yerima, disclosed this in a statement yesterday. According to the statement, titled: ‘Re: Many Soldiers Feared Killed as Bandits Storm Military Base in Katsina’, the army spokesman said that an “unspecified number of soldiers were feared killed in attack on a military post in Marina” were “false and unsubstantiated”. Yerima said the Army authorities commended the…

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6 killed as bandits attack commercial bus along Kaduna – Birnin Gwari road

Aminu Imam

Six people have died along the Kaduna – Birnin Gwari road, while six others sustained injuries when bandits reportedly opened fire on a commercial bus plying the road. The Kaduna State commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, disclosed this in an issued statement yesterday. Aruwan said the bandits, who were on the run from security patrol teams, opened fire on the commercial vehicle on the highway and that the driver lost control of the bus, saying the bus somersaulted several times, leading to the death of six…

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How bandits kill Pharmacy Student, 7 others in latest attack in Birnin Gwari

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

Latest bandit attack in Birnin Gwari Local Area of Kaduna State has claimed a pharmacy student and seven others, with unconfirmed number of people kidnapped. The student identified as Sa’idu Muhammed was until his death in the hands of the bandits, a pharmacy student of Shehu Idris College of Health Technology, Makarfi. Among those mowed down in cold bold by the bandits is a 9 year old girl and her 14 year old brother and five others, raising the total figure of those killed to 8. During the attack, the…

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Police kill 3 suspected bandits, recover 2 rifles in Katsina State

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The Nigerian Police Command in Katsina State said its personnel have killed three suspected bandits attacking villages in Danmusa Local Government Area. The Commissioner of Police, Sanusi Buba, who stated this at a news briefing in Katsina on Wednesday, said the police were committed to ridding the state of banditry. He said that no fewer than 50 bandits recently attacked Unguwar-bera and Tashar-Mangoro villages in Danmusa Local Government Area. Buba said that a team of policemen ambushed the bandits at a spot in-between Mara and Tashar-Gajere villages and recovered two AK-47…

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