Tag: Zamfara bandits

Bandits kill 39 persons in a reprisal attack in Zamfara

Aminu Imam

A group of unrepentant bandits have stormed Faru Village of Maradun local government area of Zamfara State killing about forty innocent persons. Confirming the incident to Radio Nigeria in Gusau,  an eyewitness Ahmad Lawali said the attack was a reprisal mission in the Faru district of Maradun local government area of the state. According to him, the bandits raided the town at around 4:30 pm on Thursday and began shooting sporadically on innocent people in the process, 39 persons mainly men were killed. He said the bandits trailed farmers who…

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Soldiers neutralise scores of bandits, recovers weapons in Zamfara

Aminu Imam

The Nigerian Army has disclosed that its troops of 8 Division have eliminated an unspecified number of bandits in fierce encounters in Talatan-Marafa local government areas of Zamfara. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, disclosed this in an issued press statement yesterday, in Abuja. Nwachukwu said that troops, while on a fighting patrol, came under fire from bandits operating along Mayanchi-Dogo Karfe and Fagantama villages in the area. He said the bandits were overwhelmed by the superior firepower of the troops in the fierce encounter that ensued where…

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Zamfara bandit’s leader meets Niger govt., promises quick release of abducted Kagara students

Aminu Imam

Ø As Sheikh Gumi seeks ‘blanket amnesty’ for bandits The leader of armed bandits in Zamfara State, Dogo Gide, yesterday assured that the abducted students and staff of Government Science College in Kagara, Rafi local government area of Niger State, would soon be released. Gide, whose group controls the Southern part of Zamfara forests, gave the assurance when he met with officials of the Niger State government in Gusau. The meeting was initiated by a prominent Islamic Scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Mahmud Gumi. Although he said the abducted students are not in…

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