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Fri, 26 Nov 2021 20:37:13 +0000
How Boko Haram Controlled Nigerian Territory ‘The Size Of Belgium’ Under Jonathan Government – Presidency
File photo used to illustrate story. Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammad Buhari on Media and Publicity, says the president deserves credit over his efforts in tackling the farmers-herders crisis in the country. She...

Fri, 26 Nov 2021 20:36:30 +0000
Nigerian Government Set To Publish ‘Proscription Order’ For Bandits Groups After Court Ruling
Malami The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has said the Federal Government’s determination to crush bandits remains unwavering even as the court granted application filed by the government to dec...

Fri, 26 Nov 2021 18:28:56 +0000
Declaring Bandits As Terrorists Will Cause More Problems, Won't Change Anything— Sheikh Gumi
Kaduna-based Islamic scholar, Ahmad Gumi has said designating bandits as terrorists will result in more violence in the country.  He also said it cannot solve the insecurity problems, adding that banditry is a part of socio-economic cha...

Fri, 26 Nov 2021 18:17:40 +0000
30-year-old Woman Arrested For Supplying Arms, Ammunition, Uniforms To Bandits
File photo used to illustrate story. The Zamfara State Police Command has arrested a 30-year-old woman who supplied arms and ammunition to bandits in the Northwest zone.   Parading the woman in Gusau on Friday, the Commissioner of Police...

Fri, 26 Nov 2021 18:11:29 +0000
Student Cultists In Nigerian Polytechnic Defy Security Agencies, Take Photos In Front Of School Building
Cult members believed to be students of the Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Osun State, have demonstrated and displayed with diverse slangs and pictures in front of the school administrative building. According to a video seen by SaharaReporters o...

Fri, 26 Nov 2021 16:55:53 +0000
Nigerian Army Brigadier-General, Zurkusu, Seven Others Buried, Adamawa Governor Donates N27milion to Families
Brigadier General Dzarma Zurkusu, who was killed by Islamic State of the West African Province (ISWAP) terrorists, was on Friday buried at the military cemetery in Yola, Adamawa State. Also laid to rest were remains of seven other soldiers k...

Fri, 26 Nov 2021 16:53:23 +0000
Bandits Burn Farmlands In Zamfara Over Residents’ Non-Payment Of Levies
File Photo Large crops on farmlands are being burnt by bandits in parts of Zamfara State, over the failure of residents to pay imposed harvest levies. According to Daily Trust, the measure was to force villagers pay imposed levy meant to allo...

Fri, 26 Nov 2021 16:27:17 +0000
Police Arraign Northerner Caught With Eight Explosive Devices In Lagos
File photo used to illustrate story. The intelligence unit of the Lagos State Police Command in Panti, Yaba, has commenced an extensive investigation to know the motive behind a 24-year old Fulani man, Ibrahim Abdullahi, who was caught with 8...

Fri, 26 Nov 2021 16:17:29 +0000
Court Discharges, Acquits 19 South-Easterners Linked To Seccesionist Group, MASSOB After 15-year Detention
A Federal High Court sitting in Awka, the Anambra State capital, has discharged and acquitted 19 persons accused of being members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and held in detention for 15 ye...

Fri, 26 Nov 2021 16:12:21 +0000
BREAKING: Nigerian Communications Commission Approves Immediate Restoration Of Telecoms Services In Kaduna Communities
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has approved the immediate restoration of telecommunications services for communities in Kaduna State where they had initially been shut down.  A message from the NCC to Kaduna State Governme...



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