The Gidan Sule community is small but mighty, as the area is blessed with good farming land. However, due to the frequent attacks in the area, farmers now dread going to their farms for fear of being kidnapped or killed.
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A joint security team comprising the Military, Police, DSS, Civil Defence, and Vigilante members has neutralized one suspected bandit and rescued three abducted persons on Sunday, a government statement said.
Federal University, Gusau on Sunday warned students resident at off-campus area of Damba on the outskirts of Gusau to relocate and be safe from bandits.
On August 16, one of northwestern Nigeria’s most notorious bandits, Dogo Gide, released a video in which he claimed his fighters were responsible for downing a Nigerian air force helicopter in Shiroro, Kaduna State; this attack killed 20 soldiers and three senior military officers (premiumtimesng.com, August 16). Shiroro is where Ansaru, an al-Qaeda-affiliated and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)-loyal faction, attempted to recruit villagers and establish hideouts in 2021 (dailytrust.com, June 28, 2021). Ansaru also employed the same tactic when it shot down another air force helicopter en route from Kaduna to the Nigerian capital of Abuja in 2020 (punchng.com, February 6, 2020). These factors combine with reports of Dogo Gide allying with Ansaru to lend credibility to Gide’s claim that his group brought down the aforementioned helicopter (humangle.ng, June 9, 2020).
The Rafin Sarki community of Fatika district in Giwa local government area of Kaduna state on Friday, buried the 11…
The Northern Emancipation Network has lamented that despite the successes claimed by government, rampant attacks on rural communities in Kaduna…
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The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, has deployed additional policemen to boost security along the Abuja-Kaduna Highway and tackle banditry…
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