The Zamfara state Police Command said its operatives repelled bandits who attacked the Divisional Police Station in Zurmi Local Government Area of the state.
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Mr Aliyu Tashas, the Chairman of Toto Local Government council in Nasarawa state, has ordered the immediate suspension of all activities in forests within the local government area.
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Maj.-Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, has disclosed that, rather than checkmate terrorism, and banditry, the amnesty programme for bandits and terrorists in Zamfara and other states, instead helped the terrorists to regroup and reorganise.
Contrary to the recent claims by Asari-Dokubo that the vigilance by his boys, the panel put in place by the former Chief of Defence Staff, General Leo Irabor, resulted in the cessation of incidences of abduction and other violence perpetrated by terrorist groups on the Abuja-Kaduna Highway.
ASHENEWS reports that the Mangu local government council in Plateau state has declared a 24-hour curfew.
Terrorists have attacked Yakila, Tegina, Kagara, Pandogari, Kusherki communities in Rafi local government area of Niger state, killed 25 farmers, and abducted scores of other people.
The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has pleaded with the Federal Government to deploy security agencies to Zamfara to prevent the ‘heartbreaking’ killings in some parts of the state.
Scores of people, including women and children have been reported to have been killed in Iganna, Iganna local council development area, a 128.8km distance from Ibadan, capital city of Oyo state, THE DEFENDER has exclusively reported.
Terrorists that abducted Federal Government College, Birnin Yauri (FGC) Yauri schoolgirls, have released the last two after 707 days in captivity, PRNigeria has reported.
ASHENEWS reports that Niger state governor, Abubakar Sani Bello has called for more mobile squads to be posted to sensitive areas of the state in a bid to limit the movement of bandits from neighbouring states into Niger State.