Our correspondent gathered that the figure of killed persons rose from 15 when the attack was first reported earlier in the week as the bandits attacked more villages
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A 19-year-old boy, Prince Chikere, and four others, described as kidnappers, have been nabbed by operatives of the Imo State Police Command for allegedly beheading three persons.
The Canadian women have been rescued by all Ghanaian security operatives
Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara on Wednesday met with officials of the Fulani umbrella body, the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breaders Association in his push to end banditry and kidnappings in the state.
30-year-old Mary Chukwuebuka of Zaramaganda Area, Jos, has solicited the assistance of the public in locating her baby stolen three day after birth from the Plateau Specialist Hospital Jos.
The police in Ekiti have confirmed the alleged beheading of a lady in Ilasa Ekiti, Ekiti East Local Government Area of the state on Wednesday, by a herdsman believed to be the deceased’s husband.
A socio-cultural group, Tiwa n Tiwa L’Osun Development Association, has lent its voice to calls for concerted efforts aimed at tackling the rising cases of kidnapping across the South West of Nigeria and the need to be proactive before the disturbing menace becomes an intractable national crisis.
The Nigerian Navy on Wednesday in Lagos intercepted and handed over 170 cartons of frozen turkey meat being smuggled into the country to the Nigerian Customs Service.
Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara on Wednesday said the state government would hold traditional rulers responsible for any extra judicial killing committed by local vigilantes in their domain.
Bandits, described as Fulani herdsmen on Wednesday, attacked passengers on the Ife-Ibadan highway, killing one person.
Following the disturbing trend of armed banditry and cattle rustling in some parts of Katsina State, the Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Muhammadu Gana, has directed the Commandant, Katsina State Command of the Corps to liaise with the Military, Police and other Security Agencies in the State and deploy additional personnel to the affected areas of the State.
The Department of State Services said it has observed with concern the deliberate plots and attempts by some subversive and undemocratic elements to incite or pit one ethnic group against the other by stoking the embers of tribal sentiments to cause disaffection and violence across the country.
The Director General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, Dame Julie Okah-Donli, has called for joint efforts among parents and stakeholders to ensure adequate protection of children from child labour and other forms of exploitation, saying children must be allowed to grow and fulfil their potentials.
President Muhammadu Buhari says his administration will crack down on those who incite ordinary innocent people to violence and social unrest.
The Commissioner of Police in Imo, CP Rabiu Ladodo, said the command had arrested one Eze Ajoku, a 63-year-old man in Agwa, Oguta LGA who specialized in fabricating guns.
The Police Command in Katsina State has confirmed the abduction of Alhaji Bature Mai’unguwa, the Village Head of Labo in Batsari Local Government Area, by unknown gunmen.
Prof. Francis Idike, the Chairman of the Igbeagu-Izzi Peace Committee in Ebonyi State, has decried the recent killing of two Ndunwampfu natives in Igbeagu Autonomous Community of the state during an alleged invasion of the area.
Andrew Charles Shinault (23) has accidentally shot his girlfriend, Paloma Williams (24), to death with a loaded gun during foreplay.
A 43-year-old farmer, Francis Joseph, has defiled a 12-year-old daughter of his neighbour in Lugbogi area of Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo State.
Three policemen working with the Enugu State Police Command who arrested a passenger, Nnanemere Valentine Chidi, for being in possession of a laptop and then demanding for N500, 00 as bail, have been fished out.