The Federal Government, through the National Emergency Management Agency on Saturday distributed relief assistance to victims of bandits’ attacks in four communities in Sokoto State.
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President Muhammadu Buhari has reassured Nigerians that ending banditry remains a key priority of his administration.
President Muhammadu Buhari has reassured Nigerians that ending banditry remains a key priority of his administration and he would do whatever it takes to ensure the country’s security system confronts these public enemies with merciless determination.
The police in Sokoto State have arrested one Ibrahim Alhassan, an alleged gun fabricator, for being in possession of two locally made revolver pistols with 18 improvised rounds of live ammunition.
The Defence Headquarters says ongoing military operations to combat terrorism, banditry and economic sabotage has recorded some successes in the last one week.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday met with members of Zamfara State Council of Traditional Rulers and expressed disappointment over security reports linking people close to some of them with banditry in the state.
Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara says his administration is worried over increasing cases of kidnapping “that has become a lucrative business in the state”.
The Zamfara Government has called on the people of the state to embark
on three-day fasting and intensive prayers to seek God’s intervention against the activities of bandits, kidnappers and other crimes.
The Acting Director, Defence Information, Brig.-Gen. John Agim, says over 6000 Internally Displaced Persons have returned home in Zamfara.
According to a statement by the minister’s spokesman, Col. Tukur Gusau, Dan-Ali made the suggestion at the Security Council meeting in Presidential villa in Abuja.
Idris made the disclosure in an interview with newsmen on Saturday in Gusau after a condolence visit over Thursday’s attack in Birane village, Zurmi Local Government Area, in which over 40 people died