Farouq in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, signed by her Special Assistant on Media, Nneka Anibeze, condemned the killings in Anka and Bukkuyum Local Government areas of the state, describing it as horrific.
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The State’s Command Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Superintendent Mohammed Shehu, disclosed this while briefing reporters in Gusau, the State’s capital.
The security-challenged state gave the approval following what it called satisfactory reports received on security situation in the affected communities.
Secretary to Niger State Government, Alhaji Ahmed Matane, confirmed this to newsmen in Minna on Wednesday.
The IDPs are mainly women and children currently in Saminaka area in Gusau, displaced as a result of banditry activities.
The spokesman of the Command, Mohammed Jalige, confirmed the development to Channels Television on Saturday.
Mustapha made the reaction in an interview with newsmen shortly after Hong Secondary School Old Boys Association meeting held in Hong, the headquarters of Hong local government area (LGA) on Wednesday.
The former Kwara State Governor made his views known on his social media pages just hours after the bandits’ attack.
The PDP Chairman said this over the weekend when he spoke with newsmen at the party’s national secretariat.
Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, confirmed the new figure in an update in a statement issued on Sunday in Kaduna.
The attack jets of the Air Task Force, ATF, Operation Hadin Kai, also killed several bandits, in the raid carried out at some forests in Zamfara and Sokoto states, early Saturday.
Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, confirmed this in a statement issued on Sunday in Kaduna.
Dozens of travellers were allegedly kidnapped.
The spokesman of the Secret Police, Dr. Peter Afunanya, disclosed this at a press briefing in Abuja on Tuesday.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Monday Kuryas, confirmed the story to the News Agency of Nigeria in Minna on Tuesday.
He gave the directive while addressing troops during operational visit to 23 Brigade, Yola, Adamawa State on Saturday.
While commending the Nigerian Army for their sustainable attacks on the criminals who have been causing mayhem on the citizens across the country he charged them to deal with criminals just like in a war.
This was confirmed by the Chairman, Christian Association of Nigeria in Kaduna State, Rev. Joseph John Hayab.
The cleric who is known to have access to bandits had once asked the federal government to grant them blanket amnesty.
According to a statement by SP Gambo Isah, the command’s spokesman, after a fierce gun duel, the bandit and his cohorts were dislodged while the team succeeded in destroying his camp and recovered 15 cows, 28 goats and 12 sheep reasonably suspected to have been rustled.