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Following the growing level of Insecurity in Zamfara state, Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday declared Zamfara State a no-fly zone while also banning all mining activities in the area till further notice.

This sharp move is made in a bid to curb the rising activities of bandits in the state who are believed to always get supplies from aircrafts.

Major General Babagana Monguno (Rtd), National Security Adviser (NSA),revealed this when he spoke with newsmen after the security council meeting in Abuja on Tuesday.

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Hunainatu Abubakar, one of the abducted girls of Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in Zamfara, says their abductors asked them to pray for them to become good citizens.

Hunainatu told the Newsmen that they were ridiculed and called many bad names.

‘They threatened to kill us and then later, they asked us to pray for them to be good citizens and that we should teach them English so that they could speak.’

‘They also threatened to rape us but their leader warned them against that, they always added sand to our foods and only allowed us to dig for water

Commander 13 Brigade, Brig. Gen. Abdullahi Mohammed has handed over two suspected drug barons to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

Speaking while handing over the suspects, the commander who was represented by the commander of 13 Brigade Provost Company, Maj. Stanley Ikpeme, said that the suspected drug peddlers who include 37-years-old, Mr. Effangha Effangha, and 34 years old Eno-Obong Loius Udome were caught in possession of substances suspected to be hard drugs at No: 65, Nelson Mandela Street Calabar and Ekpeyong Ekpo at Akpabuyo LGA which is some few kilometres away from Calabar metropolis.

Human Rights Watch on Friday alleged that Cameroonian soldiers raped no fewer than 20 women, including four with disabilities, and killed a man in a raid it carried out last year in an English-speaking secessionist region.

The rights group also said the attack against the village of Ebam, in the country’s southwest, was one of the worst the army has committed in its four-year battle with armed separatists.

A number of soldiers rounded up men, while others raped at least 20 women, including four with disabilities, the activist group said in a statement after speaking by phone to survivors and …

Zamfara State Commissioner of Police, Abutu Yaro, has disclosed that 317 students were abducted from Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe, Talata Local Government Area of the State by suspected bandits on Friday.

Reports had it that unknown armed men invaded the school in the wee hours of the day, abducting the students and whisking them away to unknown locations.

When he and other top security operatives visited the community hours after the incident happened, Yaro said efforts were in place for the rescue of the innocent schoolgirls.

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A group of bandits has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to personally oversee peace talks with them if he is truly committed to the ongoing peace talks. 

In recent times, bandits have been carrying out series of mindless attacks and kidnappings in northern Nigeria with so much impunity.

Ahmad Gumi, a prominent Islamic cleric, had met with some of the bandits in the forests of Zamfara, appealing for peace, just last week, he met another set of bandits, this time in Niger State.

However, in a sudden twist, a masked bandit was seen in a viral video saying that if …

A Rwandan opposition figure who has been in exile in South Africa was on Sunday shot dead by unknown gunmen in Cape Town, his party has said, calling the attack an ‘assassination’.

Seif Bamporiki, 49, who was the Rwanda National Congress (RNC) coordinator in South Africa, was killed as he delivered furniture in the crime-ridden township of Nyanga.

Although the intentions of his killers is yet unknown, RNC spokesperson Etienne Mutabazi told newsmenthat the method mirrored past politically-motivated attacks.

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The killing ‘was executed in a similar modus operandi of luring …

The arraignment of former Minister of Aviation, Sen. Stella Oduah, at the Federal High Court, Abuja by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday was stalled.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that the case could not commence due to the commission’s inability to present two suspects in the trial.

The counsel to the EFCC, Dr. Hassan Liman, SAN, at the mention of the case before Justice Inyang Ekwo, told the court that the 5th and 6th suspect in the matter were yet to be served with the court processes.

Federal prosecutors in the US have explained how Nigerian Instagram star conspired with North Korean hackers to siphon more than $1.3 billion from companies and banks in the U.S. as well as other countries.

Instagram sensation Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, 37, popularly known as ‘Ray Hushpuppi,’ is being fingered in a scheme that helped three North Korean computer hackers steal an undisclosed amount of funds from companies and banks, including one in Malta, in February 2019, according to the Justice Department.

‘North Korea’s operatives, using keyboards rather than guns, stealing digital wallets of cryptocurrency instead of sacks of cash, are the …

Armed bandits on Sunday reportedly razed the building of the Holy Family Catholic Church, and two homes, in Kikwari village, Kajuru local government area of Kaduna state in what seemed to very coordinated attacks.

The Commissioner, Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Kaduna State, Samuel Aruwan,  who confirmed the attacks revealed that locals fled the area on receiving information that some bandits were sighted outside the village and the bandits simply had a free day.

‘On getting to the location, the armed bandits set ablaze the place of worship and the two houses,‘ he said.

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Days after the abduction of school children in Kagara Town, armed bandits on Saturday evening launched another attack on Gurmana Ward in Shiroro local government area of Niger state.

African Daily News can confirm that over 15 people are suspected to have drowned in River Kaduna as they tried to escape from the bandit’s attack, the exact number of Saturday’s victims is yet to be ascertained.

Sources said that the bandits were armed with sophisticated weapons and were shooting sporadically when they entered the community.

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No fewer than 17 women and an unknown number of children were reportedly kidnapped in Sabuwa Local Government Area of Katsina State en route  a wedding ceremony in Funtua Local Government Area of the state.

A source which wised to remain anonymous from the area disclosed that the majority of the women were carrying children when they were intercepted on Thursday by unknown gunmen who whisked them away to an unknown location.

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‘The incident happened when the women were on their way from Unguwar Rimi Village to Garin Maigora …