Tag Archives: Banditry

  However, the kidnappers regrouped and turned their aggression on Ehigie. Unable to harm him with gunfire, they resorted to attacking him with heavy woods. Despite his resistance, he was overpowered and tragically killed. PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | APRIL 22, 2025 On Easter afternoon, a courageous young man named Ehigie, a wood saw operator and hunter from Udo-Eguare, made the ...

  “It’s Islamically allowed for one to defend himself against attack. One must rise to defend himself, his family and assets. If you die while trying to defend yourself, you’ll be considered a martyr,” Masari asserted. PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | DECEMBER 30, 2021 The Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, has told residents of the state to brace up against the ...

  “Now, I have one or two options. If I cannot tell my own brother what I have told this man, then I should take an aeroplane from Abuja to Jonathan and say forgive me for castigating you in public. Either seeking an apology or castigating the President; there is no third option,” Gumi added.     BY OYAKHAMOH Y. ...

  He said that the operation was aimed at stopping the movements of bandits, kidnappers and other criminal elements from neighbouring states into the forest and any other part of Kano State. BY OYAKHAMOH Y. CARL-ABU’BAKAR The Nigerian Army (NA) in a statement says its men in collaboration with other security agencies are currently clearing Falgore forest in Kano State ...

  Kidnappers have released two un-dated videos of Nigerians, mainly youths in its captivity. The videos which featured threatened youths both male and female been flogged with a whip as fully armed men walked amongst the captive urging them in the video to call on the government to pay-up their ransom fees is currently threading unline in the media. As ...

  “The ambition of one man is not worth your soaked hands in blood. The SW has not just been hit by herdsmen invasion. You have lived with it. Like many other parts of the world, herders live and exist. Criminals” By Godwin Okpe The North is not daft….. Adept at what’s best for them and the system. You have ...

  It stated that “the country for almost six years has been soaking in all manners of lopsidedness and nepotism” The statement further asks if “the injustices Nigeria has done to the North is so much for the bandits to do what they are doing to the rest of us and for Buhari to be looking the other way.” Pegasus ...

  “My husband and I went to find out what was happening on hearing noises and shouts for help but he was shot on the neck in my presence and he died on the spot” Agency Report As governments and interest parties continue to disagree over methods of tackling banditry and crime in parts of the north, a housewife Mallama ...

The ruling All Progressives Congress has accused an unnamed People” Democratic Party, PDP, governor in the Northwestern region of being the sponsor of banditry in the north. The report says an intelligence report has established a link between the governor and growing insecurity including banditry, abductions and other violent crimes in the zone. The party’s spokesman, Yekini Nabena, made the ...