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Terrorists Abduct 29 Residents In Nigerian Capital City, Abuja In Mass Midnight Attack

The people abducted were said to have comprises of male adults, housewives and children. No fewer than 29 residents of Yewuti village, in Kwali Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, have been reportedly kidnapped by gunmen suspected to be terrorists. It was learnt that the incident happened around 1am on Tuesday when the […]

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Abducted Kaduna School Girls Escape From Terrorists Den

The eight female students of Government Secondary School, Awon – who were kidnapped by terrorists on Monday 3rd April 2023 in the Awon general area of Kachia LGA – have escaped from the terrorists’ den. The students, according to preliminary briefings, escaped from a thick forest around the Kaduna – Niger interstate boundaries, and walked […]

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Community Members Mobilizing Funds To Meet Demand Of Bandits In Zamfara

Residents of Wanzamai village in Zamfara State have said they are making efforts to raise the ransom demanded by armed bandits. Recall that last Friday, a group of bandits stormed Wanzamai community where they kidnapped 85 villagers, mainly women and children, as a reprisal attack against the killing of their members by the military operatives […]

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NANS Seeks Holistic Approach To Rescue Abducted Zamfara, Kaduna Students

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has appealed to authorities concerned to use all means to rescue university and secondary school students from their abductors. Two female Microbiology students of Federal University, Gusau, Zamfara, and another 10 female secondary school students of Kachia LGA in Kaduna State had been in captivity. Vanessa Kwere, the […]

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Tension As Bandits Storm Zamfara, Kidnap 80 Children

At least 80 children have been abducted by bandits in Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The children, aged between 12 and 17, were abducted on Friday at about 8am, the BBC Hausa Service is reporting. According to the station, the children were abducted while fetching firewood in the bush. The gunmen were said […]

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Bandits Take 49 Niger Villagers To Zamfara Forest, Demand N30m Ransom

Via – Leadership Bandits have killed no fewer than four people they had abducted in Niger State. This is even as the bandits are holding 49 villagers captive in Zamfara forest and demanding N30 million ransom for their release, contrary to claims that they abducted 56 and are demanding N200 million ransom. It was learnt […]

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Man Shot By Bandits, Wife & Daughter Kidnapped In Zamfara

In Gusau, Zamfara State, gunmen thought to be bandits shot Mallam Mannir Abubakar and abducted his wife and daughter. In the early hours of March 29, 2023, the alleged bandits reportedly assaulted Abubakar’s home, which is behind the Karma hotel, and tried to kidnap him and his family. Abubakar claims that when he protested the […]

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How Bandits Kidnapped Matawalle’s Aide In Zamfara

The kidnappers abducted Special Counsel to the Governor Bello Mohammad Matawallen Maradun, Hon. Lukman Ibrahim on Saturday in Mareri area of Gusau District, capital of Zamfara State. According to Ibrahim’s son, Maaji Ibrahim, his father was kidnapped on Saturday morning. He explained that his father was in the house when the kidnappers entered their compound […]

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Bandits Abduct Father, Four Children In Gusau, Zamfara

Armed Bandits have abducted five family members in Zamfara The Father one Mr. Moruf alongside his four children were kidnapped in the early hours of Monday at his residence in Saminaka area in Gusau, the capital city of Zamfara State. The wife of the Victim Mrs. Aisha and her son were spared by the bandits […]

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Insecurity: Bandits Abduct Zamfara Assembly Candidate

The ADC Candidate Contesting for the Zamfara State House of Assembly, Shinkafi Constituency in the 2023 General Election Suleiman Abdulrahaman Was Kidnapped Along Shinkafi- Sokoto Road while on his way to get his credentials at the Usman Danfodio University, Sokoto. The incident is coming barely forty eight hours after armed bandits killed an Imam and […]