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Aisha Abubakar, a women leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Katsina State, has confessed to acting as an informant for bandits. She revealed that she received only ₦5,000 out of ₦9 million and a motorcycle paid as ransom to the bandits. Abubakar admitted to organizing the kidnapping of five family members of the […]
Women’s participation in arms trafficking linked to banditry is on the rise in Nigeria’s north-west. Between December 2022 and February 2023, Nigerian police apprehended several female individuals involved in gunrunning in Zamfara State. These women were allegedly supplying arms and ammunition to bandits. Banditry, encompassing armed robbery, kidnapping, murder, rape, and illegal firearms possession, presents […]