By Aluta News June 16, 2022 The Police Command in Kaduna State says its operatives killed 4 suspected bandits, recovered firearms and ammunition, and an operational vehicle. The Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Mohammad Jalige, disclosed this in a statement issued in Kaduna on Thursday. Jalige said that theContinue Reading
By Aluta News Mar. 17, 2022 The Joint Security Task Force in Niger has killed 100 suspected bandits in an operation at Bangi village in Mariga Local Government Area of the state. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Bala Kuryas, confirmed this to the News Agency of NigeriaContinue Reading
By Aluta News Feb. 2, 2022 The Senate has urged the Federal Government to, as a matter of urgency, send fighter jets to flush out terrorists in their hideouts from where they perpetrate kidnappings and killing of Nigerians. The upper chamber’s resolution followed a point of order raised by Sen.Continue Reading
By Aluta News Jan. 11, 2022 Gov. Bello Matawalle of Zamfara has restated his commitment to rid the state of banditry, kidnapping and other criminalities. This is contained in a statement by his Press Secretary, Jamilu Birnin-Magaji, on Tuesday in Gusau. According to the statement, Matawalle stated this while receivingContinue Reading
By Aluta News Jan. 5, 2022 The Police in Zamfara said on Wednesday they neutralised two bandits along Funtua-Gusau road in Tsafe Local Government Area. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Zamfara Command, Superintendent Mohammed Shehu, disclosed this while briefing reporters in Gusau. Shehu said the Police Special Forces neutralisedContinue Reading
By Aluta News Dec. 23, 2021 The Defence Headquarters says troops of Operation Whirl Stroke operating in Benue, Nasarawa and Taraba, arrested 16 migrant bandits from Niger Republic. It said the bandits were arrested in different operations across the North Central. The Acting Director, Defence Media Operations, Brig.-Gen. Bernard Onyeuko,Continue Reading
By Aluta News Dec. 19, 2021 Bandits killed more than 20 persons and destroyed property worth millions of Naira in Giwa Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Saturday. Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan, confirmed this in a statement issued on Sunday in Kaduna. AruwanContinue Reading
By Aluta News Nov. 25, 2021 The Defence Headquarters has said Nigerian troops eliminated more than 128 bandits and arrested 64 others in different operations across North West and North Central zones in the past two weeks. Acting Director, Defence Media Operations, Brig.-Gen. Bernard Onyeuko, disclosed this while giving updatesContinue Reading
By Aluta News Nov. 11, 2021 The Defence Headquarters says troops operating in North West and North Central have arrested no fewer than 48 bandits and eliminated 15 in two weeks. Brig.-Gen. Bernard Onyeuko, Acting Director, Defence Media Operations, disclosed this while briefing newsmen on the operations of armed forcesContinue Reading
By Aluta News Oct. 29, 2021 The Minister of Defence, Maj. Gen. Bashir Magashi (Rtd), has said that the need to follow due process was responsible for the delay in declaring bandits as terrorists. Magashi, who stated this on Friday, in Maiduguri, while fielding questions from newsmen, added that thereContinue Reading
