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Eight law enforcement officials, including three policemen and five members of a local anti-jihadist force, were killed in a jihadist attack in Burkina Faso on Tuesday. Jihadist raids on two military bases in Somalia, using suicide car bombers, killed 23 on Saturday. On Friday, South Africa decided to deploy its troops in bordering Mozambique, days after Islamist militants took over the town of Palma, killing dozens of locals and forcing thousands to flee. The past week is only a sample o...

“They said we should stay, ‘we are not here to harm you but the soldiers’. Their motorcycles and gun trucks are in the town.

Daily Trust  gathered that not much beyond the name and reputation is known about Malam Abba who, residents say, resides within the enclave of Kuduru forests, west of Birnin Gwari LGA. The forest is said to share boundaries with Chikun, Igabi and Giwa local government areas; Kaduna’s most notorious bandit hideouts. While Malam Abba, his lieutenants and several other bandits call Kuduru forest home, several other criminals lay low in the larger Kamuku National Park which crisscrosses five nor...

By Emma Una— CALABAR PROFESSOR Ivara Esu, Cross River State Deputy Governor, has said it is shameful to allow herdsmen, Boko Haram insurgents and bandits to continue to terrorise Nigerians. Professor Esu, who was speaking on Sunday during a church service to mark the 2021 Armed Forces Remembrance Day celebration, stated that the event should not be just to fulfil all righteousness, but an occasion to pray for the military and country. “I  have been thinking and have not come to terms with...

Share The North seems to be in a state of flux due to the frightening state of insecurity in the last few weeks with many senior citizens expressing frustration and despondency. KUNLE ODEREMI reports on the worrisome situation. THE North is in pains. That axis of Nigeria has become a veritable zone of death; death in the hands of hardened criminals. Terrorists, bandits, armed robbers, kidnappers, abductors and cattle rustlers are on the prowl almost on a daily basis and at an incredulous rate a...