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  The suspects: Danjuma Auta, 35, and Daniel Danrangi, 25, both male and from Dirin Daji, Sakaba Local Government Area of Kebbi State were arrested along Kontagora-Zuru road, Niger on Monday night.   According to the Niger Commander of the agency, Mr. Aloye Isaac Oludare, the duo were arrested with 12 locally-fabricated AK-47 rifles and 15 locally-fabricated pistols. The rifles were concealed in a white sack while on a motorcycle to an unknown place when they were arrested. ...

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Niger State Command have recovered 27 new rifles from two suspects during a routine stop and

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Niger State Command have recovered 27 new rifles from two suspects during...

Kingsley Nwezeh in Abuja and Laleye Dipo in Minna The search for the 42 people, including 27 pupils that bandits kidnapped on Wednesday from Government Science College, Kagara in Niger State continued yesterday with the reinforcement of security operatives on the trail of the abductors. A statement by the Force PRO, Mr. Frank Mba, a commissioner of police, said the police had deployed additional tactical, investigative and intelligence assets, including police aerial helicopter, in support of t...

• Angry senators declare govt incompetent • Demand state of emergency on security • APC assures of safe return of abductees • Defence Minister rally Nigerians to resist kidnappers, bandits • Fleeing terrorists kill 11 policemen, residents in Yobe In another bout of terror, armed bandits in military uniforms, yesterday, invaded Government Science College Kagara, in Niger State and herded unconfirmed number of students and their teachers into the forest. Failure to effect immediate rele...

Share Newly promoted officers of the Niger State Command of the Nigeria Police have been asked not to be deterred by the daunting challenges confronting the personnel of the force. They were also charged to be more courageous and confident in overcoming such challenges. The State Commissioner of Police, Mr Adamu Usman gave the advice at the decoration of newly promoted officers of the command at a colourful ceremony held at the Police Officers in Minna, the state capital. newly promoted Niger P...

About 21 persons have been killed and 40 kidnapped in a fresh attack on communities in Shiroro Council of Niger State.

Views: Visits 65 Gunmen in the early hours of Tuesday, invaded Shiroro communities in Niger State, killing twenty-one persons and kidnapping forty others. It was gathered that the gunmen numbering about three hundred gunmen stormed Kurege, Sabon Gida, Sararai and Rafin Kanya on motorcycles, shooting sporadically. Confirming the development, an eye witness who is also an indigene of Shiroro Local Government, Galadima Salisu told newsmen in a telephone interview that except government at...

Punch Newspapers Sections Adebayo Ayinde, Minna Twenty-one persons have been killed and forty kidnapped in renewed bandits attack on Shiroro communities in Niger State. The attacks happened early Tuesday morning when about three hundred gunmen on motorcycles stormed Kurege, Sabon Gida, Sararai and Rafin Kanya shooting sporadically. An eye witness who is also an indigene of Shiroro Local Government, Galadima Salisu while confirming the incident told newsmen in a telephone interview that unless g...

Share Tragedy struck in Niger State in the early hours of Tuesday, as no fewer than 21 persons were killed and about 40 others kidnapped in a renewed armed bandits attack on Shiroro communities in Shiroro Local Government Area of the state. Tribune Online gathered that the attack allegedly occurred when about over 250 to 300 gunmen on motorcycles stormed four villages of Kurege Sabon Gida, Sararai and Rafin Kanya, shooting sporadically, killing some persons and abducted many others. An eye witn...