Banditry & Terrorism
By Idowu Ephraim Faleye MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas Nigeria is bleeding. Villages are emptied overnight, highways have become death zone, schools are shut because of Children kidnappings, mass graves are no longer shocking headlines, and military hospitals are littered with disabled soldiers. In the middle of this pain, some Northern leaders, speaking through Arewa platforms, are […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas By Soni Daniel, Northern Region Editor, Ademola Akinyemi, Ikechukwu Nnochiri, Henry Ojelu,Peter Duru, Bashir Bello, Ibrahim Hassan, Haruna Aliyu, Umar Yusuf, Marie-Therese Nanlong, Musa Anabi & Edwin Philip ABUJA — Northern leaders have disagreed with the federal and state governments over amnesty being granted to terrorists who have turned the region into a […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas ABUJA–Human rights lawyer and activist, Mr. Deji Adeyanju, has slammed the federal government over what he termed continued appeasement of bandits, saying it amounts to indirect financing of terrorism. Adeyanju, in a statement he issued on Monday, argued that forgiving terrorists not only sets a dangerous precedent but also undermines the tenets […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas In its sustained efforts regarding the ongoing dry season operations, especially in the Timbuktu Triangle, Troops of the Joint Task Force North East, Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK), cleared several camps of Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists. Sources revealed that “scores of the terrorists were neutralised, while others fled with gunshot wounds”. The same Troops […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas Nigerian troops have neutralised an unspecified number of terrorists following a bloody attack on Forward Operating Base (FOB) Azir in Borno State. The attack was carried out on Friday morning when daredevil terrorists invaded the area with dangerous weapons, including rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), machine guns, among others. The Acting Media Information Officer, […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas According to an official letter dated January 2 and marked “SECRET,” the government reportedly requested the intervention of the Administration of Criminal Justice Monitoring Committee, ACJMC, to facilitate the release of the suspects. The Katsina State Government’s plan to secure the release of 70 suspects standing trial for alleged banditry has sparked […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas The Katsina State Government has explained its decision to initiate the release of 70 persons suspected to be involved in banditry, saying the move was part of efforts to sustain an ongoing peace deal with armed groups operating in the state. The Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Nasir Muazu, […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas US President’s remarks, given in an interview with The New York Times, were published on the paper’s website on Thursday. US President Donald Trump has said there could be more strikes by the US in Nigeria if Christians are killed in the African nation, even as Nigeria has previously denied that Christians […] Read more
