Cattle rustling
2 Jul 2021
Niger State House of Assembly has recommended death by public hanging for anyone found guilty of banditry, kidnapping, cattle rustling or giving out information to bandits.
31 May 2021
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has called on the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) and other law enforcement agencies to rejig their strategies of fishing out criminals and enemies of the state
10 Jan 2021
Kaduna State Government has described as false, news that helicopters supplied gunmen with arms at Ungwan Dankali and Tsallaken Dogo in Zaria Local Council on Wednesday.
29 Dec 2020
A wanted ringleader, identified as Nasiru Kachalla, has died in a gun duel when two armed groups fought over rustled cows in Kaduna.
11 Dec 2020
Governor Aminu Tambuwal, yesterday, presented an N176, 685,535,633.27 budget proposal for 2021 to the Sokoto State House of Assembly.
5 Dec 2020
Former chief security officer (CSO) to the late head of state, Gen. Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, had lamented that corruption has permeated the military and some people are feeding fat
25 Oct 2020
Gov. Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa has imposed a 24-hour curfew throughout the state, citing a breakdown of law and order in Yola, the capital. Fintiri declared the curfew in a special broadcast on Sunday, warning that the government will not fold its hands and allow some few elements to destabilise the relative peace enjoyed in…
24 Sep 2020
President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent directive to the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to restrict foreign exchange for the purpose of food and fertiliser importation into the country should not be trifled with. The presidential order emerged at the National Food Security Council meeting held in the nation’s capital, Abuja. To underscore…
15 Feb 2020
Against expectations that the Southwest states governors would by yesterday endorse the Bill establishing Western Nigeria Security Network (WNSN), codenamed Operation Amotekun,
12 Feb 2020
Permit me to state the obvious, for I must not fail to report, and proudly too, that former speaker, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, still speaks well and eloquently too.
16 Nov 2019
The Kaduna State Police Command has arrested two suspects for the killing of five persons in Jamaa Council of Kaduna. The two suspects are Sadiq Umar and Umar Abubakar, both of Unguwan Nungu in the council.
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