Tag: Niger

Sarkin Sudan of Kotangora, Saidu Namasaka, dies at 84

  By Salim Yunusa The Sarkin Sudan of Kontagora in Niger State, Alhaji Saidu Namaska, has passed on. The monarch died at the age of 84 on...

Bandits are going nowhere – Gumi

By Salim Yunusa Controversial Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has, on Monday reiterated the need to grant bandits amnesty.   Gumi said bandits are going nowhere until...

Bandits kill 19 in reprisal attacks in Niger

By Salim Yunusa No fewer than 19 persons are feared dead with several people reported missing in a reprisal attack by bandits in Magami, a...

Hunters ambush, kill 47 bandits in Niger community

By Salim Yunusa At least 47 bandits terrorising Shiroro communities in Niger State have been killed by local hunters.   The hunters raided a ‘riverside’ community in...

Police, vigilantes team up to kill infamous Niger bandit leader

By Salim Yunusa The Nigeria Police Force, in conjunction with local vigilantes, has on Monday succeeded in killing an infamous bandits’ leader in Niger State. According...

KEKE NAPEP riders protest extortion in Minna

By Salim Yunusa Passengers were stranded in Minna, Niger State capital, after tricycle riders began a warning strike on Monday.   They protested extortion by policemen, officials...

UNICEF to provide mental support for abducted Tegina students

By Salim Yunusa   The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has disclosed plans to provide mental health, psychosocial support and counselling services to the freed pupils...

JUST IN: 88 days after, Tegina Islamiyya pupils released by abductors

By Salim Yunusa More than 70 pupils of Islamiyya school in Tegina town who were kidnapped by armed bandits in Niger State have been released...

Six abducted Niger students die in bandits’ custody

By Salim Yunusa   Six of the 136 students kidnapped from an Islamic school in the north-central Nigerian state of Niger have died of illness, the...

Niger Insecurity: Joint Security Taskforce kills 15 bandits, arrests 3 in military uniforms

By Salim Yunusa The Joint Security Taskforce in Niger state has continued to record more successes in its renewed war against the armed bandits with...

JUST IN: Kidnapped Niger Commissioner regains freedom

Niger commissioner for information, Alhaji Muhammed Sani Idris, has been released by his abductors.   Gunmen had broken into his residence at Babban-Tunga, a community off...

Abductors of Niger Commissioner demand N500m ransom

By Salim Yunusa The abductors of Muhammed Sanni Idris, Niger state commissioner for Information have demanded N500 million in ransom.   Reports about how the commissioner was...

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