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No fewer than 200 armed bandits were killed between Sunday and yesterday by operatives of the joint Security Taskforce in Rafi and Mariga Local Government Areas, LGAs, in gun duel. This was made known by the Niger State Government yesterday. Commissioner for Local Government, Chieftaincy Affairs and Internal, Mr. Emmanuel Umar, at a briefing in Minna yesterday, said the bandits were killed in Kundu axis of Rafi and Babanlaba axis of Mariga LGAs and other parts of the state between Sunday and Wednesday. He noted that all the leaders of…

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The Federal Government has approved the request by the United States of America to extradite the suspended Commander of the Police Intelligence Response Team, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari. The US had requested that Kyari should be extradited over alleged $1.1million wire fraud involving Abass Ramon aka Hushpuppi and four others. The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), made this known in an application filed before the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court in Abuja. In the application marked, FHC/ABJ/CS/249/2022, and filed under…

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Ohalete Jogoji, a 73-year-old man, has been arrested for allegedly killing his immediate younger brother, Augustine Jogoji, over a land dispute. The incident happened at Amaraku Junction, in the Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State, where some youths seized the suspect and stripped him naked. They threatened to beat him up before some youths, led by one Bathram Uwandu, rescued him and took him to the police command headquarters in Owerri. Ohalete, during an interview, said he hacked his younger brother to death while he was asleep. The…

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A 23-year-old man, Victor Akinwa, has been remanded in prison custody on the order of an Ondo magistrate Court sitting in Akure, Ondo State, for allegedly killing his father, Justus. Victor was arrested for allegedly killing his father with a pestle in November 2021 on Basic Road, Idanre, in the Idanre Local Government Area of the state. The police prosecutor, Mr Obadasa Ajiboye, told the court that the defendant hit his father with a pestle in the head, which resulted in his death. According to the prosecution, the offences contravene…

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A traditional ruler and eight other mourners were reportedly killed during a burial ceremony by bandits suspected to be loyalists of late Terwase Agwaza alias ‘Gana’ at Imande Mbakenge, Mbache Council Ward of Katsina-Ala Local Government Government Area, LGA, of Benue State. The gruesome murder of the mourners came less than 48 hours after troops of the joint security/military operation in Benue State, codenamed Operation Whirl Stroke, OPWS, eliminated three militia leaders and loyalists of the late ‘Gana’ in Katsina-Ala and Ukum LGAs. It was gathered from a source in…

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Gunmen reportedly killed about 10 persons this weekend in Kaduna state. At least 10 persons were killed by suspected bandits during separate attacks in Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The bandits also kidnapped an unspecified number of people, mainly women, from the communities during the operation that lasted several hours. Although the state and police authorities are yet to comment on the incident, a local security source said the bandits had earlier attacked some villages in neighbouring Niger State where they kidnapped some people, and while on…

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