
Are Forest Guards to the Rescue? By Alabidun Shuaib AbdulRahman Nigeria’s insecurity story has become the longest‑running drama of our national life, and, at times, its most tragic one. Every week seems to bring another report of village raids, kidnappings, forest‑based ambushes or displaced families seeking refuge from bandits and terrorists. City centres barely
READ MOREKwara: Police Nab Two Notorious Banditry, Kidnapping Kingpins The Nigeria Police Force has arrested two suspected banditry and kidnapping kingpins linked to a wave of violent crimes across Katsina, Zamfara, Niger and Kwara states. The suspects were apprehended on Friday, December 19, 2025, by operatives of the Force Intelligence Department–Intelligence Response Team, in
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Insecurity: Defence, Development, and Duty, by Alabidun Shuaib AbdulRahman Last week, this column examined the need for Nigeria to go beyond the symbolic appointment of a Defence Minister and to embrace a more strategic, coherent and results‑oriented national security policy. With the Honourable Minister of Defence, General Christopher Gabwin Musa (rtd) now sworn in
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Court Sentences Evans to 21 Years in Prison Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Ikeja Special Offences Court on Monday sentenced kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, also known as Evans, and his co-defendant, Victor Aduba, to 21 years imprisonment for kidnapping one Sylvanus Hafia. They were accused of conspiring and kidnapping Sylvanus Ahanonu Hafia at about 5:30
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Gov. Matawalle Backs Death Penalty for Bandits, Signs bill Governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle of Zamfara State has thrown his weight behind death penalty on those convicted for banditry, kidnapping, cattle rustling and cultism in the State. The Governor announced this after signing into law, a Bill passed by the Zamfara State House of Assembly prohibiting
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We’ve Degraded Bandits, IPOB Militants – Buhari Boasts President Muhammadu Buhari says he has degraded the potency of bandits and IPOB militants despite wanton killings and kidnapping continuing across Nigeria. According to the President, Boko Haram, the Indigenous People of Biafra, Eastern Security Network and bandits that posed a potent threat to the country, have
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