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Concern about “heavy casualties of innocent villagers and hostages” from military operations against bandits and kidnappers is the reason the Nigerian government has not deployed forces against bandits, President Muhammadu Buhari, has explained. He also warned state governors about plans of negotiating with the bandits or giving the amnesty. “Let them (bandits) not entertain any […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed delight at the release of those students and workers who were abducted from the Government Science College, Kagara, Niger State. The victims were released in the early hours of Saturday by their captors, who had threatened to starve them to death if their demand for ransom was not met. The […]

Having advertised its gross incapacitation, having demonstrated in word and deed its cluelessness over the whereabouts of the abducted students and their family members, the government at least, found a wholesome diet in the humble pie by dispatching a delegation and deploying more police officers to Niger State. Beyond this, however, President Muhammadu Buhari has […]

Less than 24 hours after President Buhari said there would be no amnesty for bandits and kidnappers in the country, gunmen in the early hours of Friday abducted more than 300 schoolgirls from Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in the Talata-Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State. Reports said the gunmen arrived at the school […]

The Federal Government says it has mapped out 30 grazing reserves for implementation of the National Livestock Transformation Plan, NLTP. This is being designed as a lasting solution to the raging crises between herdsmen and farmers across the country, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Agriculture, Dr Andrew Kwasari, said. He disclosed this […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has ruled out the possibility of the Federal Government granting amnesty to armed criminals terrorising the country, stressing that his administration will continue to deal decisively with bandits, kidnappers, and insurgents. President Buhari said this on Thursday through his Chief of Staff, Prof Ibrahim Gambari, who represented him at a joint security […]