Bandits

President Tinubu has ordered a national security emergency, issued new directives to major police and military to confront escalating terrorist and bandit attacks.

In a new development, Nigeria’s Senate, after classifying kidnapping, seeks amendments mandating the death penalty for offenders.

A DSS witness told the court that Tukur Mamu allegedly received N50m from terrorists during the Abuja–Kaduna train attack negotiations. Evidence was admitted in court.

Bandits dispute the government’s rescue claim, insisting Kebbi schoolgirls were freed only after negotiations as a video surfaces challenging the official account.

Following another terror attack, President Tinubu directs a full security lockdown on Kwara forests.

A freed Kwara church abduction victim recounts the fear, tight surveillance, and harsh conditions captives faced in a forest camp controlled by terrorists

Nigerian troops have arrested a wanted kidnap suspect caught negotiating a N20m ransom.