KADUNA — The Kaduna State Commissioner of Internal Security and Home Affairs Samuel Aruwan says the state records 774 kidnap cases while 222 persons were killed due to banditry and other violent crimes in three months. Aruwan while presenting security reports to Governor Nasir El-Rufai and other top government officials on Tuesday noted that 87 bandits were killed within the period. The report shows that the bandits have started collecting levies from farmers in communities...

YOLA — Adamawa State Police Command says it has recorded no fewer than 25 cases of rape and defilement between January and June 2021 in the state. DSP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje, the spokesman of the command, who disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Yola, said that 16 of the victims were minors and nine adults. He added that all the suspects, who were mostly from within the neighbourhoods, had...

The 85-year-old monarch, Alhaji Alhassan Adamu, the Emir of Kajuru in Kaduna state who was abducted along with some family members on Sunday has regained freedom on Monday. The second-class emir ascended the throne as Sarkin Kajuru in 1978. The source, who was among those that received the Emir, said the bandits had called them through the emir’s phone number shortly after Asr (sunset prayer) and asked them to go to a certain location to receive...