The Head of Vigilante of Zuru Emirate in Kebbi state, John Mani, on Saturday, said the bandits that abducted the students of Federal Government College Birnin Yauri, suffered a heavy casualty, saying over 80 of them have been killed. Bandits numbering 150 were reported to have broken into the school on Thursday and made away with a yet-to-be ascertained number of students. Mani, in a telephone interview, said the bandits were killed in the ‘Insen...

Nigerian Army troops operating under the auspices of Operation Hadarin Daji have engaged kidnappers and bandits in a gun battle following the abduction of students of the Federal Government College, Yawuri, Kebbi State, have rescued two teachers and five students after an exchange of fire with the criminals. Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, the Director, Army Public Relations, in a statement, said the rescue followed an initial encounter with the abductors in the early hours of...

KANO — Nigerian Customs officers at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport, (MAKIA) have arrested a Saudi Arabia returnee with a bag filled with foreign currency equivalent to N1billion. It was learned that the returnee arrived on a 2 pm Ethiopian Airlines flight on Thursday afternoon. According to the source “upon checking the luggage, different foreign currencies such as US Dollars, Euro, Pounds Sterling, and Saudi Riyal were discovered equivalent to N1billion.” It was gathered...