Zamfara Police rescued 25 abducted women and children after bandits attacked Kuraje village, with DSP Yazid Abubakar confirming that security teams “pursued the fleeing bandits, and engaged them in a coordinated and strategic operation.”
Residents of Sokupkpan community in Kwara State have lynched their Chief Imam, Abdulahi Audu, over allegations linking him to the death of a resident, Ibrahim Gana, whom he was accused of afflicting through witchcraft.
Bandits abducted two councillors and an imam in Zamfara’s Gusau on Wednesday night, seizing them near a police outpost.
A UK-based governance index has ranked Zamfara, Kwara, and Benue as Nigeria’s poorest-performing states, citing insecurity, corruption, and policy failure.
At least five worshippers were killed during dawn prayers in Zamfara as bandits attacked a mosque in Tsafe LGA.
Bandits opened fire on a convoy in Gusau LGA, killing 15 people including soldiers.
Governor Greg Abbott banned Sharia Law in Texas after a viral video showed an imam urging Muslim businesses to halt sales of items forbidden under Islamic law.
Governor Dauda Lawal says he knows bandit leaders’ hideouts in Zamfara but cannot act because security agencies only take orders from Abuja.
Thirteen people drowned and 22 remain missing in Zamfara after fleeing gunmen, as authorities also reunited 128 rescued kidnap victims with their families.
Gunmen killed two people and abducted over 100 — mostly women and children — in coordinated attacks on Gamdum Mallam and Ruwan Rana villages, sparking renewed alarm amid escalating violence in Zamfara State.