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  The Zamfara State Police Command arrested 5 infamous bandit leaders at more than a few areas in the nation this week. Among them is a Nigerien, who specializes in providing state-of-the-art weapons and ammunition to bandits. One of them, whilst being paraded, verified how he hides his gun in his bike to keep away from being arrested with the aid of safety operatives. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Mohammed Shehu, stated the police recovered 4 AK-47 rifles and 960 rounds of stay ammunition. He stated the suspects, who specialize in excessive profile crimes ranging from banditry, kidnapping, cattle rustling, armed theft and homicide, have confessed to their crimes. “The crew that kidnapped the youthful brother of Dr. Dauda Lawal confessed that they accumulated N20 million ransom whilst the abductors of Engineer Yahaya Maradun’s daughter stated they gathered N10 million. “One of them confessed that they used to share between two, three, 4 to six hundred thousand naira re

  The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has once more known as on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign over insecurity, accusing him of failing to tightly closed the lives and property of the citizenry. The CNG, in a Sallah message through its North-west Zonal Coordinator, Jamailu Aliyu Charanchi, tittled: “Failed Presidency: Buhari Should Resign Now”, claimed that President Buhari additionally failed to “create jobs in addition to hovering debt tiers and mega corruption scandals which have persisted unabated”. Charanchi, in the message, brought that the president may also have intended properly for the u . s . and its residents earlier than he ascended to power,  however six years on, his administration has failed in the critical location of presenting safety for the nation. According to him, the chain of unchecked vicious assaults on communities and schools, mass abductions, incessant killings in the president’s very own Katsina State have uncovered the nation and the whole north to

  Nigeria’s presidential villa in the capital, Abuja, is supposed to be the most secure location in the united states - however the tried housebreaking of the dwelling of the president’s chief of personnel proper subsequent door has many humans worried. Prof Ibrahim Gambari’s residence is in the neighbourhood recognised as the “Three Arms Zone”, the place the Supreme Court and the National Assembly are additionally located. The presidency’s spokesman, Garba Shehu, said the strive to rob the residence on Monday used to be “foolish”. At face value, it does certainly appear so - given the vicinity is full of safety operatives and nearly enclosed by means of a army barracks. But that is why the incident has left many Nigerians drawing parallels with the protection issues the country faces. For them, it is convenient to conflate the brazen tried theft with the spike in illegal activity nationwide - from kidnapping in the north-west to assaults on public facilities, mainly on police officers

  When Russia's Sputnik V vaccine is unloaded in international locations round the world, lots of hundreds of thousands of doses will come with the label "Made in China." Chinese groups have made agreements over the previous month to manufacture extra than 260 million doses of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine, which has been authorized for use in extra than 60 countries, which includes a massive variety of growing international locations such as Mexico, India and Argentina. The deals are symbolic of how China and Russia's global vaccine dreams are an increasing number of aligned, as they help growing international locations left out by means of their typical Western companions who have been accused of hoarding shots. Duke University lookup suggests that whilst some countries, such as Canada, the UK and New Zealand, have offered ample vaccines to cowl their populace extra than three instances over, the giant majority of international locations have barely received doses

  Colorado officers say the gunman who killed six people at a birthday celebration at the weekend used to be upset that he had now not been invited. Police say Teodoro Macias, 28, fatally shot his girlfriend, Sandra Ibarra-Perez, 28, and 5 spouse and children earlier than turning the gun on himself. The assault unfolded at the Canterbury Mobile Home Park in Colorado Springs early on Sunday. The birthday celebration used to be for three relatives, two of whom died. The assault got here much less than two months after a mass capturing that left eleven useless at a grocery keep in the north-central Colorado metropolis of Boulder. Police say the Colorado Springs gunman had a "conflict" with the focused household at a separate tournament about a week earlier, and was once a jealous boyfriend. At the nook of this horrendous act is home violence," the Colorado Springs Police Chief Vince Niski instructed a information convention on Tuesday. He added: "When he [Macias] wasn&