Tag: Katsina
Nigeria’s Katsina state shuts some communications as bandit battle widens
Nigerian officials cut communication lines in multiple parts of Katsina state as a crackdown on banditry in the northwest of the country spreads.
Katsina state...
Nigerian military in firefight with gang who kidnapped students
The Nigerian military had located and exchanged fire with gunmen who kidnapped scores of secondary school students in northwestern Katsina state, according to a...
Bandits kill at least 20 in northwest Nigeria’s Katsina state, say...
Gunmen killed at least 20 people in attacks in the northwestern Nigerian state of Katsina, police and residents said on Wednesday.
Hundreds of people have...
Armed bandits kill at least 18 in Nigeria’s Katsina state
Armed bandits in Nigeria’s northwestern state of Katsina killed at least 18 people, including a local official, and stole thousands of livestock on Sunday,...
Killings in Katsina
Gunmen killed 47 people in attacks on villages in north-western Nigerian state Katsina on Saturday, local police said.
“Armed bandits”, some wielding AK-47s, carried out...
Armed gang strikes in north-west Nigeria
An armed gang killed at least 18 people in the north-west Nigerian state Katsina, police and residents said, as unrest spreads across the region...
