Laleye Dipo
Bandits in the early hours of yesterday killed one person and injured another in Yakila village of Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State.
The bandits also abducted five villagers and rustled unspecified number of cows.
Those injured during the sporadic shooting by the bandits were reported to have been admitted at the Wushishi General Hospital.
THISDAY was informed that the villager killed was Hamza Boka, while his brother, who was injured, is Jibrin Boka.
Those abducted, according to the eyewitnesses, are Dada Jatau, Idris Adamu, Mai- angwa Rimi, Mallam Mamba, and an unnamed villager.
It was gathered that the rustled cattle belonged to Alhaji Jatau Gora and Buba Mohammed.
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Wed Apr 14 2021
Former Heads of State, Abdulsalami Abubakar and Olusegun Obasanjo held separate meetings with stakeholders last week where they dispassionately dissected the worsening insecurity in Nigeria and generated far-reaching recommendations. General Abubakar, who is the Chairman of the National Peace Committee (NPC), chaired a meeting on Wednesday, April 8, 2021, which brought together stakeholders, like former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, Sultan of Sokoto, Abubakar Saad 111, Bishop Matthew Kukah, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, the Metropolitan Archbishop Emeritus, Abuja Catholic Diocese, John Cardinal Onaiyekan; Ekiti State Governor and Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF), Kayode Fayemi; Plateau State Governor and Chairman of the Northern Governors Forum, Simon Lalong; Chairman of Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN), Malam Kabiru Yusuf, religious leaders, the service chiefs and several other dignitaries.