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According to Daily Trust, on Thursday, bandits stormed Ariko village, a Fulani community in Kachia LGA of Kaduna State, where they killed two people and kidnapped three more. Yesterday, according to sources in Jere town, the incident took place when the bandits raided one Alhaji Awu's home in Ariko village in an effort to kidnap him. The bandits took him out of the compound after he allegedly resisted them. They abducted Alhaji Awu and his two children, a boy and a girl, against their will. Alhaji Awu's hugged her son in a pool of his own blood, and the bandits smiled as they witnessed it, he claimed.

Terrorists killed dozens and displaced hundreds in four states over the weekend, including Niger and Kuchi. Residents of the affected communities reported that attackers rode on motorcycles and operated unchallenged before attacking residents. DSP Wasiu Abiodun kept sealed lips, but State Commissioner for Local Government Emmanuel Umar confirmed the attack. Security operations are ongoing and people are still on the run. The four camps of Abdulkarim and Dankarami were attacked by more than 1500 bandits, looting everything and setting places on fire. The attack occurred in the early hours of Sunday, with eleven people confirmed killed and some inflicted with gunshot injuries. Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has ordered that bandits should be classified as terrorists.

The manner in which El-Rufai established a region in Kaduna and chose his son's buddy to serve as its rulerLegislators are suspended by the M Zamfara Assembly "for collaborating with bandits."After being held captive for more than a month, students from Kebbi were released. The law establishing metropolitan administrations to oversee Zaria, Kaduna, and Kafanchan as organic cities was approved, it was announced when Bayero's appointment was made. served as the ministry's permanent secretary. Later, he was made managing director of the Kaduna Market Development Agency. In June 2015, he became a Special Assistant for Job Creation in El-Rufai's administration. holds a bachelor's degree in Economics and is an honours graduate of the Eastern Mediterranean University.

President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that his administration is determined to hand over a better Nigeria than the one they inherited and urged them to be fair in their assessment of what his government has achieved. He spoke at the palace of the Emir of Jema’a, Alhaji Muhammadu Isa II, in Kafanchan, and urged Nigerians to develop confidence in civil authority to build a system "free of chaos". He also requested permanent bases for the air force and mobile police, as well as the restoration of the rail services for which Kafanchan was known.