Suspected cultists have reportedly attacked Oreta community in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State, killing a 22-year-old resident, Abdulmalik Bakare, and two others.

Tunde Bakare, father of the deceased, said the incident occurred on Wednesday and that six suspects have been arrested.

The Divisional Police Officer in charge of the case has, however, assured the family that he would carry out a thorough investigation, Bakare told journalists Sunday.

“The DPO has promised that the case will be thoroughly investigated,” he said.

When our correspondent visited the community on Sunday, there was a fearful and uncertain atmosphere in the whole area and residents were still trying to recover from the violence.

The findings showed that the attack might have been connected to a previous confrontation between a trailer driver and a gang of suspected hoodlums on Gbogbo Road.

A resident who gave his name only as Fasasi said armed men on motorcycles stormed the community around 8 p.m. and began shooting indiscriminately.

Earlier in the day, some youths reportedly stopped a trailer carrying a container and demanded money from the driver, leading to an escalation in tensions, he said.

He said the driver claimed some people at a junction near where he was parked collected N350,000 as payment from his employers.

“It was in the afternoon. A driver of a trailer carrying a container was stopped at Gbogbo by some boys who wanted to collect money from him. The driver said they had already paid. The Chinese owners said they paid N350,000 to their bosses at the junction.

“But they said no. As they were dragging it at the junction, one of the area boys who climbed the trailer was caught under the tyre and died. “The police said they settled it and it was an accident, Fasasi said.

He said some of the youths regrouped after the incident and later launched a reprisal attack on the community.

They rounded up their gang members in the night and raided the community on bikes. They reached Oreta and began shooting.

They killed him when he was about to close his shop. They also shot dead a physically challenged child who was eating. They started smashing shops and glass doors. “A man who came to buy fish was also shot dead,” he said.

At the time of this report, the identities of the other victims had not been confirmed.

The attack sent panic through the community, forcing many people to flee and commercial activities to be abruptly disrupted, residents said.

Efforts to get an official comment from the Lagos State Police Command were unsuccessful.

At the time of filing this report, calls and text messages to the command’s spokesperson, SP Abimbola Adebisi, were not responded to.

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Bandits have killed the Director of Planning in Talata Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State, Jamilu Sani, and the councillor representing Jangebe Ward in an attack along the Jangebe to Talata Mafara road.

The victims were reportedly kidnapped on May 18, 2026, while they were travelling from Jangebe to the Talata Mafara Local Government headquarters.

Reports said the attackers attacked the victims when they were said to have been travelling with the Area Revenue Officer for Pilgrims Affairs in the local government area to make preparations for the pilgrimage exercise.

It was gathered that the Chairman Talata Mafara Local Government Area, Hon. Yahaya Yari, confirmed the incident, describing it as tragic and unfortunate.

Yari said the council made several efforts to secure the release of the abducted officials but the bandits refused to negotiate for ransom.

He said the attackers threatened to kill anyone abducted from Jangebe community.

Bandits told us that whoever they kidnapped from Jangebe community would be killed. “They made it clear that they were not interested in collecting ransom,” Daily Trust quoted Yari as saying.

The council chairman said the development had thrown the local government area into mourning especially among residents of Jangebe and staff of the council that knew the victims.

Five Persons Ambushed On Road
A resident of Jangebe and close associate of the victims who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the five people were in the vehicle of the Area Revenue Officer, Sama’ila Ladan when ambushed.

The source said the victims were heading to Talata Mafara when the bandits attacked them at a notorious danger point on the road.

“They were waylaid by the bandits at a notorious flashpoint on their way to Mafara. The source said, “The village head was killed on the spot after he resisted being taken away.”

The source said the assailants also shot the Area Revenue Officer on the hand.

“They also shot the Area Revenue Officer in the hand and thought him dead apparently. The source said the attackers also abducted the Director of Planning, Jamilu Sani, while two occupants of the vehicle escaped into nearby bushes.”

The source expressed worry over the deteriorating security situation in Jangebe and neighbouring communities, saying residents now live in fear because of repeated attacks on roads and villages.

He said travelling outside Jangebe had become dangerous especially for residents moving towards Talata Mafara and other parts of the state.

The security situation in our area is continuing to deteriorate. Once you have gone about three kilometres out of Jangebe you are pretty much on your own.

“Our only relatively safe route is the Mayanchi-Anka-Gummi road, but even that has now become a dangerous corridor,” he bemoaned.

The resident called on security agencies and the Zamfara State Government to intensify patrols and restore confidence among communities ravaged by banditry.

DSP Yazid Abubakar, the spokesperson for the Zamfara State Police Command, also confirmed the incident.

The latest attack comes amid rising concerns over insecurity in parts of Zamfara State, where bandits have continued to attack communities, abduct residents and disrupt movement along major roads.

Residents in the area have called for urgent security intervention to prevent further attacks and to protect travellers using the Jangebe to Talata Mafara route.

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The Benue State Police Command has confirmed that suspected gunmen kidnapped 15 passengers on the Makurdi–Otukpo highway.

Sources say that the attack happened on April 15, 2026, at about 8:30 p.m. A Benue Links driver named Peter Ikwe told the Divisional Police Officer in Otukpo about it.

The driver of the Toyota Hiace bus with registration number BGT 224 SA was on his way from Makurdi to Otukpo when the vehicle was attacked near the Operation Whirl Stroke barracks. There were 18 passengers on board at the time.

Sources say that the attackers blocked the highway and pulled 15 passengers into the nearby bush, while a few others were able to get away.

As soon as the DPO got the distress call, they sent patrol and tactical teams to the scene. At the same time, joint security operatives started searching the bushes around the area to find the victims and the kidnappers.

The police command also said that the attack is being looked into by its Anti-Kidnapping Unit.

It promised that more details would be made public as the rescue mission went on.

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Heavily armed militants besieged the Angwan Rukuba hamlet in Jos North Local Government Area, Plateau State, on Sunday, resulting in at least ten confirmed deaths and numerous injuries.

Eyewitnesses said that the incident, which left the community’s people in complete shock and sadness, started at around 8 p.m. when the more than 20 gunmen attacked the nearby suburb of Gari Yawaye and started shooting intermittently, sending locals fleeing for their lives.

It was also reported that the incident had disturbed the peace and quiet of the neighborhood, which is home to a number of University of Jos employees and students.

A local resident described how the attackers, who were wearing the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency’s (NDLEA) uniforms, arrived on their motorcycles and proceeded to move through various areas of the community during the operation, firing gunshots that resulted in multiple fatalities and injuries.

The assailants wore NDLEA uniforms. Before firing from inside the store, they even purchased a few goods from a vendor. Luckily, the store owner managed to get away. “Four others didn’t have the same luck,” he continued.

Going on, the resident stated:

Ten people had died by the time they departed, and numerous others had been hurt by stray shots or while attempting to flee.

He continued, “It’s pitiful that the army and other security personnel arrived nearly an hour after the gunmen departed.”

Calls to the phones of DSP Alfred Alabo, the state police spokesperson, and Captain Nicholas Oteh, the spokesperson for Operation Enduring Peace (OPEP), were not returned, therefore attempts to get their responses were futile.

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The Byazhin-Across neighborhood Kubwa, a satellite town in the Federal Capital Territory of Abuja’s Bwari Area Council, has been attacked by armed men.

According to reports, the armed guys broke into the Paze neighborhood of Byazhin-Across on Monday night, killing Sylvester, a vigilante police, and kidnapping a number of locals.

Before carrying out the kidnappings, the attackers assaulted the area at around 11:00 p.m. and opened fire, frightening the locals.

The vigilante was allegedly shot during the attack after leaving a compound where he had been sitting with other locals when the attackers showed up.

During the event, several people were taken away.

A month-old infant was abandoned, and four children of a pastor, a vigilante’s wife, and her sister were among those abducted.

Among those kidnapped during the assault were a security guard and another woman.

Suspected kidnappers allegedly launched another attack in the same Byazhin-Across neighborhood in Orange Farm two days after the initial incident, breaking into multiple homes and kidnapping other locals.

The community, which was once thought to be calm, has become more fearful as a result of the recent attacks, and many people are now worried about the rising number of kidnapping incidents in some areas of the Federal Capital Territory.

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Udeh Ijachi, the previous caretaker chairman of Otukpo Local Government Area in Benue State, was assassinated on Thursday night by suspected gunmen.

Otukpo people are shocked after Ijachi, also known as “Honourable Ukpem,” was allegedly shot and killed by unknown assailants.

According to eyewitnesses, the former council boss was allegedly ambushed in front of the Okabido Hotel. The attackers fired on him before fleeing, according to witness testimonies.

A few moments after the gunshots, locals and onlookers hurried outside to investigate what had happened, causing panic in the neighborhood. Many said the gunshot left the neighborhood in disarray, characterizing the attack as startling.

Security officials had not issued an official comment on the murder as of the time of this story. Investigations, however, are anticipated to start in order to ascertain the circumstances behind the incident and identify the perpetrators.

Ijachi was well-known in the state’s political and social circles and had previously held the position of temporary chairman for Otukpo Local Government Area.

The attack’s motivation is yet unknown.

In the meantime, locals have asked security services to look into the incident in great detail and bolster local security to stop it from happening again.

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On Wednesday night, a woman was kidnapped and her husband was shot by gunmen who were thought to be kidnappers in the Pelebe axis of Akure South Local Government Area in Ondo State.

Residents in the community’s Ogunti Camp area are in a state of terror as a result of the attack.

The state has been dealing with constant security issues in recent weeks, with armed individuals killing and kidnapping people every day.

The development also sparked a number of protests in local villages, when locals and young people chastised the government for neglecting its duty to protect people and property.

The people fled for safety as the heavily armed militants invaded the neighborhood and fired intermittently into the air, according to sources.

According to one of the reports, the couple was outside their home when the gunmen showed up. The husband, Daniel Adesida, a tomato farmer, was shot by the armed men as he tried to stop them from kidnapping his wife.

The farmer was left in a pool of his own blood after the shooting, while the gunmen carried his wife away.

Adesida was saved and transported to the police clinic for medical care, according to police public relations officer Jimoh Abayomi, who also confirmed the occurrence and stated that the area had been secured.

In order to capture the escaping suspects, the Commissioner of Police has ordered increased patrols, bush-combing operations, and intelligence collection inside the impacted area and nearby areas.

Residents are reassured by the order that every effort would be made to find the offenders and prosecute them. The public is asked to exercise caution and to notify the closest police station right away of any suspicious activity or people.

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