Troops of the 33 Artillery Brigade, Operation Lafiya Dole have killed four members of a militia group whom they encountered during their patrol at Burra Junction in Ningi Local Government Area of Bauchi state.

The troops who encountered the armed men on Saturday, said on sighting them, the militia opened fire on them (the soldiers) but they acted immediately killing four of them in the process.

The Department of State Services (DSS) says it has arrested Jonah Abbey, a “notorious gunrunner”.

In a statement on Sunday, Tony Opuiyo, an official of the DSS, said Abbey was arrested in Taraba alongside Agyo Saviour, his driver.

Opuiyo said Abbey sold weapons to criminal groups in Bayelsa, Ebonyi, Rivers, Imo, Anambra, Plateau, Nasarawa, Benue and Taraba states.

A group of farmers in the South West under the aegis of Oodua Redemption Alliance (ORA) on Thursday in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital threatened to retaliate further attacks on their members by Fulani herdsmen. The aggrieved farmer claimed that the quest by the federal government to establish cattle colony across the country was merely intended to seize their lands and hand them over to Fulanis.

A Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and member of the Abia State Advisory Council, Alhaji Suleiman Ukandu has accused the All Progressives Congress-led administration of being responsible for the killings by suspected Fulani herdsmen across the country. Ukandu stated this on Thursday while speaking to newsmen at a press conference in Umuahia, the Abia State capital.

Suspected kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans, has filed a fresh suit against the Police at a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, Channels Television reports.

This time, Evans wants the court to compel the police to immediately and unconditionally release his two residential houses located in Magodo area of Lagos State.

He also wants the court to order the police and its leadership to severally and jointly tender an apology as well as pay him the sum of N1 billion.

Suspected herdsmen have killed 25 persons in another attack in Plateau State.

Those killed in the attack are 19 men, three women and three children.

The incident occurred on Monday night in Dundu village, Kwall District in Bassa Local Government Area of the state.