The government of Plateau state has re-imposed the 24-hour curfew that had been previously relaxed following reports of fresh attacks on Yelwa Zangam Village in Jos North LGA, of the state, which led to the deaths of scores of people accompanied by destruction of properties. According to Governor Simon Lalong, the 24-hour period will begin at 4 p.m. today, Wednesday, August 25, 2021, and will last until further notice. It was gathered that the gunmen stormed the Anagutta natives community with sophisticated weapons around 10 pm on Tuesday night and killed about 36 persons injured others. Those injured are being treated at the Bingham University Teaching Hospital in Jos. The gunmen raided the community for hours without help from security agents. The attackers destroyed the bridge leading to the community thereby preventing possible access before launching the attack, killing and maiming everyone on sight.

Following the kidnap of one hundred and twenty-one (121) students from Baptist High School Maraban Dami, in Kaduna State on 5th July 2021, fifteen more student students held hostage have regained their freedom from the den of its kidnappers.

Notorious bandits numbering about nine have been killed during a face-off between rival groups in Kaduna State. The state government has attributed the development to credible human intelligence network reports corroborated by security agencies. The incident happened as the groups clashed at Garke Village in Giwa Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Wednesday. A notorious bandit popularly known as Godon Mota was said to have stormed Garke village in Giwa Local Government Area with members of his gang and clashed with a rival bandit group. The Kaduna State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday said, “Nemesis has caught up with two groups of bandits in Giwa Local Government who in a fratricidal gun duel killed nine of their fellows.

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday, approved the recommendations of a committee to review “with dispatch” 368 grazing sites across 25 states in the country “to determine the levels of encroachment.” The president’s directive followed his approval of the recommendations of a committee chaired by the Chief of Staff the President, Ibrahim Gambari. The Official Spokesperson to President Buhari, Garba Shehu made this known in a statement issued on Thursday. Members of the committee include the governor of Kebbi State and Vice-chairman, National Food Security Council, Abubakar Atiku Bagudu; governor of Ebonyi State and chairman of NEC Sub-Committee for National Livestock Transformation Plan, David Umahi; Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu; Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Sabo Nanono; Minister of Environment, Dr. Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar, and deputy chief of staff, Ade Ipaye.

President of the federation Muhammadu Buhari presides over a crucial security meeting in Aso rock with all the nation's security chiefs and relevant cabinet Ministers in attendance. Recall the president's spokesman Femi Adesina in a statement released on Tuesday 17th August 2021 that the president has slated a meeting for Thursday 19th August 2021 with security head-on plans to bring a decisive end to security challenges afflicting the nation and also to discuss successes achieved in the renewed onslaught against national threat across the country.

The kidnappers of the 15 students and four staff members of Zamfara State College of Agriculture and Animal Sciences (CAAS) Bakura, in a video posted on Wednesday, have threatened to kill all their hostages within the next 24 hours if ransom is not paid. In the 30 seconds video clip, one of the victims who spoke in Hausa language is heard pleading on the state government to come to their aid, while the bandits seen wielding AK 47 rifles stood behind them. The victim said they are faced with the threat of death from their abductors and they will be killed if the government does not act in the next 24 hours. He said they even took them to where they deposited the corpses of those kidnapped in Yarkofoji community. While he was speaking, one of the bandits, brandishing his AK 47 gun, kept saying “Yes, see it here we mean it. Everyone should see it here. It’s not a lie. Yes, we mean it.” In the video, the students and some of the female staff can be seen squatting and blindfolded with the armed evil-doers surrounding them.