{"id":5018,"date":"2025-03-10T20:43:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T20:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/?p=5018"},"modified":"2025-03-10T20:43:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T20:43:54","slug":"troops-delete-yellow-aboki-notorious-bandit-leader-in-zamfara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/troops-delete-yellow-aboki-notorious-bandit-leader-in-zamfara\/","title":{"rendered":"Troops delete \u2018Yellow Aboki\u2019, notorious bandit leader in Zamfara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5019\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot_20250310-213024-1-300x139.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot_20250310-213024-1-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot_20250310-213024-1.jpg 613w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nigerian troops<\/p>\n<p>By Amah<\/p>\n<p>Kindly share:<\/p>\n<p>A notorious bandit leader, known as \u2018 Yellow Aboki,\u2019 a close associate of the late terror kingpin Hassan Bamamu, has been eliminated by troops of the Nigerian Army during clearance operations in Zamfara State.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to information made available to Zagazola Makama, by security\u00a0 sources, Yellow Aboki was deleted in a recent encounter with troops of Operation FANSAN YANMA in the North West of Tsafe LGA.<\/p>\n<p>This is coming on the heels of the military\u2019s successful operation that led to the elimination of Hassan Dantawaye, aka Bamamu, a feared bandit commander and one of his closest allies.<\/p>\n<p>Yellow Aboki had reportedly been consolidating control over criminal activities in Zamfara, following the death of Bamawu, coordinating violent attacks and kidnappings\u00a0across areas such as Bamamu, Dan Mali, Agamalafiya, and Makera.<\/p>\n<p>The military has unleashed attacks on bandit kingpins in identified enclaves across Zamfara, Sokoto, and other black spots in the North West geopolitical Zone.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks have considerably weakened sustained pressure has significantly the bandits\u2019 ability to confront troops directly, pushing them to resort to isolated attacks on vulnerable communities with limited security presence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian troops By Amah Kindly share: A notorious bandit leader, known as \u2018 Yellow Aboki,\u2019 a close associate of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1079],"class_list":["post-5018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-nigerian-troops"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - 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