{"id":166368,"date":"2025-06-10T10:01:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T09:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/pfs-forces-neutralize-10-bandits-recover-weapons-in-zamfara"},"modified":"2025-06-10T11:16:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T10:16:49","slug":"pfs-forces-neutralize-10-bandits-recover-weapons-in-zamfara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pfs-forces-neutralize-10-bandits-recover-weapons-in-zamfara","title":{"rendered":"PFS forces neutralize 10 bandits, recover weapons in Zamfara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Security forces under the Presidential Force Squad, PFS, have neutralized 10 armed bandits in Mai Tashi and Dan Jigba communities in Munhaye District of Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State.<\/p>\n<p>The operation which took place early Monday morning also led to the recovery of weapons and ammunition used by the suspected criminals.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a post by a security analyst, Bakatsine, on his X handle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPFS security forces this morning neutralized 10 bandits and recovered weapons in Mai Tashi and Dan Jigba, Munhaye District, Tsafe LGA, Zamfara State. A major win in the ongoing fight against banditry,\u201d Bakatsine wrote.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Security forces under the Presidential Force Squad, PFS, have neutralized 10 armed bandits in Mai Tashi and Dan Jigba communities in Munhaye District of Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The operation which took place early Monday morning also led to the recovery of weapons and ammunition used by the suspected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":166366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254,1665,150],"class_list":["post-166368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-nigeria","tag-troops","tag-zamfara"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PFS forces neutralize 10 bandits, recover weapons in Zamfara - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Security forces under the Presidential Force Squad, PFS, have neutralized 10 armed bandits in Mai Tashi and Dan Jigba co ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pfs-forces-neutralize-10-bandits-recover-weapons-in-zamfara\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PFS forces neutralize 10 bandits, recover weapons in Zamfara\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Security forces under the Presidential Force Squad, PFS, have neutralized 10 armed bandits in Mai Tashi and Dan Jigba co ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pfs-forces-neutralize-10-bandits-recover-weapons-in-zamfara\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-06-10T09:01:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-10T10:16:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/sm_1749538062.314917.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pfs-forces-neutralize-10-bandits-recover-weapons-in-zamfara#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pfs-forces-neutralize-10-bandits-recover-weapons-in-zamfara\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"PFS forces neutralize 10 bandits, recover weapons in Zamfara\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-06-10T09:01:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-06-10T10:16:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pfs-forces-neutralize-10-bandits-recover-weapons-in-zamfara\"},\"wordCount\":120,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pfs-forces-neutralize-10-bandits-recover-weapons-in-zamfara#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/sm_1749538062.314917.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\",\"Troops\",\"Zamfara\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pfs-forces-neutralize-10-bandits-recover-weapons-in-zamfara#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pfs-forces-neutralize-10-bandits-recover-weapons-in-zamfara\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pfs-forces-neutralize-10-bandits-recover-weapons-in-zamfara\",\"name\":\"PFS forces neutralize 10 bandits, recover weapons in Zamfara - 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