{"id":173228,"date":"2025-08-09T12:15:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T11:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/kwara-police-officer-killed-in-babanla-bandit-attack"},"modified":"2025-08-09T13:33:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T12:33:23","slug":"kwara-police-officer-killed-in-babanla-bandit-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kwara-police-officer-killed-in-babanla-bandit-attack","title":{"rendered":"Kwara Police Officer Killed in Babanla Bandit Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A police officer was killed, and a local market was looted after about 200 armed bandits attacked Babanla town in Kwara State on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Security analyst Zagazola Makama shared a post on X on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>According to Makama, bandits arrived on motorbikes around 1:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey first attacked the Babanla Police Station, where ASP Adejumo Wasiu, attached to the ACPOL Offa, was shot dead. The attackers also took his AK-47 rifle,\u201d Makama wrote.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources who spoke with Makama, the police station was ransacked, but no other weapons were stolen because all were on charge at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter attacking the police station, the bandits moved to the town market, where they looted large amounts of food and other goods.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A joint security team made up of the military, police, vigilantes, and local hunters quickly responded and managed to repel the attackers, restoring peace to the town.<\/p>\n<p>As of now, there is no information on civilian casualties resulting from the attack.<\/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. A police officer was killed, and a local market was looted after about 200 armed bandits attacked Babanla town in Kwara State on Friday afternoon. Security analyst Zagazola Makama shared a post on X on Saturday. According to Makama, bandits arrived on motorbikes around 1:00 p.m. \u201cThey first attacked the Babanla Police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":173227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[190,1205,254,4466],"class_list":["post-173228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-gunmen","tag-kwara","tag-nigeria","tag-police-officer"],"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>Kwara Police Officer Killed in Babanla Bandit Attack - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A police officer was killed, and a local market was looted after about 200 armed bandits attacked Babanla town in Kwara ...\" \/>\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\/all-news\/kwara-police-officer-killed-in-babanla-bandit-attack\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kwara Police Officer Killed in Babanla Bandit Attack\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A police officer was killed, and a local market was looted after about 200 armed bandits attacked Babanla town in Kwara ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kwara-police-officer-killed-in-babanla-bandit-attack\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-09T11:15:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-09T12:33:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754730345.30315.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\/all-news\/kwara-police-officer-killed-in-babanla-bandit-attack#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kwara-police-officer-killed-in-babanla-bandit-attack\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Kwara Police Officer Killed in Babanla Bandit Attack\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-09T11:15:16+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-09T12:33:23+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kwara-police-officer-killed-in-babanla-bandit-attack\"},\"wordCount\":182,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kwara-police-officer-killed-in-babanla-bandit-attack#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754730345.30315.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Gunmen\",\"Kwara\",\"Nigeria\",\"police officer\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kwara-police-officer-killed-in-babanla-bandit-attack#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kwara-police-officer-killed-in-babanla-bandit-attack\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kwara-police-officer-killed-in-babanla-bandit-attack\",\"name\":\"Kwara Police Officer Killed in Babanla Bandit Attack - 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