{"id":174309,"date":"2025-08-14T18:14:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T17:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/bello-turji-bandit-kingpin-has-not-surrendered"},"modified":"2025-08-14T19:17:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:17:44","slug":"bello-turji-bandit-kingpin-has-not-surrendered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bello-turji-bandit-kingpin-has-not-surrendered","title":{"rendered":"Bello Turji Bandit Kingpin Has Not Surrendered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Defence Headquarters has denied reports that notorious bandit kingpin Bello Turji has surrendered to the military.<\/p>\n<p>The Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj. Gen. Markus Kangye, refuted the reports on Thursday while briefing journalists on the activities of the Armed Forces in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimple answer to the question about terrorist leader, Bello Turji; Turji has not surrendered, we are still on the look out for him,\u201d Kangye said.<\/p>\n<p>Turji has been accused of masterminding several attacks on communities in the North-West.<\/p>\n<p>Turji operates mainly in Zamfara and Sokoto states.<\/p>\n<p>The bandit leader had been variously declared wanted by Nigerian security agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, there were reports that the bandit kingpin had surrendered his arms and released 32 kidnap victims.<\/p>\n<p>The report came after a purported peace initiative brokered by Islamic clerics in Zamfara State.<\/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. The Defence Headquarters has denied reports that notorious bandit kingpin Bello Turji has surrendered to the military. The Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj. Gen. Markus Kangye, refuted the reports on Thursday while briefing journalists on the activities of the Armed Forces in Abuja. \u201cSimple answer to the question about terrorist leader, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":174308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[6170,254],"class_list":["post-174309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-bello-turji","tag-nigeria"],"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>Bello Turji Bandit Kingpin Has Not Surrendered - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Defence Headquarters has denied reports that notorious bandit kingpin Bello Turji has surrendered to the military. ...\" \/>\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\/bello-turji-bandit-kingpin-has-not-surrendered\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bello Turji Bandit Kingpin Has Not Surrendered\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Defence Headquarters has denied reports that notorious bandit kingpin Bello Turji has surrendered to the military. ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bello-turji-bandit-kingpin-has-not-surrendered\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-14T17:14:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-14T18:17:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755183005.791787.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1057\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"658\" \/>\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\/bello-turji-bandit-kingpin-has-not-surrendered#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bello-turji-bandit-kingpin-has-not-surrendered\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Bello Turji Bandit Kingpin Has Not Surrendered\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-14T17:14:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-14T18:17:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bello-turji-bandit-kingpin-has-not-surrendered\"},\"wordCount\":152,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bello-turji-bandit-kingpin-has-not-surrendered#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755183005.791787.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Bello Turji\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bello-turji-bandit-kingpin-has-not-surrendered#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bello-turji-bandit-kingpin-has-not-surrendered\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bello-turji-bandit-kingpin-has-not-surrendered\",\"name\":\"Bello Turji Bandit Kingpin Has Not Surrendered - 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