{"id":24126,"date":"2024-03-27T09:02:52","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T09:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/notorious-bandits-leader-dogo-gide-killed\/"},"modified":"2024-03-27T09:02:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T09:02:52","slug":"notorious-bandits-leader-dogo-gide-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/notorious-bandits-leader-dogo-gide-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Notorious bandits\u2019 leader, Dogo Gide killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A notorious bandits\u2019 leader in the North West region of Nigeria, Dogo Gide, has been killed.<\/p>\n<p>Former presidential aide, Bashir Ahmad, revealed this in a post via his official X handle on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmad said the bandits\u2019 leader died from gunshot wounds sustained during a confrontation with Operation Hadarin Daji, OPHD, troops of the Nigerian Army.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWoke up to the good news that Dogo Gide, has finally kicked the bucket. The notorious bandits leader died from gunshot wounds sustained during a confrontation with Operation Hadarin Daji (OPHD) forces,\u201d Ahmad wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Gide, one of Nigeria\u2019s most wanted bandits, is responsible for the kidnapping and deaths of thousands of innocent villagers and the displacement of even more in the North.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST gathered that his operational headquarters rotate among states in the North West, especially Sokoto, Zamfara, Kebbi, and Katsina.<\/p>\n<p>On October 30, 2023, Gide escaped death and capture following a fierce battle with Nigerian troops when they stormed his strongholds in Zamfara State in a surprise operation.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that the troops breached Gide\u2019s Yau Sarkin Pawa residence, searched the house, and destroyed it.<\/p>\n<p>Items recovered included a tailoring factory for sewing various military and other security agencies\u2019 uniforms, Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), a mini pharmacy suspected to be used for the treatment of wounded terrorists, and five operational motorcycles and sewing machines, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Notorious bandits\u2019 leader, Dogo Gide killed<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A notorious bandits\u2019 leader in the North West region of Nigeria, Dogo Gide, has been killed. Former presidential aide, Bashir&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12955,384,15],"tags":[3537,12956,387,180],"class_list":["post-24126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dogo-gide","category-metro","category-news","tag-dogo","tag-gide","tag-metro","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}