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‘We are familiar faces’: are local peacemakers the answer to Nigeria’s bandit crisis?

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By Eromo Egbejule 
| Yahoo Canada
Eromo Egbejule in Kurfi and Nahuta Tue, June 9, 2026 at 8:00 a.m. UTC 6 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dayyabu Abba-Kurfi was instrumental in arranging a peace deal with bandits.Photograph: Terna Iwar/The Guardian In the 1980s, Dayyabu Abba-Kurfi's striking prowess for his high school football club in north-west Nigeria earned him the unlikely nickname Doncaster, after the English third-tier side more than 3,800 miles away.
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‘We are familiar faces’: are local peacemakers the answer to Nigeria’s bandit crisis?

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By Eromo Egbejule 
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Dayyabu Abba-Kurfi was instrumental in arranging a peace deal with bandits. Photograph: Terna Iwar/The Guardian In the 1980s, Dayyabu Abba-Kurfi’s striking prowess for his high school football club in north-west Nigeria earned him the unlikely nickname Doncaster, after the English third-tier side more than 3,800 miles away.
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‘We are familiar faces’: are local peacemakers the answer to Nigeria’s bandit crisis?

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By Eromo Egbejule 
| Yahoo News UK
In the 1980s, Dayyabu Abba-Kurfi's striking prowess for his high school football club in north-west Nigeria earned him the unlikely nickname Doncaster, after the English third-tier side more than 3,800 miles away. More than four decades later, in August last year, he scored perhaps his most important goal, brokering a peace pact between his neighbours in Kurfi, in Katsina state, and the bandit gangs terrorising communities there.
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