Bandits have again killed about 30 people in Kabaro and Danmani villages in Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State. A witness, Mr Shuaibu Kabaro, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maru that the suspected gunmen attacked the two communities and the incident was immediately reported to the security agents. He said three […]
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Armed robbers on Thursday reportedly killed a policeman in an attack on a First Bank of Nigeria Limited in Ifaki-Ekiti, in the Ido/Osi Local Government Area of Ekiti State. The attack claimed the life of one Mobile Police (MOPOL) on duty at the bank premises. An eyewitness revealed that the robbery occurred at about 4.00 […]
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Ahmad Salkida, the Nigerian journalist, formerly based in Dubai, said today that only 15 out of the remaining 113 Chibok schoolgirls, believed to be with their Boko Haram abductors are alive. He made the claim in series of tweets today, in which he provided a backgrounder to the abduction, exactly four years ago. Salkida said […]
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Gunmen suspected to be herdsmen have killed at least 10 people in two communities in Benue state. The communities are Gbeji in Ukum local government area and Tswarev district of Logo local government. Fatai Owoseni, commissioner of police in the state, confirmed the attacks, saying they happened on Tuesday night. Disclosing that some corpses had […]
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Nigerian Troops Rescue 149 Hostages, Capture Terrorists in Sustained Operations Troops of Operation Lafiya Dole have continued to make progress in clearance operations to smoke out Boko Haram insurgents who had escaped from their previous stronghold in the Sambisa forest. Yesterday Saturday, the valiant troops made further operational exploit into Boko Haram hideout in Yerimari […]
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Not less than 24 persons have been reportedly killed in renewed attacks by suspected herdsmen in various communities in Benue state. The killings were said to have been perpetrated between April 2 and 4. Addressing journalists in Abuja, Members of the house of representatives from Benue said that killer herdsmen attacked seven communities in the […]
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Some gunmen early on Tuesday invaded the police station at Gegu village on Lokoja – Abuja road, killing two of the policemen on duty. Spokesperson for Kogi State Police Command, William Aya, told journalists in Lokoja, the state capital that the gunmen also injured one of the suspects in police cell. He said the corpses […]
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Boko Haram killed at least 18 people and wounded scores in coordinated attacks overnight on a military camp and villages around the flashpoint Nigerian city of Maiduguri, which they also tried to infiltrate across a defensive trench, officials said Monday. The brazen operation — which unfolded around the very city where Boko Haram was born […]
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It has been revealed that London has become notorious as far as murder cases are concerned and it’s becoming more like New York City. The city of Big Ben and the tube overtook New York in murders for the first time in modern history as the British capital dealt with a surge in knife attacks. […]
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Three people were killed in southwestern France on Friday when a gunman held up a car, opened fire on police and then took hostage in a supermarket, screaming “Allahu Akbar”. Police later stormed the supermarket in the small town of Trebes and Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said on Twitter that the attacker had been killed. A source […]
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