The multiple explosions in Maiduguri early on Friday killed three suicide bombers and destroyed three petrol trucks. The Borno Police Command confirmed the casualty and expressed joy that no person was killed aside the three suicide bombers. The incident happened close to Armani petrol station in the neighborhood of the NNPC depot on Damboa road […]
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Niger Delta militants on Wednesday threatened to blow up Multichoice (DSTV), MTN, Shoprite and 16 other major South African investments in Nigeria if the Federal Government fails to shut them down within one month. This move is believed to be a reaction to the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians and their businesses in South Africa. In […]
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Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers yesterday killed two persons at Jenjela, Kagarko Local Government of Kaduna State. A German archaeologist, Prof. Peter Breunij and his aide, Johannes Buringer, were also kidnapped. Prof Breunij is the leader of a four-man team from the University of Frankfurt, Germany, working with with the National Commission for Museum and […]
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Gunmen on Monday killed 14 persons and injured many others, in an attack on Ashim village in the Takad chiefdom of Kaura Local Government Area of southern Kaduna State. Mr Alexander Iya, chairman of the local government’s interim management committee, who briefed newsmen on the incident, said that the gunmen stormed the village “around 6 […]
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At least 11 persons were killed as nine suicide bombers attacked Maiduguri, the Borno state capital on Thursday night, witnesses and security sources said. The Nine suicide bombers were among the dead. Multiple explosions echoed across the city at about 11 p.m. on Thursday as three female suicide bombers detonated their explosive belts near Muna […]
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The Borno Police Command said on Friday that a suspected suicide bomber detonated his explosive in the midst of 13 trucks along Maiduguri/ Mafa road leading to mass destruction. The Spokesman of the command, Mr Victor Isuku ,said this in a statement in Maiduguri. “On Thursday at about 23:18 hrs, a suicide bomber sneaked into […]
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Islamist terrorist in Nigeria, better known as Boko Haram fighters have killed seven Nigerian soldiers and wounded 19 more in an ambush on a road in the northeastern state of Borno, the military said on Friday. The ambush on the Ajiri-Dikwa road hit the troops as they were on a routine rotation on Thursday night, […]
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Some gunmen attacked a police station at Eika community in Okehi local government area of Kogi state in the early hours of Friday, killing two policemen and a detainee. According to NAN, the bandits invaded the station around 1am and immediately opened fire on policemen on duty. The heavily armed hoodlums, said to be about […]
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Russia says seven of its sailors and one Ukrainian have been abducted on Nigeria’s territorial waters. The Russian embassy in Nigeria has asked the Nigerian authorities for assistance in locating the abducted sailors. “The BBC Caribbean ship came under a piratic attack in the territorial waters of Nigeria,” the embassy said on Wednesday via its […]
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The destructive Boko Haram insurgency group is currently plagued by financial difficulties, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Jeffrey Feltman, has said. Feltman stated this while briefing the Security Council on the UN Secretary-General’s Fourth Report on the threat the group poses to international peace and security efforts to “check and roll it back” on […]
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