Gunmen in the wee hours of today raided Avong Doka village in Kajuru local Government Area of Kaduna state killing nine persons. Though the police haven’t confirmed the killing but the chairman of the local Government Cafra Cairo told newsmen that the gunmen attacked the village in the early morning of Wednesday 3rd June killing
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In Borno State, the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) on Wednesday attacked Bambula community in the Chibok Local Government Area of the State. During the early morning raid, the insurgents reportedly abducted the head of the Civilian Joint Task Force in the community, Mohammed Abba, and others. The attack came barely a week after
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A fresh crisis looms in the country as stakeholders yesterday rejected a move by the Senate to establish an agency to make life comfortable for ‘repentant’ Boko Haram terrorists irrespective of their wanton destruction of lives and property. Specifically, ignoring persistent public outcry against the release of the suspected insurgents, the Senate has begun a
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Katsina State House of Assembly chamber was turned into a weeping arena on Tuesday over the recent killings of over 30 villagers in Batsari Local Government Area of the state. The member representing Batsari constituency, Alhaji Jabiru Yau-yau, raised the issue at plenary under matters of urgent public interest. News Agency of Nigeria reports that
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The Nigerian Air Force says a supposed ‘Breaking News Flash’ with the headline “Nigerian Air Force Kills Over 250 Boko Haram Fighters In Maiduguri” is totally fake. The NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, made this known in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. Daramola said the fake news said
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The Katsina State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Gambo Isah, on Saturday evening confirmed the arrest of a middle-aged man in connection with the Friday terrorists’ attacks on two Katsina villages where thirty people were officially confirmed killed and several houses and animals burnt. The police spokesman also said nine motorcycles suspected to belong to
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Terrorists on Friday evening killed no fewer than thirty people in Tsauwa and Dankar villages in Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State. At Tsauwa where twenty-one people were killed, efforts were still being made on Saturday evening to bury some of the victims. Majority of the victims in the village were old people and
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Sad Report coming from Borno State in Nigeria indicates that Boko Haram terrorists have killed at least 30 people and abducted many women and children in a raid in the State. The attack Sunday evening targeted the village of Auno on a key highway, linking the capital, Maiduguri. The residents lamented that 18 vehicles comprising
Read moreThe Nigeria Police Force Public Relations Officer, DCP Frank Mba, has said Ansaru terrorists attacked troops’ helicopter with sophisticated anti-aircraft rifles and General Purpose Machine. Research by our correspondent showed that after the Second World War the General Purpose Machine Gun was selected as the winning design to replace both the Vickers Heavy Machine Gun
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Following the resurgence of abductions and killings across the country by terrorists and the seeming inability of the government to stem the tides, the Plateau state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria on Tuesday called on the United Nations to urgently intervene in the situation and not to allow the insurgents consume all Nigerians.
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Not less than four persons were said to have lost their lives during a suicide bomb attack on a mosque in Gwoza, southern Borno State. Gwoza was at the peak of the ongoing Boko Haram insurgency, the administrative capital and caliphate of the terrorist group. It was learnt that the suicide bomber ran into a
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Nineteen members of the security forces died and five were wounded on Sunday in a major assault by suspected jihadists at a military camp in central Mali, the army said. “The provisional toll is 19 dead, five wounded,” Malian Armed Forces said on Twitter. A local lawmaker said all those killed at Sokolo military camp
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The United Nations has said that it could support the political resolution of the Boko Haram insurgency in the North East. The global body said though it did not engage with terrorist groups, it could support a resolution of the crisis, insisting that there was a need to seek a political solution to the conflict.
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The volatile West African nation of Burkina Faso on Wednesday began two days of mourning after unknown terrorists killed no fewer than 36 people. “The gunmen attacked two villages, Alamou and Nagraogo, in the country’s north, near the border with Mali on Monday,’’ the government said in a statement. The attackers also set fire to
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Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, has condemned the execution of the Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Michika Local Government Area of Adamawa State, Lawan Andimi, describing it as cruel, inhuman and deliberately provocative. The president said this in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu,
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