The Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) has released a video that shows a Christian man being executed by an Islamic State child “soldier” in Borno, Nigeria. It was gathered that in a video that was released by its news platform, Amaq agency, ISWAP said the Christian man was killed on Monday. Pieter Van Ostaeyen,
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No fewer than 29 people were feared killed by bandits in Babban Rafi village of Gummi Local Government Area of Zamfara State. An eye witness and an indigene of the village, Malam Musa Ibrahim, who escaped being killed, told The Punch reporter on the telephone that the bandits arrived at the village on the early
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The Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, has condemned Thursday’s terrorist attack on a military base in Niger Republic which left no fewer than 89 soldiers dead. Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in a statement in Abuja on Monday, said Buhari expressed deep sympathy and condolences to the families, friends and
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Troops numbering about fourteen were killed when “heavily-armed terrorists” ambushed a convoy in the western Niger region of Tillaberi, the interior ministry said on Thursday. “After a fierce battle… seven police and seven national guards were killed” on Wednesday, it said in a statement. “A guard has been listed as missing,” the ministry said, adding,
Read moreSuspected Boko Haram terrorists on Christmas Eve attacked Kwaranglum village in Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State, killing six persons and abducting two women. The terrorists were also said to have injured three other persons in villages a few kilometres from Chibok, where they first gained their notoriety with the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls
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