Police evacuated terrified shoppers from a Thai shopping centre early Sunday where a soldier killed at least 20 people in a shooting rampage that he relayed via Facebook posts. Dozens of terrified shoppers ran from the Terminal 21 mall in the city of Nakhon Ratchasima – also known as Korat – after armed police said
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Three persons were reportedly killed and another 50 critically injured when bandits attacked Grumana Community in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State on Saturday afternoon. The Chairman of Shiroro Local government Area, Alhaji Suleiman Chukuba, confirmed the attacks to our correspondent on phone, about 4:30pm. Chukuba said this latest attack makes it the fifth time the
Read moreAfter the payment of N8m ransom, Bandits release children of Kaduna State based medical doctor, Philip Ataga. They were kidnapped along with their mother at Juji community, Chukin Local Government Area of the state on Friday, January 24, 2020. The kidnappers killed the mother during a negotiation on N120m ransom they demanded. The abductors thereafter
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The 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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The Nigerian Air Force (NAF), through its Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation Lafiya Dole, has launched ‘Operation Rattle Snake III’ against terrorists in the North East. In a statement signed by NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Cdre Ibikunle Daramola, the air interdiction operation, which commenced on Tuesday, will target selected locations
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Islamic State-affiliated jihadists have killed three Nigerian soldiers and seized two military vehicles in an attack in violence-wracked northeastern Borno state, security sources and residents said Monday. Fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), stormed into the town of Askira late Friday in a dozen pickup trucks fitted with machine guns, leading to
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Kidnappers killed one of the four seminarians abducted in Kaduna, the Registrar of Good Shepherd Major Seminary, Rev. Father Joel Usman, has said. The four students were abducted by gunmen that invaded the school at Kaukau along the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway in the Chikun Local Government Area of the state. The bandits attacked the school on
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A suicide-bomber whose name is yet-to-be-identified has been arrested on Sunday in Living Faith Church also known as Winners’ Chapel in Kaduna State. A source, who worshipped at the church today, said the suicide-bomber was found in the church’s toilet while trying to detonate the bomb and was quickly apprehended by the security agents stationed
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The General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, on Sunday, led a procession to end the spate of insecurity and killings in Nigeria. Adeboye at the end of the church’s monthly Thanksgiving Service at its National Headquarters in Ebute Meta, Lagos State, commenced the protest from Ebute Meta through
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The 19 Northern states chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has said that Boko Haram insurgents beheaded the Adamawa State chairman of the association, Reverend Lawan Andimi because the clergy refused to be converted to Islam, while blaming the Federal Government for the dangerous dimension of the nation’s security challenges. According to the
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Seven people died in a fresh attack by the Mai-Mai militia on three police posts in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s troubled east, where more than 60 people have been killed in violence this week. Seven bodies were found and seven others were injured in the raids late Friday in Mamove in the volatile Beni
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A girl detonated a bomb, killing three boys at an Islamic seminary in northeast Nigeria in an attack that bore the hallmarks of Boko Haram, a local militia and residents said Friday. The girl, aged around 12, detonated the device late Thursday when open-air classes were on in Muna Dalti, on the outskirts of Maiduguri,
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Weapons that have been used in inter-communal violence that has killed thousands of people in Nigeria were trafficked from Ivory Coast, Libya and Turkey. A new report by the Conflict Armament Research group said some of the weapons from Turkey were linked to a major organized trafficking network. It explained that the weapons were used in the
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Three Chadian troops and a female civilian were killed early Thursday when jihadists attacked a military position on an island in Lake Chad, the military said. “We neutralised 21” assailants, armed forces chief of staff General Taher Erda told AFP. He attributed the attack to the Nigerian-based Boko Haram. “Our forces are currently sweeping the
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A traditional ruler in Ogun State, Oba Akintunde Akinyemi, the Eselu of Iseluland in Oja-Odan, in the Yewa-North Local Government Area of the State, has said he will release his traditional warriors against Fulani herdsmen if the government refuses to stop them from wrecking havoc in his community. He said, “Since I have been on
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