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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The bus driver sensed straight away that he and his six passengers were in trouble when the gunmen, dressed in Nigerian army uniforms, stopped their vehicle at a checkpoint. They were on the main road connecting the city of Maiduguri in volatile northeast Nigeria with the rest of the country. For weeks there had been
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Clashes between rival armed groups in Bria, a strategic town in eastern Central African Republic, have left dozens of dead, a senior official said on Tuesday. “There are about 50 dead. Some bodies were immediately buried by relatives, so it is difficult to give a precise figure,” said the prefect of Haute-Kotto department, Evariste Binguinidji.
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Three people were reportedly killed and houses burnt following a bloody clash between Fulani and Tiv farmers in Pangari village of Bali Local Government Area of Taraba State on Monday. A local resident, Pius Gura, told newsmen that a Fulani herder reportedly invaded a beans farm belonging to a Tiv farmer, Mr Dooior James, in
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Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari yesterday ordered the Nigeria Air Force (NAF) to deploy fighter aircraft for effective air attacks against bandits, kidnappers and cattle rustlers terrorising communities around Dogon Gona forest in Niger State. The President, who described the repeated attacks leading to the loss of several lives in the communities “as a disaster for
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Troops of Operation Lafiya Dole have arrested the wife of a Boko Haram/Islamic State West Africa Province commander, Zainab Usman, in Maiduguri, Borno State. The Nigerian Army Operations Media Coordinator, Col. Aminu Iliyasu, in a statement on Sunday, disclosed that the Joint Tactical Team deployed in Borno and Yobe States apprehended Zainab, a Boko Haram
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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
Read moreTroops of Operation Lafiya Dole have thwarted efforts by the Boko Haram insurgents to attack some soft targets in Borno. The troops have also continued to decimate the insurgent from different encounters across the North East. The Nigerian Army Operations Media Coordinator, Col. Aminu Iliyasu, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday. Iliyasu reiterated the
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Security sources say six soldiers have lost their lives in a gun battle between government forces and Boko Haram insurgents in Mainok and Benesheikh communities along the Maiduguri-Damaturu Highway between 11am and 1pm on Tuesday. It was learnt that the insurgents suffered more casualties during the battle. Security sources revealed that the police also played a great role in repelling the insurgents. According to a
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Seven soldiers were killed on Tuesday when Islamic State-affiliated jihadists attacked a military position in northeastern Nigeria, two military sources told AFP. Fighters in several trucks fitted with machine guns attacked a military position in Mainok village, 56 kilometres (35 miles) from Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, they said on Wednesday “We lost seven
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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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In Nigeria, gunmen suspected to be members of a Fulani militia have stormed the Abebe community in the Keana Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, and killed a Christian leader, Mr Augustine Avertse, and three others. The attackers, who were said to be armed with sophisticated weapons, arrived the community around 10pm on Monday and
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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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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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