Dozens of armed bandits on Wednesday killed at least 60 people in three villages of Sabon Birni Local Government Area of Sokoto State. Witnesses told The DAILY VENDOR that the bandits came from Tsabrawa area around 4pm in Volkswagen Golf and over 20 motorcycles, and spent several hours shooting. A witness, Mamuda Sani, said the
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Elements of the terrorists group Boko Haram have destroyed about 90 residential houses, a Church, clinic, nine shops and other properties worth millions of naira setting them on fire and looting food stuff and other valuables in Debiro, Tarfa and Dakwaima villages of Biu Local Government Area of Borno State when they invaded the communities.
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The military has announced that at least 135 bandits have been killed in camps in Katsina and Zamfara states, destroying their buildings. This is according to the Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, who said this in a statement on Saturday revealed that the bandits were killed following airstrikes conducted on Thursday and
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A Somali governor and three bodyguards were killed in a suicide attack claimed by the Al-Shabaab jihadist group in the regional capital of Galkayo on Sunday, a security official said. The attacker rammed a scooter taxi into a car carrying Ahmed Muse Nur, the governor of the north-central Mudug province, and his security detail before
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The Defence Headquarters says troops of Operation Whirl Stroke have succeeded in killing two gang members of Gana led criminal elements in Benue arresting members of militia group in Nasarawa state. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operation, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. Enenche said the success was recorded when
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No fewer than three persons have been reportedly killed when gunmen attacked Ofanwa Elubi community in Egume, Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi State. Disclosing this to newsmen in Lokoja on Satruday, the Assistant Secretary of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, Kogi State Chapter, Adamu Abubakar, said on May 14, about 8am,
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The Air Component of ‘Operation Hadarin Daji’ has eliminated 27 bandits and destroyed some of their dwellings, along the Nahuta-Doumborou Corridor on the border between Katsina and Zamfara States. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. Enenche said the operation was executed on Thursday, following
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Bandits have invaded three communities in Kaduna State on Monday killing a security guard and kidnapped about 15 persons, including a village head. According to reports, the attacked communities are Kuriga, Komo and the Millennium City, all in Chikun Council. The Kaduna Police Command was however yet to confirm the incidents as the Police Public
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Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram members are currently attacking Geidam local government Area of Yobe state. The attack is coming few hours after several key Boko Haram Terrorists/ISWAP leaders were killed in multiple air strikes conducted by the Air Task Force of Operation Lafiya Dole at Durbada in Borno. Sources within Geidam told THE
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The Nigerian Army on Sunday said its operatives killed 105 Boko Haram insurgents during its operations in Yobe State. The acting director of army public relations, Sagir Musa, in a statement circulated to journalists said the operations took place at the outskirts of Buni Gari village in Yobe. He said the insurgents were planning “a
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A sad report from Benue State indicates that no fewer than nine persons were Wednesday feared killed in morning attacks by militias on Mbamena and Jootar communities in Ukum Local Council of the State. According to the report, in the assault on Jootar, a settlement bordering Benue and Taraba states, three persons were eliminated by
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Four Nigerien soldiers and 63 “terrorists were killed in fighting between the army and “heavily armed” men in western Niger, a government statement said on Friday. “After a fierce fight” on Thursday in the Tillaberi region near the border with Mali, the soldiers who had been on an anti-terrorist operation put the attackers “on the
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Five people were killed when terrorists attacked their vehicles in Maiduguri, militia leaders said Sunday, adding more were feared dead. Gunmen from the Islamic State West Africa Province stopped the vehicles around 1730 GMT on Saturday near Auno village, 20 kilometres from Maiduguri, and attacked drivers and passengers with machetes as they fled into the
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At least 70 Nigerian soldiers were killed in an ambush on their convoy by jihadist fighters in the restive northeast of the country, military and security sources said Tuesday. Two military officers told AFP on condition of anonymity that Islamist insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades and heavy guns at a truck carrying troops as it travelled
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Zamfara Commissioner of Security and Home Affairs, Alhaji Abubakar Dauran, on Thursday confirmed the killing of seven persons by bandits at Malele village, Mutunji District of Dansadau emirate in Maru local government area of the state. Dauran told newsmen in Gusau that the incident occurred on Tuesday at Malele village. The commissioner said: “The Emir
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