African Union on Friday suspended Mali following a military coup and said it would send a joint team with the West African bloc ECOWAS to urge a return to constitutional order.The AU Peace and Security Council “decided that Mali should be suspended… until effective restoration of constitutional order is achieved without delay,” Paul Zolo, Nigeria’s [...]
A helicopter belonging to Nigeria’s Special Task force has crashed in Jos, the Plateau state capital, northcentral Nigeria, killing all the four men on board, including the newly appointed Police Deputy Inspector General, Haruna John. The helicopter crashed in a residential area, around Rukuba Road behind Jos Satellite Market as it embarked on it’s regular [...]
Police in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state have repelled an attack on a police post in Bama, Borno state, by gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect. One person died while 11 others were arrested. .”A large group of gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram attacked the mobile police base yesterday [...]
Two suicide bombers drove an explosives packed Volkswagen Bora car into a church in Nigeria’s volatile central city of Jos on Sunday and killed three people, church leaders told AFP. According to the Punch online, the bombers were dressed in army uniform. The attack is the latest in a country grappling with what have become [...]
