MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/ Kano Gunmen, suspected to be Boko Haram terrorists have attacked banks and police formations in Daura, the hometown of General Muhammadu Buhari, in the Northwestern state of Katsina, where there has never been any incident of terrorism since 2009, when Boko Haram began its military campaign. Brigadier-General Illyasu Abbah, Commander of The 3 [...]
Members of Boko Haram and other extremist groups in Nigeria, could face war crimes charges for deliberate acts leading to ethnic and religious cleansing, the UN has said. Rupert Colvile, the spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), said this in a statement made available at the UN Head [...]
Operatives of the Delta State Special Security Patrol code-named Dragon 30, have smashed a five-man gang of armed robbers/kidnappers suspected to be responsible for recent cases of kidnapping in Warri, Ughelli and neighbouring villages. The security operatives made the arrest while on patrol along Warri/Sapele road. They stopped two men on a motorcycle for a [...]
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Former Minister of Petroleum, Professor Tam David-West, has landed a hard knock on church leaders in Nigeria, saying they reek of corruption and other abominable practices that bring shame upon Christianity as a religion. He said this was the reason he stopped attending church services as he could not be part of a corruption-laden church [...]
At least 20 insurgents were killed Friday as Nigeria’s military carried out an aerial bombardment of suspected militant Islamist camps in the country’s northeast, a Defence Ministry spokesman told the CNN. The raid by Nigerian Air Force jets and attack helicopters is part of what the military says is a “massive deployment” of Nigerian forces [...]
Thirty one persons have been killed and 16 others injured by a tree which fell down in a Nigerian village in Imo State. The tragedy occurred, during a rainstorm Thursday night at the Ukwu Uko evening market at Umuejinwaoke Umudagu village, Mbieri, Mbaitolu Local Government Area. A resident of the community, Mr Nnaemeka Emenyonu, told [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan has secured the release of 10 Nigerian prisoners held by Equatorial Guinea for various immigration offences, a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday. The freed prisoners were not identified. The ministry said the release of the prisoners was the outcome of the two-day official visit of Jonathan to [...]
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