Tag: Militants
Militants: Military, police beef up security in and around Badagry
Security has been intensified in Badagry area of Lagos State over reports that militants had fled to the area. This…
Ambode vows to drive militants out of Lagos
Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday vowed that he is ready to shutdown some locations hibernating militants in a…
OPC ready to fight militants in Ogun
About 5,000 members of the Reformed Oodua People’s Congress stormed the Imushin community, Ogijo area of Ogun State, to confront…
Breaking News: Gun battle rages as militants engage police, soldiers in Igando
Igando area of Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria was turned into a battle ground early today as Niger Delta militants engaged…
BREAKING: Pandemonium as militants invade Igando
Delta militants have again invaded Igando area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, with people feared killed. There was pandemonium in the…
Ikorodu communities urge marine police to intensify surveillance
The Residents of three communities in Ikorodu area of Lagos State have urged Marine Police to intensify its surveillance to…
Police arrest 2 militants over attempt to attack Lagos community
The Lagos State Police Command said it had arrested two suspected militants, who attempted to attack Igando community, a suburb…
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Militants blow up Eni oil pipeline in Bayelsa
Suspected militants on Friday blew up an oil pipeline in Southern Yenagoa, Bayelsa’s capital city operated by a subsidiary of…
Militants attack: Lagos, Ogun communities still deserted
No fewer than 20 persons were reportedly killed after suspected militants invaded some villages in Imushin, a boundary community between…
Militants execute Canadian hostage
Militants in the southern Philippines on Monday executed a Canadian hostage after ransom was not paid, officials said. The Abu…
NAF deploys more aircraft to Niger Delta to check militants
The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Sadiq Abubakar, said the force had intensified deployment to the Niger Delta to…
Wike to Army Chiefs: We will help you fish out militants
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state has declared that nobody will be shielded from the military operations…
Navy moves against militants in Niger Delta
The Central Naval Command (CNC) of the Nigerian Navy on Thursday reiterated its resolve to deal with the resurgence of…
Niger Delta militants kill 3 soldiers
The Joint Military Force deployed to protect oil facilities in the Niger Delta on Tuesday confirmed that three soldiers were…
Niger Delta militants attack Chevron facility
Militants attacked a Chevron platform in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta region late on Wednesday, the United States energy company said…
Militants attack crude oil pipeline in Bayelsa
A crude oil pipeline in Nigeria’s southern state of Bayelsa operated by the local subsidiary of Italy’s Eni was attacked…
Morocco arrests four militants with Islamic State ties
Moroccan police have arrested four people suspected of belonging to a militant cell linked to the Islamic State group, the…
Police confirm militants’ attack in A/Ibom
The Police Command in Akwa Ibom on Monday confirmed the attack by militants at T-junction in Itu Local Government Area…
Palestinian refugee camps breed new generation of militants
Bethlehem (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – Nearly 30 years ago Hisham and his brothers — natives of the Dheisheh Palestinian refugee…
Militants attack Nigerian flow station, kill guard – Shell
Shell Nigeria says armed militants attacked an oil flow station in the southern Delta and killed a guard, amid fears…
Egypt police kills militants who attacked Italian consulate
Reuters – Egyptian security forces on Friday killed nine militants who took part in a bomb attack at the Italian…
Al-Shabaab kills 14 in Kenyan attack
No fewer than 14 people were killed and 12 others injured on Tuesday in a suspected Al-Shabaab terror attack in…
Chad arrests 60 militants after suicide bomb attack
N’DJAMENA, (Reuters) – Security forces in Chad have arrested 60 suspected militants and dismantled a cell responsible for two suicide…
Ex-security adviser urges Niger-Delta youths against militancy
Chief Anabs Sara-Igbe, Senior Special Adviser on Security to former Governor Peter Odili of Rivers State, on Monday urged youths…
Ex-militants threaten Amaechi, demand state of emergency
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Former Niger Delta militants are asking the National Assembly to quickly approve the request of the president,…
Militants hack university professor to death
Suspected Islamic militants have hacked to death a university professor in western Bangladesh, several years after he led a push…
Algerian army kills four suspected militants
Algerian soldiers killed four gunmen during anti-militant operations, the defence ministry said Friday, a day after raiding the suspected hideout…
US drones kill eight militants in Pakistan
United States drones Wednesday fired missiles at a compound and vehicle and killed at least eight militants in a restive…
Ukraine clashes kill 12 civilians
Escalating clashes between pro-Kremlin separatists and Ukrainian forces on Sunday killed 12 civilians and forced the new Western-backed leader to…
69 detainees killed in Iraq convoy attack
Sixty-nine detainees were killed in a militant attack on an Iraqi convoy transporting them in an area south of Baghdad…