At least 11 persons, mostly elderly women have been kidnapped by gunmen at Shinfida Village in Jibia Local Government Area of Katsina State. They were abducted on their way to join other residents who earlier ran to a refugee camp for safety after their village came under attack by...
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Heavily armed bandits have reportedly invaded a mosque in Tudun Amada village in Giwa LGA of Kaduna State, abducting about 14 persons and rustling an unspecified number of cattle. However, it is unclear if there were any casualties in the attack. Eyewitness reports, according to SaharaReporters revealed that the...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA,) has intercepted three million capsules of opioids more dangerous and potent than tramadol at Jaelith Bonded Container Terminal under Tincan seaport in Apapa area of Lagos. In a statement issued on Friday, The NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi,...
There are fears that several security operatives might have been killed late on Tuesday after bandits attacked the convoy of Colonel Samaila Yombe Dabai (rtd), the Deputy Governor of Kebbi State. The deputy governor was attacked on his way back from Danko-Wassagu Local Government Area of the state where...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Wednesday said its operatives have arrested a notorious drug dealer, Identified as Micha Godwin, at Nukai Market in Jalingo, the Taraba State’s capital. In the course of the arrest, the anti-narcotic officers came under attack and...
The Benin Zonal Command of National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), says it rescued 105 victims of human trafficking in various operations in 2021. Mr Nduka Nwannwenne, the Zonal Commander, NAPTIP, said this when he spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Benin...
No fewer than 200 bandit terrorists were yesterday killed in Ghana, a community in Mariga Local Government Area of Niger State, PRNigeria reports. The bandits, it was learnt, were eliminated by air strikes of Nigerian military air troops. The aerial operation by the Nigerian Airforce (NAF), Air Component of...
Niger State Police Command has confirmed the killing of “many bandits” by the Joint Security Task Force in the North-Central state. The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Bala Kuryas, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Wednesday in Minna that several bandits were neutralised by the joint security...
Boko Haram terrorists at the weekend ambushed a jihadist Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) around Gabara/Galta hideouts close to Mandara mountains of Lake Chad axis. It was learnt that Boko Haram destroyed four ISWAP’s guntrucks with Russian Dushka and Browning Machine Guns (BMGs). ISWAP Commander, Abou Sadiquo Buorubouru...
At least ten persons have been killed by suspected bandits during separate attacks in Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The bandits also kidnapped an unspecified number of people, mainly women, from the communities during the operation that lasted for several hours. Although the state and police...
Gunmen attacked four banks and a Police Divisional Headquarters on Thursday as they laid siege on Uromi town in Esan Northeast Local Government Area of Edo. Eyewitnesses said the gunmen got to the town in their numbers and in several vehicles before they attacked the four banks with dynamites....
The renewed clash between rival cult groups in some areas at Ilesa, Osun State, has reportedly left 10 people dead. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that blood flowed as rival suspected cultists clashed at Brewery, Ifofin, Idasa and Irojo areas of the town on Monday and extended...
By BARBARA KALU, Owerri – The Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeal, Justice Rita Pemu has escaped an assassination attempt by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers while traveling to Owerri from Benin City. NATIONAL ACCORD learnt that the incident occured along Azia-Orsumoghu-Ihiala Road about 11am on Sunday. A...
Unknown gunmen have killed Mr. Sule Mathew, a first-class graduate of Communication and former intern with PRNigeria while travelling to Anambra State with other passengers. Mathew, who studied Information and Media Studies, graduated with first-class from the Faculty of Communication, Bayero University Kano (BUK), recently. He was killed with...
By BARBARA KALU, Umuahia – At least eight persons have been killed by gunmen at new Cattle Market in Omuma-Uzo in Ukwa West Local Government Area of the state on Tuesday. Confirming the incident in a statement on Wednesday, The Commissioner for Information, Chief Eze Chikamnayo, said on Feb....
Suspected bandits have abducted the regional accountant of Nigerian Customs Service in charge of Kano & Jigawa State, Mr Mahassan Lawal. Mr Lawal was kidnapped late on Friday night in his country home of Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The officer was whisked away by gunmen who...
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in Spain on suspicion of shooting dead his parents and 10-year-old brother following a row over bad school grades, police said Saturday. The incident occurred on Tuesday evening in a rural area just outside Elche, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) from the southeastern...
Operatives from the Anambra State Police Command have repelled an attack by an unknown gunmen on its Divisional Police Station, Uli, in Ihiala Local Government Area of the state. It was gathered that the gunmen launched an attack on the community on Thursday but were repelled by a combined...
Under-Secretary-General of the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism, Vladimir Voronkov, says Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), a terrorist group, is expanding its affiliates and network beyond Syria and Iraq to Africa. The UN counter-terrorism chief told the Security Council on Wednesday that the epicentre of ISIL terrorist group...
Armed bandits, numbering over 200 have raided several communities in Kontagora, Mariga, and Rijau Local Government Areas in Niger State. PRNigeria gathered that the terrorists stormed the communities in a convoy of about 100 motorcycles and killed children at Bangi, a community in Mariga local government Wielding dangerous firearms...