President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over what he described as “the brutal murder of tens of vigilante members in Kebbi by bandits. The bandits ambushed the vigilante members in the Sakaba/Wassagu Local Government Area. The president made his feelings known in a statement issued by his Senior Special...
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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....
No fewer than 50 people, including women and children, were killed in an attack on Tuesday night at a site for internally displaced people in Savo, Ituri Province, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN said on Wednesday. According to the UN Mission in the country...
The frequent killing of Nigerians in South Africa over the years has attracted concerns among Nigerians globally, with its nationals seeking an end to the causal slaying of their compatriots. Their concerns stem from the fact that relationship between Nigeria and South Africa, both African economic giants since independence...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari as Commander-in-Chief of the nation’s armed forces has set the ball rolling for a major military operation in Niger State which has faced continued attacks on its communities by bandits and remnants of Boko Haram terrorists fleeing theaters of war in...
Kenyan police said, on Tuesday, they arrested five suspects in connection with the killing of seven civilians in the coastal region on Monday. National Police Service Spokesperson, Bruno Shioso, said the suspects were nabbed on Tuesday over the attack at Widhu Majembeni and Bobo-Sunkia – both in Lamu. Shioso...
The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Matthew Kukah, has said he remained unapologetic to those who perceived him to be an ardent critic of President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration. Bishop Kukah disclosed this while speaking with journalists in Sokoto State. He said, “All what I have been clamouring for are not...
Burkina Faso began two days of mourning on Sunday after 41 people died in the latest attack by suspected jihadists in the troubled and largely unprotected north. A bloody six-year-long jihadist campaign has claimed around 2,000 lives and forced 1.4 million from their homes in the formerly peaceful West...
At least 43 people were killed and 46 villages were burned and looted in Sudan’s West Darfur State, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Sudan said on Thursday. “On Nov. 17, conflict broke out between Arab nomads and farmers from the Misseriya Jebel tribe...
The United States on Tuesday said it was looking forward to a response from the Lagos State Government after the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry submitted its final report. The panel was commissioned by the state government to look into the events of October 2020, including the shootings...
No fewer than 62 journalists were killed just for doing their jobs in 2020, according to UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). The UN agency stated that between 2006 and 2020, over 1,200 professionals lost their lives the same way and nine out of ten cases, the killers go...