St. Francis Catholic Church, Owaluwa, Owo in Ondo State on Sunday reopened for service ten months after the deadly attack on the church by gunmen. The News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) reports that over 40 worshippers died in the June 5, 2022 attack by gunmen. Worshippers who defied...
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The Defence Headquarters says Nigerian troops have eliminated 46 terrorists, bandits and other criminals across North East, North Central and North West in the last two weeks. The Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Musa Danmadami, said this during the biweekly news conference on the operations of the armed forces...
By OLA MUDOPE, Osogbo – Operatives of the Amotekun Corps in Osun State have arrested a suspected 37-year-old hoodlum, who has been unleashing terror on residents of Ikoyi-Ile Town, in the Isokan Local Government of the Osun state. The Osun Amotekun Corps Commander, Retired Brig.-Gen. Bashir Adewinmbi, said in...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The General Officer Commanding (GOC) 7 Division and Commander Sector 1 Operation HADIN KAI, Major General Waidi Shaibu has charged troops of 112 Task Force Battalion to sustain an aggressive and ruthless posture against the remnants of Boko Haram Terrorists and their counterparts, ISWAP...
Gov. Aminu Masari of Katsina State has constituted an 11-member Commission of Inquiry to investigate the recent killing of no fewer than 40 volunteers (Yan-Sakai) by terrorists. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that recently, over 40 volunteers were ambushed and killed by terrorists in Bakori and Kanakara...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate, Bola Tinubu, on Monday pledged to confront terrorists and other criminals with determination, courage and perseverance, if elected. Tunubu who made the pledge in Katsina at his campaign rally, sympathised with victims of the recent terrorists attack in the state, which claimed...
By HARUNA AHMED, Katsina – No fewer than 41 members of local vigilance groups, popularly known as “Yansakai”, have been killed in an ambush by terrorists in Yargoje forest in Katsina State. The Katsina State Police Command confirm the incident in a statement issued by its spokesperson, SP Gambo...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Troops of Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) have killed dozens of terrorists and captured more than 40 in recent operations in the Lake Chad Basin. The Chief of Military Public Information for MNJTF, Lt.-Col. Kamarudeen Adegoke, made this known in a statement on Wednesday...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Minister of Defence, Maj Gen Bashir Salihi Magashi (rtd), has appealed to the United Nations to support the overall good performance of the Nigerian Military to completely end insecurity in parts of the country. General Magashi stated this during a meeting with the...
Many vigilantes were reportedly killed in an air raid by a yet-to-be-identified aircraft in Galadima Kogo, a community in Shiroro Local Government Area, Niger State, on Tuesday. Several members of the vigilante group, including its leader, were also injured in the bombing, locals said. The vigilante members were bombed...
Troops of Operation Forest Sanity have eliminated 10 terrorists and recovered cache of arms and ammunition in recent encounters in Katsina, Kebbi and Zamfara State. The Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Musa Danmadami, made this known in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. Danmadami said the troops had on...
Islamist militants have kidnapped around 50 women searching for food in Burkina Faso’s northern province of Soum, a hotbed of jihadist activity, on Jan. 12 and 13, the government said on Monday. The women were kidnapped in separate incidents on Thursday and Friday as they foraged for food, in...
Parents of the 11 remaining abducted female students of the Federal Government College (FGC), Yauri, in Kebbi State, have appealed to Nigerians to come to their aid financially in order to rescue their children from their abductors. In a letter addressed to all Nigerians, which PRNigeria obtained, a group...
Police in Zamfara has killed two gunrunners on the Anka-Gummi Highway on Sunday while attempting to convey arms to terrorists camps. Police spokesman in the state, SP Muhammad Shehu, stated on Sunday that the gunrunners were conveying the sophisticated arms and ammunition from Taraba. He added that a Toyota...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The police in Bauchi State said its operatives in collaboration with other security agents in the state have killed many suspected kidnappers and bandits during an attack it launched on their enclaves at Dajin Madam and at the famous Yankari Game Reserve’s forest in...
The Police Command in Katsina State said it had successfully neutralised no fewer than 54 suspected terrorists and lost five officers in gun battles from Jan. 2022 to date. The Commissioner of Politics in the, Mr Shehu Umar-Nadada disclosed this during the end of the year press briefing on...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Yet to be apprehended terrorists have killed no fewer than 11 persons and kidnapped unspecified number of villagers from Isa, Goronyo, Sabon Birni and Gada local government areas of Sokoto State, locals have confirmed. Isa, Goronyo, Sabon Birni and Gada are amongst the 8...
Leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has called for an end to all the violence in the Southeast. A statement, on Monday, December 26, 2022, by spokesperson for the group, Emma Powerful, quoted Kanu to have ordered the Eastern Security Network (ESN) to stop...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – No fewer than 12 bandits and kidnappers notorious for terrorizing Alkaleri Local Government Area of Bauchi State and other neighbouring states of Taraba, Plateau and Gombe have been killed by a joint team of security operatives. The spokesman of The Bauchi State Police Command,...
At least 20 people from the Randa Community in Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State were killed after terrorists loyal to notorious terror kingpin, Lawalli Damina, kidnapped the entire male residents of the community over missing rifles, PREMIUM TIMES has exclusively reported. Locals and a traditional leader told...