Motorcycle-riding gunmen in northern Nigeria have killed 11 people, local government and community leaders said Wednesday, in the latest violence in the area. The attack on Monday came a day after assailants gunned down 18 wedding guests in a nearby village. The gunmen stormed Gora Gan village in Kaduna state after dark and opened fire […]Read More
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Two serving members of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) have been shot dead in Bayelsa state – southern Nigeria. Concise News reports that resident of Yenagoa, the state capital, says the deceased were killed in Swali community in the town, on Wednesday night. They were immediately taken to Federal Medical Center (FMC), Yenagoa, where […]Read More
Residents of Ungwan Barde, Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State were, once again, thrown into mourning as armed men stormed the village at wee hours of yesterday, killing and burning houses. This came barely three weeks after an attack said to have left 11 persons dead at Ungwan Barde, Kufana district, and subsequent reprisals […]Read More
Armed gunmen have killed two policemen as they stormed the Chinese consulate in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, security officials say, in a raid claimed by ethnic Baloch separatists. Security forces killed all three attackers and secured the building shortly after the raid was launched on Friday morning, Pakistan’s military said in a statement. […]Read More
Captain in the Operation Whirl Stroke stationed in Benue, Zakari Sani, has been wounded in an ambush, alongside other officers, Defence Headquarters said on Tuesday. In a series of tweets on its verified Twitter handle @DefenceInfoNG on Tuesday, the DHQ said that “a very courageous and hardworking officer, Zakari Sani, was ambushed alongside other soldiers […]Read More
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted four persons along the waterways of Southern Ijaw Local Council Area of Bayelsa State. Two of them were said to be workers of Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC), while the others were government officials on a visit. It was learnt that the oil workers, alongside the two officials […]Read More
Gunmen entered the governorate building in Erbil, the seat of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq on Monday, and fired from windows at security forces, a deputy governor of the city and Kurdish security officials said. Two policemen were wounded, though security forces have cleared the streets around the building in the commercial […]Read More