Tag Archives: Nigeria

The ISIL-linked fighters were killed in the north of the country at the border with Niger, Nigeria’s air force said. The Nigerian air force says it has killed more than 70 ISIL (ISIS)-affiliated fighters in the north of the country, at the border with Niger, in an air raid. Saturday’s …

A boat carrying Nigerian students capsized in Kano state in northern Nigeria, killing at least 29, local officials told Reuters on Wednesday. The boat on the Watari dam was carrying roughly 40 students from an Islamic school, most of whom were under 18, and capsized around 5:30 local time Tuesday …

Gunmen freed more than 260 inmates during an attack on a prison in Nigeria’s central city of Jos, officials said, in the country’s fourth such raid this year. The attackers opened fire on guards on Sunday evening, starting a gunbattle that left one guard and nine prisoners dead, the correctional …

A high-rise building under construction collapsed in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos on Monday, killing at least Ten people with dozens more feared trapped inside the rubble. A yellow excavator pushed away concrete slabs in the search for people in the wreckage of the 21-floor building in Lagos’s Ikoyi district, AFP …

A Cambridge University college and Paris museum will on Wednesday hand back cultural artefacts that were looted from West Africa during the colonial era, setting a precedent that will pressure other institutions to return stolen works. Jesus College, Cambridge, will return a sculpture of a cockerel taken by British troops …

At least 25 people, including some minors, were killed in an explosion and fire at an illegal oil refinery in Nigeria’s Rivers state on Friday, a local leader and a resident told Reuters on Sunday. “The casualties involved are very high … we are counting 25 bodies,” Ifeanyi Omano, a …

Gunmen have attacked a prison in southwest Nigeria, freeing dozens of inmates, an official told The Associated Press on Saturday. The third jailbreak in Africa’s most populous country this year raises more concerns about how safe detention facilities are in the West African nation where authorities have struggled to stem …

Gunmen killed at least 30 people in an attack in northern Nigeria’s Sokoto state, the governor’s office said on Monday. The assault began at a weekly market in Goronyo on Sunday and continued into Monday morning, Sokoto Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal said in a statement. Iliyasu Abba, a local resident, …

Nigeria’s top military commander has announced the death of Abu Musab al-Barnawi, the head of the West African branch of the Daesh terrorist group. Chief of Defense Staff General Lucky Irabor said during a press briefing on Thursday that the leader of the Deash West Africa Province (Iswap) was dead. He did …

At least 20 fishermen have been killed in an air strike by the Nigerian military in a village in the country’s conflict-ridden northeast, a report says. The fishermen were accidentally killed after an air force fighter jet targeted a militant camp in the village of Kwatar Daban Masara in the …

A total of 114 of the 266 inmates who escaped from a Nigerian prison on Sunday have been recaptured, the prison service said on Tuesday. Heavily armed gunmen raided the medium-security jail at Kabba in south-central Nigeria late on Sunday, blowing up the perimeter fence and freeing almost everyone, but …

Dozens of students who were kidnapped from a school in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara earlier this month have been reportedly released after the army began a military crackdown on criminal gangs in the area. An unnamed spokesman for Zamfara State Governor Bello Matawalle told Reuters on Monday that …

Nearly 70 students who were abducted from their school in northern Nigeria have regained their freedom after two weeks in captivity, Zamfara state Gov. Bello Matawalle said Monday. The students from the Government Day Secondary School were rescued with the help of some of the gunmen who had repented, he …

Nigerian officials cut communication lines in multiple parts of Katsina state as a crackdown on banditry in the northwest of the country spreads. Katsina state security adviser Ibrahim Ahmed told Reuters by phone that the government directed a communications blackout in 13 local government areas to hinder criminality in the …

Armed men kidnapped 73 children from a school in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara in the latest mass abduction in the region, police said in a statement on Wednesday. Police said a large number of armed bandits invaded the Government Day Secondary School in the village of Kaya in …

Ninety children abducted from a school in Nigeria were reunited on Friday with their parents after being held captive for nearly three months, part of a wave of mass kidnappings by armed gangs that have spread fear across the north of the country. “Today is the happiest and most joyful …

More than 20 people have been killed in two separate attacks in Nigeria’s troubled northwest. Local officials said nine people were killed when “unidentified persons” raided the village of Ungwan Dooh in Kaduna state’s Zangon Kataf district on Sunday. “Nine corpses have been recovered so far following a search of …

More than 20 people have been killed in two separate attacks in Nigeria’s troubled northwest. Local officials said nine people were killed when “unidentified persons” raided the village of Ungwan Dooh in Kaduna state’s Zangon Kataf district on Sunday. “Nine corpses have been recovered so far following a search of …

Bandits have released 15 more students kidnapped last month from a Baptist school in northwest Nigeria, officials told Reuters on Sunday. School administrator Reverend John Hayab said that parents had raised and paid an undisclosed ransom to free the students, who were among more than 100 taken on July 5 …

Gunmen have kidnapped at least 60 people in a fresh attack on a community in Zamfara State, an official has said. The Zamfara State Commissioner of Information, Ibrahim Dosara, told TVC News that the gunmen stormed the Rini community. He said that after the attack, 60 residents of the community …