Police say the unclaimed attack was carried out on a convoy transporting workers to Shell oil and gas project, killing seven people. Seven people have been killed in an attack on a convoy transporting workers to a Shell oil and gas project in Nigeria’s southeast, police say. No group claimed …
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Gunmen kill seven at Nigerian gas project site
Gunmen killed a police officer and six employees of Nigerian oil and gas services company Lee Engineering during an attack on a project site in the southeastern state of Imo, police said on Tuesday. Attacks on oil and gas facilities have long been a problem in Nigeria, where the multi-billion …
Read More »Attackers kill 22 Nigerian commuters on road near Plateau state capital
Attackers killed 22 commuters on a road near the capital of Nigeria’s Plateau state, a morgue attendant told Reuters, in the latest outbreak of violence across Africa’s most populous nation in which scores of civilians have been killed this year. Armed attackers have increasingly targeted Nigeria’s roads and unrest has …
Read More »Nigeria to lift Twitter ban soon, says Information minister
Nigeria will soon lift its ban on Twitter after resolving some of its differences with the social media platform, Information Minister Lai Mohammed said on Wednesday, signaling the end of a policy widely condemned as an affront to freedom of expression. The Nigerian government suspended Twitter on June 4 after …
Read More »Gunmen kidnap Swiss national in southern Nigeria
Nigerian gunmen have kidnapped a Swiss national after opening fire on his police escort in the southwest of the country, police said on Sunday. Kidnappings occur mostly in the northwest and central states of Nigeria where heavily armed criminal gangs operate and foreign workers are also occasionally targeted for abduction …
Read More »Chibok schoolgirl freed in Nigeria seven years after abduction, governor says
One abducted girl from the Nigerian town of Chibok has been freed and reunited with her parents seven years after Boko Haram terrorists kidnapped her and more than 200 of her classmates, Borno state’s governor said on Saturday (August 7). The raid on the school in the northeastern town one …
Read More »Nigerian government seeking to file new lawsuit against Zakzaky: Lawyer
A lawyer of Shia Muslim cleric Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky says the Nigerian government is seeking to file a new lawsuit against the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria as part of attempts to prevent him from leaving the country for medical treatment. “We have news that the Nigerian government …
Read More »Over 2m children go hungry in conflict-hit northeast Nigeria: NGO
Save the Children says 700,000 children under five are among the 2.3 million children affected by crisis. At least 2.3 million children and youth are going hungry in northeastern Nigeria where escalating violence has forced farmers to flee their fields and put the region on the brink of critical food …
Read More »Nigeria Hit by Deadly Cholera Surge Focused on North
Nigeria has been hit by a surge in cholera cases in recent weeks, focused on the country’s north and adding to a public health crisis accompanied by a rise in COVID-19 cases. “In the last two weeks we had new and resurgence cases,” Dr. Bashir Lawan Muhammad, the state epidemiologist …
Read More »Nigeria’s Kaduna State seeks to foil Zakzaky’s release by filing new charge: Lawyer
A prominent Nigerian lawyer and human rights activist has revealed that the Kaduna State government has hastily filed a new charge against Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, Leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, and his wife in a desperate move to block their release. Femi Falana, who led Sheikh Zakzaky’s defense …
Read More »Nigeria cleric Zakzaky, wife acquitted of all charges, freed from jail
One Kaduna State High Court don free di banned Islamic Movement in Nigeria leader, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and im wife. Di presiding judge, Justice Gideon Kurada for im ruling uphold di no-case submission wey Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky and im wife bin sign. Di judge for im ruling say di prosecution …
Read More »Kidnappers release another 28 abducted children in Nigeria
The attackers stormed Bethel Baptist High School in Kaduna State on July 5, abducting 121 students from their dorms. Gunmen who seized 121 students at a high school in northwestern Nigeria in early July have released another 28 teenagers, a school official said. The attackers stormed Bethel Baptist High School …
Read More »Police in Nigeria secure release of 100 kidnapping victims
Police and government authorities have secured the release of 100 people, including women, children, and nursing mothers, who were kidnapped from their village in northwestern Nigeria over a month ago, a local police spokesperson said. Nigeria is battling an increase in armed robberies and kidnappings for ransom, mainly in northwestern …
Read More »Gunmen kidnap dozens of villagers in northwestern Nigeria
Gunmen abducted at least 60 people in northwestern Nigeria after riding motorbikes into five villages and firing sporadically into the air, a police officer and several residents said on Saturday. Nigeria is battling an increase in armed robberies and kidnappings for ransom, mainly in northwestern areas, where thinly stretched security …
Read More »Gunmen kill Nigerian army general on highway from the capital
Gunmen shot dead a Nigerian army general as he was traveling by car on a major road from the capital, Abuja, the army said on Friday, in the first such fatal gun attack on a senior serving military officer. Armed robberies and kidnappings for ransom, particularly in the northwest, have …
Read More »Nigeria: Gunmen raid palace, kidnap emir and family members
Chief of Kajuru, Alhaji Alhassan Adamu, and 10 family members have been kidnapped. Police have deployed rescue operations in Kaduna state. Gunmen kidnapped an emir and 10 members of his family in northwest Nigeria’s Kaduna state early on Sunday, police said. Police and members of Nigeria’s army are currently engaged …
Read More »Gunmen kill at least 45 people in northwest Nigerian town
Militants killed at least 45 people in an attack on the town of Faru in northwest Nigeria, residents and a hospital worker said on Friday. Such violence has increasingly become a part of everyday life in the region, with the Nigerian government and security forces showing little ability to stem …
Read More »27 kidnapped victims rescued in Nigeria: police
Nigerian police confirmed on Monday 27 persons earlier kidnapped by gunmen from a secondary school in the country’s northwestern state of Kaduna had regained their freedom. A group of unidentified gunmen stormed the Bethel Baptist High School in Damishi town, Chikun local government area, in the early hours of Monday, …
Read More »Gunmen attack Nigeria school, abduct about 150 students
Around 150 children are missing after armed men attacked a school in northwest Nigeria’s Kaduna state, a parent and an administrator told Reuters on Monday. Police said gunmen shooting wildly raided the Bethel Baptist High School in southern Kaduna state overnight. “They … overpowered the school’s security guards and made …
Read More »Three students dead after Nigeria school kidnapping says principal
Three children have died following a school kidnapping of 94 students and eight staff in northwest Nigeria this week, the establishment’s principal said on Sunday.
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