At least eight people were kidnapped when gunmen attacked a federal medical facility in Kaduna State, the police have said. Hope For Nigeria Online reported the attack on the residential quarters of the National Centre for Tuberculosis and Leprosy in Zaria by the gunmen. [...]
Some unknown gunmen on Saturday attacked a divisional police station in the Udung Uko Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, leaving three police officers injured. According to Punch, the hoodlums stormed the police station in a vehicle and opened [...]
A policeman has been reportedly shot dead and many people injured as a new generation bank was robbed in Otun-Ekiti, the headquarters of Moba Local Government Area of Ekiti State on Thursday evening around 5:30 pm. Hope For Nigeria Online [...]
A wife of Yoruba activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo alias Sunday Igboho has been abducted by armed gunmen who attacked his Ibadan home on Thursday. This was announced by the leader of the Umbrella Body of Yoruba Self-Determination Groups, Ilana Omo [...]
No fewer than four people have been killed in two separate attacks on farming communities in Plateau State. Three lives were lost in the attack in Zanwra area of Bassa local government area on Sunday and one Bitrus Manzere was [...]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday arraigned five Sokoto State Primary Education Staff Pension Board officials before Justice Muhammad Muhammad of the State High Court. They are facing a 27-count charge bordering on alleged conspiracy, forgery, criminal [...]
Insurgency-related conflicts claimed the lives of almost 350,000 lives in the North-eastern part of Nigeria up till the end 2020, a new report of the United Nations Develop Programme (UNDP) has said. The report said insurgency directly resulted to the [...]
Three employees of the international medical charity Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) have been “brutally murdered” in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray regional, the organisation said. The group said in a statement emergency coordinator Maria Hernandez, assistant coordinator Yohannes [...]
A 45-year-old man identified as Christopher, on Saturday night, beat his wife to death over N2,000. The incident happened at No. 1, Agbontaen Street, beside Ebvareke Secondary School, off Agboniro Street, Uselu, Benin City. The man was said to have [...]
The Commander of the Ekiti State Security Network (Amotekun), Brigadier Joe Komolafe, has confirmed the abduction of another traditional ruler and Eleda of Eda Ile, in Ekiti East Local government area of Ekiti State, Oba Benjamin Oso. The monarch was [...]
Gunmen suspected to be bandits have invaded the military barracks of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, Kaduna State, and carted away a herd of cattle in the early hours of Thursday. The incident happened around 2:00 am [...]
A 12-year-old conflict in northeast Nigeria has caused, directly and indirectly, the deaths of some 350,000 people, the vast majority of which are children below the age of five, the United Nations found in a new report. The death toll, [...]
Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Kwara Command, has arrested a 22-year-old man over alleged rape of a seven-year-old girl. The command’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Mr Babawale Afolabi, made the disclosure in a statement issued on Thursday in [...]
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has said it agreed to deploy troops to Mozambique to help it tackle escalating violence in the country’s north – but offered little specific operational details. Nearly 3,000 people have been killed and almost [...]
Burkina Faso’s government has said an ambush on a police unit in the country’s conflict-hit north has left at least 11 officers dead, with four others missing. In a statement released on Tuesday, Security Minister Ousseini Compaore said the officers [...]
Officers of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested a man, Kingsley Achugbu who was alleged to have raped his home help and 2-year-old biological daughter. This was made known in a statement issued by the Police Public Relations Officer, [...]
Rising incidents of robbery attacks on motorists and commuters plying various highways, including Eko Bridge, in Lagos have assumed a very worrisome dimension which Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and the security authorities can no longer ignore or wish away. The regularity [...]
A sardonic retelling of how a serial rapist and killer was stabbed to death by 200 women outside an Indian court house has struck a chord with youngsters across the world. A TikTok video explaining how Akku Yadav met his “very satisfying end” in [...]
Armed attackers have killed a police officer and kidnapped at least 80 students and five teachers from a school in the northwestern Nigerian state of Kebbi, police, residents and teachers said. The attack took place on the Federal Government College [...]
There was tension in Ajowa Akoko, Akoko North-west Local Government Area of Ondo State on Wednesday, as gunmen invaded the home of a farmer. The farmer was simply identified as Dele. Hopefornigeriaonline gathered the gunmen who attacked his home kidnapped [...]
A 15-year-old boy, who allegedly beat a teenage girl to death for refusing his love advances, has been placed on remand by an Abeokuta Magistrate’s Court pending legal advice by the Ogun State Department of Public Prosecution. The police on [...]
Echezonachukwu O. Obianefo, 23, of Houston, Texas, United States, has been arrested by the Harris County Sheriff’s Office. He is being held in the Harris County Jail in Houston and his bail was set at $50,000. Obianefo is the manager [...]
The police in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria’s South-south, have confirmed that an officer has been shot dead during a gun attack on a police facility in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that the attack occurred in the early hours on [...]
No fewer than 465 Nigerians were killed in May as the country continues to witness increasing violence across all its regions. The deaths were caused by terrorists, bandits, gunmen, cultists, security agents, among others, according to a tally by Civic [...]
There is apprehension in Eke-Onuimo, in the Onuimo Local Government Area of Imo state following the abduction of 15 passengers along Enugu-Port Harcourt Road by suspected herdsmen. The passengers were travelling on two separate buses when the herdsmen stopped them [...]
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has said that the people of the North-West are one, yet they are killing each other. Buhari said this in an interview with Arise TV on Thursday, noting that the situation was giving him concern. He further [...]
More than 7,000 families have fled their homes in Burkina Faso’s northern region following the area’s worst massacre in years, the government has said. The mass flight came after gunmen killed at least 138 people and wounded dozens of others in an [...]
Twenty people have been reported dead as bandits again attacked Zungeru and neighbouring communities in Niger State on Friday. The bandits also kidnapped Al-mustapha Mustapha, a traditional chief and kingmaker in Zungeru, and two of his wives, residents said. Residents said the [...]
Armed assailants have killed about 100 civilians in an overnight attack on a village in northern Burkina Faso, the government said, in what is the deadliest assault to hit the conflict-hit country in years. The attackers struck during the night [...]
More than 20 people have been allegedly killed in Igangan, one of the towns in Ibarapa North local government, as gunmen opened fire last night. The Palace of the Asigangan as well as a popular petroleum station were not spared. [...]
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