The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) has said 32 of its vehicles were destroyed by suspected arsonists who attacked its facility in Anambra State. The gun-wielding arsonists had attacked the EEDC facility located inside the headquarters of the Idemili North [...]
Operatives of the Anti-kidnapping unit of the Bayelsa State Police Command have arrested a gun-running gang in the Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state. According to a release on Friday, the police command said its operatives acting on a [...]
Rebel fighters have killed at least seven people in an attack in northeast Borno State in Nigeria, witnesses have told The Associated Press. The rebels attacked Kautukari village in the Chibok area of Borno on Tuesday evening, residents said on [...]
A simultaneous military operation is needed in the Northwest and Niger State, Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai said yesterday. He believes such an operation would secure the ungoverned spaces of Kaduna, Katsina, Zamfara, Sokoto, Kebbi, Plateau and Niger and tackle [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari has again charged heads of military and other security agencies in the country to rise up to their responsibilities and go after terrorists troubling the nation and eliminate them. He gave the charge yesterday, after joining other [...]
At least 23 members of the Mass Movement for the Actualisation for Biafra, MASSOB have been arrested by the Police in Cross River State. The suspected MASSOB members were arrested by the police at a watch repairer’s workshop in the [...]
There was tension in Yola, Adamawa State, yesterday, as armed policemen took over the House of Assembly premises to prevent Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members that defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) from gaining access to the chambers. The [...]
Six soldiers were killed and 20 injured in simultaneous attacks targeting three army bases in central Mali Sunday, the Malian army said. Targets in Sevare, Niono and Bapho were all hit by “armed terrorist groups (who) used suicide vehicles packed [...]
One person was on Monday shot dead and a military personnel was injured following an early morning attack on a military checkpoint in Ogboinbiri Community at a wellhead owned by the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) at Seibou oil field [...]
Gunmen have bombed Anaku Divisional Police Headquarters in Ayamelum Local Government Area of Anambra State, Nigeria’s South-east. The incident, which happened in the early hours of Wednesday, was the fifth attack to be recorded in the state within one week. [...]
The death toll from attacks on villages in Nigeria’s Plateau state has soared to 154 and an estimated 4,800 people have fled their homes fearing further violence. Villagers were attacked by gunmen on motorbikes who shot sporadically into homes and [...]
Power and rail infrastructure are the most attacked assets in Nigeria in the last three years. This was disclosed in a report by a socioeconomic research firm, SBM intelligence, yesterday, titled: ‘Attacks on infrastructure in Nigeria.’ According to the report, [...]
Masked gunmen, on Monday, killed a passenger and set a sienna vehicle ablaze at the popular Holy Ghost roundabout, Enugu North Local Government Area of Enugu State, Nigeria’s South-east. The gunmen, said to be members of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra [...]
Gunmen who attacked a Kaduna-bound train 10 days ago have threatened to kill the captives if the government does not quickly accede to their demands. The gunmen issued the threat in a video they released stating the reason they freed [...]
At least 11 soldiers were killed after some terrorists locally dubbed as bandits raided a Nigerian military base in Polwire village in Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State. A source who disclosed this to Hope For Nigeria Online [...]
One week after gunmen attacked a train with explosives in northwestern Nigeria, the whereabouts of 168 passengers are still unknown, the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) says. At least eight people were killed and many others missing on March 28 when gunmen [...]
At least two persons have been allegedly shot at a night party in Lagos State by the officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). It was learnt that no fewer than 30 officers led by one Chima were [...]
Despite several signs that the Abuja-Kaduna railway was susceptible to bandits attack and amid massive resources in loans and funds voted to revamp rail transportation across the country, the Federal Government failed to adequately protect passengers until Monday’s attack. That [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari has met behind closed door with security chiefs after Monday night’s terrorist attacks on Abuja-Kaduna bound train by bandits. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the train was conveying about 970 passengers from Abuja to Kaduna at about 7.45 [...]
One hoodlum was killed on Tuesday during an attack on the Dangote Refinery located in the Lekki Free Trade Zone of Lagos. Dangote Refinery is an oil refinery owned by the Dangote Group that is under construction in Lekki, Nigeria. [...]
Gunmen suspected to be members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra/Eastern Security Network attacked the Obowo Divisional Police headquarters in Imo on Monday. The police spokesperson in Imo, Michael Abattam, stated in Owerri that the assailants approached the station from [...]
No fewer than seven persons have been killed in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, as cultists went on a rampage. Hope For Nigeria Online reports that in the past one week, members of the Aiye and Eiye confraternities have been [...]
The orgy of violence in the northern part of the country has claimed 60 lives in Kaduna and Zamfara states. Twenty-five persons, including two military personnel, were reportedly killed, while a riot policeman allegedly shot a passerby and no fewer [...]
Gunmen have kidnapped eight members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), between Araromi Opin and Obbo Ile in Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State. According to reports, the victims were abducted by gunmen on Wednesday while returning from the [...]
Armed fighters have killed at least eight people who were collecting water in a town in northern Burkina Faso, its mayor has said. The incident, which occurred on Monday morning, brings the total killed in three days of violence in [...]
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba, on Tuesday warned police officers in the Federal Capital (FCT) to not use crime prevention measures such as roadblocks and raids for extortion. Baba, who spoke in Abuja at FCT Command during a [...]
No fewer than five people have been reportedly killed by gunmen suspected to be bandits in a fresh attack on Tse Udeghe village of Mbapa council ward of Gwer West Local Government Area of Benue State. It was learnt that [...]
The embattled Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, has claimed that members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Eastern Security Network (ESN) are behind his travails due to the onslaught launched against them in the South East. Kyari [...]
Twenty-two persons were reportedly abducted on Wednesday by bandits who attacked Idon town in the Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna. According to Punch, four victims were injured in the attack which occurred in the early hours of Wednesday. The [...]
More senior police operatives and other security agents would be arrested following the detention of DCP Abba Kyari, the suspended commander of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) at the Force Intelligence Bureau of the Nigeria Police Force, over drug-related offences, [...]
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