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The Nigerian Army on Friday, said its troops of 72 Special Force Battalion killed some suspected armed bandits while some escaped with gunshot wounds during an encounter last Thursday, in Benue State. The Army, in a statement by its spokesman, Brigadier General Texas Chukwu, said the ...

A gang of what are said to be former cattle rustlers has killed at least 51 adults and children in a village in northern Nigeria, burning down homes. Amongst the rows of dead bodies in Gwaska, in the Birnin Gwari area of Kaduna state, were children under the age..... Read more via BBC News...

Tension has heightened in Zamfara villages in Anka local government area of the state after residents noticed dozens of unidentified motorbike riding gangs of armed bandits in the bush. A resident, Ibrahim Hamisu told Daily Trust that he saw a gang of heavily armed bandits on motor bikes moving...