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The Joint Military Task Force (JTF) deployed to the Niger Delta on Tuesday repelled an attack at a gunboat stationed behind former President Goodluck Jonathan’s residence in Otueke but lost a soldier while another was injured. On Tuesday, December 24, 2019, the military said its gunboat, …...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan Former Nigerian president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, has condemned the attack on his Otueke, Bayelsa country home by unknown gunmen in the early hours of Tuesday. The former president was said not to be at the Bayelsa home when the gunmen struck. ... Read...

President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday put a call to former President Goodluck Jonathan to sympathize with him following an attack by gunmen on his Otuoke, Bayelsa State country residence. In the telephone conversation, President Buhari … Read more via P.M. News – https://ift.tt/35RMcOY Get...

The Niger State Police Command, yesterday, confirmed abduction of two expatriates, a Nigerian staff of Triacta Construction Company and five others in Galadima Kogo Village of Erena in Shiroro Local Government Area of the state. The construction workers were handling construction work on the...

Maersk has issued an official confirmation of the robbery attack on its managing director, Gildas Tohouo Tohouo, by armed men, in his Ikoyi home on Sunday night. The robbery attack claimed the … Read more via P.M. News – https://ift.tt/356AaAR Get More Nigeria Metro News

Another Catholic priest in Enugu State, Malachy Asadu, was on Monday kidnapped by unknown gunmen. His kidnap, PREMIUM TIMES learnt, has sparked tension in the Nsukka suburb of Enugu. The cleric was reportedly kidnapped along Imilike -Nsukka Road while returning from a Diocesan meeting at St...

Barely three months after a peace agreement brokered in Zamfara between bandits and the state government, some gunmen on Sunday killed 14 persons and left 10 with gunshot injuries in Karaye village under Gummi Local Government Area. The attack, which is the first major breach of the … Read...

According to a report by The Nation, as many as four senior officers of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) were on Monday morning kidnapped on Bonny waterway in Rivers State. An indigene of coastal Bonny, the headquarters of Bonny Local Government … Read more via Naijaloaded | Nigeria’s...

Unknown gunmen have kidnapped the wife of Katsina State Deputy Accountant General, Hajiya Lubabatu Sani Lawal. The hoodlums numbering about 20 stormed the victim’s residence located within Government Reserve Area (GRA) on Wednesday night and whisked her away. ... Read more via Thisdaylive –...

Operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, FSARS, Lagos Island have rescued an Ogun State based businessman, Alhaji Rilwan Olaleye Alesh, a.k.a AK Alesh from kidnappers’ den and arrested four suspects. The businessman was rescued after about an hour of gun-battle inside the Abule...

One person was reportedly killed while five others were abducted as gunmen launched fresh attacks on communities in Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State. This was coming as the Principal of Government Technical Secondary School located at Maraban … Read more via Thisdaylive –...

Suspected armed robbers on Saturday attacked Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) mega station in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. The armed robbers, it was gatheted struck when employees of the station had left for their respective homes. The men of the underworld were said to have...

Three women have been confirmed dead after they were shot by gunmen in Vatt community, Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State. A youth leader in the community, Dalyop Solomon, in Jos yesterday that the victims were killed while they were harvesting tomatoes in their farms on Monday...

Gunmen dressed in military camouflage have violated the peace in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) following the abduction of nine persons during a brazen attack on the Pegi resettlement community, located in Kuje Area Council, of the FCT. Members of the community, who confirmed the …...

Unknown gunmen have killed one Sule Moses, a 100 level student of the Department of Community Health, College of Health Sciences and Technology, Idah, Kogi State. Multiple sources in the college confirmed to THISDAY that Moses was allegedly attacked and killed by unknown gunmen late … Read...

Gunmen suspected to be insurgents on Friday invaded the Monguno general hospital in Borno state charting away drugs and other hospital equipment. This comes a day after the Theatre Command of Operation Lafia Dole declared the Action Against Hunger (AAH), persona non-grata for aiding and …...

Gunmen have killed the Head of Kadunu and Dakacin Langai, Langai District, Pyam Chiefdom, in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State, HRH Alhaji Mamman Bayero. A source said the traditional ruler was shot and killed in his residence on Sunday about 8p.m. The state Police Public Relations...

A younger brother to former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Power and a governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Godknows Igali, was among those kidnapped last weekend while attempting to rescue several Bayelsa youths who were involved in an accident during a … Read...

Some gunmen suspected to be kidnappers on Thursday attacked the home of a man identified as Alhaji Usman Bobo in Jalingo, Taraba State The gunmen attacked the man with a machete and whisked his daughter, Farida Usman, away around... Read more via Channels Television – https://ift.tt/2AfEEam...

One person was feared killed as violence marred the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primary election in Kogi State yesterday. The event became enmeshed in violence when, at the point of votes sorting and counting, … Read more via The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World...