The remains of about 150 Southern Kaduna natives, were, yesterday, buried in a mass grave in Unguwant Gata, Maroa Chiefdom of Karua Local Government Area of the state, according to a local chief from the area. Sankwai, Tekum and Unguwan Gata villages in Maroa Chiefdom were, Saturday, invaded by what villagers said were Fulani gunmen,…
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, has taken a swipe on Nigeria, labeling the country and her citizens as corrupt. He made the remark during
Gunmen that raided several communities in Katsina State, on March 11 and 12, had killed 117, injured 37 and displaced 708 persons, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The Katsina State Deputy Governor, Alhaji Abdullahi Garba, gave the figures at the end of his sympathy visit to the affected communities on Saturday in Katsina.…
Many dead bodies were dumped in front of mortuaries in hospitals in the capital city of Borno State, Maiduguri, as the number of killed in Friday’s and Saturday’s Boko Haram attacks is overwhelming.According to DailyTrust, about 500 corpses, mostly of dead insurgents, were brought to the mortuaries at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH)…
A commissioner with Zamfara state local government service commission, Alhaji Yusif Garba, was shot dead by three unidentified gunmen near his residence at Ungwar Zabarma of Tudun Wada area of the state capital, Gusau, on March 14, 2014, Friday. The suspects escaped immediately after the murder without robbing money from the victim. The Governor of…
Over 125,000 applicants in Abuja and Lagos alone chasing 4,500 jobs! 16 feared dead in the scramble. Thousands fainted from stampede and exhaustion. Many more applicants thronged the remaining 35 states of the federation. These casualty figures from the recruitment test centres of the National Immigration Service (NIS), held across the country, yesterday, told the…
REMNANTS of Boko Haram fighters who were battered in Friday’s ill-fated attack on the Giwa Army Barracks, Maiduguri, yesterday regrouped on the outskirts of the city for a fresh onslaught on the same military facility, but again met with defeat. Troops who were on a cordon and search operation at Kayamla and Alu Dam discovered…
Barely four days after suspected Fulani herdsmen struck in Benue State killing 37, three villages in Kaduna State, yesterday, suffered another attack, allegedly by Fulani herdsmen in which about 200 were feared dead. The attacked villages in Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna State were reportedly razed. The fresh attack came just as explosions rocked…
This is not the best of times for the people of Benue State who have been traumatized by attacks from people
An Igbo group, Njem Igbo Movement has said it determined to emabark on a revolution against selfish Igbo leaders who have betrayed the people of the Igbo race.The group in a statement signed by its National Coordinator, Paschal Egoigbo, its South-West coordinator, Remigus Nwabugo and the National Secretary, Onuoha Mariaceline said it is embarking on…