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Saturday, 28 December 2019 04:31

Boko Haram again kills 10 in attack targeting aid workers, Christians - Witnesses

Islamist militants killed at least 10 people and took two women captive in an attack on a convoy in northern Nigeria that targeted Christians and those associated with international aid groups, witnesses said on Friday. In the Dec. 22 attack, they told Reuters, militants posing as soldiers stopped a convoy of commercial vehicles travelling towards Maiduguri in northeastern Borno state and asked passengers in English to produce identification cards. The militants separated those who they determined worked for international aid groups, were Christian or worked with the police or Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF), a coalition of civilian vigilante groups…

Friday, 27 December 2019 04:35

ISWAP kills 11 Christian captives in Nigeria on Christmas Day

Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) claim they killed the captives to avenge for the killing of their leaders Abu bakr al-Baghdadi and Abul-Hasan Al-Muhajir in and Syria. A video released on Wednesday showed 13 hostages, 10 believed to be Christian and three Muslim. ISWAP claimed they spared the lives of two of the Muslims, reported. The deaths came after an earlier video saw the hostages plead with the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) to negotiate their release. In a statement, ISWAP said: 'We killed them as a revenge for the killings of our leaders, including Abu bakr al-Baghdadi and…

Tuesday, 24 December 2019 14:44

Soldier, two others killed as gunmen attack Jonathan’s country home

Unknown gunmen killed a soldier on guard duty at the courtyard of former President Goodluck Jonathan situated close to the bank of the river at Otuoke, Ogbia Local Government Area, Bayelsa State. Multiple sources said about three of the gunmen were killed by the soldiers, who foiled their attempt to break into the house. One of the sources, who spoke in confidence, said the gunmen came through the river on five speedboats and opened fire on the soldiers. The source said: “Armed men who came in about five boats attacked the home of former President Jonathan. “A security personal attached…

Tuesday, 24 December 2019 06:03

Saudis sentence 5 people to death for Khashoggi's killing

A court in Saudi Arabia sentenced five people to death Monday for the killing of Washington Post columnist and royal family critic Jamal Khashoggi, whose grisly slaying in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul drew international condemnation and cast a cloud of suspicion over Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Three other people were found guilty by Riyadh’s criminal court of covering up the crime and were sentenced to a combined 24 years in prison, according to a statement read by the Saudi attorney general’s office on state TV. In all, 11 people were put on trial in Saudi Arabia over the…

Monday, 23 December 2019 06:21

Gunmen kill 8, sack senator’s community

Barely one week after armed bandits abducted two expatriates and six others working for a former Senator, Mr David Umaru, armed men suspected to be bandits have attacked Umaru’s community, Kaure, Kwaki Ward in Shiroro Local Government Area. The bandits killed eight other villagers in the attack, which occurred in the early hours of yesterday. Over 100 members of the community, including women and children, were said to have fled to safety. Councilor representing the ward, Mr Jafaru Kwaki, told our correspondent on phone yesterday afternoon that the bandits stormed the community on motorcycles with three persons on each at…

Sunday, 22 December 2019 06:14

1,000 Nigerian Christians killed by terrorists in 2019 –Reports

A new report on the persecution of Christians in Nigeria has found that about 1,000 adherents of the Christian faith have been killed by Islamic militants in 2019 alone. Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART), headed by a member of the British House of Lords, Baroness Cox, discovered that believers in the North and Central region of Nigeria were the most severely affected. The group said the constant attack of “harmless” persons, especially worshipers and clerics portends danger for Christianity as it has ignited fears in clerics deployed to the northeast to work. In its end of the year report, the…

Friday, 20 December 2019 05:36

22 ex-govs under probe, on trial – AGF

About 22 former governors are either on trial or facing investigations over corruption allegations, Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami, has said. Malami, who spoke at a meeting with journalists at his office in Abuja on Thursday, did not name the affected former governors. When asked, the minister also said he could not comment on the fate of his predecessor, Mr Mohammed Adoke, who arrived Nigeria from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and was immediately arrested by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Thursday. The minister, who sought the support of journalists in the fight against…

Friday, 20 December 2019 05:35

Nigeria's ex-attorney general held by EFCC over $1.3 billion oil deal

Nigeria’s former attorney general was detained by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) upon his return home on Thursday, the commission said in a statement, as part of an investigation into one of the oil industry’s biggest suspected corruption scandals. Mr Mohammed Adoke was arrested by Interpol in November after travelling to Dubai for a medical appointment. He voluntarily flew back to the West African country on Thursday, his lawyer said. EFCC’s investigation relates to the $1.3 billion (£999.54 million) sale of a Nigerian offshore oilfield known as OPL 245 by Malabu Oil and Gas in 2011. Eni SpA (ENI.MI)…

Tuesday, 17 December 2019 05:58

One million guns, others circulating in Nigeria - NSA

Office of National Security Adviser (ONSA) stated yesterday that of the 857 million Small and Light Weapons (SALW) in circulation globally and the 12 billion rounds of ammunition produced annually, 10 million are estimated to be in Africa with one million of them circulating in Nigeria. This is coming as Inspector-General of Police (IG), Mr Adamu Mohammed, said Nigerian Police recovered 2,037 firearms of various caliber and descriptions and 21,870 ammunition in 2019. The figure on small and light weapons was contained in the National Security Strategy document formally presented to the public by ONSA. It said the weapons in…

Tuesday, 17 December 2019 05:57

Tramadol worth over N1.7 trillion destroyed in 2019 – NAFDAC

National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, yesterday disclosed that alarming street value of tramadol worth over N1, 702, 692,250,000.00 was destroyed by the agency in 2019 even as it announced that NAFDAC would begin to test for imported Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients, APIs before they are used to manufacture drugs in Nigeria. Meanwhile, the Agency has rolled out plans to achieve 60 percent local production of pharmaceutical products by 2024. Making these revelations and more during Pharma Stakeholder Engagement with the Director-General in Lagos, Director-General of the Agency, Mrs Christianah Adeyeye told the audience that NAFDAC in…

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Sunday, 15 December 2019 06:15

EFCC marks Orji Kalu’s Sun newspaper, other properties for seizure

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Saturday began marking for seizure properties belonging to jailed former governor of Abia State, Mr Orji Kalu. According to a statement issued by the agency’s spokesperson, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, the action came following an order by a Lagos Division of the Federal High Court to wound up assets belonging to Mr Kalu’s company, Slok Nigeria Ltd. Last week, Kalu, a senator representing Abia North, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for a N7.65 billion fraud. Here’s the statement by EFCC: Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Saturday, December 14, 2019, marked properties…

Sunday, 15 December 2019 06:14

ISWAP attack kills 15 in Borno - Militia

Islamic State-aligned militants have killed 14 anti-jihadist militia and a police officer in northeast Nigeria, militia leaders told AFP Friday. Late Thursday, jihadists from Islamic State West Africa Province in more than a dozen pickup trucks fitted with machine guns stormed a security post manned by a civilian militia group in the village of Mamuri, in Borno State, according to the sources. "We lost 14 men and a mobile policeman in the fight with terrorists from ISWAP," militia leader Babakura Kolo said. "They attacked our men around 8:00 pm (1900 GMT) in 14 trucks which resulted in a hours-long fight."…

Sunday, 15 December 2019 06:13

Houses of worship attacked with deadly frequency in 2019

On Dec. 1, a band of assailants opened fire on worshippers at a small-town Protestant church in Burkina Faso, an impoverished West African country where the Christian minority is increasingly a target of attacks. The victims included the pastor and several teenage boys; regional authorities attributed the attack to “unidentified armed men” who, according to witnesses, got away on motorcycles. The slaughter merited brief reports by international news outlets, then quickly faded from the spotlight — not surprising in a year where attacks on places of worship occurred with relentless frequency. Hundreds of worshippers and many clergy were killed at…

Saturday, 14 December 2019 05:56

Armed group says it killed four hostages kidnapped in Nigeria - Action Against Hunger

An armed group that kidnapped humanitarian workers in northeastern Nigeria five months ago has claimed it killed four hostages, international aid agency Action Against Hunger said on Friday. Six people were abducted in July near the town of Damasak, Borno state, where Islamist insurgents operate. Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP), which split from the militant group Boko Haram that began its insurgency in 2009, has become the dominant jihadist group in the region. The decade-long Islamist insurgency has caused the deaths of some 30,000 people and driven 2 million to flee their homes. Action Against Hunger said one…

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