Gunmen on Wednesday morning attacked the Police station at Bangi town in Bangi local government area of Niger state, releasing 10 armed robbery suspects in the process. The gunmen stormed the Police station in motorcycles and then engaged the Police in a gun battle.In the process they released all the inmates of the prison and drove away with 10 armed robbery suspects who had been arrested on Tuesday. Confi ...

10 people have been confirmed dead following a surprise attack on a market and a church in Jilang village of Maiha local government, Adamawa state by unknown gunmen. The Adamawa state police command confirmed that 10 people were shot dead and nine others wounded after gunmen launched a surprise attack on the unsuspecting individuals. The Adamawa police spokesperson, Mr. Ibrahim Mohammed disclosed that the g ...

13 policemen have been killed after suspected militants ambushed their boat in a creek at Zuzama in southern Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa state. Three others including a police sergeant escaped death by swimming away to safety. According to the commissioner of police in the state Kingsley Omire, the boat carrying the police officials was headed to a funeral when it developed engine fault. It is sti ...

The displaced  people of Fadan Attakar community in Kaura local government area of Kaduna State  have appealed to the Kaduna State government to help them  get over the shock from last Saturday's attack on the village by unknown gunmen. The attack has displaced about 10,000 indigenes of the community who are scared of going back to their homes. The paramount ruler of the community condemned the attack sayin ...

Gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen on Sunday stormed Afaka village in Kaura local government area of Kaduna state killing 19 people. The unknown gunmen took the community by surprise as they attacked in the early hours of Easter Sunday leaving 19 people dead and many others injured. The village shares borders with kaduna and plateau. An eye witness said the gunmen numbering about 30 invaded the village ...

The Kwara State Commissioner of Police (CP); Mr Chinwe Asadu, has been killed by unknown gunmen in Enugu state. The Police boss was killed Saturday night at gunpoint in his car at Amorji Nike, near the densely populated Abakpa Nike area in Enugu East local government area within the state capital. The Orderly of the Commissioner and driver escaped the attack but they sustained gunshot wounds and  they are r ...

Gunmen on Sunday killed a guard and kidnapped seven foreign workers from the Setraco construction company site in Jama’are town in Bauchi State. The Associated Press, quoting the Local government Chairman, Adamu Aliyu reported that those kidnapped were from Britain, Italy, Greece and Lebanon. The Commissioner of Police in Bauchi, Mohammed Ladan, who confirmed the incidence, said the gunmen attacked a police ...

No fewer than five people were killed early Monday morning as unknown gunmen attacked farmers in Kassa village of Barkin Ladi local government area of Plateau State, North Central Nigeria, killing three people while two of the attackers were killed by security personnel in a gun battle. According to the media officer of the Special Task Force (STF), Captain Salisu Mustapha, members of the task force moved t ...

A police officer sustained injuries during an attack on a divisional police station in Dass local government area of Bauchi State, north east Nigeria as unknown attackers threw improvised explosive device at the police station on Friday night causing panic amongst residents. Public Relations Officer of Bauchi Police Command, Assistant Superintendent of Police Hassan Mohammed confirmed the attack in which a ...

Gunmen killed 23 people in northern Nigeria in attacks that appeared to target gamblers and people selling 'forbidden' meat that Islamist militants disapprove of, officials and locals said yesterday. In the deadliest attack, late on Monday, gunmen opened fire at a market in the town of Damboa in Borno state North East Nigeria, targeting local hunters who sell bush meat from animals such as monkeys and pigs, ...