Tag: Gunmen
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BREAKING: Suspected IPOB members attack police divisional headquarters in Imo
Gunmen suspected to be members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra/Eastern Security Network attacked the Obowo Divisional Police headquarters in Imo on Monday. Police spokesman in Imo, CSP Michael Abattam, stated in Owerri that the assailants approached the station from an ungoverned forest at the rear. He added that they threw petrol bombs and…
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Gunmen attack Imo police station with explosives, kill two officers
Gunmen on Saturday attacked the Umuguma Police station in Owerri West council area of Imo and killed two officers on duty. According to an eyewitness, who narrated the incident but pleaded anonymity, said the hoodlums came in two Toyota Hilux vehicles and attacked the station with an explosive device.
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11 persons abducted by gunmen in Katsina community
Eleven indigenes, mostly elderly women have been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen at Shinfida Village in Jibia Local Government Area of Katsina State. They were kidnapped on their way to join other residents who earlier ran to a refugee camp for safety after their village came under attack by a group of gunmen suspected to be…
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Daughter of former Iya Oloja shot dead in Ibadan
The daughter of former Iya Oloja of Ibadanland, late Alhaja Aminat Abiodun, was on Wednesday shot dead by gunmen at her house in Bashorun area of the city. Fatimah was said to have been shot on the head by the gunmen that stormed her residence in Bashorun area, Bodija, Ibadan. It was gathered that the…
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NIGER: Gunmen attack wedding ceremony, kill 8 people
The vigilance group in the communities however mobilized themselves and confronted the bandits
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Chika Nwoba: Democracy under serious threat in Ebonyi-Ex-SGF Anyim raises alarm
Apparently peeved by the manner Peoples Democratic Party PDP Ebonyi State Publicity Secretary, Chika Nwoba was arrested and detained, former SGF and presidential aspirant has raised alarm that democracy is under serious threat in Ebonyi. TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) reports this was contained in a statement the former Senate President signed stating that: “The bail granted the…
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Gunmen attack Edo town, raid four banks, kill seven persons
Gunmen attacked four banks and a Police Divisional Headquarters on Thursday as they laid siege on Uromi town in Esan Northeast Local Government Area of Edo. Eyewitnesses said the gunmen got to the town in their numbers and in several vehicles before they attacked the four banks with dynamites. The unmasked gunmen killed five persons…
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Gunmen attacks Ajaokuta rail station, kill One ,kidnap 10
Gunmen on Monday invaded the Ajaokuta Rail Station, kidnapped 10 people and killed one person. Ajaokuta is in the Kogi Central Senatorial District. Sources, who identified the deceased as Dennis, told our correspondent that the incident happened around 2 pm. According to PUNCH, the late Dennis was on his way to pick his boss from…
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Abia govt kicks as gunmen kill 8 traders in Omumauzor cattle market
The Abia State Government has confirmed the killing of eight persons by gunmen at the new Cattle Market in Omumauzor village in Ukwa West Local Government Area of the state on Tuesday.
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BREAKING: Gunmen abduct Edo IPMAN chairman, kill driver
A lhaji Abdul-Hamid Egele, Chairman, Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Edo chapter have been abducted by gunmen at his resident in Jattu, Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Egele popularly known a