Tag: Village
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Gunmen attack Plateau village, killing scores
Gunmen have killed over 30 persons in Bwoi District of Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau. DSP Alfred Alabo, confirmed the incident in a statement. Alabo said the Commissioner of Police in the state, Bartholomew
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Woman refuses to dance naked in the village after adultery
Mrs Sandra Iyenanye, a trader in Lagos State, has stood her ground and refused to dance naked and perform other rites in the village after owning up that she committed adultery. Mrs Iyenanye rather approached an Igando Customary Court on Tuesday to dissolve her long-distance marriage to her husband Mr Vestus Iyenanye.
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SOKOTO: 28 drown in canoe accident at Gidan-Magana village
The rescue operators were only able to rescue six persons alive
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Hoodlums machete nine to death in Anambra village
No fewer than nine people were killed on Monday when hoodlums invaded Ukpomachi Village, Okuzu in Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State. The state police command confirmed the deaths in a statement, adding that some other people were injured during the attack and property and livestock destroyed. The statement was signed by the command’s…
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Going back home – Francis Ewherido
By Francis Ewherido About five years ago, the former editor of The Guardian, Abraham Ogbodo, told me he would return to his village once he retired from The Guardian. Retire to the village in your 50s? What will you be doing? Not many people do that, especially in Urhobo Land. I did not take him…
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Jihadists raid village, massacre 15
About 20 armed Jihadists have raided the village of Diblou in Burkina Faso’s restive north, killing 15 people, plundering and burning shops and motorbikes, a regional governor said Saturday. The raid took place on the night of Thursday to Friday, said a security source who put the death toll at 14. But a statement by…
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Boko Haram invades Adamawa village, kills 26
Twenty-six people have been feared killed and several others critically injured following a Boko Haram attack on a village in Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa State. According to reports the insurgents on Tuesday riding motorcycles, stormed the Kudakaya village in large numbers around 7pm on Monday. A local vigilante member said, “Many victims fell…
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LG Chairman confirms death of 10 persons in fresh attack on Kaduna village
Mr Charles Danladi, the Chairman Sanga Local Government Council, Kaduna State, has confirmed the death of 10 in an attack on Nandu village in the area. The chairman told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kafanchan on Saturday that the attack occurred on Friday and 11 houses were burnt. Danladi however said that normalcy…
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BREAKING: Village headmaster’s Ted Mukoro is dead
Veteran actor and advert guru, Theodore Austin Mukoro died yesterday at age 89, after a brief illness at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Lagos Ted Mukoro made a great name as the first headmaster in the famed TV programme Village Headmaster which is now rested. The news of the death of the iconic actor…
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Gunmen attack Nasarawa village, kill seven
The Nasarawa State Police Command on Tuesday confirmed the killing of seven persons in a night on Kadarko, a village in Keana Local Government Area of Nasarawa State. According to Mr Kennedy Idirisu, its Public Relations Officer, the victims were killed by gunmen that invaded the village on Monday. He described the incident as “saddening”,…