Tag: Villages
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Oba of Benin inducts 8 new Dukes to oversee villages
Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, has inducted eight Dukes traditionally known as Enigie to oversee some villages in his domain. The Dukes are the first set of hereditary titles of Enigie that had been inducted since the past six years when the Oba ascended the throne.
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Bandits ransack eight Kebbi villages, kill over 66 villagers
No fewer than sixty-six (66) people have been killed in various villages in Kebbi state. Spokesperson of the Kebbi State Police Command, DSP Nafiu Abubakar, confirmed the killing of the people adding that it took place in eight villages of Danko/Wasagu Local Government Area. According to him, though, the police were still counting the number…
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Banditry: Niger State residents desert 50 villages in five LGAs – Governor Bello
Governor Abubakar Bello of Niger, has disclosed that no fewer than 50 villages in five Local Government Areas of the state have been deserted due bandits’ attacks. The governor made the disclosure on Monday in Minna while opening a two-day training workshop for local government directors and revenue officers. The workshop has the theme: ‘Strategies…
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55 killed in ethnic clashes, villages destroyed
At least 55 people were killed and more than 40 injured as three villages were burnt during fighting in the central African country of Chad, a governor told dpa on Friday. The clashes in the south-eastern region of Salamat erupted between different ethnic groups on Wednesday night. The affected were the villages around the provincial…
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JUST IN: Bandits attack Kaduna villages, kill 13, raze several houses
Thirteen people have been killed and seven others injured, in a series of attacks across communities in Zangon Kataf, Kauru and Chikun local government areas. Samuel Aruwan, Commissioner, Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Kaduna said the report came to the Kaduna State Government from the Military under the auspices of Operation Safe Haven…
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Gunmen launch fresh attack on Kaduna villages, 12 feared dead
Gunmen suspected to be bandits terrorising Birnin-Gwari and Giwa local government areas of Kaduna have killed reportedly no fewer than 12 persons and injured eight others in two villages of Giwa. According to reports, the bandits invaded Kidandan and Kadai villages between Friday and Saturday for the attacks. Confirming the development, an anonymous source from…
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Flood sacks 40 villages in Adamawa
No fewer than 40 villages have been sacked by flood in Adamawa, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Dr Muhammad Sulaiman, the Executive Secretary, Adamawa State Emergency Management Agency (ADSEMA), confirmed this to NAN on Saturday in Yola. Sulaiman said the development followed heavy downpour recorded in the last three days in some parts of…
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Tension in Taraba as suspected herdsmen kill 42, sack 12 villages
At least, 42 people mostly women and children were reportedly killed across 12 villages in the Lau Local Government Area of Taraba State. A witness and resident of the area, Dauda Marafa said in a phone interview that armed militiamen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen on Sunday invaded communities in the local government, killing anybody…