A clash between youths in Ugbonla and Ugbo, oil-rich communities in Ondo State, weekend, resulted in the death of a young boy identified as Bello and the destruction of property worth millions of Naira.

The United Progressive Party (UPP) has called on the military high command to immediately institute an investigation into the cause of the violent clash between soldiers and unarmed tricycle operators in Umuahia, Abia State Capital on Monday evening.

24 hours after Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State brokered peace between Ogbe-Ijoh and Aladja communities of Warri South West and Udu Local Government Areas respectively at the Government House annex, Warri, both communities in the early hours of Thursday resumed hostilities against each other with locals running into Udu town for safety.

Akure—Leadership tussle between factions of the Ondo State chapter of National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, in Akure, the state capital, turned bloody as no fewer than 15 persons sustained machete injuries.

Justice Kudirat Akano of Osun State High Court has granted bail to the traditional ruler of the Ife kingdom, Oba Ademola Ademiluyi, Pastor Taiwo Fakowajo and four others who were arrested and also paraded by the police over their alleged involvement in the march 8, 2017 clash between the Yoruba and Hausa communities in the ancient town.

ABAKALIKI—NO fewer than four persons were, yesterday, reported killed following a deadly clash between Ofunakpa Inyimagu community in Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State and its counterpart in Nsobo community in Obubra council area of Cross River

MAKURDI—THREE persons were reportedly killed and over 150 houses razed, following a clash between Tiv and Jukun at Fiidi, Airport community, in Makurdi Local Government Area of Benue State, following an argument that started at a drinking joint.

NINE more corpses were recovered, yesterday, from the weekend clash between Oku-Iboku community of Akwa Ibom State and Ikot-Offiong community of Cross River State on Saturday.

IT was a New Year gift that the people of Azuofia-Edda community of Abakaliki Local Government Area in Ebonyi State never really bargained for. In fact, they are still trying to come to terms with the reality of an attack unleashed on them recently. The attack allegedly perpetrated by the people of Obubra Local Government Area of Cross River State left the people of Azuofia-Edda community reeling in shock due to the unprecedented level of destruction, including the alleged beheading of three persons.

SOME youths threw caution to the wind yesterday in Ibadan, as they reportedly attacked some policemen, who went to rescue a man allegedly caught with a human head at Olomi area of Ibadan.

The Kwara Government on Sunday inaugurated a joint Youth Security Committee for the communal crisis between Share and Tsaragi of Ifelodun and Edu local councils, respectively.

Normalcy has returned to the abattoir, Agege area of Lagos, which was, Wednesday, thrown into pandemonium, following a clash between Hausa and Fulani traders that left three persons dead and scores of others injured.

Two persons were killed and several others injured during a bloody clash between members of a vigilante group and social miscreants, otherwise known as area boys, in the densely populated Ajegunle area of Lagos, Tuesday night.

ABUJA — Barely a month after a violent clash between soldiers in the convoy of the Chief of Army Staff, Major-General T. Y. Buratai, and members of the Shiite Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, the Federal Government has opted to probe the incident, which has heightened tension in the religious circles.

Following last Saturday’s violent clash between the Nigerian Army and members of the Muslim sect, Shiite, in Zaria, Kaduna State, Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani has called President Muhammadu Buhari, on phone, over the clash which led to the death of hundreds of Shii’a members.