By Abdulmumin Murtala, Kano Suspected Gunmen have on Monday attacked Bagwai town, Bagwai local government area of Kano State killing two persons and injuring four others. A source in the village said the gunmen who came in a car invaded the town around 10.30 pm killing the son of a Peoples Democratic Party stalwart in […]

Gunmen killed 10 police officers in northeastern Burkina Faso on Saturday, the latest attack in a country battling jihadist attacks. Another three officers were wounded in the attack at Sebba, the main town in Yagha province, a police statement said. An earlier statement had put the death toll at nine and said the attack was […]

By Peter Duru – Makurdi A pharmacist, name withheld, and four others have been reportedly hacked to death in a bloody cult war currently raging in Ugbokolo town, Okpokwu Local Government Area of Benue state. Vanguard gathered from sources that the clashes had created panic among residents of the town with the roads and business […]

By Festus Ahon – Asaba Suspected gunmen again invaded Issele-Azagba, a community in Aniocha North Local Government Area, Delta State, killing a man, injured his daughter and abducted his wife. The Vanguard gathered that the gunmen who stormed the community, Sunday night, attacked the resident of the yet to be unidentified man, shooting sporadically and […]

THE stormy wind of insecurity blowing across the country continued, yesterday, as suspected gunmen attacked Issele-Azagba, a community in Aniocha North Local Government Area, Delta State, killing one man, abducting his wife, and injuring his daughter.

Boluwaji Obahopo – Lokoja Gunmen have reportedly abducted four officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) in Kogi State. The officers were on their way to Benue State for promotion examinations on Thursday when the hoodlums struck. A family source to one of the victims said the five officers were travelling on […]

…Residents on red alert By Ike Uchechukwu, Calabar Barely six days after an accounting staff with the Cross River Newspaper Corporation, Mr Maurice Archibong, and an Associate Professor at the University of Calabar, David Ugwu, were kidnapped by gunmen, a businessman based in the city has also been abducted. A source said the businessman, Desmond […]

Gunmen have abducted a university lecturer and a staff of a media organisation in Calabar, Cross River State. The victims – Dr. David Ugwu, an Associate Professor with the University of Calabar, was abducted on Friday evening, while Mr. Morris Archibong, a staff of Cross River Newspaper Corporation, was kidnapped on Saturday. An eyewitness, Mrs. […]

Alhaji Jibrin Giza, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Works in Nasarawa State was in the early hours of Sunday, abducted by yet to be identified gunmen. Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Bola Longe, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lafia. Longe told NAN that the permanent secretary was abducted […]

Ozioruva Aliu – Benin City Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have reportedly abducted a Catholic Priest serving at the Uromi Diocese, Fr. Nicholas Oboh Also, some children were abducted by unknown persons at Umelu community in Ikpoba-Okha local government area of Edo State. Security sources said some armed robbers had robbed residents in the area […]