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Just in: Gunmen kill councilor in Bayelsa

Just in: Gunmen kill councilor in Bayelsa

Karma Agagowei, Councilor representing Ward 6 Sagbama Council Area of Bayelsa State, has died from gunshots he sustained while returning from a party congress in Yenagoa. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Agagowei was attacked by gunmen along Opolo while returning from a People’s Democractic Party (PDP) ward congress on Saturday night. Agagowei […]
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Unknown assailants kill Gov Obiano’s aide on security

Unknown assailants kill Gov Obiano’s aide on security

Unknown assailants on Sunday stormed the residence of Mr Azubuike Ekwegbalu, the Senior Special Assistant to Gov. Willie Obiano on Security, leaving him dead after allegedly stabbing him with a kitchen knife. The incident occurred early hours of Sunday at his residence at the Commissioners’ Quarters, Awka, a high brow area for government officials. An […]

Gunmen demand N16m for kidnapped Rivers woman

Gunmen demand N16m for kidnapped Rivers woman

By Egufe Yafugborhi PORT HARCOURT – GUNMEN who abducted 60-year-old Nyieda Kpeenu in Nweol community, Gokana Local Government Area, Rivers State, have demanded N16Million ransom for her freedom. The abductors had on Wednesday whisked Kpeenu from her residence in the Ogoni community at about 8pm, shooting repeatedly in the air to scare residents in the […]

Gunmen kill traditional ruler in Nasarawa

Gunmen kill traditional ruler in Nasarawa

By David Odama – Lafia Unknown gunmen invaded Odu Community, Udege Development Area of Nasarawa State at about 10 pm, shot and killed a traditional ruler, Amos Ewa Obere (ASP Rtd) leaving the community in fears. The traditional ruler who sustained a serious injury in his stomach as a result of the gunshot was rushed […]

Gunmen kill at least 20 farmers in Sudan’s Darfur ― Tribal chief

Gunmen kill at least 20 farmers in Sudan’s Darfur ― Tribal chief

Gunmen killed at least 20 civilians including children in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur as they returned to their fields for the first time in years, a witness and a tribal chief said Saturday. Twenty people were also wounded in the attack in Aboudos, some 90 kilometres south of Nyala, the capital of South Darfur province, tribal […]