BY BOLUWAJI OBAHOPO LOKOJA – Yet to be identified gunmen yesterday gun down two persons in Okene, Kogi Central senatorial district. Amongst them is the State Chairman of the National Association of State University, Abdulmumini Yakubu and his younger brother. Vanguard gathered that the killing took place around 7pm while worshippers were performing ablution for […]

PORT HARCOURT—No fewer than 15 persons, including a pregnant woman, were reportedly murdered yesterday at Mgboshimili area of Obio Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, by unknown gunmen.

There was pandemonium in Mgbosimiri and AGIP community in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State in the early hours on Monday after gunmen invaded a slaughter market in the community and shot dead 10 people including a couple.

Unknown gunmen, at midnight, attacked Gyangyang village in Jhar Chiefdom of Kanam Local Government area of Plateau state, killing the acting village head, Alhaji Mohammed Suleiman.

Three policemen attached to the Edo Police Command were on Sunday evening killed by gunmen in Benin.

BENIN—TRAGEDY struck in Benin, the Edo State capital, yesterday, as three policemen providing security at the Ogba Zoo were shot dead by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers.

The Kogi Police Command said it had launched a manhunt for the killers of an expatriate, his police orderly and driver on Lokoja-Ajaokuta road on Sept. 16.

No fewer than 20 persons were killed in a night attack by suspected gunmen at Ancha Village of Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau.

Gunmen have attacked a Catholic priest, at St Thomas Catholic Church, Onireke, Lagos, on Friday.

PORT HARCOURT— GUNMEN, believed to be kidnappers, intercepted a commercial bus at Isiokpo area of Rivers State, yesterday, and whisked away over 20 occupants of the vehicle.