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Security personnel have freed the two consulate staff members who were taken hostage on Tuesday during an attack on their convoy in the Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State. DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, the state police’s press secretary, informed the media in Awka of this on Friday. Ikenga claimed that although their names and identities were not made public, they were rescued unharmed by the joint security forces early on Friday. The two remaining victims...

In Plateau State, gunmen attacked two villages and killed no less than 20 people. It was learned that the killings took place on Monday night, around 9 pm.   Kubwat and Fungzai, two villages in the state’s Mangu Local Government Area, were impacted. John Yakubu, a Fungzai community resident who saw the attacks, confirmed their existence  on Tuesday. Yakubu claimed that the gunmen killed 15 people, including his younger brother’s wife and her children, in...

Over 40 worshipers were reportedly abducted by some bandits on Sunday while attending church at Bege Baptist Church, Madala on Buruku Baringi Road in the Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The incident was confirmed to news reporters in Kaduna on Monday by Rev. John Hayab, chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria’s Kaduna State chapter.   According to Hayab, the incident took place around 9:30 am, during the worshippers’ time in the service....

A 20-year-old woman was reportedly shot dead while being held hostage by six suspected hoodlums in the Bayelsa State community of Azikoro, a suburb of Yenagoa. Vanguard discovered that the thugs invaded the typically tranquil Azikoro Community Health Centre axis armed with dangerous weapons, broke into their home after damaging the break-in, stole phones, obtained all of the ATM cards, and withdrew their victims’ money using the PoS machines they brought. It was discovered that...

Gloria Izonfuo, the Federal Commissioner who represents Bayelsa State at the National Population Commission, has been abducted by some gunmen. According to reports, she was kidnapped on Sunday night in the Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State, close to the Ogbakiri junction on the East-West Road. At around 6:30 p.m., the thugs reportedly ambushed Izonfuo as she was traveling to Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State, from a visit to Bayelsa State’s Brass...