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Gunmen kill six in Taraba highway attack

4 months ago1064 min

Gunmen on Monday morning killed six people, including the driver of a commuter vehicle along the Takum -Wukari highway in Taraba. It was gathered that the commuter vehicle departed Takum for Wukari around 6 a.m. and was ambushed at a village near Sai in neighbouring Benue state. The Chairman of Takum LGA, John Ali, confirmed the incident to newsmen on Monday. According to the Chairman, “I arrived in Jalingo yesterday for a meeting, but this...

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Gunmen abduct three persons in Anambra community

4 months ago2704 min

No fewer than three persons have been reportedly abducted along the Nkpologwu-Akpo Road, Nkpologwu, in Aguata Local Government Area of the Anambra State by unidentified assailants. Although the details of the incident remain sketchy, it was gathered that the armed assailants kidnapped the three men at different locations in the community early Sunday. The kidnap is said to be coming after some gunmen attacked a police checkpoint at the Omata junction along the Nnewi Oba...

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Gunmen kill humanitarian worker in Benue

5 months ago1013 min

Gunmen were reported to have killed an Executive Director of a non-governmental organisation known as Concerned Youth Development Initiative, Chris Terfa-Ikpu. Terfa-Ikpu was said to have been murdered by gunmen who traced him to his office located around the Logo area, Makurdi, Benue State capital, on Friday. The murdered humanitarian worker was said to have been out of town for a while but returned during the week and decided to go to his office on...

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Gunmen abduct journalist’s wife, two daughters in Kaduna

5 months ago1882 min

The wife and two daughters of a Kogi-based journalist, Muhammed Bashir, were among the ten members of the same family kidnapped on Thursday in Kaduna State. Bashir’s wife and his two daughters arrived in Kaduna earlier on Thursday for a holiday with her (the wife’s) family in a suburb of Kaduna. Bashir, a correspondent with the Nigeria Telegraph, disclosed this to colleagues on Friday in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, in a terse statement. “My...

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Kaduna gunmen abduct eight family members, journalist’s wife, daughters

5 months ago903 min

Gunmen have abducted 11 family members including the wife and two daughters of a Kogi-based journalist, Muhammed Bashir, in Kaduna State. Bashir’s wife, Aminat, and his two daughters, Aisha and Hajara, were said to have arrived in Kaduna on Thursday for a holiday with her family members. Bashir, a correspondent with the New Telegraph, in a terse statement, disclosed the abduction to colleagues on Friday in Lokoja. “My dear colleagues, please, I need your prayers,...

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Policeman dies as gunmen bomb checkpoint, one injured

5 months ago854 min

The Anambra State Police Command has launched a manhunt to arrest the suspects who killed and injured two policemen during an attack on a police checkpoint at Omata Junction, Nnewi-Oba Road, in the Idemili South Local Government Area of the state. It was gathered that the hoodlums invaded the area around 9.20 am on Friday and threw explosive devices at the police operatives at the checkpoint. The reason for the attack was yet to be...

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Gunmen kill seven village heads in Imo community

5 months ago1005 min

Tragedy struck again in Imo State on Saturday evening when some gunmen reportedly shot dead the President-General of Umucheke Okwe autonomous community in Onuimo Local Government Area of Imo State, Hyginus Ohazurike. Six village heads from the autonomous community were also allegedly killed by the gunmen. An indigene of the community, who pleaded anonymity, told PUNCH Online that the gunmen, who operated in a vehicle, struck while the victims were having a meeting in the...

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Gunmen kidnap Kogi LG chairman

5 months ago1133 min

The caretaker chairman of the Kabba-Bunu Local Government Area of Kogi State, Zacchaeus Michael, has been kidnapped by gunmen. The state Police Public Relations Officer, William Aya, confirmed this on Saturday. Aya told our correspondent that the caretaker chairman was kidnapped on Friday night along Kabba-Okene Road in the Kabba area of the state. “Yes, I got the information. The state Commissioner of Police, Bethrand Onuoha, has already deployed officers for a search-and-rescue mission. We...

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Two policemen, driver killed as gunmen abduct ex-Rep, children

5 months ago964 min

Two police orderlies attached to a former House of Representatives member, Joan Onyemaechi and her driver were on Tuesday evening killed when bandits abducted her and her children in Asaba, the Delta State capital. PUNCH Metro gathered that the gunmen stormed Onyemaechi’s church, King Jesus and I, located at Ogajifo Street off DSB Road and shot the two police orderlies and her driver before whisking the former lawmaker and her children away. Sources from the...

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Gunmen kill man, burn sanitation agency vehicle in Imo

5 months ago973 min

Twenty-four hours after four policemen and a Point of Sale operator were killed in Irete, Owerri West Local Government Area, gunmen on Tuesday afternoon killed a young man at the nearby Orji in Owerri North LGA. PUNCH Metro gathered that the gunmen who shot sporadically in the air, heading to the Owerri-Enugu Road, also burnt an Imo State Government Waste Management Agency vehicle at the Nkwo Orji Market. When our correspondent visited the Nkwo Orji...

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