Unknown gunmen allegedly invaded a police station in Kanoma district, Maru Local Government area, Zamfara, on Friday night, causing panic…
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Gunmen on Friday stormed Zalau village of Bauchi state and abducted the wife of a member of the State House…
The sister of Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson, Nancy Keme Dickson, has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen. The 26-year-old, who…
Unidentified gunmen have attacked a base for UN peacekeepers in the northern Mali town of Kidal, a peacekeeper at the…
Unknown gunmen on Friday night attacked the headquarters office of the Department of State Security (DSS) in Lokoja.Mr Emmanuel Ojukwu, the…
The Ejeh of Ankpa and Chairman, Ankpa Area Traditional Council in Kogi, Alhaji Ahmadu Yakubu, on Thursday, narrowly escaped assassination…
Vice Chancellor of the University of Port Harcourt, Prof. Ndowa Sunday Lale’s son has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen. Lale…
At least 20 people were killed when unknown gunmen stormed some communities in Barkin Ladi local government area of Plateau…
About 20 unknown gunmen, yesterday attacked the Kogi state chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Engr. Sam Ihuotu at…
Popular Columnist and broadcaster, Donu Kogbara, was Sunday kidnapped in front of her house in the Nkpogu area of Port…
Suspected gunmen suspected to be sea pirates on Wednesday, attacked two passenger boats and kidnapped three persons along the Ogbia…
At least eight people, including three security officers, were killed when gunmen raided three villages in Nigeria’s volatile central Plateau state, army and police spokesmen said. The gunmen launched pre-dawn attacks in Bachit, Rim and Jol villages…
Stray bullets regularly whizz through the courtyard of the Fotokol highschool in northern Cameroon, a terrifying reminder of the Boko Haram gunmen carrying out deadly raids just across the border with Nigeria. Their insides cramped with fear, pupils…
An Indian aid worker was Monday abducted by unidentified gunmen in Afghanistan’s western Herat province, local officials and India’s foreign ministry said. Sayed Fazlullah Wahidy, governor of Herat province, said the aid worker was kidnapped in the…
A series of suspected Boko Haram attacks in four villages in Nigeria’s restive northeast killed several people, residents said Sunday, in the latest violence blamed on the Islamist insurgents. The military was not immediately available to comment…
Boko Haram gunmen killed 35 people in attacks on three villages in Nigeria’s restive northeast Borno state near the border with Cameroon, a military source and residents said Thursday. Dozens of Boko Haram gunmen dressed in military uniform stormed…
Ukraine said Tuesday it had regained control of the airport in the eastern city of Donetsk after a day of punishing air strikes and fierce fighting with pro-Moscow separatist gunmen left dozens of people dead. Russian President Vladimir Putin immediately…
At least 24 people were killed on Sunday when Boko Haram gunmen raided a village in northeast Nigeria, where the Islamists have stepped up deadly attacks on villages in recent months, residents told AFP. Dozens of motorcycle-riding gunmen stormed Kamuya…
Boko Haram gunmen killed more than 50 people in three separate attacks, including two near Chibok, the Nigerian town where the Islamists kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls last month, witnesses said on Wednesday. The first attack on Monday afternoon…
The 10 Chinese workers abducted by Boko Haram gunmen in Cameroon have most likely been taken back across the border to the Nigerian Islamist group’s strongholds, a police official said Sunday. “We are almost certain that the 10 Chinese have been kidnapped…