•Governor Caleb Mutfwang In the wake of the attacks on Christmas Eve in several Plateau State towns that claimed the lives of over 150 people, the state administration today announced a seven-day mourning period that would begin on January 1. The announcement was delivered by Governor Caleb Mutfwang during his statewide New Year’s broadcast to...
•Lagbaja The Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lieutenant General Taoreed Lagbaja has dismissed calls for self-defence in the wake of attacks in Plateau. Over 195 persons died in the most recent attacks in the North-Central state with scores wounded, reports Channels TV. While the development has elicited outcry in and outside the country, the Army [...
•Mass burial of attack victims Crammed inside a church in the central Nigerian town of Bokkos, hundreds of survivors of deadly Christmas weekend attacks desperately await aid as they mourn their loved ones killed in the latest spiral of violence in the troubled region. Nearly 200 people died in attacks that began in the evening […]
•Attack victims The UN human rights chief said today he was “deeply alarmed” by the string of attacks on villages in central Nigeria, which left nearly 200 dead, according to local authorities. Armed groups launched attacks between Saturday evening and Tuesday morning in Nigeria’s Plateau State, a region plagued for several years by religious ...
•Victims of Plateau attack The Nigerian Baptist Convention has decried the killing of its members in Plateau State by gunmen. It was learnt that nine members of the church were among those killed in the Dares community when gunmen attacked several Plateau communities on Christmas Eve, reports The PUNCH. A member of the church, Ishaya […...
A mass burial has been held for the people who were killed in recent bandit attacks in Plateau State. The bandits had attacked different communities in Bokkos and Barkin-Ladi Local Government Areas of the state, killing scores, reports The Nation. The attacks that took place on Christmas Eve, Sunday, December 24, in the Barkin Ladi […]
•Gunmen Following attacks by assailants on some communities in Bokkos and Barkin-Ladi Local Government Areas of Plateau State between the eve of Christmas and yesterday morning, the death toll from the incident has risen to 113. The Transition Committee Chairman of Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State, Monday Kassah, confirmed that 11...
•Boko Haram insurgents Chibok town, Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State, is in the news again following a fierce attack by Boko Haram insurgents, killing two persons and injuring scores. Chibok was for the first time in the global news in April 2014, when the insurgents stormed the Government Girls Secondary School there and […]...
•Barrels of crude oil Oil prices shot up nearly three percent today as more companies suspended shipping through the Red Sea following attacks on vessels by Yemen’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels. Meanwhile US stocks sought to continue last week’s rally on expectations that the US Federal Reserve will cut interest rates next year, although it appear...
•Ugorji and Tinubu The President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), Most Rev Luicius Ugorji, has decried Nigeria’s endless borrowing of humongous sums of money to fund personal lifestyles of public office holders, describing it as anachronistic, unconscionable, wasteful and anti-people. Ugorji, Archbishop of Owerri Metropoli...
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