•Gunmen At least 2,583 people were killed and 2,164 kidnapped in the first quarter of this year, a data from Beacon Security and Intelligence Limited, a security risk management and intelligence company based in Abuja, has shown. The data, which recorded the number of killings and abductions across the country from January to March, showed [&h...
•Armed Fulani herdsmen Scores of persons, mainly women have been killed by suspected Fulani herdsmen in Tilengpat village of Pushit District, Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State. Sources emanating from the community indicated that fourteen females and one male were brutally murdered during the attack last night, with houses and proper...
•Late Musa Ille Gunmen suspected to be bandits have killed Musa Ille, the Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State. Ille was killed in front of his house when the assailant invaded his house last night. The PDP Chairman in the local government, Garba Garewa, confirmed […]
•Late Sylvester Oromoni Jnr The Coroner Inquest sitting in Ogba Magistrate Court examining the death of a 12-year-old student of Dowen College, Lekki, Sylvester Junior Oromoni, has attributed his death to his parents’ and doctor’s negligence. The Coroner Magistrate, Mikhail Kadiri, held that Oromoni died as a result of failed treatment for his...
At least 17 Pakistani pilgrims have died in a bus crash while travelling to a shrine in Balochistan for Eid-el-Fitr celebrations. Officials said the accident occurred late yesterday when the vehicle lost control before falling into a ravine, reports AFP. More than 40 are also being treated for injuries in Karachi and police have warned [&helli...
•The accident scene Three persons have reportedly died while two others sustained injuries in a lone crash along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway today. The crash occured at 1:07pm at Fidiwo bridge on the highway, involving a green Toyota jeep marked BDG213BJ. It was gathered that the vehicle had suffered a tyre burst, while the driver lost [&helli...
•South Africa Flag A bus plunged off a bridge into a ravine and caught fire on Thursday in South Africa, killing 45 of the 46 people on board, the transport ministry said. An eight-year-old child was the sole survivor and had been taken to hospital with serious injuries, reports AFP. The vehicle had been heading […]
Four persons today died in a stampede during an almsgiving zakat exercise for the poor in Bauchi State. The stampede occurred at the Shafa Holdings Company plc headquarters along Jos Road, today, reports Sunday Vanguard. A 17-year-old identified as Naima Abdullahi, is currently receiving medical treatment at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Universi...
A fresh tragedy has hit the nation’s security community following the killing of six policemen in an ambush in Delta State. Six other officers are still missing, the Nigeria Police confirmed yesterday. It comes as the country remains in shock over the March 14 killing of 18 army officers and men by some youths in […]
•Bandits No fewer than 165 farmers have lost their lives to attacks by bandits, who have hindered access to farms across the country, findings have shown. Farmers in Benue, Sokoto, Niger, Plateau, and other states, in separate interviews with our correspondents yesterday, lamented that they did not only lose crops to the rampaging bandits but ...

