•Bandits No fewer than 100 heavily armed bandits yesterday stormed three communities in Munya Local Government Area of Niger State, killing an unspecified number of villagers, burning homes, and looting properties, including rustling over 200 cattle. The affected communities — Zagzaga, Chibani, and Kuchi — were attacked in a coordinated operat...
The Baale of Yale Camp, in Bolorunduro, Idanre Local Government Area of Ondo State, Ojo Olomolekulo, has been arraigned before an Akure Magistrate Court for flogging and brutalising villagers who refused to pay toll fee. Ojo was arraigned with two accomplices, Isaac Oloyede and Kehinde Tope, reports The Nation. They were alleged to have flogge...
•Armed Fulani herdsmen Panic has gripped residents of Otobi community in Akpa District of Otukpo Local Government Area, Benue State, following a fresh attack by armed invaders yesterday. Local sources told our correspondent via telephone that some people are feared dead after the assault, which reportedly began around 6:30 p.m, reports Daily T...
What occurred at Uromi, headquarters of Esan North East Local Government Area in Edo State on Thursday, March 27, could have befallen any other community in the heartbeat of the nation, given the prevailing circumstances, tension, and anger over the hair-raising operations of suspected herders in combination with abductors. More than 24 other ...
•Sokoto bombing site Days after military airstrikes killed at least 10 people in Gidan Sama and Rumtuwa communities in the Silame Local Government Area of Sokoto State on Christmas Day, some residents of the agrarian community have rejected claims by the military that those hit were terrorists. Reports indicated that the fighter jet was target...
A fighter jet targeting terrorists in Lakurawa mistakenly bombed two peaceful communities in Silame Local Government Area of Sokoto State today, leaving many feared dead and several others injured. The affected villages, Gidan Sama and Rumtuwa, were hit around 7 am, according to local accounts. The chairman of Silame LGA, Alhaji Abubakar Muham...
The Village Head of Unguwan Tambai, Runka in Safana Local Government Area of Katsina, Usamatu Adamu, has been arrested for allegedly supplying information to bandits. ASP Abubakar Sadiq-Aliyu, spokesman of the Katsina State Police Command, disclosed this while parading 15 suspected criminals in Katsina. Sadiq-Aliyu said the command, while acti...
•Governor Dikko Radda Katsina State governor, Dikko Radda of Katsina State says bandits cannot operate freely without the connivance of some persons in the society. Speaking at a town hall meeting which held in Daura at the weekend, Radda said his government is ready to support people to assist security agents in protecting communities against...
•Soldiers Villagers at Sabon Birnin Daji in Igabi Local Government Area (LGA) of Kaduna State have accused soldiers of killing three persons and over 100 cows at a weekly cattle market on Sunday. Some of the villagers who spoke to our correspondent yesterday, demanded compensation, reports Daily Trust. This is just as the Nigerian Army [&helli...
In Hoske, a remote village in Nepal, some residents have been tempted into selling their kidneys under the false belief that the organs would grow back. The village is notorious as being the “Kidney Valley” or the “village with a single kidney” in the world because someone from almost every household has sold a kidney, […]
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