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A senior government official in Niger state, central Nigeria, has been kidnapped, an official statement has said. Mohammed Sani Idris who is Niger state’s commissioner for information, was abducted from his home by an armed gang at about 01:00 local time on Monday morning, according to a local government statement. …

A senior Liberian police officer has been admitted at a hospital in the capital, Monrovia, after he was wounded in the leg in a late night shootout with armed robbers, BBC quoted Patrick Sudue police chief as saying. A notorious ringleader of an armed gang was killed in the incident, …