At least 20 people were killed and others sustained gunshot wounds on Thursday after armed men attacked two villages in the north central state of Plateau, where violence between cattle herders and farmers is common, police said. Plateau police spokesperson Alfred Alabo said the attacks took place in the early …
Read More »Nigeria: university lecturers abducted by gunmen
Six people including four lecturers have been kidnapped by armed men in the University of Abuja in Nigeria’s capital, the local police has announced. The attackers invaded the living quarters of the university and abducted the victims in the early hours of Tuesday, the police said. The armed men have …
Read More »Five schoolgirls escape from Nigeria kidnappers
Five girls among dozens of students abducted from a secondary school in the northern Nigerian state of Zamfara have escaped from captivity. Gunmen attacked their school in Kaya-Maradun town on Wednesday and seized more than 70 students, most of them girls and a senior member of staff. Parents of the …
Read More »Nigeria: boys missing after attack of a school by gunmen
Gunmen have stormed a boys boarding secondary school in Nigeria and abducted some students and staff, reports from the north-central town of Kagara in Niger state say. A local official at the school said that the gunmen attacked the institution in the early hours of Wednesday. He said a number …
Read More »23 villagers killed during raid in Nigeria’s Kaduna state
Officials in Nigeria’s north-western state of Kaduna say gunmen killed at least 23 villagers and injured others in a series of attacks on Tuesday. The authorities say 10 of the victims were shot dead in a village in Birnin-Gwari area. One of the attackers was killed by villagers. In a …
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