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The Nigerian Army has said 16 military personnel were killed while on a peace mission to two warring communities in Delta State.    The personnel were ambushed and killed by youths while responding to a distress call during a communal clash between Okuama and Okoloba communities on Thursday, March 14, …

An Ondo State High Court, sitting in Akure has sentenced six people to two years imprisonment for violence and breach of peace in the coastal community of Ayetoro in Ilaje Local Government Area of the state.   The six convicts, Oluwambe Ojagbohunmi, who claimed to be the traditional ruler and …

A communal crisis is looming between Ilobu and Ifon-Orolu of Osun State after unknown gunmen killed a 28-year-old farmer identified as Sodiq Alamu, on a disputed land.      It was gathered that the Ilobu in the Irepodun local government area and Ifon of Orolu local government area of Osun …

One person was beheaded and properties worth millions of naira, destroyed in a fresh crisis between the people of Oso-Edda, and Amasiri in Ebonyi State.    Oso-Edda is in Afikpo South local government area while Amasiri and Nde Ndukwe communities are in Afikpo North local government area   According to …

A 24-hour curfew has been imposed by the Ondo state government on Ikare-Akoko, the headquarters of the Akoko North East Local Government Area following a communal clash.   A communal clash had erupted in the area on Tuesday evening, January3, following a crisis between two rival youth groups at a carnival …

A Councillor and a local vigilante member have been killed by gunmen in a suspected reprisal attack.   The gunmen reportedly attacked Koseru community, a farm settlement in Odigbo local government area of Ondo State on Saturday following the shooting of a woman in Kajola village, Okitipupa local government.   The Nation reported that the gunmen …

At least 25 people have been killed in South Sudan on Tuesday, October 11, after youths from two neighbouring communities in the country’s north clashed over a disputed borderline separating their areas. Violence is part of daily life in parts of South Sudan where clashes triggered by localised disputes over …

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state has ordered the arrest and detention of two first-class chiefs in Bassa Local Government of the State over a communal clash.   This was conveyed in a statement released by the Governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Mohammed Onogwu.    The Chiefs’ names were given as Ohiegba of Mozum, HRH …