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The Kebbi State Police Command has confirmed the de@th of two police officers during a gun battle with Lakurawa bandits who attacked Alhaji Lawal Block Farm and nearby Fulani settlements in Natsini village, along the Argungu-Kangiwa road.   The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Nafiu Abubakar, disclosed this in a statement, noting that the assailants rustled an unspecified number of cows …

The Military High Command says the troops deployed to various operations across the country have eliminated 10,937 terrorists, apprehended 12,538  and rescued 7,063 hostages in the last 12 months.  The Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Edward Buba, made this known while briefing newsmen on the operations of the military in the year 2024, on Tuesday, Dec. 31, in Abuja.  …

The haunting final words spoken by the pilot of the doomed Azerbaijan Airlines plane before the plane went down have been revealed. The plane crashed on Wednesday,  Dec. 25, and evidence was piling up today that Russian air defences hit the Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane which crashed killing 38 people.  The Embraer jet was likely wrongly targeted as a suspected Ukrainian drone by …

Men of the Delta state police command have arrested a man identified as Destiny Lawrence for allegedly kidnapping an eight-year-old boy and handing him over to a native doctor who k!lled him and harvested his organs.   Parading the suspect before newsmen, the state Commissioner of Police, CP Olufemi Abaniwonda, said the father of the deceased who is a native …

The Office of the National Security Adviser, ONSA, has revealed that the combined efforts of the military, police and other security forces led to the killing of 8,034 terrorists in 2024.   The ONSA also disclosed that the operations led to the arrest of 11,623 suspected terrorists and the rescue of 7,967 kidnapped victims in the outgoing year.     …

Approximately 85,000 women and girls were intentionally killed in 2023, with 60 per cent—over 51,000—falling victim to intimate partners or family members.  This is according to a new report by UN Women and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.  This equates to one woman or girl being killed every 10 minutes.  The report was released on Monday, November …

A 23-year-old student from Bulawayo Polytechnic, Inobubele Mhlanga, tragically lost her life on the evening of November 4 after recognizing one of her attackers during a robbery.    Mhlanga was confronted by two men, identified as Thamsanqa Ndebele (26) and Euton Sebatha (36), after disembarking from a commuter bus near the TM turnoff in Cowdray Park. The attack escalated when …

One member of the Katsina State Community Watch Corps and a vigilante lost their lives while 21 victims were rescued as security operatives engaged bandits in a fierce gun battle in Jibia Local Government Area of the state.    The spokesperson of the State Police Command, ASP Abubakar Sadiq, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday, said the police …

The wife of a missionary who was killed in a “violent, criminal attack” in Africa last week was arrested in connection to his death, his church announced.     Beau Shroyer, 44, from Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, was killed on Oct. 25 while on a missionary trip to Angola, Africa with his wife and their five kids.     Shroyer’s parish, Lakes Area …

The fleeing driver of a bus that burst into flames in Thailand has handed himself over to police this morning, October 2.   20 schoolchildren and three teachers died in a fire on Tueaday, October 1, after gas tanks ignited on a 50-year-old bus carrying them into Bangkok.   Following the incident, all field trips across the country were suspended, as …