MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA – Boko Haram fighters killed at least 43 farmworkers and injured six in rice fields near the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Saturday, anti-jihadist militia told AFP. The assailants tied up the agricultural workers and slit their throats in the village of Koshobe, the militia said. “We have recovered 43 […]
Day: November 28, 2020
Air Task Force launches Subsidiary Operation ‘Wutar Tabki II’ In Borno, Takes Out Terrorists
The Air Task Force of Operation LAFIYA DOLE has neutralized several Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) elements and destroyed their hideouts at Ngwuri Gana, along the Gulumba Gana-Kumshe axis, as well as at Tumbuma Baba on the fringes of Lake Chad, both in the Northern part of Borno State. This was achieved […]
Police Arrest Car Snatcher in Ganye, Adamawa State
The Adamawa state Police Command On 18 September 2020 received a report that a syndicate of armed robbers attacked and robbed an innocent citizen of his vehicle at Lamingo Roundabout,Jos , Plateau State. The principal Suspect Salisu Abubakar a resident of Sangasumi Village,Ganye local government was traced by the police and luckily apprehended in Adamawa […]
Nigeria gets back 600-year-old artefact from the Netherlands
ABUJA, Nigeria has received a “priceless” terracotta head believed to be at least 600 years old which was smuggled to the Netherlands, the information minister said. It was taken from the southwestern city of Ile-Ife and smuggled through Ghana. Dutch ambassador to Nigeria Harry Van Dijk on Thursday returned it to Information Minister […]