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There is panic in Abonnema area of Akuku-Toru Local Government Area, Rivers State as gunmen hijack boat and abduct eight travellers. It was learnt that the eight persons were travelling to Port Harcourt from Kula area in Akuku-Toru LGA, before the gunmen struck at Kula-Abonnema waterway, Monday. Confirming the development, …

Gunmen suspected to be bandits have killed 13 mobile policemen and two residents of Kurar Mota village in the Bungudu Local Government Area of Zamfara state. A source told Newsextra24 that the police officers were ambushed by the gunmen, when they went to the village in their patrol vehicles. The gunmen …

ALPHA JET AIRCRAFT CRASHES IN ZAMFARA STATE, PILOT RESCUED On 18 July 2021, at about 12.45 pm, a Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Alpha Jet aircraft, returning from a successful air interdiction mission between the boundaries of Zamfara and Kaduna State, came under intense enemy fire which led to its crash …

10 Bandits Killed As Police Repel Attack On Niger State Community At least, 10 bandits were killed as men of the Nigeria Police Force, Niger State Command, on Sunday, repelled an attack on Kundu, a community in the Rafi Local Government Area of the State. According to residents of the community, two police …

  Suspected Fulani herdsmen have killed a 200 level student of the Benue State University, Makurdi, Japhet Toryila and three other persons, Newsextra24 reports. IgbereTV gathered that the Public Administration student was killed by the assailants in his farm at Tom-ayin in Guma Local Government Area of Benue state, on …

Abductors of 121 students of Bethel Baptist High School, Kaduna have freed one student on the basis of ill health. The student, it was stated, was returned by two of the abductors, Newsextra24 reports. A source disclosed that the released student had since been taken to the hospital and is …

  Gunmen suspected to be cultists on Sunday killed the Chairman of the Movement for the Survival of the Ijaw Ethnic Nationality in the Niger Delta, identified simply as Big J, in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. Newsextra24 gathered that the victim, also known as Don …

Justice Obiora Egwatu of the Federal High Court in Abuja has stopped the impeachment move against Zamfara State Deputy Governor, Alhaji Mahadi Aliyu Mohammed Gusau. The judge stopped the Zamfara State House of Assembly members from taking any further step in the impeachment process targeted against the deputy governor over …

A young Nigerian man identified simply as Olumas has allegedly drowned after he got into difficulty while swimming in the sea in Libya, Newsextra24 Reports. Facebook user, Farashola Oluwashindara Who Notified Newsextra24 On Facebook, said the incident happened on Friday, July 16 and warned Nigerians against swimming in the sea. …

Bandits on Sunday killed 13 policemen and three others in an attack on Kurar Mota community in Bungudu Local Government Area of Zamfara State. Residents told our correspondent that the armed men had earlier attempted to invade Magami, a community located 50km south of Gusau, the state capital, but were …