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Court Denies Five Al- Shabab Terrorists Bail

Andrew Orolua 11 September 2025 0

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday refused the bail request of alleged Al-Shabab five terrorists suspects who killed over 40 Catholic Church worshippers in Owo town, Ondo State on June 5, 2022 and left several others wounded. Justice Emeka Nwite who dismissed their bail application

Sports

Ighalo Opens Saudi goals account, promises more

Ihesiulo Grace 16 February 2021 0

…Osimhen venerates Ronaldo after Juve defeat By Ben Alaiya with Agency Reports Nigerian international and former Manchester United striker, Jude Odion Ighalo, at the weekend opened his goals account with his new Saudi Arabia club side Al-Shabab and promised that it’s just the beginning of a scoring spree the club fans will witness from him. […]

Africa World

US airstrike kills about 60 al-Shabab extremist fighters in Somalia

Ihesiulo Grace 16 October 2018 0

The U.S. military on Tuesday announced its deadliest airstrike against the al-Shabab extremist group in Somalia in nearly a year, killing about 60 fighters. The U.S. Africa Command said Friday’s airstrike occurred near the community of Harardere in Mudug province in the central part of the country. According to its assessment no civilians were injured […]

Africa

Somali Refugees Deny Camps Used to Train, Plan Terror

Ihesiulo Grace 26 April 2015 0

The Kenyan government has attributed recent terror attacks in the country to the presence of Somali refugees at the sprawling Dadaab camps, a claim denied by the refugees.   Kenyan officials and security authorities have called for the Dadaab refugee camps in the country’s north to be closed and its population sent back to liberated […]

Africa News

Five Dead in Mogadishu Restaurant Blast

Ihesiulo Grace 22 April 2015 0

At least five people were killed Tuesday when a car bomb exploded outside a busy restaurant in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. A VOA reporter on the scene says two women were among those who died in the blast. A doctor with the city’s ambulance service, Dr. Abdulkadir Abdirahman Aden, tells VOA’s Somali Service that another […]

Africa News

Bomb Attack on UN Bus Kills Seven in Somalia

Ihesiulo Grace 21 April 2015 0

Militant group al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for a bomb attack Monday on a United Nations bus in northern Somalia that killed at least seven people and wounded several others. Garowe, SomaliaGarowe, Somalia   The U.N. Children’s Fund said four of its staff members were killed and another four were in serious condition after the blast […]

Africa

Al-Shabaab Militants Kill 15 in Somli Education Ministry

Ihesiulo Grace 15 April 2015 0

The Somali militant group al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack Tuesday on a government complex in the capital, Mogadishu.   The head of the ambulatory service in Mogadishu, AbdulkadirAbdirahman Aden, told VOA’s Somali service that 15 people were killed and 20 others wounded in the attack on the country’s Higher Education Ministry.

News

Kenya Bombs Al-Shabab Camp in Somalia after Garissa Attack

Ihesiulo Grace 6 April 2015 0

  Kenyan fighter jets have launched two air strikes against militant Islamist group al-Shabab in neighbouring Somalia. The warplanes had targeted two camps in the Gedo region, used by al-Shabab to cross into Kenya, the spokesman added. This will be Kenya’s first response to an al-Shabab assault which left 148 people dead at Garissa University […]

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Al-Shabaab Kills 147 in Kenyan Varsity

Ihesiulo Grace 3 April 2015 0

Horror was on Thursday un­leashed by four al-Shabab Islamic militants at the Garissa Universi­ty in Kenya, resulting in the death of 147 persons. By the evening, state officials disclosed that operation to secure the university campus was over, with all four attackers killed. In the United States, two wom­en were arrested over an alleged terror […]

Africa News

Uganda Postpones 'Terror' Trial after Death of Prosecutor

Ihesiulo Grace 2 April 2015 0

The trial of 13 men accused of taking part in an al-Shabab attack in Uganda that killed 76 people in 2010 has been postponed after the top prosecutor was shot dead. Police on Tuesday vowed to catch the killers of Joan Kagezi, acting Assistant Director of Public Prosecution, who was murdered by men on a motorbike […]