By Motolani Oseni Nigeria’s national identity document recorded 18 per cent attempted fraud attack rate in 2023, ranking 9th in Africa, a report has revealed. The latest report by Africa’s identity verification startup, Smile ID, showed that, in 2023, South Africa’s national ID had the highest rate of fraud attempts at 34 per cent, ranking […]
No fewer than seven people were reportedly killed in a renewed attack by gunmen suspected to be herders in Logo Local Government Area of Benue State. The suspected armed herders were said to have attacked a commercial vehicle between Arufu and Chembe villages Sunday and shot at passengers. The attackers were later reported to have […]
Youths in Tyo – Mu community of Benue State has charged security agencies not to single out the attack on Gov. Samuel Ortom but consider perennial crises in the community while investigating weekend assassination attempt on the life of the governor. The Tyo-Mu Concerned Youth Vanguard urged security agencies to holistically consider crises that has […]
Unknown gunmen, on Friday, made an attack to a police station at Ikolaba residential area in Ibadan, Oyo State, Daily Times Nigeria reports. READ ALSO: Gunmen allegedly attack Imo governor Uzodimma The Police Public Relations Officer, Oyo State command, Gbenga Fadeyi, confirmed the attack to newsmen, telling them he got to know about the incident […]
Kaduna community were in panic with many persons scampering to safety. The attack, which is said to have taken place between 9:00pm and 10:00pm on Friday according to SAHARAREPORTERS. READ ALSO: Outrage over Kaduna killings as state govt says N15billion spent on security A group of armed Fulani men have attacked Juji community under Chikun […]
The Taliban on Monday claimed responsibility for an attack at a military centre in southern Helmand province in Afghanistan where at least 150 members of the Afghan army and intelligence wing were stationed. The bombing occurred on Sunday night, government officials and the Taliban said. “Dozens of members belonging to the enemy forces have been […]
Seventeen people, including 12 rangers from Virunga National Park, died in an armed attack by an unidentified armed group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), local authorities said on Friday. According to a statement by Nzanzu Kasivita Carly, governor of the eastern province of North Kivu where the attack took place, four passengers […]
Twenty-five people have died in the attack on a Sikh temple in Kabul, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday. The attack has been claimed by the Islamic State terrorist group, according to a statement on the group’s mouthpiece Amaq News agency. Read also: Kosovo government on verge of failing amid epidemic’s spread Eighty people who were in […]
At least 22 Afghan security forces in southern Zabul province have been killed in an insider attack, several local officials told dpa on Friday. The attack started before dawn on an outpost manned by Afghan army and police which continued for an hour, provincial councillor Atta Jaan Haq Bayan said. Seven security force members, who were […]
Four days after the deadly suspected racist attack in the western German town of Hanau, several thousand people came together there to commemorate the victims on Sunday. “It is important for us to fly the flag – against terrorism, xenophobia and anti-Muslim racism,” co-organizer Teyfik Oezcan said. “Our message is: We are Germany. We belong […]
The Northeast Development Commission (NEDC) has distributed relief materials to 4, 000 victims of Boko Haram insurgents’ attack in Auno community of Konduga Local Government Area of Borno. Mohammed Alkali, NEDC Managing Director, made the disclosure at the distribution of the relief items to the affected persons on Monday in Auno, Borno. Alkali disclosed that […]
Following Iran attack on United State base, analyst on Wednesday revealed that Futures in London surged more than 5per cent , closing above $68 a barrel on concern of further escalation in the oil-rich region. Just recently, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed responsibility for the missile attack in Iraq, just even as reoports have […]
Nigeria’s former president, Goodluck Jonathan, has demanded the arrest of those behind the attack even as he commended the gallant soldiers that defended him and his household during the attack at his country home in Otuoke, Bayelsa state Jonathan while giving details of how gunmen attacked his country home in Otuoke and killing a soldier during […]
Paris – Two men close to the ultra-right were indicted for “terrorist criminal conspiracy” and placed in pre-trial detention, as part of the investigation of a bombing project against French President Emmanuel Macron. Franceinfo, a French domestic rolling news channel, reported this on Saturday. The two suspects, aged 30 and 45 respectively, were believed to […]
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has denied instructing his member to attack, humiliate and arrest South-East governors and other Igbo leaders in foreign countries. Speaking on Kanu’s behalf was his counsel, Aloy Ejimakor who told TheNation newspaper, that what his client told his supporters and people of South East in diaspora is to question thoroughly the actions […]
The police in Taraba on Monday confirmed the death of three persons in another overnight attack on Maisamari in town in Sardauna Local Government Area of the state by a suspected militia group. The police spokesman in the state, ASP David Misal, who confirmed the incident in Jalingo, said no fewer than six others sustained […]
Suicide attack that occurred in Somali’s police academy, Thursday left 18 dead while many others are in critical conditions in hospitals. Agency report revealed that Somali officials disclosed that a suicide bomber killed at least 18 police officers and wounded 15 others at the main police training facility in the capital, Mogadishu. The report quoted […]
Men suspected to be members of the notorious Badoo Cult Group seem to have struck again, this time killing two persons and injuring one in a Church at Temu village in Ikosi Ejirin Local Council Development Area of Lagos State. It was gathered that the incident took place at about 2.am on Tuesday when the […]
Ajibade Alabi An appeal to the police from Chief Oluwaremilekun Aina Shobote , the Alase of Oke Eletu under Ijede Local Government, Ikorodu, Lagos has gone out over the continued harassment of some people who claimed they are the authentic owner of a certain portion of land in Ijede area of Ikorodu which has led […]
Several fatalities have been reported following an attack by unknown gunmen few hour ago around Mgbosimiri, Agip axis of Port Harcourt,Rivers state. The incident occurred at about 4am this morning. More to follow