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(Reuters) – Nigeria aims to have secured the release of 200 girls kidnapped by Islamist Boko Haram militants by Tuesday, a senior source at the presidency told Reuters on Saturday, although he declined to comment on where the transfer would take place. “I can confirm that FG (the federal government) is working hard to meet its own part of the agreement so that the release of the abductees can by effected either on Monday or […]
(Reuters) — President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday (September 16) said at least 67 South Africans died in Friday’s accident in Lagos and described it as one of the worst tragedies in South Africa’s recent history. “It is a very sad day today, to us a country for losing so many of our people. 67 so far that has been identified who were part of the church service at Synagogue church in Nigeria.” he said. As many as 300 South Africans were […]
Casualties reach up to 500 in the worse attack in five years by a militant group in Nigeria.
The Interpol will aid in the search and rescue of the 200 girls abducted by a militant group, the Boko Haram militants, in Nigeria.
The Nigerian president condemns the three successive explosions that resulted in 118 deaths.
The United States has deployed manned surveillance plants to help in the search of more than 200 school girls abducted by a Nigerian terrorist group.
In the movie premiere of her movie ‘Maleficient” in London, Angelina Jolie grab the opportunity to speak up against the kidnapping incident in Nigeria as well as the crisis in Ukraine.
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped eight girls from a village near one of the Islamists’ strongholds in northeastern Nigeria overnight, while the United States made plans on Tuesday to help search for more than 200 schoolgirls seized by the militant group last month.
(Reuters) — A bomb explosion at a crowded bus station on the outskirts of Abuja killed at least 35 people during rush hour on Monday (April 14) morning, witnesses said, the first such attack near the Nigerian capital in two years. Body parts and blood were strewn across the station and an unruly crowd of several hundred onlookers was roaming around with security forces unable to keep them away. “This morning, some set of individuals they’re trying […]
Dozens of people have been killed in northern Nigeria in what is believed to be clashes between rival ethnic groups. The region has seen months of violence over farmland. A large gang of gunmen on motorcycles swept through villages in Nigeria’s northern Katsina state, about 400 kilometers (248 miles) north of the capital, Abuja. The exact death toll is unclear, with police putting it at 40, while survivors have said it reaches beyond 100. The […]
(Reuters) — Gunmen from Islamist group Boko Haram shot or burned to death 59 pupils in a boarding school in northeast Nigeria overnight, a hospital official and security forces said on Tuesday. “Some of the students’ bodies were burned to ashes,” Police Commissioner Sanusi Rufai said of the attack on the Federal Government college of Buni Yadi, a secondary school in Yobe state, near the state’s capital city of Damaturu. Bala Ajiya, an official at the Specialist Hospital Damaturu, told Reuters by phone […]
