Six people have been killed by bandits in an attack carried out in the early hours of Thursday, February 3.
It was reported that the village was among the six people killed in the attack at Daddara village in Jibia Local Government Area of Katsina State.
The bandits also abducted five other residents.
Socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has assured Nigerians that the South-East geo-political zone would this time speak with one voice in its quest to produce the next president of the country in 2023. President of its national youth wing, Damian Okafor, said that the era when Igbo politicians spoke with discordant tones in their aspiration to…
Three persons were to have been killed on Sunday after gunmen suspected to be bandits invaded some communities under Gusau Local Government Area of Zamfara State. An unspecified number of villagers, mostly women, were said to have been kidnapped during the assault.Some of the villages said to have been attacked include, Geba, Tsakuwa, Gidan Kada,…
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Authorities in Kenya disclosed that Loonkiito, a wild male lion believed to be oldest in Africa and one of the world’s oldest, has died after being speared by herders. Loonkiito, who was 19, died in Olkelunyiet village on Wednesday night, May 10 after preying on livestock. The village borders Amboseli National Park – in southern…