Some gunmen on Tuesday night kidnapped the parish priest of St. Theresa’s Catholic parish in Obollo community in the Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of Imo state, Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Azubuike. The Catholic Church priest was kidnapped along the Ayayi community in the Obollo community when his abductors struck. He was said to be returning […]
The Imo State Police Command has revealed that two men suspected to be members of the proscribed IPOB/ESN, were carrying an improvised explosive device (IED) on a motorcycle with the intention of planting it at Orlu International Market, near Mbari Okporo on Tuesday According to the Imo PPRO in the State, ASP Henry Okoye said […]
An improvised explosive device (IED) has detonated, Killed two persons and injured several others on Tuesday at Orlu International Market in Imo State The explosion caused stampede and confusion as people ran helter-skelter, making many injured. A source said they were at the market when an explosion was heard.He said there was confusion everywhere as […]
At least six people were reportedly killed in a renewed attack by suspected armed herdsmen on Ayilomo, a community in the Logo Local Government Area (LGA) of Benue State. Sources said the attack began on Friday evening and continued into Saturday, just two days after a similar assault in Anyiin, another community in the same […]
Suspected gunmen have reportedly killed a man and his two sons in a farm in Amaeze, Ishiagu in Ivo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. A source told Sunday Vanguard that following intensive search when they did not return home from their farmland; their bodies were found in the farm in the early hours […]
Hooded men in black shirts and trousers have killed two persons in Aba, the commercial nerve of Abia State. The incident, The Nation gathered, occured around Old Express off Sameck junction, near a popular slaughter within the area in Aba North local government area. While one of them was simply identified as a caretaker of […]
One police inspector whose identity is yet to be ascertained has been reportedly killed when gunmen attacked quarry workers in Edo State. It was learnt that one other police officer (an orderly) and an expatriate working with the company sustained various degrees of injuries during the attack at Ihievbe-Ogben in Owan East Local Government Area […]
The Imo State Police Command Anti-Kidnapping Unit on Saturday dislodged a suspected IPOB/ESN terrorist camp in Nempi, Oru West Local Government Area of the State, leading to the arrest of 29 suspects—25 males and 4 females—allegedly linked to the proscribed group. This operation was initiated following the apprehension of a key suspect, Anukuru Nnana Emmanuel,25yrs, […]
Babajide Omoniyi, the only son of late Kolawole Omoniyi, has narrated how the former staff of SuperSport was murdered in Anambra while traveling to cover the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifying game between Nigeria and Libya. Mr Babajide who disclosed this to FIJ on Sunday, said that his father, who trained at the […]
Bandits, Sunday shot the Director General of the Zamfara State Community Protection Guards (CPG), General Lawal B. Muhammad (rtd). Daily Trust gathered that General Muhammad was shot by the bandits during an attack on motorists at Kucheri village in Tsafe local government area of Zamfara state. The bandits were said to have blocked the busy […]
