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By Olanrewaju Kola LAGOS, Nigeria (AA) – Police said Wednesday that 106 people have been killed in a boat accident in northcentral Nigeria. Police spokesman Okasanmi Ajayi said the boat with 250 passengers capsized Monday because one of its engines failed. “On leaving the shore, one part of the boat by the engine side collapsed […]

10th May 2023

Nigeria: Boat capsizes in Sokoto State, killing 17 children

By Ibrahim Garba Shuaibu KANO, Nigeria (AA): At least 17 children died when the boat they were traveling in capsized Tuesday in the Dandeji River in the Shagari Local Government Area of northwestern Nigeria’s Sokoto State. An official of the state government, Aluyu Dantani, told Anadolu that their bodies were recovered by local divers. He […]

1st Mar 2023

Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, elects ruling party candidate Tinubu as President

(Agencies): Nigeria’s ruling party candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been declared the winner of the country’s presidential elections. Tinubu, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, garnered 8.7 million votes in the race held from Feb. 25-26, according to Mahmood Yakubu, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The Independent National Electoral Commission […]

21st Jan 2023

Nigeria: 8 behead by armed bandits at IDP camp

By Ibrahim Garba Shuaibu KANO, Nigeria (AA): Eight people were beheaded by armed bandits at an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Benue State in northcentral Nigeria, officials said Friday. “Suspected bandits attacked Abagana opposite the IDP camp. So far, eight corpses, including women and children, have been recovered, and eight others seriously injured were […]

8th Jan 2023

Nigeria: Gunmen abduct scores of train passengers

By Ibrahim Garba Shuaibu KANO, Nigeria (AA): Gunmen attacked the Igueben railway station in Nigeria’s Edo state late Saturday, abducting scores of passengers, police said. Police spokesman Chidi Nwabuzor said a number of passengers were also injured as gunmen with AK-47 rifles invaded the train station and shot sporadically into the air. Police said the […]

20th Oct 2022

Nigeria: Gunmen abduct at least 20 people in hospital attack

By Ibrahim Garba Shuaibu KANO, Nigeria (AA): Gunmen have abducted at least 20 people and killed two in an attack on a hospital in Nigeria, hospital sources said on Wednesday. Bandits attacked the Abdulsalam Abubakar General Hospital in Gulu, a town in Nigeria’s Niger state, in the early hours of Tuesday. Among those abducted […]

10th Oct 2022

Nigeria: 76 dead after boat capsizes in Anambra state

By Olanrewaju Kola MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA): The death toll in a boat accident in southeastern Nigeria has risen to 76, officials said Sunday. A vessel with 85 people capsized due to heavy flooding in Ogbaru, an area in the state of Anambra, on Friday. Garba Shehu, a spokesman for Nigeria’s President, said authorities have […]

25th Sep 2022

Nigeria: 18 killed in mosque attack in Zamfara state

By Adam Abu-bashal ABUJA, Nigeria (AA): At least 18 people were killed in a mosque attack in Zamfara state in Nigeria, media reports said Saturday. Armed perpetrators, who hid AK 47 rifles in their clothes and pretended to be worshippers, opened fire on worshipers who gathered for Friday prayers in the Ruwan Jema region, […]

26th Jan 2022

Nigeria: Kwara state reaffirms use of hijab in public schools

By Adam Abu-bashal ABUJA, Nigeria (AA): Nigeria’s Kwara state on Tuesday reaffirmed its stance of allowing Muslim girls to wear the hijab in public schools, saying it will not tolerate any form of religious bigotry at educational institutions. In a statement, the State Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, Hajia Sa’adatu Modibbo-Kawu, said […]

10th Dec 2021

Nigeria: 9 worshippers killed in attack on mosque in northern Nigeria

By Ibrahim Garba Shuaibu KANO, Nigeria (AA):- At least nine worshippers were killed and dozens wounded in an attack on a mosque during fajr (dawn) prayers in northern Nigeria’s Niger state, local police said Thursday. Niger state Police Commissioner Bala Kuryas confirmed the incident, which took place in Ba’are village in the Mashegu Local […]

26th Oct 2021

Nigeria: Gunmen attack mosque in northern Nigeria, killing 18

By Ibrahim Garba Shuaibu KANO, Nigeria (AA): At least 18 worshippers were killed Monday when gunmen attacked a mosque in northern Nigeria during morning prayers, leaving several others wounded. The incident occurred in Mazakuka village in the Mashegu local government area of Niger state. The gunmen stormed the village and went straight to the […]

19th Oct 2021

Nigeria: Gunmen kill at least 43 in Sokoto State

By Adam Abu-Bashal ABUJA, Nigeria (AA): At least 43 people were killed when suspected gunmen stormed a marketplace in northern Nigeria on Monday, according to a local official. Traders and buyers at the Goronyo weekly market were among those killed in the attack. “We just finished a meeting with some stakeholders, and I have […]

10th Oct 2021

Nigeria: Gunmen kill imam, 10 others in Sokoto

By Ibrahim Garba Shuaibu KANO, Nigeria (AA): Eleven people, including children and an imam, were killed when suspected gunmen from the outlawed Yan Sakai vigilante group in the Sokoto State in northern Nigeria stormed a market Friday. The massacre occurred at the Mamande village in Gwadabawa local government. The victims were from different Fulani […]

26th Aug 2021

Niger: 16 soldiers killed in Boko Haram attack in southern Niger

By James Tasamba KIGALI, Rwanda (AA): Sixteen soldiers were killed and nine wounded when hundreds of Boko Haram terror group members attacked a military post in southern Niger overnight, the Defense Ministry said Wednesday. The attack was in the commune of Bosso, the Diffa region bordering Nigeria, where Boko Haram is active along with […]

8th Mar 2021

Nigeria: 14 kidnapped sailors rescued in Gulf of Guinea

By Adam Abu-bashal ABUJA, Nigeria (AA): Fourteen sailors kidnapped by pirates were rescued Saturday in the Gulf of Guinea. Nigeria’s army spokesman Mohammed Yerim said 10 foreign crew members and four Nigerians who were taken hostage were rescued in an operation off of the coasts of Nigeria and Gabon. The operation was successfully carried […]

27th Feb 2021

Nigeria commences op to rescue 317 abducted schoolgirls

By Olarewaju Kola MAIDUGUEI, Nigeria (AA): Nigerian military and police began operations to rescue hundreds of schoolgirls abducted from a boarding school early Friday in northwest Zamfara State, according to officials. Governor Bello Mohammed said police and other security agencies are using surveillance aircraft in the rescue effort. “Currently, police helicopters and other search and […]

21st Dec 2020

Nigeria: 5 Nigerian soldiers killed in Boko Haram attack

By Adam Abu-bashal ABUJA, Nigeria (AA): Boko Haram terrorist group has killed five Nigerian soldiers and kidnapped at least 35 people in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state, a military source said on Sunday. “The terrorists fired an RPG [rocket-propelled grenade] on the convoy which hit one of the vehicles with five soldiers in it,” local news […]

30th Nov 2020

Nigeria: Boko Haram attack killed 110 in Borno state

By Adam Abu-bashal ABUJA, Nigeria (AA): The death toll has risen to at least 110 in a recent attack by Boko Haram terrorists in northeastern Nigeria, a UN official has said. Saturday’s attack on farmers working in rice fields in the Garin Kwashebe village of Borno state killed at least 110, Edward Kallon, UN humanitarian […]

23rd Nov 2020

Nigeria: Gunmen kill 5, kidnap 40 in attack on mosque

By Adam Abu-bashal ABUJA, Nigeria (AA): At least five worshippers were killed and 40 others kidnapped when armed gunmen attacked a mosque in northwestern Nigeria, local media reported Sunday. The attack by armed gangs occurred at a mosque in Zamfara state. The imam was among those reportedly abducted. Around 100 cattle thieves on motorcycles opened […]

9th Jun 2020

Nigeria: ‘Mysterious disease’ kills nearly 1,000 people

By Adam Abu-bashal ABUJA, Nigeria (AA): At least 979 people, including health care workers and high-level officials, died in North-Western Nigeria Kano State due to a mysterious disease, said the country’s health minister. Speaking at the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 on Monday, Osagie Ehanire said all patients, including high-level officials and health staff, […]

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