A Kenyan pastor who appeared in court Tuesday will face terrorism charges over the deaths of more than 100 people found buried in what has been dubbed the “Shakahola forest massacre,” prosecutors said. The deeply religious Christian-majority country has been stunned by the discovery of mass graves last month in …
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A Makurdi Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday ordered that 29 persons be remanded in a correctional centre for alleged terrorism and culpable homicide. The police charged the defendants, who live at Ikpayongo Town in Gwer-East Local Government of Benue, with criminal conspiracy, act of terrorism, membership of an unlawful society …
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Conflict Research Network, West Africa, CORN West Africa, has raised an alarm that terrorism may threaten the conduct of the 2023 elections in the Northeast geo-political zone. The research group made this disclosure on Tuesday. The new revelation was part of the recommendations at a colloquium webinar themed, “Nigeria Decides …
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The federal government, Friday, launched N144. 8 billion Safe Schools Financing Plan, with a view to protecting schools from terrorist attacks, across the nation. At the event in Abuja, the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, said that the plan would be implemented between 2023 and 2026. Her words, “The …
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Army Acquires 60 New Armoured Vehicles From China To Tackle Banditry, Terrorism The Nigerian Army has taken delivery of 60 new VP – 1 Type Tracked Armoured Personnel Carriers manufactured in China to boost the ongoing war against Boko Haram insurgency and banditry in the North-East and North-West. Speaking during …
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Piqued by the raging insecurity in the south-west, state governors of the region yesterday made a strong case for the establishment of state and council police to complement the efforts of the federal police. To the state helmsmen, this is a practical response to the insecurity. They also agreed to …
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Four Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) were, on Sunday night, killed when two male suicide bombers detonated explosives strapped to their bodies at Dalori 2 IDP camp in Maiduguri. The explosion also claimed the lives of the suicide bombers and left 15 others. The injured victims, SaharaReporters learned, were taken to a specialist …
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Senator Ali NdumeA Federal High Court in Abuja has struck out the terrorism charges instituted against a former Leader of the Senate, Senator Ali Ndume, in 2011. Justice Gabriel Kolawole, in his judgment on Tuesday, upheld Ndume’s no-case-submission on the grounds that the prosecution was unable to establish any prima …
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Britain Thursday closed in on a jihadist network thought to be behind the Manchester concert attack, as grief mixed with anger at the US over leaked material from the probe. The shellshocked country came to a halt for a poignant minute’s silence at 11:00 am local time (1000 GMT) to …
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An Islamic State group spokesman called on Tuesday for countries attacking it to be targeted, in an audio recording in which he also insulted US President Donald Trump. The recording posted on jihadist sites online was Abulhassan al-Muhajer’s first since December. Since then, IS has been under sustained assault …
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