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More people were killed than earlier reported in the small village of Baga, which sits along the shores of Lake Chad in Borno State, in a deadly fighting between suspected members of the Boko Haram sect and a military task force, the Red Cross has said. Initial reports said 185 people were killed either in the crossfire, or were burnt to death after the Joint...
A seven-month-old baby, killed by a stray bullet when gunmen attacked some police officers on Friday night, is a cost of growing insecurity in Nigeria. Little Fatima was buried, having been hit and killed by a bullet when gunmen attacked a police checkpoint in Kaduna. The bullet was lodged in her skull after piercing her elder sister’s arm. Munira, the sister,...
KADUNA –The death toll in last Sunday’s bomb blast at St Andrew’s Anglican Church at the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, AFCSC, Jaji, Kaduna State has risen to 15. Jaji is about 40 kilometres north of Kaduna city. The Commandant of the College, Air Vice Marshal Ibrahim Abdullahi Kure, gave this hint while conducting the state Governor, Patrick...
