April 22, 2021

Gunmen suspected to be Fulani militia have again attacked Tse-Zoola community in Makurdi Local Government Area of Benue State.

The gunmen invaded the community early hours of Wednesday and butchered two residents.

The eldest man in the community, Aho Zoola said the militia herdsmen, without any provocation, attacked the villagers on Wednesday and killed one Zaki Hyacinth Ajon and Benjamin Anakula.

Meanwhile, the Governor of the State, Samuel Ortom, while returning from burial of one Mrs Bridget Mom, stopped his convoy when he noticed that an incident occurred …

Primary and secondary teachers of the Rivers State-owned Demonstration Schools Wednesday, occupied the entrance of the state government house in Port Harcourt in protest against the failure of the state government to pay their salaries for five years.

The teachers and former students of the Demonstration Schools staged the protest in collaboration with the Rivers State Civil Society Organization, which had been in the forefront of their agitation.

The teachers want the state Governor, Nyesom Wike to obey court judgements from the National Industrial Court and the Court of Appeal directing him to pay the teachers the monies due to …

Indonesia’s navy said it was searching for a submarine with 53 crew aboard after losing contact with the vessel during naval exercises off the coast of Bali on Wednesday.

The German-built KRI Nanggala 402 was scheduled to do live torpedo exercises when it asked for permission to dive early Wednesday morning, authorities said.

‘After permission was given according to the procedure, the submarine lost contact and could not be reached,’ the defence ministry said.

A helicopter looking for the missing vessel spotted an oil spill in waters where the submarine was thought to have submerged, it added.

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The case of a fatal shooting of a Black man in his car by local sheriff’s deputies who were serving him with a search warrant has been reported by authorities and local media.

According to reports, the shooting happened on Wednesday morning in Elizabeth City North Carolina, a riverfront town of about 18,000 residents in Pasquotank County near North Carolina’s coastal border with Virginia, and small groups of protesters took to the streets by evening.

The county sheriff’s office and the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI), which said it had taken over the case, each provided few details of the …

In its latest travel advisories, the United States has cautioned its citizens to avoid some 14 Nigerian states, which has been rife with terrorism, banditry, and kidnapping in recent times.

Although it approved to travel to other parts of the country, it urged its citizens to ‘Reconsider travel to Nigeria’.

In the updated advisory, at least 116 countries were added by the U.S. State Department to its ‘Level Four: Do Not Travel‘ advisory list.

The UK, Canada, France, Israel, Mexico, Germany, and others are on the list, citing a ‘very high level of COVID-19.’

Before Tuesday, …