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Police To Reward Information On Murdered Journalist In Yola

January 16, 2020 3:28 pm

The Adamawa State Commissioner of Police, Mr Audu Madaki, on Thursday, promised a handsome reward for anyone with useful information that would lead to the arrest of killers of a journalist, Mr Maxwell Nashion, in Yola.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that some unknown assailants had on Wednesday attacked Nashion, a staff of Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) F.M station, popularly known as Fombina FM Yola, leading to his death.

The Spokesman of the command, DSP Suleiman Yahaya, who announced the reward to journalists in Yola, said that the commissioner was unhappy over the incident and would

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Bandits attack: 2,277 people displaced in Niger

16 persons murdered by bandits in Zamfara on Sallah day

June 6, 2019 12:12 am

Bandits were said to have allegedly killed 16 persons in Kanoma District of Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara on Sallah day.

Confirming the attack in a press statement in Gusau on Wednesday, the Director-General on Media to the state governor, Yusuf Idris, said “the governor visited the community and sympathised with them”.

“During the visit, the governor also directed security agencies to immediately “swing” into action and bring the perpetrators to book.

“The governor also directed the movement of 14 persons, who sustained injuries from gun shots from Kanoma General Hospital, to the Federal Medical Centre, Gusau, for better …

11,000 people murdered in 8 yrs by Zamfara bandits – Marafa

May 5, 2019 11:00 pm

A member of the National Assembly, Senator Kabiru Marafa (Zamfara Central) has put the total number of lives lost to armed banditry in Zamfara State since 2011 at 11, 000.

Marafa who is the Chairman of Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream), in a statement yesterday declared that the unfortunate and dark eight years of banditry from 2011 to date in the state had conservatively led to the killing of over 11,000 male adults

He added that the killings left behind an estimated average of 22,000 widows and an estimated 44,000 orphans.

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Election: Two murdered in Amaechi’s maternal home

March 9, 2019 2:18 pm

Two persons were shot dead in Ubimini in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State, the maternal home of the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi.

INEC ad hoc staff murdered, another apprehended

February 25, 2019 1:00 am

As the announcement of the presidential election results begins today, the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC National Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said yesterday that the commission lost an ad-hoc staff in Rivers and another official has been handed over to the police in Imo State for alleged infractions.