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UK, US Terror Alert: No Imminent Threat In Abuja – IGP

October 28, 2022 4:15 am

Against the backdrop of the recent terror alerts issued about Nigeria, the Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, on Friday maintained that there is no security threat in Abuja, the nation’s capital saying there was no cause for alarm.

Africa Daily News, New York recalls that on Sunday, both the US and United Kingdom had come out to issued warnings of a possible terrorist attack in Abuja, the nation’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

According to the warnings, the attack would be especially aimed at government buildings, places of worship, schools and other centres where large crowds gather.

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Terror Returns To London Bridge In ‘Black Friday’ Attack

November 29, 2019 4:41 pm

A man wearing a suspected hoax explosive device was shot dead by armed officers on London Bridge on Friday after what police said was a terrorist stabbing spree, reviving memories of another horrific attack two years ago that killed eight.

Footage on Twitter filmed by eyewitnesses showed a scrum of people tackling a man on the ground before specialist armed officers arrived and shot him dead as he tried to get up.

It is not known how many people were injured in the stabbing spree before the shooting but London Mayor Sadiq Khan said several people were “seriously” hurt.

Khan …

Trump Says Will Designate Mexican Cartels As Terror Groups

November 27, 2019 2:39 pm

US President Donald Trump said in an interview posted online Tuesday that he planned to designate Mexican drug cartels as terror groups.

The move comes after Trump called for a “war” on the cartels in early November when nine women and children from a Mormon community in northern Mexico were killed in a hail of gunfire. The victims were dual US-Mexican citizens.

“Are you going to designate those cartels in Mexico as terror groups and start hitting them with drones?” asked Bill O’Reilly, a conservative media personality, in an interview posted on his personal website.

“I don’t want to say …

Terror As Trailers Fall Into Bad Spot On Agege Motor Road

October 23, 2019 2:09 am

It was a scene of the absurd yesterday when a bad spot on the ever-busy Agege Motor Road claimed three trucks, which all fell into the vast crater on the road one after the other. Tragedy was averted when a trailer carrying a container first fell into a big ditch just before Idi-Oro bus stop and landed on a tricycle, which thankfully not carried any passengers.

Another trailer brought to offload contents of the previously fallen container also fell into the crater while a third trailer, which was brought to lift the other two off the road also fell at …