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Customs closes gate to stop Oyo govt from returning 1,800 bags of rice

[ad_1] The imbroglio between the Oyo State government and the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) over the 1,800 bags of rice continued on Wednesday with the Oyo/Osun command closing its gate and refusing the state government access into its Ibadan premises to return the bags of rice. Keeping to its word to return the rice deemed […]

Youths confront, chase away herdsmen in Delta community

[ad_1] ASABA-YOUTHS at Ibusa, Oshimili North Local Government Area, Delta State, rose against suspected herdsmen, who stormed the Admiralty Neighbourhood Estate in the town to kidnap a victim, Monday, and chased them away. Vanguard learned that some concerned residents of the estate were at Police Headquarters, Asaba, to lodge a complaint about the frequent abductions […]

Herdsmen strike in Delta, abduct Anglican Priest, wife, children, one other

[ad_1] Nine days after a Celestial Church Pastor was killed at Ibusa, near Asaba, an Anglican Priest, Revd. Anthony Oyi was yesterday kidnapped with his wife, his children and one of his friends by suspected herdsmen at Issele-Mkpitime, Aniocha North Local Government Area, Delta State. The Priest who resides at Oko-Ogbele and a native of […]

Herdsmen kill Lord’s Chosen members; Police recover bodies

[ad_1] The Police Command in Edo on Saturday recovered the bodies of two kidnapped victims allegedly killed by their abductors. According to the command, the deceased were kidnapped by suspected Fulani herders on Jan 1 and killed on Jan 7. DSP Chidi Nwabuzor, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, told newsmen during […]

Armed herdsmen defy lockdown, terrorize residents in Delta towns

[ad_1] NOTWITHSTANDING  the security seal in Delta State, where Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, introduced a dusk-to-dawn curfew, Tuesday,  to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, some suspected armed  herdsmen have flagrantly undermined the security measures  and unleashed a reign of terror on  residents at Ibusa and Okpanam communities in  Oshimili North Local Government Area of the oil-rich state. […]

Four killed in Edo cult war, two by suspected herdsmen

[ad_1] Not less than six persons have been reportedly killed in some parts of Edo state by suspected armed herdsmen and cult related fight over supremacy. Two farmers in Odighi, Ovia North East local government area were allegedly killed by suspected herdsmen on their ways to their farms. An eyewitness, Hilary Omoregie, disclosed yesterday that […]

Armed herdsmen storm Benue community, kill one, injure others

[ad_1] Makurdi—A 25-year-old farmer, John Chinter, was reportedly killed by suspected armed herdsmen that  invaded Tse Igba community in Mbabai council ward of Benue state, yesterday morning. It was  gathered that the deceased before his untimely death was a member of IFAD-VCDP supported farmers’ cooperative society in the community. A member of the cooperative, who […]

Lockdown: Customs seizes smuggled rice, beans worth N12.7m in Kano

[ad_1] The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Kano/Jigawa Command, has seized smuggled rice and beans worth over N12.7 million in Kano State. Mr Isa Danbaba, the Pubic Relations Officer of the command, made the disclosure in a statement on Thursday in Kano. “In spite of the outbreak of Coronavirus and the subsequent measures put in place […]

Edo 2020: Ize-Iyamu rues insecurity, killing of farmers in Edo

[ad_1] A frontline aspirant of the All Progressives Congress in Edo state, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu ahead 2020 governorship election yesterday condemned the level of insecurity in the state and streak of attacks on farmers in rural communities across the state which led to the killing of two farmers in Odighi, Ovia North-East local government area […]

DELTA: Alleged herdsmen killings as ‘annual routine’

[ad_1] Uneasy calm reigns in Uwheru Kingdom of Delta State where armed herdsmen reportedly abducted at least 10 farmers/fishermen, executed them and buried them in their enclave inside the bush. Governor Ifeanyi Okowa had, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Olisa Ifeajika, alleged that the herdsmen, accompanied by unidentified army personnel, stormed the […]