Around 300 detainees showed after a thought strike to Islamist Boko Haram aggressors on a jail in Nigeria’s capital Abuja . A security official was killed during the strike and three others harmed. In excess, 600 prisoners had escaped from the jail which has 900 detainees. Around 300 detainees showed after a thought strike to … Read more
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari “strongly condemned” the stoning to death of a Christian student the day before on blasphemy claims against the Prophet Muhammad. An angry mob of students stoned Deborah Samuel and burned her body on Thursday in the northwest city of Sokoto after she made a post on social media they deemed offensive … Read more
At least 100 people may have killed in an explosion at an illegal oil refinery in southeast Nigeria, a local oil official said Sunday as the hunt increased for bodies at the site and for two people suspected of being involved in the blast. The explosion was described as a “catastrophe and a national disaster” … Read more
The governor of Nigeria’s central Benue state said Wednesday that gunmen killed 24 people in two attacks, as unrest fuelled by heavily armed criminal gangs spreads across the region. In Benue, clashes between nomadic herders and local farmers over land and water are usual, but in the last two years, communal tensions have escalated, … Read more
ISTANBUL, Dec 18, 2021 (AFP) – Turkey will send 15 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to Africa, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Saturday at a major summit of the continent’s leaders, adding that the low vaccination rates there were a blot on humanity. Ankara has invested heavily in developing trade and diplomatic ties with the world’s … Read more
