A suspected militia group in Umaisha District, Toto Local Government Area of the state, has killed no fewer than three soldiers and two vigilantes. According to reports, some yet-to-be-identified gunmen on February 1, 2024, murdered three persons and destroyed property worth millions of naira in an attack on the village. It was learnt that gunmen…
As Nigeria continued to witness the surge of insecurity, suspected gunmen on Sunday attacked some buses travelling from Kogi State to Abuja at the weekend and took the passengers hostage. According to reports, the Kogi State Police Command, led by Commissioner Bethrand Onuoha, has responded to the incident that occurred on Sunday by sending a…
N100m ransom has been demanded by the abductors of Ekiti pupils and teachers from the Apostolic school in Emure-Ekiti for the release of the victims. The Informant247 gathered that a group of gunmen on Monday seized a school bus from the Apostolic school in Emure, kidnapping several pupils, their head teacher and a driver while…
Suspected gunmen on Thursday, stormed a house situated 200 metres close to a military base in Pambara, Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, and abducted one Aondo Ver, a director in the Federal Housing Authority. According to reports, the bandits, who stormed the house around 12:30 am on Thursday, were said…
Suspected gunmen, numbering six last Sunday, attacked the Guita community, Chikakore, Kubwa, Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, and abducted two sisters, said to be 16 and 14 years old. According to reports, the gunmen, after the attack, escaped through the bush track, which links the community to another village. Confirming the…
A 37-year-old woman, Bilikisu Kazeem, on Friday killed during a gun battle between operatives and kidnappers, Ogun State Police Command has disclosed. According to reports, the incident, which occurred on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, said nine hostages were rescued from the kidnappers during the encounter. Omolola Odutola, the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, while…
Mr Philip Aivoji, the chairman, Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). According to sources, the chairman was abducted along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway around 6 p.m on Thursday. Hon. Hakeem Amode, the state publicity secretary of the party, while confirming the abduction, stated that the chairman was returning from a stakeholders’ meeting in…
The Plateau State Police Command on Tuesday in Jos confirmed the attack of gunmen on 15 communities in Bokkos and Barkin-Ladi Local Government Areas of Plateau on Christmas Eve, killing no fewer than 96 persons and destroying 221 houses. According to DSP Alfred Alabo, the spokesperson for the command, the assailants also destroyed eight vehicles…
No fewer than eight persons on Sunday were killed by the suspected terrorists while returning from Jibia weekly market, near Kukar Babangida village in Jibia local government area of Katsina, while abducting two other villagers in the state. The Informant247 gathered that the gunmen opened fire on the vehicle conveying the traders, leaving four passengers…
Suspected gunmen, on Thursday night, reportedly assassinated one Dr. David Adefikayo, the Medical Director of Dafikayo Clinic, in his residence in Kanbi, Moro Local Government Area of Kwara State. The Informant247 gathered that the assailants were said to have broken into the deceased’s residence around 8:30 pm and brutally murdered the medical officer in the…
In a tragic incident at the Enweh West manifold in the Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State, unknown gunmen ambushed a routine military escort duty for an oil company, resulting in the unfortunate demise of four soldiers from the 5 Battalion of the Nigerian Army. Major Danjuma Jonah, the Deputy Director of 6…
No fewer than four soldiers attached to 5 Battalion of the Nigerian Army in Port Harcourt, who were on a routine escort duty for an oil company at Enweh West manifold, Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State, have been repeatedly killed by unknown gunmen. According to Major Danjuma Jonah, the Deputy Director, 6…
No fewer than seven persons have been killed after suspected gunmen attacked two communities in Gwer West Local Government Area of Benue State. According to a report, the attacks occurred on Sunday in the Tse Gamber community and another settlement along Naka-Agagbe, both in Gwer West LGA. The villagers said that while four people were…
A Catholic Priest of Wukari Catholic Diocese, Thaddeus Terhembe, has been abducted by suspected gunmen in Taraba State. According to the Communication Officer of the Catholic Diocese of Wukari, John Jerome, in a statement on Sunday, the priest was abducted in his parish at Saint Ann’s Parish, Sarkin Kudu, in the Ibi Local Government Area…
No fewer than three persons were, on Saturday, killed by gunmen suspected at Imatom village in Logo local government area of Benue State. According to a community leader, Anawa Joseph, the killings of people in the local government area by suspected herders have assumed dangerous dimensions in the LGA. Anawa gave the names of the…
Gunmen have reportedly kidnapped no fewer than 25 members of the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC), Oke Igan, Akure, the Ondo state capital. The Informant247 gathered that the choir members were abducted around 3 p.m. on Friday while travelling along Ifon in the Ose council area of the state for a burial ceremony. According to a…
No fewer than three persons were on Thursday, confirmed dead after suspected gunmen killed them in their farms. The Informant247 gathered that the incident, which occurred in the Panyam community, Mangu Local Government of the state, said the victims were working on their farms when they were attacked by assailants, which led to their deaths…
The Benue State commissioner for information, culture and tourism, Mathew Aboh, on Monday, abducted by gunmen. According to Tersoo Kula, chief press secretary (CPS) to governor Hyacinth Alia, who confirmed the incident, said the governor has already directed security operatives to ensure the commissioner’s safe release. Kula said, “Yes, we received the unfortunate news, and…
A 60-year-old farmer, Mr Kayode Ajayi on Monday, abducted by the suspected gunmen, allng his farm location at Laduba village, Asa local government area of Kwara State. The Informant247 leaned that Ajayi was kidnapped on Monday evening while returning from his farm by the gunmen, together with his daughter. Meanwhile, it was later learnt that…
Suspected gunmen, in the early hours of Monday, reportedly killed a member of the vigilante group at First Marine Gate quarters in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State, identified simply as Wilson, after engaging the community vigilante group in a gun battle Although details of the incident are sketchy, the corpse of the…
