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Several gunmen on Friday evening attacked a busy shopping mall in Munich, spraying bullets as people ran fled in horror for safety from what police said was a terrorist attack. Police said six people had been killed and the attackers were still at large. Here are 6 thing we know so far about...

Gunmen have abducted Sen. Patrick Ani, a former senator who represented Cross River South on the platform of the defunct National Republican Convention between 1991 and 1992. Eyewitnesses told journalists in Calabar on Thursday that the former legislator was abducted by the gunmen on Wednesday...

Gunmen, Thursday, invaded a students’ hostel, Grace and Mercy Lodge, along Health Centre road, Omuokiri in Aluu community, Ikwerre Local government area of Rivers State. According to Dailypost, they robbed the occupants of 8 out of the 9 rooms in the building, carting away laptops, mobile...

A high chief in Akure kingdom, Chief Dada Oyateru, was on Tuesday night murdered before members of his family by unknown gunmen who broke into his house and held the family hostage for hours. The 83-year-old patriarch, who was the Ayalodi of Akure Kingdom, was said to have been strangled to...

According to The Nation, gunmen suspected to be militants on Tuesday killed three soldiers at Foropa, Southern Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa State. Details later…

Mr Ovie Anthony, President, Youth Wing of the Urhobo Progress Union (UPU), was reportedly abducted by unknown gunmen accordint to DAILY POST. According to a source, Anthony was abducted by the captors at gun point on Friday night while returning from the UPU’s meeting held at the Union’s...

Gunmen on Sunday night killed Bala Madaki, the district head of Fadan Karshi in Numana Chiefdom of Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State. According to NAN, Mr. Madaki was killed alongside his nephew, Emmanuel Tanko, 19, at his residence in Fadan Karshi. The Sanga Interim Management...

Unknown gunmen have killed about 17 persons at Ula- Upata and Edoha in Ahoada west local government area of Rivers State. According to DailyTrust, An eye witness said the gunmen invaded Ula-upata community at about 1.00pm and killed 12 persons and later came back at 9.00pm to killed another two...

Unknown Gunmen on Saturday attacked the home of King AmalateTurner at Opume in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa destroying household furniture and electronics. Mr. Turner, an associate of Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, was recently quizzed by state security operatives who had invaded his...

Unknown gunmen yesterday shot a Police Sergeant along Garrison/ waterlines junction of Port Harcourt, an eye witness said. Eye witnesses said the gunmen in a Toyota saloon car ambushed a Police patrol team as they were driving through the popular Garrison junction and opened fire on the patrol...

Ahead of Saturday's Senatorial rerun in Rivers state, unidentified gunmen Thursday morning stormed Mgbuitanwo, in Emohua Clan, Emohua Local Government Area, the home country of the Senatorial Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Andrew Uchendu, killed and beheaded a 28-year-old...

Shooting under way at L'Etoile du Sud hotel in resort popular with Westerners, according to reports, saying as many as 11 people have been killed by four gunmen At least 11 people including a five-year-old child have been killed after four gunmen attacked two hotel in the Ivory Coast resort of...

A group of armed men believed to be cultists have blown up a gas facility in Akala Olu village, Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers State for the arrest and continued detention of a suspect, Mr. Emmanuel Odum. The attack on the gas facility, according to a statement signed by the...

Gunmen believed to be members of the Boko Haram were on Sunday evening involved in a shoot-out with soldiers in Aladuwari village – about 2 km away from Maiduguri. The attackers arrived the area at about 6 p.m. local time, according to Premium Times report. Also at about 8 p.m., two...

Gunmen killed three policemen and three civilians during an attack on some foreign workers in the Guba Shango axis of Gombe state on Saturday. A security source confirmed the attack to TheCable, saying it happened around 9pm. The source said the attackers trailed the workers from a construction...

Boko Haram gunmen have torched almost an entire village near the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok from where over 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped, a resident who fled and a local elder said Tuesday. The raid in Takulashi village happened on Sunday and saw the Islamists loot food supplies, two...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan narrowly escaped an death by some men suspected to be assailants. These are the faces of those suspected assailants... Read the story HERE

At least seven persons were left dead in Bam village of Borno state when armed Boko Haram terrorists attacked in the early hours of Sunday and abducted unspecified, but large number of teenage girls, witnesses said. Bam village, located in Biu local government area of Borno state is about 170km...

A shooting in a New Orleans park left 16 people injured, police said. At least sixteen people have been taken to hospital after a mass shooting at a playground in New Orleans, according to US reports. According to reports, no one was killed in the shooting. It is understood that as many as...

France has declared a national state of emergency and tightened borders after following the killing of at least 120 people in a night of gun and bomb attacks in Paris, BBC reports. Eighty people were reported killed after gunmen burst into the Bataclan concert hall and took dozens hostage. The...