20 killed as military launch air strikes on Boko Haram strongholds

At least 20 insurgents were killed Friday as Nigeria’s military carried out an aerial bombardment of militant Islamist camps in the country’s northeast, a Defense Ministry spokesman said.

The raid by Nigerian Air Force jets and attack helicopters is part of what the military says is a “massive deployment” of Nigerian forces this week to tackle insurgent groups, including Boko Haram.

“Our military has…

Boy, 8, Killed in Marathon Bombing

Officials are confirming that one of the two people killed in today’s Boston Marathon bombing was an 8-year-old boy, CNN reports. Boston-area hospitals have received at least 134 patients, 15 with critical injuries, reports the AP.

The Boston Globe reports on the current state of eight patients at Boston Children’s Hospital: among them, a 9-year-old…

JTF Pounds Boko Haram Base, 52 Killed, 70 Arrested!

While residents of Maiduguri grew apprehensive as explosions rang out shortly after the departure of President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday, not many knew that men of the Joint Task Force were engaging members of the Boko Haramsect in a battle that resulted in the death of 20 members of the sect and two JTF operatives. 25 members…

How Boko Haram killed 17 members of my congregation – Pastor Chinda

Speaking at a press conference organised by the Christian Association of Nigerian-Americans, Pastor Sarana Chinda of All Saints Protestant Church, Hauran Wanki, Barracks, Kano, recount how 17 members of his church were killed for refusing to renounce Jesus Christ.“On February 23, 2013, eight out of the 13 people that were killed were my members who worked in a factory. They accompanied one of…

20 Boko Haram militants, 1 civilian, 1 soldier killed in Borno

At least 22 people including a soldier died during an attack launched on a military barrack early Sunday morning in Monguno village, located about 200km

away from Maiduguri, the Borno state capital.

Witnesses and military officials said it was war of a kind that has never been witnessed in recent times since the Boko Haram insurgence began in 2009.

Also, a source from…

Three More LASU Students killed As Damoche Is Buried

Following the gruesome murder of Damilola Ibrahim Olaniyan, a.k.a Damoche, by cultists at LASU (Lagos State University) on Thursday, reprisal allegedly took place that evening and reportedly continued till the following day. By the time the late musician was buried in the early hours of Saturday in Badagry, three more students, believed to be cultists, were allegedly killed in gruesome manner.

The three…

American Sniper Was Killed by Veteran He Was Trying to Help

The former Navy SEAL sniper shot dead alongside a friend at a Texas shooting range yesterday appears to have been killed by a troubled Iraq War veteran he was trying to help, authorities say. Travis Cox, director of a nonprofit veterans’ organization American Sniper author Chris Kyle helped found, says Kyle and his friend were helping Eddie Ray…

Masquerade who killed Muslim cleric to be arraigned for murder

A Muslim cleric was on Sunday shot by a masquerader who refused to obey his order of disembarking from his motorcycle during this year’s Egungun festival in Ijaye, Ogun state.

Information reaching us says the masquerader who was arrested over the killing has now been arraigned for murder.

The Ogun State Police Command Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, disclosed this to journalists in…

37 year old Woman Killed By Robber After She Identifies Him

COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, LAGOS STATE COMMAND, MR. UMARU MANKO

The spate of robberies in various parts of Lagos state coupled with the attendant death toll, has risen to nine after it was reported at Ajah Police Division that a mother of two, Badejoko Akinrujomu,…

30 killed in oil pipeline fire in Ogun State, Nigeria

Lagos: At least 30 people, suspected to be fuel thieves, died in a pipeline fire in Nigeria, Xinhua reported Sunday.Police said the incident occurred in Arepo village in Ogun state.

Friday Ibadin, a police official in-charge of the Special Task Force on Anti-Pipeline Vandalism, said the fire was caused Saturday by vandals who…