Masked gunmen have broken into a live television studio in Ecuador and threatened terrified staff. Employees were forced on to the floor during the broadcast by the public television channel TC in the city of Guayaquil before the live feed cut out. Police say they later freed all the staff and made 13 arrests. The...
ABUJA, Oct. 1 — At least 25 members of a local church’s choir were kidnapped by armed gunmen en route to a funeral in the Ose local government area of Nigeria’s southwestern state of Ondo, local police said Saturday. Olufunmilayo Odunlami-Omisanya, spokeswoman for the police in Ondo, confirmed the incident which occurred Friday, saying the...
ABUJA, Sept. 16 — At least 151 gunmen were killed and 456 others nabbed by troops in various operations across Nigeria in the past two weeks, a military official said Thursday. Edward Buba, spokesman for the Nigerian military, told reporters in the capital of Abuja that dozens of hostages were also freed during the period,...
In Nigeria, 20 people were killed and others sustained gunshot wounds after armed men attacked two villages in the north central state of Plateau. This is the area where violence between cattle herders and farmers is common. Reuters reports, the attacks took place in the early hours of Thursday when unidentified gunmen stormed Tagwam Lawuru...
Gunmen kidnapped the Ekiti State’s chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Paul Omotisho, on Saturday. APC’s Publicity Secretary in Ekiti, Mr Segun Dipe, stated at Ado-Ekiti that the assailants abducted Omotisho as he was driving on the Agbado-Ekiti/Imesi-Ekiti Road. “The chairman was driving in a Toyota Venza car when the assailants seized him....