Federal Government has linked fighters of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) to the attack on a Catholic church in Owo, Ondo State. Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, disclosed this Thursday while briefing State House reporters after a meeting of the National Security Council presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. He said the government had been able to locate perpetrators of the Owo attack and zeroed in on ISWAP terrorist group. The minister, who briefed alongside Inspector-General of Police, Alkali Baba Usman, said security agencies had been directed to go after the…

Kaduna State Commissioner of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, on Thursday, confirmed that terrorist killed 32 in Dogon Noma and Ungwan Sarkias villages, as well as Ungwan Maikori in Kajuru Local Government Area of the state on Sunday. The Commissioner, however, debunked the rumour that the terrorists were aided by an helicopter. But he clarified that the bandits didn’t attack the communities with helicopters as the helicopter in question was security helicopter which were sent to repel the bandits. Aruwan noted that at Dogon Noma alone 29 villagers were killed by the terror group with three killed in…

Members of the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) have reportedly killed 25 scavengers, otherwise known as ‘Yan Ajakuta’, in Dikwa LGA of Borno state. The scavengers were reportedly killed in Mukdala village, located about 10 kilometres north to Dikwa town on Wednesday. The victims were shot by insurgents who rode on six motorcycles. Takno Ibrahim, a member of a civilian joint task force in the state, said the deceased were shot multiple times. Ibrahim said some of the victims escaped with bullet wounds and were taken to the General Hospital in Dikwa town by officers of the military…

Survivors of an attack by unknown assailants on a Catholic church in Nigeria lay weeping and writhing in pain at a local hospital on Monday after suffering what a doctor described as lacerations, bullet wounds and blast injuries. At least 50 people including children were killed, according to media reports, during the attack on St Francis Catholic Church in the town of Owo, which took place during Sunday mass as worshippers were celebrating the Christian holiday of Pentecost. Police, who have yet to release a death toll, said they had recovered unexploded improvised explosive devices and shells from AK-47 ammunition.…