While federal forces have secured the north eastern parts of the country from insurgents, armed attacks are popping up in the North West.
More than 32 persons have been reported killed after heavily armed gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram attacked a village in Zamfara State in the early hours of Tuesday.
Reports say the gunmen numbering over 100 on motorcycles hit Kizara village in Tsafe Local Government Area.
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Suspected Boko Haram Militants opened fire on students taking exams at a school in the troubled northeast, killing at least nine of them, witnesses said Tuesday.
The attack on Monday at a private school in Maiduguri was the second on a school in recent days.
On Sunday, 13 people, including high school students and teachers, were killed during a five-hour shootout when extremists attacked a boarding school in Damaturu, the capital of Yobe State, the military said.
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A suspected drug trafficker has been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) officials at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos.
The suspect was said to have ingested 126 wraps of narcotics. NDLEA said that the drug, which weighed 2.225kg, is the highest ingestion since January.
A statement signed yesterday by the NDLEA Head of Public Affairs, Mr. Mitchell Ofoyeju, stated that the officials placed the suspect on observation when he tested positive to drug ingestion.
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A French sailor was freed on Tuesday after being captured by pirates last week from his ship off the coast of Togo and taken to Nigeria, a military commander said.
Pirates attacked the oil products tanker Adour on June 13, around 30 nautical miles off the coast of Togo.
General Bata Dembiro, a commander in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta region, said the Nigerian navy and French marines stormed the vessel after the hijackers seized it, but they took Benjamin Elan hostage to enable them to escape. They released the other 14 crew, he said.
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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have just revealed the name of their new baby daughter, who was born 5 weeks prematurely and weighed in at less than 5 pounds.
The name of the their child is….. (drum roll please):
Kaidence Donda West
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Nigerian authorities dropped charges on Tuesday against eight Russian sailors suspected of trafficking arms, their lawyer said, but another seven will face trial.
The 15 Russian sailors were charged with illegally bringing weapons into Nigeria last year, after Nigerian authorities intercepted a ship on October 23, saying they had found several guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition.
The court case has raised tensions between Nigeria and Russia, whose Foreign Ministry has spoken out against the charges.
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday rescinded its decision suspending the Sokoto State governor, Aliyu Wamakko.
The decision to withdraw the suspension slammed on Mr. Wamakko followed appeals from the PDP Governors Forum led by the Akwa-Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio.
Mr. Wamakko was last week suspended from the PDP for alleged anti-party activities and disrespecting the party’s National Chairman, Bamanga Tukur.
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The friendship of these two, Elikem and Fatima becomes more and more interesting every time with every little twist it takes.
After them sharing beds, a couch and brushing teeth together, they are back at it sharing yet another facility in the house.
While the rest of the housemates in the ruby house were off to chill in the Jacuzzi, the former diamond housemates Elikem and Fatima headed to the tub to go get themselves a bath.
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Thousands of people continue to flee the violence in Nigeria, a month since the start of a military offensive in three northern states against the armed group Boko Haram.
Reports by Aljazeera suggest over 6,000 Nigerians have fled since government launched its latest offensive against Boko Haram.
A full video of the report can be seen here.
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Correspondent Yvonne Ndege and crew released after being held in country's southern city of Zinder for three days.
An Al Jazeera correspondent and her team have been finally released from a Niger jail after being held by authorities since Saturday.
Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege, camera operator Romuald Luyindula, producer Mohammed Abubakar and driver Rabiu Abdullahi were held in Zinder, southern Niger.
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More than 1,200 migrants reached Italy over the weekend after attempting the perilous sea passage from Africa in flimsy vessels, the Italian coast guard said on Monday.
The coast guard said it had rescued most of the migrants at sea after intercepting nearly 20 boats and was still searching for others but it could not confirm reports that up to 10 people had died during the attempted crossing.
This year's first wave of summer heat has brought with it relatively calm waters, prompting impoverished immigrants desperately seeking work in the European Union to set off in rubber rafts and wooden boats. Many do not survive the passage.
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Kenyan police shot dead two suspected militants on Monday who they said were planning attacks in the country on behalf of Somalia's al Shabaab.
During a dawn raid on a house in the port city of Mombasa, police shot Kassim Omollo after he defied orders to surrender and returned fire, senior police officer Thomas Sangut said.
Police arrested Omollo's wife, who gave information that led them to the home of the second suspect, Salim Mohammed Nyiro, also known as Abdullahi.
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The Military Joint Task Force (JTF) in Yobe State has confirmed that 11 people were killed in separate attacks as suspected members of the Boko Haram sect invaded the Government Secondary School and a military check point in Damaturu, the state capital.
The military spokesman in the state, Lieutenant Eli Lazarus, in a statement on Monday explained that two teachers, seven students and two insurgents were killed during the separate attacks.
Apart from the 11 killed, three soldiers according to the statement were critically injured in the clash that lasted for over five hours.
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Sometime back, a sextape belonging to Zimbabwe’s representative in Big Brother Africa The Chase, Pokello Nare, leaked and widely spread on the internet tainting her image badly.
Well, her father, Retired Colonel George Nare has broken his silence about the 2010 sex tape incident.
Commenting on his daughter’s 2010 sex tape incident, Rtd Col Nare said Pokello was a mature person who should not be judged by what she does in private.
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The first batch of Super Eagles, missed their flight to South Africa and now dangerously behind schedule, even with the travel chaos that followed their protest over bonus cut.
They were scheduled to leave in the morning, on a flight from Windhoek to Johannesburg, where they would then take another flight to Sao Paulo by 5.55pm.
The team failed to board the flight, which was secured with the help of FIFA and are now fighting to get the next available one.
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One month after the declaration of emergency rule to fight insurgency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, violence has erupted again, as gunmen suspected to be members of Islamist terrorist sect attacked four communities of Hwa’a, Kunde, Gathahure and Gjigga of Gwoza Hills settlements, torching four churches with Improvised Explosives Devices,IEDS, and petro-bombs Thursday afternoon.
According to Tada Garuta, a resident of Kunde, the gunmen climbed the hills on foot with explosives and petro-bombs, and chanted God is great, in Arabic, before setting four local churches ablaze.
Thereafter, they ransacked and emptied their bans of grains along with some livestocks. Gathahure and Hwa’a communities were also affected.
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Al Qaeda's North African wing (AQIM) on Sunday confirmed the death of two of its senior commanders in Mali earlier this year, veteran jihadist Abdelhamid Abou Zeid and brigade commander Abdallah Al Chinguetti, Mauritania's ANI news agency said.
The death of Abou Zeid, who made millions of dollars kidnapping Western hostages over the past decade, had already been announced "with certainty" by France in March after clashes with its troops in northern Mali.
AQIM, however, had not until now officially confirmed the death of Abou Zeid, the leader of one of its southern brigades and a trusted lieutenant to the group's elusive leader, Abdelmalek Droukdel.
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Security operatives, on Saturday, uncovered and impounded a Russian plane carrying sophisticated military weapons at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport.
It will be recalled that in July last year, at the same airport, an Ukranian plane conveying military equipment was impounded and detained for hours.
The Russian plane was impounded around 8.00p.m. along with its nine crew member for more than 10 hours by security operatives for what was said to be security reason.
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Iyanya got many female fans drooling when he passed through the UK for his album launch campaign, but he got one fan going the extra mile.
While in Manchester last night at the #Iyanya Kukere Concert, a female fan was called up onstage to give a bootilicious dance over one of Iyanya’s classical songs in front of multitudes of fans.
She did what she had to do but ‘her dress was too short’ so that when she bent down, everything at the bottom side was revealed, or did she intentionally make that happen?
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A 60-year old Maiduguri based businessman, Friday, turned in his son, a member of the deadly Boko Haram sect, to the Joint Task Force (JTF), Operation Restore Order.
It was gathered from a source within the family that the son before departing from the family house few days ago had threatened to kill his father.
But to everyone’s surprise the son returned home some days later, pleading with his father to give him refuge from the soldiers, who have started a clampdown on the sect.
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Jamaica's 200m world champion Veronica Campbell-Brown has tested positive for a banned diuretic, sources close to Jamaican athletics told Reuters.
The sources said the doping violation occurred at the Jamaica International Invitational meeting on May 4 in Kingston.
Campbell-Brown, who won the Olympic 200 title in 2004 and 2008, is Jamaica's most successful female athlete and the biggest name in track and field to fall foul of the drug testers since disgraced American sprinter Marion Jones.
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It’s official: Kim Kardashian is a mother!
Kim Kardashian gave birth to her and Kanye West’s daughter minutes ago, and both the Kim and the baby are said to be in good health.
We would like to congratulate the new parents on the birth of their daughter!
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Nigeria’s Islamist Boko Haram militia is destroying schools, killing students and teachers, in an impoverished, long-neglected part of the country, where children were already struggling to receive an education.
At the Ali Al Yaskari primary school, the classrooms are silent. In the morning, teachers sign their names on an attendance sheet to receive their salaries, then quickly leave without teaching a single course.
A few students sit under a tree, idling away their time in the sandy schoolyard.
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Socialite Huddah Monroe seems to be dogged by controversies in everything she lays her hands on.
However, in a complete turn of events, the former Big Brother contestant is ready to come clean of her of past deeds.
Recently during an interview with Ghetto Radio, Huddah admitted to being addicted to cocaine in the past.
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The military Joint Task Force (JTF) in Yobe State on Thursday released Hassana Yakubu, one of the wives of the wanted Boko Haram sect leader, Shiekh Abubakar Shekau.
A member of the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Reconciliation (PCDR) disclosed this to The Guardian in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.
Hassana was released along with seven other wives of top commanders of the Boko Haram sect. Fifteen of their children, aged between five and eight, were also released.
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More than 32 persons have been reported killed after heavily armed gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram attacked a village in Zamfara State in the early hours of Tuesday.
