Unidentified gunmen attacked the premises of Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS), Awada, Onitsha station today May 30. The gunmen stormed the premises at about 4.30am and burnt two of the operational vehicles used by the station. Confirming the incident to newsmen, the spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Ikenga Tochukwu, said no life was lost in the attack. ”Following a distress call today 30/5/2022 at about 4:30am of a case of arson in Anambra State Broadcasting Station …
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Suspected Fulani herdsmen reportedly invaded the Mgbuji community in Eha-Amufu, Isi-Uzo Local Government Area of Enugu State, destroying farmlands, killing eight persons, while several others were injured and some kidnapped . Some villagers told Daily Sun that the armed herdsmen invaded the community on Sunday afternoon, August 1, through the border they have with the Benue community and attacked several farm settlers and others caught in the farm. A villager, Chinaza Akan, who witnessed the incident said one of the casualties …
Black Lives Matter demonstrators in England have taken down a more than 100-year-old statue commemorating a slave trader. The memorial honoring merchant slave trader Edward Colston was destroyed by the crowd in Bristol while protesting the murder of George Floyd. They used ropes to remove the bronze statue of Edward Colton from its base. Protesters then dragged it to the River Avon and threw it in the water, where it quickly sank. The statue had been a fixture in …