An unspecified number of persons are missing after a boat carrying over 100 passengers capsized in Karim Lamido Local Government Area of Taraba State. The boat capsized in the Binneri community of Karim Lamido midway through River Benue on Saturday evening, October 28, 2023. The boat was returning from a fish market in the Mayoreneyo community of Ardo-Kola LGA of the state. It was gathered that none of the passengers wore life jackets. …
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A kidnapped staff of Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Tom Tikyaa and 12 other passengers of Benue Links bus have regained their freedom. The 13 victims including the driver of the bus were kidnapped last Sunday along Otukpo – Ugbokolo road in Okpokwu Local Government Area of Benue State. The vehicle was returning to Makurdi from Onitsha in Anambra State when the gunmen intercepted it and whisked the victims away to an unknown destination. According to Daily Trust, …
Commercial activities were paralyzed in Jalingo, Taraba State as tricycle operators staged a protest over the killing of their colleagues by unknown assailants. The protest, which started on Friday morning, September 8, 2023, resulted in the blockage of some major highways in Jalingo metropolis, including Nukkai, ATC, and Micheline. The state chairman of the Association of Tricycle Operators, Abdullahi Bello, who confirmed the incident said the victim identified as Yahuza Abdullahi was killed by assailants posing …
Terrorists have released new photos of the abducted Abuja- Kaduna train passengers. The three photos currently trending on social media are believed to have been released on Monday night, April 25. “They want to tell the world that the abducted passengers are alive and in good condition.” a security expert, Abubakar Ahmed told Nigerian Tribune. However, a family member of one of the victims said that they have been disturbed since the photos emerged. “We have been …
Fatima Amma Indimi, Daughter of Maiduguri billionaire, Alhaji Mohammed Indimi, has called on the government to secure the North and rescue kidnapped Kaduna train passengers. Taking to Instagram on Monday April 18, the entrepreneur described the train attack which claimed more than eight lives and left 26 other travellers injured, as heartbreaking, embarrassing, barbaric. “I ‘m scared of opening this app. Terror after terror. The fact that I tried to stay away from Instagram for the purpose of …
Family members of the passengers kidnapped during the March 28 terrorist attack on an Abuja-Kaduna train have issued a 72-hour ultimatum to the federal government to ensure the safe rescue of all the abductees. The families gave the ultimatum at the end of a meeting of the family members in Kaduna on Monday, April 12. Reacting to the recent video released by the terrorists showing the abductees pleading on the government to rescue them, the families said they were yet to receive any …