Some unknown gunmen were reported to have separately attacked two Local Government Areas of Kaduna State and Killed seven persons, most of which are children between the ages of one and five years, while many reportedly sustained varying degrees of injuries. The two LGAs are Kaura and Lere. According to the government statement, the attacks were reprisal following Thursday night attack on Gora Gan in Zango Kataf, which claimed seven lives, burning of 13 houses...

By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz, Regional Correspondent _____ A female suicide bomber reportedly killed at least three people when she blew herself up in a crowd in Konduga,  Borno State, security and humanitarian sources confirmed. “We evacuated three dead bodies and two people who were seriously injured from the scene,” said aid worker Abubakar Mohammed. The attack happened in the town of Konduga, about 38 kilometres (24 miles) from the state capital Maiduguri. The attacker set off...

By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz, Regional Correspondent _____ The Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, has said that ransom was not paid before kidnappers freed hundreds of schoolboys kidnapped from Kankara part of the state. The governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle, had earlier  revealed how he facilitated the release of 344 students without payment of ransom. He said the boys, kidnapped last week, were released after negotiations with the kidnappers whom he described as bandits. He did not, however, say...