Sea pirates have attacked a passenger boat carrying market women along the Lobia/Foropa Waterways in Southern Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa State, abducting four women. Reports said the boat was attacked few minutes after it sailed off the Swali Market Jetty in Yenagoa, the state capital, on Tuesday. Community
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In a major crackdown on oil theft in the Niger Delta, operatives of the 6 Division, Nigerian Army, have deactivated three artisanal refineries, arrested five suspects, and recovered over 100,000 litres of illegally refined Automotive Gas Oil (AGO), also known as diesel. The Assistant Director of Public Relations for the
By Nafisat Abdulrahman An armed man has been fatally shot by German police near the Nazi documentation centre and Israeli consulate in the southern city of Munich. The man was hit during an exchange of fire with police. Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said later that the suspect had died.