On Wednesday men on motorcycles invaded the village of Damaga in Zamfara state in the northwest. The bandits arrived around 1:00 am and started shooting indiscriminately. They killed thirteen people, villager Ayuba Musa said.
These armed men stole cows, sheep and goats, they did not even spare the chickens, he added.
The shooting caused panic in the village, where middle school students immediately fled their classrooms for fear of being kidnapped, another resident told AFP.
For the past ten years or so, criminal groups, called bandits by the authorities, have terrorised the populations of northwestern and central Nigeria.
They attack villages, steal livestock and kidnap local personalities or travelers for ransom from the roads.
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At least 24 persons were killed in a gas explosion, road crash and a bandit attack in Delta, Ondo and Kaduna states respectively.
Ten persons reportedly died on Friday night in Agbor, the headquarters of Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State after a gas plant went up in flames, destroying several buildings, vehicles and leaving many persons with serious injuries.
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One of them, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said instead of waiting for hours to allow the vehicle and the content to cool off, they started discharging it immediately.
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Separate bandit attacks in Chikun and Giwa Local Government Areas of Kaduna have left at least six persons dead, a development that occurred a day after a village head and three others were killed.
A statement by Samuel Aruwan, the state commissioner of internal security and home affairs, revealed that four people were killed during an attack on Maskoro village, Kakau ward, and Akunakwo, in Gwagwada ward, both in Chikun local government area.
The suspected bandits, according to the commissioner, attacked Hayin Inji community and Kidandan town in Giwa local government area and killed two people while eight others were injured.
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Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has said that the dissolution of the State Executive Council does not affect the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Barr Uche Ihediwa, Commissioner for Information, Chief John Okiyi Kalu, and the Commissioner for Health, Dr Joe Osuji.
Recall that Ikpeazu had approved the immediate dissolution of the State Executive Council on a Saturday.
He had also ordered all those affected by the dissolution to hand over all government property in their possession as well their handover notes to their respective permanent secretaries.
The Governor also approved the recall from suspension of his Chief of Staff, Dr. Anthony Agbazuere.
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