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The humanitarian non-governmental organisation was suspended after the state government discovered that it was using a hotel in Maiduguri for training some aid workers on shooting. While announcing the suspension, Zulum’s spokesman, Mallam Isa Gusau, said the French NGO was found using toy guns and simulators in training exercises at a hotel located off the Circular Road in Maiduguri. Gusau said residents near the hotel had reported to officials that they were hearing gunshot sounds from the hotel, adding that the state government further reported to the matter to the GRA Divisional Police Headquarters, which oversees the hotel’s location.
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24 killed, dozens injured in Borno, Plateau attacks The Punch
Published 12:25 am
Twenty-four people have been confirmed dead and 24 others injured, following separate attacks in Borno and Plateau states.
Residents of Damasak in the Mobbar Local Government Area, Borno State, on Friday, told Governor Babagana Zulum that 18 persons were killed, 21 others injured and several properties destroyed, when Boko Haram members attacked the town with three gun trucks on Tuesday.
The properties destroyed included the United Nations humanitarian hub, private residential houses, a police station, the palace of the district head, a primary healthcare centre, and the GSM Village.
The residents lamented that the attack on Damasak was the sixth in two weeks by Boko Haram or Islamic State West Africa Province.
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