17 killed, seven kidnapped in violent attacks in Nigeria last week
– Also, Udeh Okoye, the National Youth Leader of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, was kidnapped., police spokesperson Ebere Amaraizu told PREMIUM TIMES Monday night.The mother of Yahaya Muhammad, the immediate past special adviser on political affairs to Governor Mohammad Badaru of Jigawa State,Mr Muhammad was also a former lawmaker in the Jigawa State House of Assembly. He represented Sule Tankarkar constituency.
He said the clash resulted from a dispute over land ownership between Fulani herdsmen and indigenous farmers around Iggi forest.Security sources told TheCable that the insurgents attacked the convoy at Konduga while Mr Zulum was returning from a trip to Bama Local Government rea.Mr Zulum had visited Bayo, Kwaya Kusar, Askira Uba and Gwoza as part of his “familiarity and need assessment tour” of the 27 LGAs in the state.
Soldiers of Nigerian Army Super Camp 3 and the 231 Battalion — both under Sector 2 Operation Lafiya Dole — were moving supplies from Damaturu, Yobe State, to Biu, Borno State, when they drove into a Boko Haram pitfall around Azare-Kamuya end of the highway at about 9 a.m., military sources said.
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