Crisis returns to Ekiti as gunmen disrupt Ekiti APC victory party

Fayose: Still beating drum of war ?

It is quite not understandable if the Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose is still not relenting in beating the drum of war especially against the opposition party in the state, the All Progressives Congress, APC. 

In what looked like a renewed war against the opposition, crisis returned to the state on Wednesday as gunmen attacked the APC Secretariat and jubilant members of the party.

The APC members had just returned from the streets of Ado Ekiti where they had gone to celebrate the victory of the APC candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), in the Saturday’s Presidential election.

The state Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, who addressed journalists in Ado Ekiti after the attack, said the gunmen came in three Hilux vans with Government House number plates with three men in Police uniform sitting in the front.

Gunmen bomb Ekiti Federal Prisons, free prisoners

Gunmen whose identities still remain unknown have attacked the Federal Prisons, Ado Ekiti on Sunday night and killed one person suspected to be a prison official.

The assailants who were said to be about 60,had stormed the prisons located at Afao Ekiti Road,Ado Ekiti on Sunday night at about 10.30pm

The gang were said to have employed the use of dynamite to bomb the main gate before they can gain entrance into the prisons yard

They equally killed all the 20 sniffer dogs tied in front of the gate.

The gang were said to have came to the prison premises with about seven Hilux trucks, brandishing dangerous weapons such as cudgels, cutlasses, AK 47 rifles , charms and chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ as they shot sporadically into the air .

Gunmen attack primary school in Minna

Unidentified gunmen have attacked Limawa primary school in Minna capital of Niger state this morning.

According to Daily Trust, the attack occurred at about 10:30 a.m. on Monday.

The number of casualties could however not be affirmed as at the time of publishing this report although a source said two students were inflicted with machete cuts and have been taken to the hospital.

The Niger state Police command spokesperson DSP Ibrahim Gambari confirmed the incident. He said normalcy had been returned to the area but did not give further details.

Again, Gunmen kill 20 in Zamfara

Gunmen suspected to be armed robbers have killed 20 people in a village in the northwest Nigerian state of Zamfara, as authorities said on Wednesday, is a similar attack to one in June.

Dozens of men armed with guns stormed Kaburu village early on Tuesday morning, demanding money before shooting and hacking people to death, local residents said.