Two men charged with mugging woman at Lagos ATM point

Two men were on Tuesday brought before a Tinubu Magistrates' Court in Lagos for allegedly mugging a woman at knifepoint and stabbing a man at an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) point.

The duo -- John Luka, 21, and Bulus Amos, 23 -- who did not give details of their occupations and residential addresses, are

facing a three-count charge bordering on conspiracy and assault occasioning harm.

The prosecutor, Insp. Livinus Okeke told the court that the accused committed the offences at 12.30p.m. on May 2 at the ATM of Union Bank, Ojomu Market, Lekki, Lagos.

Again, two suicide bombers blow up Maiduguri market, kill 10

Nearly a week after two female suicide bombers attacked the popular Monday market in Maiduguri,  Borno State capital, where several people were killed, another two female suicide bombers on Monday were reported to have unleashed terror attack on the same market.

Not fewer than ten people were feared dead as two explosions ripped through the market, according to witnesses.

It was learnt that the two female bombers who carried the explosives in the back of their hijab dress, arrived a hair braiding salon and blew themselves up as a female civilian-JTF operatives made to search them.

“A middle-aged woman approached the site where chicken sellers attend to customers but vigilantes who stood nearby insisted on checking the luggage she was carrying,” said witness Ahmad Sanusi.