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Nigeria cuts phone network in restive northern state

Abuja, Sept 4 (AFP/APP):Nigeria’s telecoms regulator has for security reasons asked operators to shut down mobile phone lines in Zamfara State, days after other restrictions were announced in the region plagued by violence. Gangs of criminals known locally as bandits snatched 73 children from a […]

Nigeria inducts JF-17 Thunder fighters as it upgrades air force

BEIJING, Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has inducted the JF-17 Thunder combat aircraft into its fleet as part of an ongoing modernization. Nigeria ordered three of the Sino-Pakistani fighters in 2018 to strengthen its air combat capability. The Nigerian Air Force officially inducted three JF-17 fighter […]

Talks underway in Nigeria to free abducted schoolgirls

Gusau, Nigeria-Authorities in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara are holding negotiations for the release of 317 schoolgirls kidnapped by criminal gangs last week, sources familiar with the talks said Monday. Gunmen from cattle rustling and kidnapping-for-ransom gangs on Friday invaded the Government Girls Secondary School in […]

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