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Nigeria: Tinubu Condemns Killing of Dozens in Niger State
Premium Times, 4 January 2026
Over 30 people were killed by the terrorists during the Saturday attack on the Niger community. Read more »
President Bola Tinubu has condemned the fatal attack on the Kasuwan Daji community in Niger State. The president also ordered security chiefs to hunt down the attackers and ensure the kidnapped residents are freed.
The United States has carried out airstrikes against camps linked to Islamic State-aligned militants in north-western Nigeria's Sokoto state, near the border with Niger, in what Nigerian officials described as a jointly planned operation approved by President Bola Tinubu and based on Nigerian intelligence. Casualty figures remain
Read more »Few details have been released about the United States airstrikes on Christmas Day launched from MQ-9 Reaper drones against camps linked to Islamic State-aligned militants in north-western Nigeria's Sokoto state.
No civilian casualties have been reported. ''Multiple ISIS terrorists were killed in the ISIS camps,'' the U.S. Africa Command (Africom) said in a statement on December 26.
Among those
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