The death toll from Wednesday’s attack on a mosque at Gadan, a community in Gezawa Local Government Area of Kano State, has risen to 11, the police and residents of the area have said. Residents said they buried at least 11 victims of the attack, mostly aged persons. A resident of the community, Shafi’u Abubakar, had sprayed the mosque with …

Iran fired air defence batteries early Friday morning after reports of explosions near the city of Isfahan, the state-run IRNA news agency reported. It remained unclear if the country was under attack. However, tensions remain high in the wider Middle East after Iran’s unprecedented missile-and-drone attack on Israel. IRNA said the defences fired across several provinces. It did not elaborate …

Some residents of Ibadan, Oyo State, on Tuesday, said there was an explosion in parts of the state capital. There were also videos online that showed a dusty cloud and burning houses and cars. A University of Ibadan student, who spoke with our correspondent on the telephone said, “It is true. We all heard the sound and it was very …

An explosion resulting from a fuel tanker crash rocked Gwagwa, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory, on Friday night. This is contrary to rumours making the rounds of an aeroplane crash in the Kubwa suburb of the FCT on Friday night. Meanwhile, our correspondent gathered that first responders had been deployed to the scene of the incident. The spokesperson …