Gunmen, suspected to be bandits, have attacked and killed some locals and razed down many houses in four villages of the Kanam Local Government Area of Plateau.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the attackers stormed the villages on Sunday afternoon, shooting sporadically and setting properties belonging to the locals on fire.
A resident of the area, Danladi Dukup, told NAN that some people lost their lives while others sustained various degrees of injuries.
He said that many of the villagers have fled their homes for safety following the invasion.
Maj. Ishaku Takwa, the Media Officer of Operation Safe Haven (OPSH), a military task force maintaining peace in Plateau and environs, confirmed the attack to journalists on Sunday in Jos.
Takwa, who didn’t confirm the number of persons killed or injured, said that troops of the task force have been deployed to the area to restore normalcy and arrest the suspected bandits.
This bandits attack is coming barely 24 hours after the abduction of the wife and daughter of the state Commissioner for Environment. (NAN)
Meanwhile, Francis Ogunnusi, a deacon with the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), Onikoko, Abeokuta, Ogun State, has collapsed and died while preaching on the alter against ritualists.
He was said to be the Baale of Onikoko, which is located in the Panseke area of the state capital.
In the incident that occurred during Sunday service on April 3, Ogunnusi was on the pulpit preaching against the get-rich-syndrome permeating into society.
A video of the incident shows Ogunnusi, who spoke in Yoruba, warning money ritualists that others would spend the money they have gathered when they died.
As the interpreter began to translates his words into English, Ogunnusi suddenly tilted forward and slumped.
The sudden incident sent the church into frenzy as members began running helter-skelter.
