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What You Need to Know:  The Nigerian High Commission in Pretoria has issued a warning to its national’s residing in South Africa to exercise caution before, during, and after, its Super Eagles play South Africa’s Bafana Bafana in the African Cup of Nations semi final on Wednesday.  The game is to take place at the Ivory Coast’s Stade de la Paix...

What You Need to Know: James Kingsley, a Nigerian Corporal assigned to 26 Battalion of the Joint Task Force North West Operation Hadarin Daji, opened fire at his Senior Officer Second Lieutenant OC Ukachuckwu, killing him.  The incident occurred on Sunday evening at a JTF forward operating base in Magami, Sokoto, around six pm local time, with a report claiming Kingsley...

What's Happening Six students, three teachers, and a bus driver have been kidnapped in south-western Nigeria by a thus far unknown group of armed men. The kidnapping took place in Nigeria's Ekiti state. The Ekiti state government called the kidnappings "callous and unacceptable", and said that "nothing would be spared in the efforts to rescue them". The group was kidnapped by...