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The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps on Tuesday averted imminent conflict between farmers and herders in the Ikere-Ekiti area of Ekiti state.

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Personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Kwara state have paraded a 54-year-old man for allegedly raping a minor in the state.

The Nigeria Police Force earlier today paraded 81 suspects arrested between April and May 2021.

Over one hundred houses have been submerged by an early downpour in Taraba State However, about 40 people who couldn't swim were rescued today during early morning downpour. Also, property worth several millions of Naira were destroyed by the disaster.

Kidnappers who raided a boarding school in northern Nigeria earlier this month released 28 children on Sunday (July 25) but another 81 remain in captivity, according to a pastor involved in the negotiations for their release. The attack on the Bethel Baptist High School in the state of Kaduna was the 10th mass school kidnapping since December in northwest Nigeria carried out by Islamist militants and more recently, criminal gangs.

Kidnappers are demanding a ransom of one million naira each to release around 80 children snatched from a boarding school in northern Nigeria last month, according to a pastor involved in the negotiations for their release.

Gunmen who kidnapped more than 100 students from a high school in northwestern Nigeria months ago have released 10 more of the hostages. But 21 others still remain in captivity.