Nigeria Breaking News Today Monday, August 7, 2017

This is a roundup of some of the breaking news in Nigeria for Monday August 7, 2017.

President Buhari Is Down With Cancer – Sahara Reporters

Online news platform, Sahara Reporters, claims that President Muhammadu Buhari is battling cancer. According to the online newspaper, sources close to his inmost associates had long told the site that the president was beset by cancer.

The newspaper claims that recent visits to Buhari in London was orchestrated by the cabal around the president to give the impression that the president had miraculously recovered.

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Anambra Church Killing: Here Is The Man Gunmen Came For

Naija News reported earlier today that many worshippers where killed when gunmen stormed St. Philip’s Catholic Church, Amakwa Ozubulu in Anambra.

However, there are claims on social media that the attack was a spillover of a drug related feud, between two Ozubulu brothers who live in South Africa.

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Ozubulu Massacre : President Buhari Commiserates with People of Anambra

President Muhammadu Buhari  has on Sunday night placed a telephone call to Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra to sympathize with him and people of the State over the Ozubulu Church massacre.

The attack which took place early Sunday morning on St. Philip Catholic Church, Ozubulu, Ekwusigo Local Government Area had resulted in the death of 11 worshippers while 18 others sustained injuries.

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Nigerian Army Neutralises 13 Terroorists, Recovers Explosives and Other Items

Soldiers of the Operation Lafiya Dole have  neutralised over 13 terrorists on Saturday in different  areas in Borno and Adamawa during clearance operations.

In a statement  by  the spokesman of the Army, Brig.-Gen. Sani Usman, 12 terrorosts were neutralised when the troops laid ambush for them at Miyanti-Banki junction in Borno and one at Kafin Hausa in Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa.

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