Defence Headquarters (DHQ) says no attack on Maiduguri metropolis as widely reported today

Defense Headquarters has refuted reports in the media that terrorists launched an attack on Maiduguri this morning, May 3, 2014.

In a statement signed by Major General Chris Olukolade released to the media today, May 3, 2014, the Nigerian military said that troops received a distress call in the early hours of the morning and launched a counter attack using mortar shells on a group of terrorists.

The statement reads:

There was no attack on Maiduguri metropolis as widely reported this morning by some media outlets especially a foreign television channel.  Rather, on receiving distress call, troops at about 2am this morning launched a counter attack using mainly mortar shells on a group of terrorists who had attacked and killed four persons in Margimari village and other settlements in the outskirts of Maiduguri.  There was no fighting or attack around the University or any barrack in Maiduguri either, as reported.

Anti-Riot policeman rapes four-year-old girl in Plateau

Anti-riot policeman attached to the Special Task Force in Jos, Plateau State was on Wednesday arrested for raping a four-year-old girl. The girl, simply identified as Helen, was allegedly raped by the policeman said to be a 32-year-old corporal, serving with the STF at Rapum in Kassa area of Barakin Ladi Local Government area.

The little girl was first treated for bleeding at the Barakin Ladi General Hospital and discharged, but by the following morning, the bleeding became so severe that she was rushed back to the hospital.

Special Task Force Foils Planned Attack On Jos Church

Security agencies in Jos foiled a planned attack in Jos on Sunday as hundreds of early morning worshippers in a Plateau church escaped death from some gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen.

The gunmen were said to have targeted the church located at Rantya Low Cost area of Nyago Gyel district of Jos South Local Government area of the state.

They had descended the hills and were about to launch their deadly mission before one of the church’s guards was said to have spotted them.