Security

A helicopter belonging to the Nigerian Police Force reportedly crashed in Bauchi State, Northern Nigeria on Wednesday, injuring six persons. Confirming the crash, the Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) in a statement, said no life was lost during the crash.   According to the statement, the helicopter took off from Abuja. …

Governor Hope Uzodimma will use the occasion of the sixth edition of Imo stakeholders forum scheduled to hold on Tuesday to name those who are sponsors and financiers of insecurity in the state. Imo Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Declan Emelumba, stated this in a statement on Sunday. Emelumba said …

Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, has said that his principal, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), made “tremendous progress” in the fight against banditry and insurgency in 2021. He stated this in Lagos on Thursday at a press conference to showcase the “achievements” of the Buhari regime during …

The Inspector-General of Police has expressed concern after ISWAP terrorists fired rockets into Borno communities, hours before President Muhammadu Buhari arrived the North-East state on Thursday December 23. Addressing state house correspondents after an emergency security council meeting presided over by Buhari at the presidential villa, the IGP Usman Baba …

Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar, yesterday, raised the alarm that the north is turning to killing field by bandits and other terrorists operating in the region.The Sultan, who noted that bandits were holding the region, especially North West, spellbound, expressed concerned that most of the killings were not being …

Controversial Islamic cleric, Ahmad Gumi, says he has quit mediating for armed bandits following their declaration as terrorists by the court Mr Gumi spoke in an exclusive interview in Kaduna on Wednesday. He had visited bandits in the forests in Zamfara and Niger states, taken medical services to them and has …

Widow to the late Odumegwu Jim Ojukwu, Mrs Bianca Ojukwu, has pleaded with President Buhari to release Nnamdi Kanu Speaking at the 10th memorial anniversary of late Biafran leader, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu on Friday, November 26 in Owerri, the former Nigerian Ambassador to Spain urged the President to consider the …

Prominent Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has hit out at calls for bandits to be declared terrorists, saying the decision won’t change anything. In a statement by Malam Tukur Mamu, the Dan-Iyan Fika and Media Consultant to Sheikh Gumi, the Muslim scholar said: “I think the Federal Government has succumbed to …

INTERPOL, the International Criminal Police Organization, has elected Nigeria’s Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG GARBA Baba Umar as the Vice President (Africa) and Executive Committee Member of the International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO) – INTERPOL. Umar was the Head of INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB), Nigeria. A statement by …

The Nigerian Army has denied that soldiers burnt down several houses in Awo-Mmamma community in Oru East Local Government Area of Imo State. Recall that we had reported the incident on Tuesday. Soldiers had burnt the houses and shops during a reprisal attack after one of them was killed by …