Security

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 …

A breakdown of the figures released by SBM Intelligence states that 337 soldiers, 29 cops and civilian JTF members were killed, while 111 others were eliminated by the terrorists. The report added that 92 terrorists were eliminated, while in all, 569 persons were killed in several ambushes within the same …

The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Isiaka Oladayo Amao, has assured that terrorists and bandits terrorising Nigerians would soon be wiped out. Amao stated this on Tuesday during 2022 budget defense session, before the Senate Committee on Air Force. He said the terrorists have been devastatingly decimated and degraded …

The Nigerian Army has killed no fewer than 50 members of the Islamic State West Africa Province terrorist group in Askira Uba Local Government Area of Borno State where the sect members killed Brig-Gen Dzarma Zirkusu and three other soldiers in an attack in the same local government on Saturday, November …