The Inspector-General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu, NPM, mni, has fingered the members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)/Eastern Security Network (ESN) to be the mastermind of the attacks on security operatives and formations including the Imo State Police Command Headquartres and the Headquartres of the Nigerian Correctional […]
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The Minister of Defence, retired Maj.-Gen. Bashir Salihi-Magashi, has given an assurance that the abducted students of the Government Science Secondary School,Kankara, Katsina State, will be rescued soon. Salihi-Magashi gave the assurance on Sunday in Katsina when he led a Federal Government delegation to Gov. Aminu Masari on a sympathy […]
For several days, the killers lived peaceably among their future victims, sharing their dormitories and eating their food. Then, on Saturday afternoon, they took out their guns, rounded up the people like cattle and slaughtered them one by one. This was the nightmare recounted by survivors of a massacre that […]
A humanitarian aid worker and two local officials have been abducted by Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters in conflict-plagued Borno, a state in northeastern Nigeria, two security officials said Wednesday. They were kidnapped by the jihadists at a checkpoint in the village of Wakilti in Borno State on […]
The 4 Brigade of the Nigerian Army in Benin has released telephone helplines to reach the Exercise Crocodile Smile VI as well as the Edo Joint Security Operation. The Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, Major Ojo Adenegan, disclosed this in a statement released on Monday. According to Adenegan, the helplines […]
Bandits have killed five worshippers and kidnapped 18 in an attack on a mosque during prayers in Zamfara state, police said Sunday. Around 100 cattle thieves on motorcycles opened fire on a Muslim congregation in remote Dutsen Gari village in Maru district as residents were observing the weekly Friday prayers. […]
The Police Command in Oyo State has debunked the reported shooting of EndSARS protesters in Ogbomoso by its personnel. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some youths had, on Saturday, stormed major streets in Ogbomoso to demand for the ban of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), an arm […]
The Ekiti State Government has disclosed it would formally launch the South West Security Initiative tagged “Amotekun” on October 19. This was as the state government declared its intention to celebrate the two years anniversary of Fayemi-led administration for two weeks. Disclosing this in a press conference, the State’s Commissioner […]
Almost five (5) months after being kidnapped by unknown militants group, the Nigerian Navy on Tuesday announced the rescue of five expatriates. The expatriates were kidnapped onboard MT RIO MITONG and MT DJIBLOHO ship in Yellow Island. According to a statement signed by the John Enenche, Major General Coordinator Defence […]
Amnesty International on Friday urged Nigeria’s Federal Government to release the findings of a report on rights abuses by security forces three years after the government ordered the probe. The campaigning group has accused security forces of hundreds of extra-judicial killings, rape, torture, and enforced disappearances claims the military has […]