Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has expressed deep frustration over Nigeria’s worsening insecurity, warning that the country can no longer justify the scale of killings and may eventually require international assistance if government efforts continue to fall short. Obasanjo issued the warning in Jos on Friday night at the...
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A quiet evening commute on the Nkpor–Nnobi Road in Idemili North, Anambra State, turned deadly when gunmen ambushed the convoy of former Anambra State Governor, Dr. Chris Ngige, leaving one woman dead and several others injured. The disturbing incident, which happened on Wednesday, was confirmed by Fred Chukwulobe, former...
Senate Ad Hoc Committee on the National Security Summit in partnership with the Plateau State Government on Thursday held the North Central Zonal Public Hearing on National Security in Jos, a development many participants described as a critical turning point in Nigeria’s search for lasting security reforms. The engagement...
Southern Governors’ Forum on Wednesday praised President Bola Tinubu for what they described as his decisive and hands-on response to recent security threats across the country, especially the spate of abductions targeting schoolchildren. Chairman of the Forum and Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, set the tone at the regional...
Members of the House of Representatives, at a special plenary on Wednesday, proposed major reforms across military operations, judicial processes, recruitment systems and community engagements to curb the growing security challenges in the country. Leading the debate, a former Deputy Speaker, Rep. Idris Wase (APC–Plateau), noted that 52 per...
Edo State Government has moved into full security mode after a viral video surfaced online showing a self-proclaimed bandit threatening attacks around Ekpoma and neighbouring communities. In response, Governor Monday Okpebholo has ordered round-the-clock surveillance across major highways and vulnerable communities. His Chief Press Secretary, Fred Itua, announced the...
In yet another sign of the deepening gunrunning crisis fuelling violence across the North-West and North-East, the Kaduna State Police Command has recovered a cache of live ammunition abandoned along the Zaria–Funtua Highway — a route increasingly exploited by arms couriers supplying bandits and terror groups hidden in forest...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has announced a sweeping security overhaul as he declared a nationwide security emergency and authorised fresh recruitment across key security institutions. In a statement personally signed by the president on Wednesday , Tinubu said the move had become necessary “in view of the emerging security...
Tinubu welcomes freed Kebbi schoolgirls, charges security forces to rescue others still in captivity
Tinubu welcomes freed Kebbi schoolgirls, charges security forces to rescue others still in captivity
President Bola Tinubu has welcomed the release today of the 24 schoolgirls abducted by terrorists in Maga Kebbi last Monday. NATIONAL ACCORD recalled that terrorists struck at the school at dawn on November 17 and abducted the girls, moments after a military detachment left the premises. The Kebbi incident...
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun has stressed the need for united action in addressing the insecurity confronting Nigeria. He observed that the nation is facing deep and troubling security challenges, adding that Niger State is in the centre of the evolving threats. The IGP expressed concern over...
Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, has expressed deep concern over the abduction of 24 girls from Government Girls’ Comprehensive Secondary School, Maga, in Danko-Wasagu Local Government Are of Kebbi. Egbetokun, expressed the concern during a sympathy visit to Gov. Nasir Idris at Kebbi Government House, Birnin Kebbi on...
Catholic Diocese of Kontagora has confirmed that a total of 265 people are still being held by the armed group that invaded St. Mary’s Catholic Nursery, Primary and Secondary School in Papiri, Agwara Local Government Area of Niger State last week. According to the Diocese, those still missing include...
Vice Chancellor of the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID), Professor Mohammed Laminu Mele, has opened up on the institution’s biggest obstacles over the decades, declaring that chronic underfunding remains “the greatest challenge” confronting UNIMAID since its establishment. Speaking on Monday during a press conference ahead of the university’s Golden Jubilee...
Kebbi State Governor, Nasir Idris, has raised the alarm that forces bent on destabilising Nigeria’s democracy may be behind the wave of violent abductions sweeping across the country. Idris made the remark on Monday when he received the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dr. Abbas Tajuddeen, who led...
Nigerian Army troops operating under Operation FANSAN YAMMA (OPFY) have intensified search-and-rescue operations for abducted schoolchildren in Niger, Kebbi and Zamfara states. A credible source at Army Headquarters informed the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that troops have in the last 24 hours, neutralised terrorists and destroyed their hideouts...
Kaduna State Government has dismissed as false and politically motivated the allegation by former Governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai that the administration of Governor Uba Sani paid ₦1 billion to bandits. The claim, made by El-Rufai during a Channels Television interview, was described by the government as baseless and deliberately...
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has launched a scathing attack on President Bola Tinubu led administration following a series of mass kidnappings in Northern Nigeria, accusing the Federal Government of “surrendering to terrorists” through what it describes as weak, uncoordinated, and reactionary security measures. In a statement signed by its...
A fresh wave of anxiety has gripped communities in Borno State after suspected Boko Haram/ISWAP fighters stormed a farmland in Askira/Uba Local Government Area and abducted 14 girls—an attack that further deepens Nigeria’s unsettling rise in mass kidnappings. The incident, which occurred on November 22 around 3:30 p.m., adds...
UPDATED: 50 St. Mary’s pupils escape mass abduction, 253 remain in bandits’ captivity in Niger State
UPDATED: 50 St. Mary’s pupils escape mass abduction, 253 remain in bandits’ captivity in Niger State
A wave of relief swept through Papiri community in Niger State over the weekend as 50 children earlier seized during a violent raid on St. Mary’s Private Catholic Primary and Secondary Schools found their way back home and into the arms of their anxious families. The Thursday night attack,...
The Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Alhaji Bashir Mohammed Dalhatu, has warned that the worsening insecurity across Northern Nigeria poses a grave threat to national stability, urging leaders at all levels to act decisively to halt the resurgence of violence, mass abductions and terror...