Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Olufemi Oluyede, has formally operationalised the Joint Task Force North Central Operation SAVANNAH SHIELD (OPSS) at 22 Brigade, Sobi Military Cantonment, Ilorin, Kwara State. Director Defence Information, Major General Samaila Uba, disclosed this in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja. Maj. Gen....
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Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday, February 17, 2026, secured an interim attachment order on nine trucks loaded with assorted solid minerals, as well as the final forfeiture of the contents of another truck, in a sustained crackdown on illegal mining activities...
Trial of former Kwara State Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed, and his Commissioner for Finance, Ademola Banu, over the alleged diversion of ₦5.78 billion Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) funds resumed on Monday, February 16, 2026, with fresh revelations before Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court sitting in...
Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has expressed grave concern over Saturday night’s terror attack across three communities of Tunga-Makeri, Konkoso and Pissa in Niger State, resulting in multiple deaths and abduction of innocent citizens. Kwara State Governor/ NGF Chairman, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, in a statement on Monday said the Forum commiserated...
Federal Government of Nigeria has intensified security operations across Nigeria’s North Central region to protect civilians in vulnerable communities, following cowardly terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of about 75 innocent villagers in Kwara State. Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, announced this in a state issued...
Armed bandits have demanded N100 million ransom to release the wife of a forest guard killed during a deadly attack on Oba community in Isin Local Government Area of Kwara State. The gunmen invaded the community around 8 p.m. on Wednesday, shooting dead Raimi Ogunrinde, a forest guard recently...
United States (US) Mission in Nigeria has condemned the deadly attack on communities in Kwara State that reportedly claimed the lives of more than 160 people, describing the violence as horrific and senseless. In a statement shared via its official X handle, @USinNigeria, the U.S. expressed deep sympathy with...
Human rights activist and former presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has launched a blistering attack on Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum, over comments he made while condoling with victims of a recent Boko Haram attack that reportedly claimed over 150 lives. Governor Zulum, who visited Kwara State to commiserate...
Vice President Kashim Shettima has departed Abuja for Kwara State following a directive from President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to conduct an on-the-spot assessment of the recent deadly terrorist’s attack in Woro, Kaiama Local Government Area of the state. The visit underscores the Federal Government’s resolve to respond decisively to...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday strongly condemned the deadly attack on villagers in Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara State, describing the assault as “cowardly and beastly,” while ordering the immediate deployment of an Army battalion to restore peace. The President disclosed this after a meeting with the...
President Bola Tinubu has ordered the deployment of an army battalion to Kaiama Local Government, Kwara State, where Boko Haram terrorists overnight killed hapless villagers in Worro. President Tinubu in a statement by his spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, said the new military command will spearhead Operation Savannah Shield to checkmate the...
Operatives of the Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), have arrested ten individuals suspected of involvement in illegal mining activities along the Ilorin – Ogbomosho axis. They were arrested on Sunday, February 1, 2026, following credible intelligence on unlawful mineral excavation and transportation in parts...
Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has recorded a significant operational breakthrough with the arrest of two notorious bandits and kidnapping kingpins responsible for violent crimes across Katsina, Zamfara, Niger and Kwara States. The Force spokesman, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the arrest in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja. CSP...
Nigeria’s fight against terrorism received a fresh boost on Friday as the Federal Government confirmed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu personally approved the recent airstrikes carried out by the United States against terrorist targets in the North-West. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, disclosed this while speaking on...
In a coordinated security operation, measurable successes have been recorded in decimating the activities of resurgent banditry in Kwara state. Shortly after the arrest of arms courier and recovery of 100 rounds of live ammunition along Gbugbu/Patigi road on Friday, a member of the kidnapping syndicate has also been...
President Bola Tinubu has ordered an extensive security lockdown across major forest corridors in Kwara, Kebbi and parts of Niger State, a move that follows the rising wave of kidnappings and violent attacks plaguing the region. The directive was disclosed on Tuesday by the President’s Special Adviser on Media...
The personal coordination by President Bola Tinubu of the strategies presented by heads of security agencies led to the successful rescue of all the 38 kidnapped church worshippers of Eruku, Ifelodun LGA, Kwara State by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) at about 3.20 pm on Sunday,...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has delivered a message of relief to Nigerians, confirming the rescue of all 38 worshippers of Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) abducted in Eruku, Kwara State, following a violent attack by armed men suspected to be bandits. In a statement signed on Sunday by the President,...
After many days of hard work by security forces and government representatives, Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq (CON), has announced the freedom of 38 persons who were recently abducted in an attack on Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) Eruku, Ekiti LGA of the state. Governor AbdulRazaq in a statement by...
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...