President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigeria and her neighbours must place higher premium on the effective policing of borders to check criminal activities. The president stated this while playing host to Dr Kunio Mikuriya, Secretary General, World Customs Organization (WCO), on Thursday in Abuja. Mikuriya is in Nigeria for a...
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A Makurdi Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday remanded seven men at the Makurdi Correctional Centre for allegedly kidnapping the Benue Commissioner for Housing and Urban Development, Mr Ekpe Ogbu on Ado/Otukpo Road. The suspects, Nuhu Musa, Mohammed Danjuma, Yunusa Usman, Abubakar Usman, Usman Saleh, Hamza Sani and Monday Samuel...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Center for Democracy and Development (CDD) has organized a 2-day capacity building workshop for media practitioners and religious/traditional leaders in a bid to accelerate the restoration of normalcy and the reintegration of ex-fighters in the North East. The workshop which was held at...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele has resumed duty at the apex bank’s headquarters in Abuja on Monday after spending his annual leave abroad. Mr. Emefiele had been out of the country since December, 2022, amidst certain accusations...
The operatives of the Department of State Security (DSS)have taken over the office of Godwin Emefiele, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, at the headquarters of the apex bank. The embattled CBN governor has been having a running battle with DSS over alleged terrorism financing. DSS had...
Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, says the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, has not returned to the country following allegations of terrorism financing levelled against him by the Department of State Services (DSS). “I can say without any fear...
A rights activist, Mr Meliga Godwin, has dragged the Department of State Services (DSS) to a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, over alleged illegal arrest and detention constituting a breach of his fundamental rights. Godwin, the President of Middle Belt Youth Forum, on Dec.19, 2022 addressed the media,...
National Coordinator and Special Envoy of Ecology and Marine International Human Rights Organisation, Alhaji Musa Saidu, has cautioned against inference in the ongoing investigations of alleged fraud by the CBN Governor, Dr Godwin Emefiele. Saidu told the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Abuja that the recent criticism...
Justice Maryam Hassan of the Federal Capital Territory High Court Abuja has quashed the move by the Department of State Services (DSS) to charge the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele with terrorism and economic crimes of national security. Justice Hassan also barred the DSS...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Police Command says no fewer than 636 cases of various crimes were recorded within the year, out of which over 372 were prosecuted and 314 suspects convicted for various offences. The Commissioner of police in the state, CP Abdul Umar stated...
A Pan-Yoruba group, Yoruba Koya Leadership and Training Foundation (YKLTF), has dragged the governors of Yoruba speaking Southwest States to a Federal High Court the worsening insecurity conditions in the region. The suit filed at the Ibadan division of the Federal High Court is marked: IB/CS/189/22. Besides, the Southwest...
The Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar El-Kanemi, says the challenge of terrorism was created by outsiders who came to settle in Borno in the name acquiring Qur’anic education. The Shehu said this when he hosted the Director, Defence Information, Maj.-Gen. Jimmy Akpor and a team of journalists who visited...
Airstrikes from the Nigeria Air Force (NAF) fighter jets have killed 24 terrorists of the Islamic State of West African Province, ISWAP. The operation, PRNigeria gathered, took place on Sunday, at Tumbun Hamma, one of the identified locations for ISWAP training camps in Lake Chad. The terrorists who were...
The General Officer Commanding 1 Division, Nigerian Army, Maj.-Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, said in winning the fight against terrorism, banditry and other forms of criminality, the Armed Forces must not compete, but rather complement each other to ensure victory. Lagbaja said this on Friday in Kaduna while speaking at a...
Community vigilantes and youths have arrested suspected terrorists and handed them to security authorities in Niger State. PRNigeria gathered the suspected terrorists were arrested during a search and interrogation of strange people in Wawa district of New Bussa. A source who participated in the search in an audio sent...
UN Deputy Secretary- General, Nigeria’s Amina Mohammed says the growth of terrorism is a major threat to international peace and security currently felt most keenly in Africa. Mohammed said this on Thursday while briefing the Security Council at the UN headquarters on behalf of the Secretary-General António Guterres. “Terrorists...
Ghana on Tuesday assumed the Presidency of the United Nations (UN) Security Council for November as debates on violent extremism and terrorism in Africa top its agenda. Amb. Harold Agyeman, Permanent Representative of Ghana to the United Nations in New York, said this while briefing correspondents at the UN...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has advised the nation’s security establishment and entire citizens to continue being vigilant and careful with security, saying it is important to avoid panic. President Buhari urged citizens to remain calm, saying that the recent changes in travel advice from the...
The Department of State Security (DSS) in collaboration with US soldiers have uncovered boxes of explosives, two pistols in an apartment rented by a terrorist in Trademore Estate located in Lugbe, Abuja. The disclosure was contained in a notice issued by the Trademore Estate Management to occupants on Wednesday...
Somali security forces backed by international partners have killed more than 100 al-Shabab militants and their militia during two days of operations in the central part of the country, a government official said Monday. Deputy Minister for Information, Culture and Tourism Abdirahman Adala said the operations which targeted al-Shabab...