By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – The Defence Headquarters (DHQ), has reiterated the determination of the armed forces of Nigeria to end terrorism and insecurity across the country. To accomplish this task, troops are strategically deployed to conduct operations across the country in order to create a safe environment for...
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The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the treasonable charge filed against Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The New Agency of Nigeria( NAN) reports the federal government prayed the court to set aside an earlier judgment by the Court of Appeal, which...
The Minister of Solid Minerals, Mr Dele Alake has alleged that powerful Nigerians involved in illegal mining were the ones sponsoring banditry and terrorism in the country. Alake said this when he appeared before the House of Representatives Committee on Solid Minerals for the 2024 budget defence in...
The Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima on Saturday said both kinetic and non-kinetic approaches must be explored in tackling the various security challenges across the country. He stated this at the graduation ceremony of the National Institute for Security Studies’ Executive Intelligence Management Course 16 which...
President Bola Tinubu has restated his administration commitment to end terrorism, kidnapping, banditry and other criminal activities in the country. He stated this on Saturday during the 7th and 8th combined convocation of the Federal University Dutsin-Ma (FUDMA), Katsina State. Represented by Prof. Abdulkarim Mohammed, Vice Chancellor, Federal...
The Anambra Police Command has confirmed the arrest of Chief Jeff Nweke, the Managing Director of Blue Shield Securities, a private security company in Awka. The Commissioner of Police, Aderemi Adeoye, confirmed the arrest to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka on Monday. NAN reports that...
Pope Francis on Wednesday met separately with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and Palestinians with family in Gaza and said the conflict had gone beyond war to become “terrorism”. Speaking in unscripted remarks at his Wednesday general audience in St. Peter’s Square shortly after the early...
The Department of State Services (DSS) on Wednesday in Abuja re-arraigned Husseni Ismaila (aka Maitangaran), the alleged mastermind of the 2014 multiple bomb attacks in Kano at the Federal High Court. When the matter was called, the prosecuting counsel, Mr E.A. Aduda, told the court that the DSS...
The House of Representatives Committee on Financial Crimes has declared its commitment to root out the enablers of financial crimes and criminal activities in the country. The committee also asserted that the 10th National assembly would not tolerate corruption. Rep. Ginger Obinna, Chairman of the committee, made this...
President Bola Tinubu, on Sunday solicited the support of German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, in combating terrorism in Nigeria. Tinubu made the request at a bilateral meeting with the German Chancellor at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Sunday. “We are fighting terrorism and that is improving. We still need more...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – In its efforts to effectively end the Boko Haram insurgency, the Defense headquarters has organized a workshop for the troops of Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK) on Kinetic and non Kinetic approach to counter terrorism in the Northeast region. Speaking at the 3-day...
The Police Command in Cross River, says it has discovered a factory producing guns and explosives at Osomba community in Akamkpa Local Government Area of the state. A team of the command’s Anti Cultism and Kidnapping Squad, led by SP Ogini Chukwuma uncovered the factory and recovered cache of...
The Coordinator, National Counter-Terrorism Centre in the Office of the National Security Adviser (NCTC-ONSA), Retired Rear Adm. Yaminu Musa, says proceeds of kidnapping is being used to partly finance terrorism. Musa said this on Wednesday in Abuja during the `Anti-Kidnap Multi-Agency Fusion Cell Media and Communication workshop’,...
President Bola Tinubu has solicited the support of the United Nations in Nigeria’s fight against terrorism in the light of its rippling effect on global peace, displacements of people and rising poverty. He made the appeal at an audience with the Under-Secretary General of the United Nations...
Amid terrorism and banditry activities in Nigeria and across its borders, especially in Lake Chad, no retired military general made the 47-man cut of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s entire ministerial nominees, a PRNigeria report has shown. This is even as President Bola Tinubu has sought the Senate’s support for...
A Lagos High Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square, on Friday, refused to grant bail to Eze Ndigbo of Ajao Estate, Lagos State, Frederick Nwajagu, charged with terrorism. According to Justice Yetunde Adesanya, the court is constrained to refuse Nwajagu’s bail application based on the seriousness of the...
The Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) on Wednesday called on governments and security agencies to intensify efforts at eradicating terrorism, banditry, and kidnapping. “Security remains a crucial concern for Nigerians,’’ its Secretary-General, Prof. Khalid Aliyu, declared in Kaduna in a statement he issued to signpost the beginning of a new...
_“And fear the fitnah (affliction and trial) which affects not in particular (only) those of you who do wrong.”_ – *Quran 8 verse 25* The above is a verse from the Holy Quran, which my late father, Imam Abdulhameed Shuaib Agaka usually cited when trouble brewed and the...
The Former National Security Adviser (NSA), retired Maj.-Gen. Babagana Monguno, has said that Nigeria remains committed to bring terrorists to justice. Mon it Monguno made this known at the Session II Third United Nations High-Level Conference of Heads of Counter-Terrorism Agencies of Member States at UN headquarters in New...
UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres has said that poverty, inequality and exclusion are fueling terrorism, which is posing complex and constant threat to peace and security.anto Guterres said this at the opening of the UN Third Counter-Terrorism week on Monday in New York. Addressing the delegates “at the forefront...