The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, on Wednesday, indicted state governors over the festering insecurity in parts of the...
Four abducted staff of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), who were kidnapped last Tuesday in Obua-Adual Local Government Area (LGA) of Rivers State, have regained...
The Plateau state police command has confirmed the killing of three persons and 319 cattle in different attacks in Miango district of Bassa local government area...
The Nigerian Air Force has denied claims by the Emir of Bungudu, Hassan Attahiru, that the force ignored distress calls put through when bandits were ravaging...
Shortly after his release, the police have arrested one Abdur-Rahman Ahmadu in connection with the abduction of the Board Chairman of the Universal Basic Commission (UBEC),...
Chairman, Board of Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Muhammed Mahmood and his daughter, who were on Monday kidnapped along the Kaduna-Abuja expressway, have regained their freedom....
In a rare show of bi-partisanship, the Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has thrown its weight behind Governor Nyesom Wike’s efforts at...
As a result of breakdown of law and order in the metropolis, Gombe State Government has imposed a curfew within the state capital, effective from Saturday...
Security men, comprising military JTF and local hunters, on Friday arrested two suspected herdsmen in connection with the armed attacks and killings at Iyemero Ekiti in...
Disturbed by worsening security situation in the country, a Nigerian senator has suggested that he and his colleagues should sell three out of their many vehicles...
President Muhammadu Buhari has responded to claims by the Catholic Bishop of Yola Diocese, Reverend Stephen Mamza, that he does not listen or care about the...
A Police Inspector has been declared missing by the Ogun State Police Command, while 25 persons arrested following a breakout of violence on Monday in Ifo...
Kaduna State Police Command on Sunday said it had restored law and order on Nnamdi Azikiwe expressway following the protest by residents who blocked the bypass...
President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to the recent violent clashes between Jukuns and Tivs in Taraba State, as well as the Fulani, Genjon and Bachama in...
No fewer than 11 persons have been reportedly killed while many are unaccounted for, following a Good Friday attack by unknown armed men on people returning...
The Kaduna State police command has confirmed the killing of two persons and kidnap of three others at a recreational resort in Kajuru Local Government Area...
Five persons have been reportedly killed while three others were injured in Wapan Naku as a result of renewed hostility between the Tiv and Jukun ethnic...
The Nigerian Air Force committee set up to investigate the alleged air strikes on civilians in Zamfara has commenced work. The committee was set up following...
It has been reported that armed bandits have sacked Kuriga Village in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State forcing villagers to flee. This is according...
The Mada people of central Nigeria are predominantly domiciled in Nasarawa State, with Akwanga as their seat of power, housing the paramount ruler. They are generally...
Zamfara State Governor, Abdul’aziz Yari has stated that the election into the 14 local government areas scheduled for April 27 would hold in spite of the...
A Taraba State group, Jukun Development Association of Nigeria, has said that the insecurity going on in Zamfara is not comparable to that of Taraba. The...
As the spate of killings by herdsmen and bandits continue in parts of the country, the House of Representatives has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to appear...
The Zamfara state council of traditional rulers has faulted accusations by Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan Ali, claiming some rulers have been conspiring with bandits in...
President Muhammadu Buhari has adduced reason why his administration may have been perceived as slow in its management style. The principal excuse he said is need...
No fewer than 14 people have lost their lives in a clash between members of a vigilante group and armed bandits in Tsamiyar Jino village, Kankara...
Following the spate of kidnappings, including the recent foiled kidnapping attempt, along the Abuja-Kaduna highway, the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has on Friday, launched...
The attack on Benue communities by suspected armed herdsmen seem unending as yet another village in Ukemberagya Logo local government area of the state was, on...
A North Korean doctor attached to Tsafe Local Government General Hospital in Zamfara state, Dr Jen Sunail, has been abducted by unknown gunmen. Zamfara State Police...
The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Abayomi Olonisakin, has called on stakeholders and agencies in Nigeria’s security architecture to think out of the box in order...
The security situation in Kajuru and Birnin Gwari local government areas of Kaduna State has forced the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to stop the deployment...
The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, on Wednesday said the Nigerian Air Force recently acquired 22 new aircraft to support various ongoing military...
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his dissatisfaction with the state and performance of the Nigeria police. President Buhari said it is unfortunate that the military has...
Abdulaziz Yari, Governor of Zamfara State, has faulted security agencies for the worsening banditry in his state, saying the issue would have been brought under control...
Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, says the state is under siege by bandits, armed robbers and kidnappers. He said this during the opening ceremony of an...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said no one should feel that they have a monopoly of violence in Nigeria. He called on Nigerians to collaborate against...
The federal government through the Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Alli, on Monday said that the security situation in the North Eastern part of the country was...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says the media has an important role to play in uniting the people of Nigeria. He admonished media practitioners to be objective...
In what was the third of its kind in a single week, President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday met with service chiefs and other heads of security...
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says the killings happening around the country need not be the subject of reckless propaganda in order to avoid another civil war. Speaking...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says insecurity was so pervasive in Nigeria before the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, using Abuja as a...
The Senate on Wednesday, resolved to consider approving special funding for security agencies in the country. The special funding will enable the agencies tackle the spate...
The National Youth Service Corps has said that it has captured the locations of its members across Nigeria as part of its efforts aimed at ensuring...
The Emir of Katsina, Alhaji Abdulmumini Usman, Monday told President Muhammadu Buhari that most of the security challenges currently being faced by the country were being...
The Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Matthew Kukah, has made a shocking prediction about the 2019 elections in Nigeria. The cleric revealed that...
Security chiefs in the country have alleged that coordinated misinformation continued to portray the state of security in the country in bad light, contrary to the...
President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Gusau, Zamfara State, directed security agencies to improve their strategies of intelligence gathering, surveillance and accuracy in deployments, and ensure that...
Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, has stated that peace can only be attained where justice is allowed to thrive, noting that “justice is most needed...
Apparently as parts of efforts to seek ways of ending heightened insecurity situation across the country following herdsmen killings and other security menaces, President Muhammadu Buhari...
Ceaseless blood-letting appears the order of the day. The latest occurred on Friday when bandits killed at least 29 people in attacks on four villages in...