The Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) has alleged that three of its members who were shot and held in police custody have died. In a statement...
A director with the Sharia Court of Appeal in Kaduna State, Aishatu Muhammad, has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen. The Kaduna State Police Command on Thursday...
The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has charged Southern and Middle Belt Forum leaders, to stop being petty by criminalising the Fulani and alluding every act of...
The Federal Government is to begin aerial surveillance of forests in the Southwest geopolitical zone as one of the measures to curb the growing rate of...
Edo state governor, Godwin Obaseki, has said the narrative that the pastoral movement and farmer/headers clashes are not related to the security challenges in Nigeria is...
The South-West Governors’ Forum has lamented the rising spate of insecurity in the region following reported kidnappings and killings by herdsmen. The group admitted that it...
The Generalissimo of Yoruba land, Gani Adams, on Monday warned President Muhammadu Buhari that ignoring the advice from former President Olusegun Obasanjo on the security situation...
A former lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani, has said that northerners are tolerating President Muhammadu Buhari’s ‘bad governance’ because he is from the region. Sani, who represented...
The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom on Saturday charged President Muhammadu Buhari to consider a National Dialogue Forum as a solution to the looming insecurity crisis...
The immediate past governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari, on Friday, lampooned former President Olusegun Obasanjo over the recent open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari. Recall...
The senator who represented Kaduna Central at the 8th Senate, Shehu Sani, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to seek the help of former leaders in...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said that a concerted effort of different leaders and citizens is needed to address the ever increasing insecurity in Nigeria. Jonathan,...
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, on Thursday declared that challenges posed by insecurity in the Southwest geopolitical zone is real. According to the monarch...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed appreciation over former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s latest open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari on the worsening insecurity and unrestrained...
The Presidency has called on Nigerians, especially leaders to stop playing politics with the murder of the daughter of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, Mrs Funke...
The Coalition of Civil Rights for Justice, Peace and Security, a amalgamation of civil society groups, has called for the immediate removal of the Chief of...
The Zamfara state Director of Budget, Hamza Salihu, was on Sunday kidnapped while his deputy, Kabiru Ismail, was murdered near Kachia in Kaduna State while on...
Founding member of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Tanko Yakasai, has described ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s letter to President Muhammadu Buhari as selfish and unpatriotic. Obasanjo had, earlier...
Former governor of Osun state, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, has urged the federal government to squarely face criminals who have declared war on Nigeria. Oyinlola made the call...
The Adamawa state police command has confirmed the killing of an uncle of Elisha Abbo, the senator representing Adamawa north, on Saturday in the state. Suleiman...
Apparently worried about the insecurity bedeviling the country, some members of the Creative Group Industry on Monday staged a peaceful protest to the Redemption Camp, Lagos...
The Anambra State police command has dismissed rumours of the discovery of a gun cache belonging to herdsmen at Okija, Ihiala Local Government Area of the...
President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the violence and loss of lives in Katsina State on Wednesday. He therefore directed immediate reinforcement of the security architecture in...
Nigerian Service Chiefs, on Thursday revealed that they have changed strategy in addressing the unending insecurity plaguing the country. They told this to State House correspondents...
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof Mahmoud Yakubu, on Monday blamed declaration of elections as inconclusive on Insecurity. According to him, most...
The Taraba House of Assembly has amended the state’s Kidnapping and Abduction Prohibition Act 2010, to introduce death penalty and life imprisonment for offenders. Majority Leader...
Governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong, on Monday said acceptance of Ruga settlement will help to put end to the ongoing insecurity in various states in...
Zamfara state government has revealed that it recovered a total of 216 rifles, mostly AK-47, from bandits terrorizing the state. This was disclosed in a statement...
No fewer than 22 soldiers and seven policemen have been killed in the ongoing security crisis looming in the country in the past one month. A...
The Nigerian Army has made good its threat to smoke bandits out of their hideouts in Moriki forest of Zamfara, if they failed to surrender. This...
Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, on Thursday warned stakeholders in southwest against politicizing the security challenge the country is currently facing. The governor who doubles as...
A faction of the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, on Tuesday, carpeted Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo over a statement credited to him on security challenges in southwest geopolitical...
President Muhammadu Buhari and a faction of leaders of Afenifere group on Tuesday met in Abuja over the state of the nation. The meeting was believed...
The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina has admitted that the level of insecurity in the country had put...
The Governor Udom Emmanuel-led government of Akwa Ibom has frowned at the recent listing of the state, by the United Kingdom (UK), as one of the...
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said the fears expressed by the Nigerian Bar Association )NBA) over insecurity and intimidation of judges in the country, has...
Police in Borno state have revealed that they arrested two “high profile’’ Boko haram commanders believed to have participated in attacks on security locations in Nigeria...
Borno State governor, Babagana Zulum on Wednesday met President Muhammadu Buhari on the need to improve on security of the state. Zulum who was in Aso...
President Muhammadu Buhari has given marching orders to security agencies in the country to immediately end the violence ravaging Taraba State. The president gave the order...
Following renewed attacks on some communities, the Taraba state government has imposed a fourteen-hour curfew on Jalingo, the state capital The state Governor, Darius Ishaku, had...
As bandits continue to wreak havoc in Zamfara communities, the state governor, Bello Matawalle, will be meeting with security experts in Dubai, UAE, to discuss ways...
The Enugu State Chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) has confirmed that its youth leader in Enugu West Senatorial District, James Nwanjoku, has been shot by...
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his sadness over the slow pace of inventions and discoveries in Nigerian universities since the country got her independence. The president...
Security agencies and State Council of Traditional Rulers in Ekiti State on Thursday engaged in a parley to put an end to the insecurity challenges in...
Three persons were on Wednesday arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, after a planned June 12 rally torganised by the Yoruba Summit...
Men of Nigeria Air Force on Wednesday narrowly escaped death when one of the helicopters used in anti-banditry operation crashed. The force, while making the incident...
Zamfara state government has confirmed fresh bandits attack on Kanoma District of Maru Local Government Area of the state. 16 persons were allegedly killed in the...
Apparently worried over the spate of insecurity in the country, the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar has on Tuesday, said the Federal Government needs to...
The Ogun state police command says it has uncovered a plot by some disgruntled members of transport unions to unleash violence on the innocent citizens of...
The Special Task Force in charge of security in Plateau State and Southern Kaduna has arrested 10 suspects in connection with recent conflicts in Jos. Five...
