The Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle, on Saturday ordered the immediate closure of all weekly markets in the state. The move aimed at checking the growing...
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State on Monday detailed the importance of community policing towards the eradication of insecurity and criminalities. Akeredolu made this call during...
Two members of the Katsina State House of Assembly, on Monday, broke down in tears during plenary while deliberating over the escalating insecurity situation bedevilling the...
The management of University of Jos on Friday ordered the indefinite closure of the institution over insecurity. In a statement issued by the institution’s registrar, Monday...
The former Senator who represented Zamfara Central in the National Assembly, Saidu Dansadau, has raised the alarm over a new armed group, made up of foreigners,...
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has faulted the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration for not making concerted efforts at nation building. According to him, the administration had...
Due to the unending series of insecurity, banditry, abductions and killings in different parts of the country, President Muhammadu Buhari has scheduled a meeting with Security...
The Nigerian Army has given a new situation report on the fight against insurgency in the country, stating that 219 more Boko Haram fighters and their...
Hours after announcing a dusk to dawn curfew in three Local Government Areas of Plateau State, Jos North, Jos South and Bassa respectively, Governor Simon Bako...
President Muhammadu Buhari said on Friday the Federal Government and security agencies have responded to the current insecurity in the country in a “determined and robust”...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ), has released its latest situation report on the ongoing fight against insurgency in the country, declaring that military operations in the North-East...
Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara has stated that dialogue and reconciliation remain the most plausible solutions to banditry and other security challenges. Matawalle, via a statement...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday described the current insecurity in Nigeria as politically motivated. The National Secretary of the APC Caretaker and Extraordinary Convention...
The Ekiti State government on Saturday warned the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against undue politicisation of matters bordering on the security of lives and property in...
The Sultan of Sokoto and President, Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has decried the lingering insecurity threats and the...
The British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, said on Thursday his country is ready to help Nigeria in the ongoing efforts at tackling insecurity. Johnson, according to...
President Muhammadu Buhari said on Thursday Nigeria would gladly accept the Commonwealth’s offer to help the country in the ongoing efforts at tackling insecurity, climate change...
Terrorists of Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) have released photographs and identification cards of two soldiers and two Yobe state Liaison officers who were abducted...
The Governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle, has warned that the escalating insecurity and banditry in the North-West can ‘swallow” the entire country if necessary measures...
The Yola Electricity Distribution Company (Yola Disco) has been acquired by Quest Electricity Nigeria. The deal has a five-year period to make the local electricity firm...
The Kebbi State Governor, Atiku Bagudu, on Tuesday, identified tolerance, love, patriotism and consistent prayers by Nigerians as the possible remedy for the lingering security challenges...
Katsina State Governor, Aminu Bello Masari, has lambasted prominent Nigerians calling on foreign countries to interfere in the internal security affairs in the country, saying they...
Troops of the Operation Hadin Kai of the Nigerian Army have reportedly killed three senior Boko Haram terrorists, while scores of fighters, informants and logistic suppliers...
President Muhammadu Buhari said on Monday floods and insecurity in different parts of the country have undermined local food production in the country. The President, according...
Nigeria’s military authorities on Monday confirmed that one of its aircraft crashed in Zamfara on Sunday. The confirmation was made by Chief of Defence Staff (CDS)...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan, has advised the Federal Government not to use “bullets and other forces of arms alone” to fight banditry, armed robbery, and other...
During the week in review, the Senate literarily became a war zone as supposedly distinguished lawmakers turned into warriors as the debate on the need to...
The Nigerian Defence Headquarters on Thursday disclosed that a lot of soldiers have lost their lives in battles at the various theatres of operations across the...
Insecurity and political crisis have beneficiaries and sponsors. For the political class, it is fair game to exploit and deploy every instrument in the combat repository...
Amidst the raging insecurity in various parts of the country, the Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi state, on Tuesday, accused some members of the...
President Muhammadu Buhari has attributed the inability of his government to develop Nigeria to the lingering insecurity in the country. Buhari said this at a dinner...
President Muhammadu Buhari will meet with the 109 Senators of the National Assembly, as well as members of the House of Representatives tonight by 8 p.m....
On July 7, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), in a report on the abduction of children from various Nigerian schools in the North, said over...
A former military Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd) has lamented that the insecurity in the northern part of Nigeria has taken education in the...
Nigerian comedian, I Go Dye, has taken to his social media platform, Instagram to reprimand the government for failing to tackle insecurity in the country but...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday directed security agencies to promptly arrest the deplorable security situation in the country. Buhari, according to a statement issued by his...
The Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, and a group under the aegis of Yoruba One Voice (YOV) have decried what they termed the “senseless...
A member of the Zamfara State House of Assembly, Mohammed Ahmed, has been reportedly killed by suspected bandits along the Sheme-Funtua highway in Katsina State, while...
The Minister of Defence, Gen. Bashir Magashi (retd), said on Monday the Federal Government would strengthen Nigeria’s defence cooperation with the armed forces of other countries...
A former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan has opined that the high incidences of crime and insecurity across the country can be linked to the increase...
The Governor of Katsina State, Aminu Bello Masari, has called on residents of the state to defend themselves against bandits as the criminals are not spirits....
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) says the insurgency in the North-East will put the lives of 1.1 million Nigerians at risk by 2030 if the...
The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), an umbrella body of the 18 registered political parties, has urged Nigerian security agencies to do more in tackling insecurity in...
The National President of Middle Belt Forum (MBF), Dr. Bitrus Pogu, on Wednesday, backed the Islamic cleric, Shiek Ahmad Gumi, on the military’s collusion with bandits...
An Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has called on the Federal Government to accord bandits and herdsmen the kind of treatment that was given to the...
A coalition of women and civil society groups under the aegis of #SecureOurLives, says it is currently compiling names of over 1,499 Nigerians killed across the...
Several parts of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) was on lockdown on Monday, leading to serious traffic congestion as protesters under the aegies #BuhariMustGo took...
The National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), has written an open letter President Muhammadu Buhari, the Secretary General of the United Nations Organization (UN), the Security Council of...
The Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Mohammed Buba Marwa, on Friday described drug abuse as a national tragedy and major cause of...
Divided like never before in its tortured history of nationhood Nigeria is unsafe, wracked by rampant banditry and armed robbery, terrorism, ethnic strife, industrial kidnapping and...
