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...
A former presidential adviser, Prof Ango Abdulahi, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to stop the current war against terrorism and face the Niger Delta Avengers,...
Nigerian Government on Thursday replied the United States (US) that its security challenges is worse than that of Nigeria. US government had recently claimed that at...
The spate of insecurity in the country has been raised a notch higher as the United States of America, USA, has raised a travel alert for...
Last Friday blunder by Adamawa State commissioner of police, Mohammed Ghazzali, has heightened apprehensions over insecurity of lives under IGP, Ibrahim Idris. If there is anything...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday said his administration is now negotiating with Niger Delta militants. Though, he said that the oil companies and law-enforcement agencies are...
The Cross River state All Progressives Congress (APC), Monday called on the state House of Assembly to impeach Ben Ayade, the state governor. The state chairman...
President Muhammadu Buhari is yet to get over the shock that former President Goodluck Jonathan could willingly concede defeat to him. Buhari made this remark on...
As part of activities to mark the 2016 Democracy Day celebrations in Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari hosted a group of editors, in an interview session where...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday met with the Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of the World Bank, Ms Sri Mulyani Indrawati at the Presidential Villa,...
In a move aimed at addressing the growing security challenges within the axis, the Lagos State Government has shut down Owonifari market within the notorious vicinity...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa As Nigerians welcome 2016, they are hoping for the best from government. The departed year has been very turbulent for them. They...
Top on the list of what President Muhammadu Buhari wants from the Group of Seven (G7), an informal bloc of industrialized countries of the world is...
