The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar, has announced that the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) logged nearly 20,000 flight hours in 2024,...
The Borno State Commissioner for Women Affairs, Zuwaira Gambo, says at least 500 Boko Haram suspects have been cleared and released from the army detention facility...
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has cited vandalism and insurgency as posing major threats to transmission towers across the country. The TCN which disclosed this...
Nigeria and the United Nations (UN) have signed two Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) aimed at strengthening efforts in countering terrorism and fighting insurgency in the country....
Minister of Defence, Major General Bashir Magashi (rtd), has boasted that the armed forces achieved over 80 per cent success in fighting insecurity and decimating the...
Something that has become abundantly clear to me following the about seven years that I covered the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria’s north-east, is that nothing...
In light of the increased insecurity in different parts of the country, a report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has shown that Nigeria...
The governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, on Tuesday challenged the federal government to account for the $1 billion security funding that the nation’s 36 states...
The Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom has fingered the federal government as being complicit in the terrorism, insurgency and alleged Fulani expansionist programme in the country....
Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has revealed that Nigeria is winning the war against insurgency and terrorism. Wike made this call on Monday during a...
The new Head of Delegation for the European Union (EU) in Nigeria, Ms. Samuela Isopi, said on Monday over two million people were displaced from their...
In the spirit of fairness and equity, the Federal Government has been called upon to accord same attention and amnesty granted to repentant Boko Haram militants,...
The former Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Tukur Buratai (retd), said under-development was responsible for the Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East. The ex-army chief, who...
Due to the spiralling violence ahead of the 2023 elections, the Governor of Adamawa State, Ahmadu Fintiri, has opined that voting for a President from the...
Financiers of terrorism in Nigeria will soon be made known to Nigerians at the right time, according to the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes...
Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State has given an insight into how cattle rustling snowballed into the current spate of kidnapping and banditry in the...
The current conflict in Afghanistan could lead to a full blown war as the deadly armed group, Taliban, has moved closer to retaking full control of...
Taliban fighters have taken control of the city of Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second-largest province, after another round of incursions into the capital, Kabul. A member of the...
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...
A senior Boko Haram commandant and explosive expert identified as Mala Musa Abuja, and his second in command, Abu Darda, have surrendered to the Nigerian Army...
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 Afghanistan government has imposed a 10pm to 4am curfew across 31 of the country’s 34 provinces, in a bid to curb a surging violence unleashed...
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...
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 Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) an agency of the United Nations (UN), says the insurgency in the North-East has displaced about 65,800 farmers in Borno...
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has carpeted the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), saying the foundation of insurgency it inherited was laid by the opposition party...
The governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum, on Friday, named poverty and illiteracy as some of the factors responsible for insurgency in the country. Zulum stated...
What fuels an insurgency? The combustible mixture of ideology and ignorance. If a clump of uninformed people has an ideology they can die for, they will...
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Usman Baba, has pledged to ensure the elimination of banditry and terrorism across the country. Baba made this call on...
The series of insurgent and bandit attacks especially across the Northern region has elicited a response from the Alliance for Surviving COVID-19 and Beyond (ASCAB), a...
The Minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, George Akume, has stated that the country is still battling banditry and other security challenges owing to inadequate...
The Chadian Army said its military killed 300 rebels who waged a major incursion into the Northern part of the country, adding that it also lost...
The Federal Government on Sunday declared its intention to commence the recruitment of more soldiers to fight the Boko Haram insurgency and banditry in the country....
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, March 30, issued a mandate to the National Security Adviser, Major-General Babagana Monguno (retd.), directing the nation’s service chiefs to identify...
Dr Salihu Lukman, Director-General, Progressive Governors` Forum (PGF) says lifting more Nigerians out of poverty is critical to ending banditry, kidnapping and abduction of school children...
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, on Friday, expressed optimism that insurgency would soon come to an end in...
President Muhammadu Buhari said on Saturday his administration was fully committed to the fight against insurgency, banditry, and other forms of criminality in the country. The...
The Kaduna State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has lamented the increased mass killings and insecurity in the north, stating that security agencies...
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. General Tukur Buratai has declared that troops of the Nigerian Army have been able to defeat insurgency in the...
The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), on Wednesday described as a mark of cowardice the heavy presence of men of the Nigerian Army in Isiala...
Following the recent execution of four aid workers by members of the Boko Haram sect in North East Nigeria, the United States Embassy in Nigeria has...
Troops of the Nigerian Army have rescued 20 persons kidnapped on Thursday by insurgents during an attack on Babban Gida, the administrative headquarters of Tarmuwa Local...
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen Tukur Buratai, has been asked to relocate the Giwa Barracks in Galtimari, Jere Local Government Area of Borno State away...
The Nigerian Government has lifted the suspension placed on two international humanitarian non-governmental organizations, Mercy Corps and Action Against Hunger, with the aim of finding enduring...
The Under Secretary-General of the United Nations, Sir Mark Lowcock has revealed that no fewer than 38 UN and NGO workers have been killed by Boko...
The Nigerian Army Saturday revealed that it had captured 10 suspected Boko Haram leaders while they were trying to escape troops at Bitta, Gwoza LGA of...
A civil rights group, known as the Coalition for Good Governance and Change (CGGC) has claimed that some international Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO) were passing classified military...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has denied claims by the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron that he (Jonathan) turned down help to rescue...
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, Monday stated that terrorism and terrorist groups could not be eliminated by military warfare alone. He therefore...
President Muhammadu Buhari has issued a warning to bandits and terrorists across the country and beyond to immediately release all who had been taken hostage. Buhari...
