Gunmen, on Wednesday , attacked a military checkpoint in the Okene Local Government Area of Kogi State and killed two personnel of the Nigerian Navy . It was gathered that the naval men were attacked around 7pm while resuming for duty at the checkpoint in Okene . The gunmen, numbering about seven , got to […]

Gunmen on Thursday morning, shot dead five people – three police men and two civilian – at the residence of Alfred Avalumun Atera, chairman of Katsina-Ala Local Government Area in Benue State. Daily Trust gathered that several others were wounded during the attack which happened at 11:30am Witnesses said the incident caused pandemonium in the […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, said the security challenges currently confronting the nation were beyond “ the simplistic options being bandied around . ” Buhari said this in his Christmas message to Nigerians. The message which he personally signed was made available to journalists by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity , Femi Adesina […]

Pandemonium broke out in an early hour of Wednesday at 1 a.m, when unknown gunmen kidnapped a businessman, Alhaji Abdullahi Kalos, in Minjibir town, about 50 kilometres from the ancient city of Kano State. This was just as the gunmen, attacked the policemen and burnt down their patrol van. The abducted businessman is well known […]

Until ecent, clashes between farmers and herders, prevalent in other parts of the country, have been rare in Yobe. However, this has changed as in the last three weeks, clashes between the two groups have resulted in deaths and severe injuries with the government and the police saying they would turn to technology to curb […]

Some gunmen were said to have attacked Gbaja in Katarma district of Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State and killed seven persons while four sustained varying degrees of injuries . The Kaduna State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr . Samuel Aruwan , who confirmed the incident on Tuesday, also said gunmen […]

Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, says Nigeria needs to stop herdsmen from roaming all over the country to prevent clashes with farmers. Shehu spoke when he featured on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme, on Tuesday. The presidential spokesman was responding to the allegation that President Muhammadu Buhari is grabbing lands to dole out to herdsmen. […]

Bandits on Monday night kidnapped the village head of Kaigar Malamai, Kabir Muhammed Ajiya, his two wives and 14 other peasant farmers in Danmusa Local Government Area of Katsina state. The bandits were said to have also ransacked the entire village, injuring six other persons and rustled unspecified cows in the village. A survivor of […]

At least 349 people were killed in November in violent attacks across Nigeria, a report by a non-governmental organisation, Nigeria Mourns, shows. The report, titled “Violent Incidents Report: November 2020,” tracked violent killings across the country. The group uses newspaper reports and family sources to gather its data. It said the November cases were recorded […]

The Minister of Information and Culture , Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says terrorists target schools for abduction of vulnerable children to embarrass the government and inflict damage on the credibility of a nation . Mohammed was reacting to the abduction and rescue of 344 schoolboys in Kankara and 80 Islamic school students both in Katsina State […]