A Boko Haram splinter group, Islamic State West African Province has ordered farmers and fishermen in the Lake Chad region to stop transacting in naira. The move by the terror group was a result of the announcement by the Central Bank of Nigeria to redesign N200, N500 and N1000 notes. The CBN governor, Godwin […]
Bandits have kidnapped 20 children between the ages of four and 10 years in the Kusherki Community of Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State. The children abducted included four males and 16 females. Residents said the children had so far spent 21 days in captivity and bandits were demanding N40 million ransom. A […]
Not less than 20 people have been confirmed dead after an attack by gunmen in Ukohol, Guma LGA of Benue. Terver Akase, senior special adviser to the Benue governor on media and publicity, who confirmed this on Sunday said children and a security personnel were among those killed in the attack which happened on […]
The Nigerian Airforce has killed two high profile ISWAP Commanders and several of the fighters on the fringes of Lake Chad. Military sources disclosed that the development took place when the air component of Operation Hadin Kai conducted an air interdiction mission at Belowa weekend. Belowa is among the very few remaining ISWAP/Boko Haram […]
For the federal government to tackle current security challenges bedeviling the country, the government would have to implement quick and far-reaching measures aimed at curtailing the security threats. A Nigerian policy think tank, Agora Policy, in its latest report put together by a team of security experts, including those with service experience within and […]
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has said that Nigerians will not run out of their country despite the US terror alert, but fight to ensure that their country becomes safe, stable and prosperous. He said that the public exposure of the alert has done nothing but terrorized Nigerians and set the […]
Troops of the Nigerian military have killed 152 bandits and destroyed over 100 bandits camps in the second and third quarters of 2022 in Kaduna State ,the Commissioner of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan has said. He spoke while presenting the security situation reports for the second and third quarters of 2022 […]
Two farmers were reported to have been killed in a landmine explosion at Zango in the Kabrasha general area of Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Thursday. The state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, who made this known through a statement, said the incident happened around 2pm when […]
A U.S. citizen was sentenced to 20 years in prison on November 1st in the Eastern District of Virginia for organizing and leading an all-female military battalion in Syria on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization. According to court documents, Allison Fluke-Ekren, aka Allison Ekren, […]
Delta Forum, PANDEF, has urged the Federal Government not to gloss over the terror alert issued by United States of America and United Kingdom governments to their citizens in Nigeria. National Chairman of PANDEF, Senator Emmanuel Essien, gave the advice, yesterday, while reacting to the statement by the National Security Adviser that the security […]
