Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), have arrested 50 arms-bearing herdsmen. “We arrested 50 illegally armed herdsmen and realised that some of them are into cattle rustling and kidnapping,’’ Commandant-General of the NSCDC, Dr Ahmed Audi, said on Wednesday in Abuja He made the declaration while presenting licences to private guard […]
Ango Abdullahi, chairman of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), says bandits willing to repent should be offered options for rehabilitation. Many communities in the north have suffered attacks from bandits over the past months. While making a presentation at the northern people’s summit in Kaduna on Wednesday, Abdullahi said the government should only go after […]
Fugitives who escaped from the custodial centre in Owerri, the Imo capital, will be granted amnesty if they return voluntarily, the Minister of Interior, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, has said. He said this during the inspection of the centre on Tuesday after it was attacked by unknown gunmen. During the attack, over 1,880 inmates were said […]
At least nine people were reported to have been killed, while dozens were allegedly kidnapped by bandits along Kaduna-Kachia road in the early hours of Tuesday. An eyewitness told Tribune Online that the incident occurred less than a kilometre to Kasuwan Magani in the Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State. According to the source […]
The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has distanced itself from Monday’s attacks on Police and Correctional Service headquarters in Imo. Its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, said in a statement issued in Owerri on Monday that the group was formed on the principle of peace and would not compromise its principles. It would […]
Members of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) are deliberately attacking security formations in the South East to steal weapons in order to fight for the actualisation of the Biafra Republic, experts and security operatives have said. Also, a human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has described the assault on the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) […]
The presidency has tackled Matthew Kukah, bishop of Sokoto Catholic diocese, for describing Nigeria as a killing field under the Buhari administration. In his Easter message on Sunday, Kukah said both the government and the citizens have become helpless as criminals continue to cause havoc in parts of the country. Nigeria continues to battle security […]
The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Bishop Matthew Kukah on Sunday berated the current administration for its handling of Nigeria’s security challenges, saying Boko Haram terrorists are consuming the nation under President Muhammadu Buhari’s watch. Kukah in his 2021 Easter message titled, ‘Before our glory departs’, recalled that President Buhari had in 2015 described Boko Haram […]
Some analysts have detailed how a Boko Haram video claiming to have brought down a fighter jet was doctored. The jet, NAF 475, went off the radar on Wednesday while on a mission to provide support to ground troops fighting Boko Haram. The whereabouts of the two pilots remain known, as the Nigerian air force […]
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Friday dismissed claims by terror group, Boko Haram, that it gunned down the missing Alpha jet which disappeared from radar on Wednesday while on an operational mission to Maiduguri, Borno State. Boko Haram had through a viral video clip claimed responsibility for downing the aircraft. But the Director of […]
