Beyond the Headlines
The immediate past Minister of Interior, Lt.-Gen. Abdul-Rahman Dambazau (rtd), on Friday said the O’odua People’s Congress (OPC) and the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) are extremist groups like Boko Haram. Dambazau said this at Army War College in Abuja while delivering a lecture to participants of course 5/2021. He alleged that the two […]
A coalition of northern groups has tackled President Muhammadu Buhari over the “bad governance” and worsening security challenges the country is facing in his administration. Arising from the ‘Northern peoples summit’ convened at Arewa House in Kaduna state, the coalition said northerners have “sunk lower in all indices of human existence” under the watch of […]
There is tension in Umuahia, Abia State, following the discovery of a suspected explosive device by students of Union Primary School, Afaraukwu. The pupils of the school had found a bag and informed their teachers who alerted the school authorities. Vanguard gathered that the school has been shut while security agents have been brought in […]
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 […]
