Security

Aminu Hayatau Tafida, a son of the Special Adviser on Social Investments to Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto State, and two others have been sentenced to four years and six-month…

Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has begun moves to secure the freedom of some of its members arrested in Ghana. Aloy Ejimakor, one of the lawyers representing the leader of IPOB,…

The Archbishop Enugu Ecclesiastical province, Most Revd Emmanuel Chukwuma, has charged Nigerians to rise up in prayer to stem the tide of insecurity in the country. Most Reverend Chukwuma…

Ifeanyi Ejiofor, Lead Counsel for the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has said that the Department of State Services stopped the detainee from seeing his…

Major Christopher Datong, who was kidnapped by daring bandits around 1 am on July 24 has spent one full week in his captors’ den, raising concerns about the safety of ordinary, vulnerable…

A motorcycle rider is also known as Okada, Bakari Samaila, was Tuesday, arraigned before a Lagos Magistrates’ Court sitting at Tinubu, over alleged impersonation as Naval personnel.…

Mr Kehinde Ibiteye, said he risked his life to deliver N2.5 million ransom to kidnappers of his brother-in-law, Mr Kayode Ajayi, and his son, Olawale, in a forest in the Bwari area of the…

An Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan on Monday extended an interim order restraining the Department of State Services, and the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN),…

Senator Bala Na’Allah, representing Kebbi South, said that the killers of his son, Captain Abdulkareem Bala Na’Allah, a pilot, were not armed with guns. Captain Abdulkareem, a civilian…

Three Senior Advocates of Nigeria have tackled the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), and the Director-General of the Department of State…

There has been tension in Plateau after 22 travellers returning to Ondo State from Bauchi were killed and another 14 injured along Rukuba highway in Jos North LGA of the state. Five…

Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State has said perpetrators of attacks in the state would be brought to book. The governor spoke when he visited Yelwa Zangam community in Jos North LGA.…

Some bandits in separate attacks have killed three persons, including a pilot, in two local government areas of Kaduna North and Kajuru, Kaduna State. The pilot, Captain Abdukkarim Bala…

A former Navy Commodore, Kunle Olawunmi, has said some sponsors of terrorist groups are bent on turning Nigeria to a country where the Taliban will reign supreme. Olawunmi expressed…

Two people have been confirmed dead after some dare-devil robbers attacked a bullion van at Ofosu town, Ore-Shagamu-Benin Expressway, in the Idanre Local Government Area of Ondo State.…

The Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo has sentenced a 47-year-old woman, Gertrude Akpan, to 10 years’ imprisonment for trafficking in children. The convict was said to have bought…

Bloodthirsty bandits killed two military officers and kidnapped another when they attacked Nigeria’s foremost military university, the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna on Tuesday. The…

Authorities of the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, say that the security architecture of the institution was compromised, allowing the bandits to gain access to the well fortified…

Governor ’Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has pledged the continuous support of his administration to the Nigerian Army and other security agencies in the state. The governor, while receiving…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has reacted to claims by former Big Brother Naija reality TV star, Dorathy Bachor, that her house was broken into by its operatives. Bachor,…

Dorathy Bachor, a Big Brother Naija Lockdown housemate, claims that armed Economic and Financial Crimes Commission operatives broke into her Lagos home at 4.45 a.m. on Monday. The former…