The Borno state commissioner of police, Damian Chukwu, said on Thursday that six soldiers and four policemen were killed in Rann, a remote local government headquarters where Boko Haram attacked last week. The figure quoted […]
The Nigerian Ambassador to Chad, Mohammed Dauda, has gone underground, triggering a massive manhunt for him. Sources familiar with the matter said the diplomat slipped into hiding after claiming his life was in danger following […]
The lingering controversies over the herdsmen/farmers’ clashes across the country may persist for a long while, as the laws and policies put in place to curb the ugly trend are obviously not being implemented or […]
BOKO Haram, the Islamist terrorist group, after being ‘technically’ defeated, struck on Monday, February 19. The group, whose name translates to “Western education is a sin,” stormed a girls’ school in the village of Dapchi […]
In my article May last year, captioned “Dear FGN: No Responsible Nation Ever Paid And Freed Terror Masterminds Within Its Borders,” in rebuke of the Buhari government and its defense of its actions in reportedly […]
The military has dismissed the claim that the 110 abducted Dapchi girls are in Yobe State. A top officer, who pleaded for anonymity, last night described Hon Goni Bukar and other politicians/activists speaking on the […]
Coming barely few weeks after the unexpected recommendation of restructuring, state police and devolution of powers by a committee of the ruling All Peoples Congress (APC), Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s endorsement of state police may […]
The State Security Service has demanded that a Nigerian journalist must disclose his sources as a precondition for his freedom. The secret police detained Tony Ezimakor in Abuja on Wednesday after honouring an invitation over […]
Boko Haram was an Islamic sect founded in 2002 by Mallam Mohammed Yusuf in Maiduguri, the capital of the North-eastern state of Borno. Its tenets were built on the “Khawarij sect” ideology, an Islamic group […]
Captain Aliyu Umar Babangida (rtd) is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Goldwater and Riversand. He is a National Security Resource and Solutions Consultant. In this interview, he spoke on the abduction of Dapchi School girls, […]
YEMI AREMU, a Lagos-based journalist, was about going to bed when he got a sms message alert reminding him that his mobile phone internet subscription was due for renewal the next day. Since he was […]
A Nigerian senator has held himself at a federal court in Abuja, in a concerted effort to prevent the police anti-robbery squad from arresting him. The stand-off, which was underway as at 7:38 p.m. Thursday, […]
The Federal Government should introduce inter-religious education at all levels of education to reduce religious violence in the country, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has said. According to a press statement it issued, this […]
The United States government has imposed new sanctions on the terror group, Boko Haram, and its factional leader, Mus’ab al-Barnawi. The new sanctions by the U.S. Treasury Department targets the Islamic State and its affiliate […]
The kidnapping of over 105 school girls in Dapchi, Yobe State last week has put to rest the much acclaimed or celebrated success in the war against Boko Haram in the country. The insurgents successfully […]
Pius Adesanmi, a professor of literature and African studies at Carlton University, Canada, says President Muhammadu Buhari should have resigned over the abduction of some schoolgirls in Yobe state. Boko Haram insurgents raided Government Girls’ […]
The Yobe state police command has dismissed the claim of the army that Dapchi, headquarters of Busari local government was left in its care before the withdrawal of troops. Onyema Nwachukwu, spokesman of Operation Lafiya […]
Isha Sesay, a CNN journalist, says the abduction of 11o students from Government Girls’ Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe state, is “a national disgrace”. The girls were kidnapped when suspected Boko Haram insurgents raided the school […]
OMINOUS signs that the fundamental rights of Nigerians might be trampled upon by some security agencies, during the 2019 general election, despite being guaranteed by the 1999 Constitution, are worrisome. The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim […]
Human beings and indeed, the human society, learn from past experiences and guard against harm and loss of lives and property. As individuals, we are in a life-long process of learning, adapting and refocusing of […]
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