US Army chiefs fear Russia, China or climate change could result in global instability with a war between two powerful countries “almost guaranteed” With tensions high over Syria and increasing attacks from terrorists, the threat […]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with […]
The Economic Community for West African States, ECOWAS, Court, Tuesday, ordered the Federal Government to immediately release the erstwhile National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki, retd, from detention and asked that the Federal Government […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that between March and July 2016, a space of five months, the activities of militants in the Niger Delta region resulted to Nigeria’s transmission system experiencing up to 16 system […]
An overnight attack by gunmen on a police post in central Benue State has left at least four police officers dead, PREMIUM TIMES learnt Monday. Witnesses told PREMIUM TIMES the yet-to-be-identified gunmen stormed the police […]
There are strong indications that the United States government may launch attacks against Boko Haram insurgents in the North-East, as a drone base being constructed in the Niger Republic would soon be completed. According to […]
Sitting barefoot on a log, a farmer surveys more than 200 pounds of coca leaves drying out in front of his ramshackle lean-to here in the rainforest of the Chapare region, the muggy heart of […]
The wife of the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Margaret Emefiele, was one of about six people abducted by gunmen on Thursday, PREMIUM TIMES can report. A family source told this newspaper late Friday […]
Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has disavowed a role as a negotiator on behalf of the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), a militant group that has claimed responsibility for numerous bombing attacks on oil installations in Nigeria’s […]
The purported leader of Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram Abubakar Shekau appeared in a video posted on social media on Sunday in which he rejected statements by the country’s military that he had been […]
Simon Ancona, UK’s assistant chief of defence staff, says the success of the Nigerian military in the fight against insurgency has put it on a “positive radar of global assessment index”. According to Rabe Abubakar, […]
The Nigerian Army has confirmed that militants killed one of its personnel in Bakassi Local Government Area of Cross River on Saturday. Sani Usman, the Director of Army Public Relations, who confirmed the incident in […]
Tragedy struck at the Ogoja Market, LASU-Igando Road, Lagos State, after operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad shot dead an undergraduate of a polytechnic in Edo State, Eldanojie Joseph. The 20-year-old business administration student was […]
The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has warned the Special Anti-Robbery Squad operatives against torture and extra-judicial killings, saying no policeman in the world had the right or authority to kill crime suspects. He admonished […]
A Nigerian blogger on Thursday spent his fourth night in detention for writing a controversial blog post. Jamil Mabai, a blogger based in the Northwestern state of Katsina, was arrested by officers of the Nigerian […]
A Nigerian police unit set up to combat violent crime has instead been systematically torturing detainees in its custody as a means of extracting confessions and lucrative bribes, Amnesty International said in a report published […]
A special Nigerian police unit has used hangings, mock executions and other forms of torture to obtain confessions and bribes from criminal suspects and their families, Amnesty International said. Victims interviewed by the London-based human […]
A powerful explosion has rocked New York in the U.S. injuring at least 29 people. The New York Times reports that the explosion was caused by a homemade bomb in the Chelsea neighbourhood of Manhattan. […]
Concerned about the fate of the kidnapped Chibok girls, President Muhammadu Buhari approved a prisoner swap with the Boko Haram, barely two months after he was sworn in, an official has said. The Minister of […]
The vice president of Federal Republic of Nigeria is not just an ordinary person. Professor Yemi Osinbajo is an accomplished scholar, award-winning legal practitioner, a respected church pastor and man of seemingly impeccable character. He […]
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