Security

Eighteen pilgrims have been reported injured in a stampede near Islam’s holiest site, Saudi media reported yesterday, as the kingdom continues to review safety after a deadly crush during last year’s hajj. The incident happened […]

At least 82 people were killed and 200 injured in two bombings that hit Baghdad around midnight Saturday, nearly all of them in a blast targeting a busy shopping area as they celebrated Ramadan, police […]

A United States-based civil rights organisation, Empower54, has said that women and children who were abducted by members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect are currently facing starvation. According to the founder of the organisation, […]

The Department of State Services (DSS) announced yesterday it had uncovered a plot to bomb Nigeria’s largest  computer market, the Computer  Village in Ikeja, Lagos. It named one Chidiebere Onwudiwe, a graduate of Mechanical and […]

A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted a British man on weapons charges, alleging he tried to steal a gun from a policeman during a Las Vegas rally for Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential […]

Tukur Buratai, chief of army staff, has blamed Boko Haram for the reports of his assets in Dubai. The report generated controversy last week, but the government has since absolved the army chief of any […]

Although there are objections from certain quarters, that the Federal Government should not negotiate with the emergent militant group known as the Niger Delta Avengers, good reason suggests the contrary. And the readiness of the […]

Three suicide bombers opened fire then blew themselves up in Istanbul’s main international airport on Tuesday, killing 36 people and wounding close to 150 in what Turkey’s prime minister said appeared to have been an […]

The appointment of an Acting Inspector General of Police,IGP,from the rank of Assistant Inspector General, AIG,has created another season of instability in the commanding heights of the Nigerian Police force. If precedent is followed,the choice […]

Trip aborted as soldiers return fire State demands Task Force Suspected militants that have been tormenting communities in Ogun State yesterday prevented a convoy led by Deputy Governor Mrs. Yetunde Onanuga from accessing a part […]

Since the disappearance of the seven DSS operatives in Lagos over eight months ago, the government has not spoken a word on the matter. This is despite numerous agitations by family members of the missing […]

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday appointed Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG), Ibrahim Kpotum Idris, as Acting Inspector-General of Police. He replaces Solomon Arase, who retired yesterday after reaching the mandatory 60 years of age. Arase was […]

ABUJA-Ibrahim Idris may have been named the Acting new Inspector General of Police, IGP. He replaced Solomon Arase whose tenure officially elapsed on Monday 20th June,2016.

The Police Service Commission has promoted seven Commissioners of Police to Assistant Inspectors-General of Police. It also elevated 4, 535 senior officers to the next rank between May and June 2016. A statement by the […]

The Imushin community in the Ogijo area of Ogun State has been thrown into mourning after no fewer than 15 residents were reportedly killed on Friday evening by armed men suspected to be militants. SUNDAY […]

Donald Trump chipped away at Hillary Clinton’s lead in the presidential race this week, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday, as the candidates clashed over how to respond to the worst mass shooting […]

In the last two and a half weeks at least three well publicised incident of people taking laws into their hands have occurred which can only worsen fears that Nigeria is fast degenerating into a […]

The Niger Delta region has been embroiled in fresh crisis in the past few weeks. It appears that what initially looked like the usual “shakara” (the late Afrobeat king, FelaAnikulapo-Kuti’s word for intimidation) embarked upon […]

Niger Delta Avengers , NDA , for short. A bizarre name for a bizarre group with bizarre intentions and strategies? By its self description, the group which went public early this year is made up […]