Security

President Obama said Sunday the Orlando nightclub massacre is being investigated as an “act of terror,” but declined to mention whether it was related to radical Islam, amid such mounting evidence, and argued the attack […]

President Barack Obama on Sunday described the worst mass shooting in U.S. history as “an act of terror” and “an act of hate,” saying the massacre of 50 people at a packed gay nightclub in […]

The military career of at least 35 senior army officers came to an abrupt end yesterday after the authorities laid them off for their alleged involvement in the $2.1billion arms procurement deal, and ‘unprofessional’ conduct […]

The Defence Headquarters has raised the alarm that the members of the Boko Haram sect are planning large-scale bombings during the Ramadan festival. The Acting Director Defence Information, Brig. Gen. Rabe Abubakar, said in an […]

The Police Service Commission (PSC) yesterday said it shortlisted 338,227 applicants of the 911,438 that applied for recruitment into the Police Force. The Chairman of the Commission, Mr Mike Okiro, at a news conference in […]

The House of Representatives said on Thursday that it was in support of any action taken so far by the Federal Government to contain the rising attacks on oil pipelines in the Niger Delta by […]

•Government must probe the incidents with a view to averting a recurrence The recent bloody-clash between our security agencies and those celebrating the 50th anniversary of the declaration of the ill-fated Biafra Republic does not […]

OF all things, militancy should be the last to occupy our minds right now; but it has crept back stealthily to the front burner. Many thought that it was dead and buried following the amnesty granted […]

Niger Delta Avengers, citing the unfair allocation of oil blocks as part of their major grievances blew up Nembe Brass to Bonny trunk line belonging to Agip and Shell about last Saturday. This is the […]

“(I )f we are interested in bringing the violence to a stop, we should be interested not just in crime and punishment but, more so, in political reform.” —Mahmood Mamdani On Thursday, February 25, 2016, […]

No fewer than 148 people were killed on Monday in bomb explosions in Jableh and Tartous on Syria’s Mediterranean coast on Monday in the government-controlled territory that hosts Russian military bases, Reuters quotes monitors and […]

No one expected any victory parade following the rescue last week of Amina Ali Nkeki, one of the 260 abducted Chibok girls, from Boko Haram’s captivity. One person out of hundreds, and after more than […]

The parents of the abducted Chibok girls say they still have hope that their daughters are still alive and  will reunite with them one day. Some parents of the abducted girls expressed this hope in […]

A slogan of the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) says: “Police is Your Friend”. Police, indeed, are friends of the citizenry, because they are the ones everybody looks for when confronted with threats to life and […]

The Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) is in a fresh mess. The office, already enmeshed in the $15billion arms deal, is being fingered in the alleged disappearance of $40million(N13.6billion)  approved  by the administration […]

The Federal Government has explained why former National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki (rtd) was still being held by the Department of State Services (DSS). It said Dasuki was being held on the […]