Security

At least 65 people were killed during an attack by Islamist militant group Boko Haram near Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri, a Reuters reporter said after counting bodies at a hospital morgue. The remains of […]

Terror group, Boko Haram, was alleged to have burnt some children to death when the militants overran Dalori, a village four kilometres outside Maiduguri, where about 80 residents of the community were killed on Saturday […]

Gunmen on Sunday kidnapped an aide to Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, Captain Henry Ungbuku (rtd). Ungbuku, who is the Special Adviser on Aviation to the Bayelsa State Governor, was abducted as he was […]

Africa’s perennial struggle for survival, amidst a very harsh and unfavourable world economic order, is blinding its leaders to the mortal threat posed to its security by foreign terror organisations, sometimes working in alliance with […]

At least eight people have been killed and 28 others injured in an attack in Nigeria’s restive northeast, witnesses said. A teenage suicide bomber on Friday blew himself up in a grain market in the […]

Up to ten people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up on Friday at a busy market in a town in northern Nigeria where the jihadist Boko Haram group is waging an insurgency, […]

Former Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Adesola Amosu is being detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in connection with the $2.1billion arms deals probe. Amosu has been undergoing what a source […]

GOVERNOR Akinwumi Ambode of Lagos State must be a generous giver. The Police can testify to that because a few weeks ago the governor, a certified accountant, had counted the cost of crime in Lagos […]

Suicide bombers have hit the north-eastern Nigerian town of Chibok during market day, killing at least 13 people, reports said. At least three attackers were involved, some of them female, witnesses said. More than 30 […]

At least 12 people were killed on Wednesday when two female suicide bombers blew themselves up in a market in the northern Nigerian town of Chibok where Boko Haram militants abducted more than 200 girls […]

January 25, 2015, and The Telegraph of UK’s report on Boko Haram:  “Militants from Nigeria’s Boko Haram have attacked Maiduguri, the biggest city in the country’s Northeast, with residents reporting heavy gunfire and shelling from […]

Three suicide bombers were killed after they attempted to attack Nigerian troops at a checkpoint outside the northeastern city of Maiduguri on Friday. One of the bombers detonated her explosives when she sighted the soldiers, […]

Gunmen killed as many as 30 people in raids on five villages in northeastern Nigeria early Sunday said to be caused by tensions between local herdsmen and farmers in the area, according to a resident.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has filed fresh 22 charges against an ex-Niger Delta militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo, and 12 others. The charges, which were filed on Friday at a […]