Security

Niger has agreed to transfer hundreds of prisoners from the militant Islamist group Boko Haram back to their home country of Nigeria to reduce pressure on its crammed prisons, judicial sources said on Tuesday. Boko […]

The Nigerian army has arrested Boko Haram’s “chief cameraman,” the army said in a statement Saturday. Abdullahi Abubakar Sadiq was arrested in the town of Uba, in Nigeria’s northwestern Borno state, according to the statement.

Cameroon said on Monday that schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist militant group Boko Haram last year were not among a group of 900 hostages liberated by the West African country’s army. Last week’s hostage release raised […]

DUTSE—THE Federal Government has reiterated its resolve at developing strategies that will put an end to the menace of the Boko Haram insurgency confronting the nation. Represented by the Chief of Defence Staff, Lt. General […]

Certain developments in the country show that official terrorists don’t have a monopoly on terrorism. Evidently, the power of terrorism can encourage power terrorism. People in power can do things that make them no better […]

More than 100,000 people uprooted by violence and living in camps in northeast Nigeria are set to return home soon, but many fear for their safety and ability to rebuild their lives, aid agency staff […]

The U.S. Embassy in Nigeria said on Friday it had received information that groups “associated with terrorism” may be planning attacks against hotels in the country that are frequented by Westerners. In a brief message […]

Cameroon’s army, backed by a regional taskforce, has killed at least 100 members of the militant Islamist Boko Haram group and freed 900 people it had held hostage, the west African country’s defence ministry has […]

Nigeria’s police have dispersed protesters calling for the creation of a breakaway state of Biafra. Members of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) had converged for a demonstration in the south-eastern city of Enugu before police intervened.

FORMER National Security Adviser (NSA) Sambo Dasuki has made some “mind-boggling” revelations on the $2billion “phoney” arms contracts, a source said yesterday. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and a Federal Government committee are […]

LAGOS—As the Yuletide activities kicks off nationwide, Lagos State Government, through the state Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, has urged parents and guardians to warn their children and wards to desist from the use of fireworks, […]

ABUJA—THE three-week-long pro-Biafra protests turned bloody, yesterday, as the Joint Military Task Force (JTF) killed nine of the protesters and injured 18 in Onitsha, the commercial city of Anambra State. Irked by the stubborn disposition […]

DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Hundreds of schools in northeast Nigeria have reopened for the first time in a year and a half, though many teachers and pupils are reluctant to return because of persistent […]

With a population in excess of 21 million, Lagos is arguably the largest city in Nigeria. In fact, it is the second most rapidly growing urban area on the African continent after Abuja, the capital […]

The Minister of Interior, Lt. Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (retd.), has ordered the reversal of special promotion to 30 Nigerian Immigration Service personnel. The promotion was carried out by the Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration and Prisons […]

Several members of Boko Haram were killed by the Nigerian troops in Gulak town of Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa State, Mallam Lawal Kanuri, the village head of Krichinga told journalists on Tuesday. He […]

The Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, has queried the disbursement of funds for the procurement of arms for the military under the former Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. […]

EFCC goes after ex-PDP chair Bello  After a month’s siege to his Abuja home and legal fireworks, former National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd.) was yesterday arrested for interrogation on the $2b phoney arms […]

When a major tribe is treated procedurally as second-class in their own country, there will be a demand for self-determination sooner rather than later. In the eight years of Obasanjo’s presidency, there was no headline-grabbing […]

In January 2014, former President Goodluck Jonathan in his own wisdom, decided to appoint Air Marshal Alex S. Badeh as the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS). Almost immediately, a United States-based Nigerian journalist Abiodun Ladepo circulated […]