Security

•DPP plans fresh money laundering charges against NSA THE Federal Government yesterday urged a Federal High Court in Abuja not to accede to the request by former National Security Adviser Sambo Dasuki for the release […]

The Chairman of the Victim Support Fund (VSF), retired General Theophilus Danjuma last week told newsmen that the summit will be held on December 7th 2015 in Abuja. The Federal Government also unfolded what it […]

VI, Ikoyi residents fret over reports of aborted bomb attack Govt, police allay Boko Haram fears, say no cause for alarm Things are no longer at ease for most residents of Lagos, particularly those who […]

DEMOCRACY does not necessarily translate into the disappearance of crises and dilemmas, (even trilemmas, quadrilemmas or more) in a country, either developed, developing or perhaps evolutionary. Built into the fabric of the right to choose […]

Perhaps, the reason why we are yet to defeat Boko Haram is that we, as a nation, have not approached the war on terror as a nation at war. When a nation goes to war, […]

The Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai on Wednesday declared 100 members of the Boko Haram insurgents wanted. According to him, the arrest of the wanted members of the sect would help a […]

•State Department condemns attacks by insurgents A bill has been sent by a United States Congressman demanding President Barack Obama’s comprehensive plan to assist Nigeria to battle Boko Haram. Rep. Frederica Wilson (Democrat-Fla.), a member […]

For a few seconds, Abimbola Davies gazed at the portrait hanging on the wall opposite where she sat in her home in Lagos, and the memories came flooding back. It was in 1975 when Enitan […]

Nnewi—Presidential  Committee on Small Arms and Light Weapons, PRESCOM, stakeholders’ sensitization forum, held at Enugu for South East zone, has revealed that about 60 per cent of the illegal arms in the zone are produced […]

Jos—The Chief of  Army Staff, COAS, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, has said that the December deadline given by Federal Government to end activities of insurgents in the North-East region of the country was realizable as […]

Two leading UK experts on terrorism, Dr. Afzal Ashraf and Richard Barrett, have advised the Federal Government to be cautious in holding talks with the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram. The duo made this known […]

Last week, the Department of State Security arrested the Director of the pirate Radio called, “Radio Biafra,” Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, and sparked off a wave of street protests in the cities of the Niger, from […]

The National Emergency Management Agency has released the casualty figure in Friday’s bomb attack on a mosque in Yola, the Adamawa State capital. A spokesperson for the agency, Sani Datti, said 27 persons were killed […]

Nigeria has hired about 250 mercenaries from South Africa to help in its war against Boko Haram insurgents, a Turkish news agency has reported, quoting military sources. President Muhammadu Buhari recently gave a December deadline […]

VICE President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, recently disclosed the intention of the Federal Government to set up a communication centre to provide adequate information to counter the violent propaganda of Boko Haram Islamist insurgents. The nation’s […]

ASABA—PROTESTERS,  yesterday stormed the entrance of Delta State Government House, Asaba condemning the arrest and detention of the Director of Radio Biafra, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu. Gathered under the aegis of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, […]

The Nigerian Army on Tuesday set up “a high powered” Board of Inquiry to investigate alleged malpractices and involvement of its personnel in the 2014 Ekiti and Osun States governorship elections. In February, SaharaReporters posted […]

ENUGU—Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kalu,who was arrested at Golden Tulip Hotel in Lagos by the Department of State  Service,DSS, after he returned from  the   United Kingdom has been granted bail by the Abuja Municipal […]