Security

The Nigerian Army on Thursday announced that another batch of 80 Boko Haram fighters surrendered to its troops in Bama, Borno state, in what has now been described as a landmark event. The announcement came […]

Personal safety comes before professional policy. This logic of preservation probably explains why Chief Olu Falae’s family chose to pay a ransom to his abductors. But the police are not impressed. The 77-year-old who was […]

The Defence Headquarters has inaugurated a committee to midwife the process that will lead to the granting of amnesty to willing members of the Boko Haram sect. A Defence Headquarters’ statement, signed by Group Captain […]

Boko Haram terrorists have resorted to poisoning water sources, including wells and streams, in most of the areas they were dislodged from by troops at Kangallam and other communities along Abadam and Marte Local Government areas […]

There is increased momentum in the war against Boko Haram, as the military struggles to meet the presidential directive that the sect must be crushed by December, the very group that Buhari, before he became President, […]

I do not know, even now, how to exactly react to last week’s abduction of Mr. Olu Falae, former Presidential Candidate of the AD in 1999, and even before that, former Secretary to the Federal Government of Nigeria, […]

Nigeria is daily inundated with stories of police malfeasance, of so-called accidental discharge, extrajudicial murder, trigger-happy shootings and attendant cover-ups, torture, human rights abuse, and on top of these, ineffective policing. The police, it is […]

I WAS abducted from my Port Harcourt residence by armed men on Sunday August 30…and released nearly two weeks later on Friday September 11. It was a horrific experience overall. The loss of freedom was hard […]

A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae, says he slept on bare floor for the four days that he was held in kidnappers’ den. Falae, who was released on Thursday […]

The Nigeria police has given insight into how a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Olu Falae, was rescued by its personnel, in an operation it said was coordinated by Inspector General Solomon […]

The Defence Headquarters has alerted that fake national identity cards were in circulation. It warned the people against approaching unauthorised agencies and individuals for their national identification registration. It said that the National Identity Management […]

The Police in Borno State have confirmed that 54 people were killed and over 95 injured in the multiple explosions that hit Maiduguri, the state capital on Sunday night. Police Public Relations Officer Victor Isuku […]

Fresh multiple explosions have rocked Ajilari Railway cross in Gomari Airport ward of Maiduguri metropolis leaving scores of people dead and many others critically injured according residents living around the affected areas. Ajilari cross is […]

Is Abubakar Shekau, the acclaimed leader of Boko Haram, alive or dead? This is the question that is reverberating within the camps of the terrorist organisation and causing unease among  top leaders and members of the […]

NIGERIA is not just a hotbed of Islamist terrorism; it is also a very fertile ground for it. Nigeria may have to get ready to live permanently with Islamist terrorism unless our leaders, especially those […]

The Army said yesterday that scores of women and children held captive by Boko Haram insurgents have been rescued by troops along Banki, Kumashe and Bama axis in Borno State. Acting Director of Army Public […]

•130m euros for Nigerian projects French President François Hollande has  promised his administration’s  support for the Multinational Joint Task Force (MJTF) with equipment and intelligence gathering in the fight against terrorism in Nigeria and Africa. […]

A bomb explosion Friday morning rocked the Malkohi camp of the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs killing no fewer than nine persons, while nine others were injured, most of them in critical situation. Among the injured […]

The Nigerian Air Force has rotated members of its ground forces fighting alongside troops of the Nigerian Army in the ongoing counter insurgency campaign. The troops, who have spent more than six months in the Northeast, were being […]

At least 900 displaced Nigerians repatriated from Cameroon were on Wednesday evacuated to Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, the National Emergency Management Agency, after suspected Boko Haram militants attacked border communities. The IDPs had been […]