Troops of the Joint Task Force (North East), Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK), have recorded significant operational successes across the North-East, neutralising high-value terrorist targets, disrupting insurgent activities, and foiling criminal operations through sustained, intelligence-driven engagements. In a major breakthrough, intelligence has confirmed the killing of JULAIBIB, a top Islamic...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has pledged a stronger development partnership with Taraba State following the formal entry of Governor Agbu Kefas and his supporters into the All Progressives Congress (APC). This is just as Vice President Kashim Shettima has said that the state is pivotal to Nigeria’s food and...
All Progressive Congress (APC) has on Saturday officially welcome the Taraba state Governor, Agbu Kefas into the party in Jalingo, the state capital Vice President Kashim Shettima, who received the governor on behalf of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu said that the Nation is very proud of Governor Kefas for...
Senior lawmakers and development stakeholders on Saturday called for an urgent, coordinated economic rescue of the North West, warning that decades of fragmented development efforts have deepened poverty, insecurity and underdevelopment in the region. The call was made at the North West Development Summit held at the Yar’Adua Conference...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) on Friday received a suspected operator of a fake crypto-currency investment platform, Polyfarm. The suspect, Bamu Gift Wandji was arrested by the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in Gwagwalada on January 12, 2026, for running a fraudulent investment scheme and was...
Sequel to the complaint received from the Local Government Chairmen, in Osun State, by the Osun State Attorney General that unauthorized accounts have been opened for the Osun state LGs allocation, so as to allow the authorized persons to operate and maintain the accounts, in the United Bank for...
The Benin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, January 26, 2026 arraigned one Ndubuisi Iheukwumere John before Justice Agbaje Olufunmilola Adetutu of the Federal High Court, sitting in Asaba, Delta State for fraud. He was arraigned on a two-count charge, bordering on advance...
National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has extend the electronic membership registration exercise from 31st January 2026 to 8th February 2026, following requests from Party stakeholders. National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Felix Morka, announced this in a statement issued on Saturday in Abuja. Mr....
Senate has set March 17, 2026, as the tentative date for the final consideration and passage of the ₦58.472 trillion 2026 budget. The timeline was disclosed by the Senate Committee on Appropriations after a special session held on Friday, during which February 2 to 13, 2026, was approved for...
In a well-coordinated dawn attack on 28 January 2026, troops of Sector 1 Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK) conducted successful night dawn surprise operations at Bula Dalo, where they neutralized over 12 terrorists, compelling the remnants to flee in disarray. Media Information Officer, Headquarters Joint Task Force North East Operation...
A covert intelligence operation coordinated by the Army Headquarters and the State Security Service (SSS), helped thwart a deadly plot to overthrow President Bola Tinubu’s government and assassinate key political figures, PREMIUM TIMES has authoritatively reported. Multiple senior administration insiders said the plot began to unravel in late September...
Move by the Federal Government to revisit the dispute over oil wells between Akwa Ibom and Cross River States has sparked fears and apprehension as the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) announced plans to begin the “plotting of coordinates of the disputed and newly drilled oil and...
Kaduna State Police Command has arrested seven suspected bandits and recovered five firearms with live ammunition in separate intelligence-led operations across the state. In a press statement issued in kaduna by the Command’s spokesman, DSP Mansir Hassan, said the arrests were part of its sustained crackdown on banditry and...
Taraba State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Child Development, Mary Sinjen has debunked allegations raised by a social media activist, Abdulmumin Iman that the ministry has released N1 billion on consultancy. Sinjen said Iman has misplaced information about the ministry’s functions by connecting funds approvals of Nigeria For Women...
As a part of ongoing efforts to reposition Nigeria’s gas sector as the engine room of national industrialisation, energy security, and sustainable economic growth, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) has officially unveiled its Gas Master Plan (GMP) 2026, tagged NGMP 2026. This was disclosed in a...
Following the promise of rebuilding about two years after the community was hit by an accident bomb from military drones, the Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima @officialSKSM, has commissioned the Tudun Biri Resettlement Scheme, with about 133 completed housing units, educational facilities and other state-of-the-art infrastructure. Senator Shettima had...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Lagos Zonal Directorate 2, on Friday, January 30, 2026, arraigned an alleged serial fraudster, Titilayo Funmilayo Eboh, for an alleged N247, 500,000 (Two Hundred and Forty-seven Million Five Hundred Thousand Naira) fraud before Justice Ramon Oshodi of the State High Court sitting in...
National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kabiru Tanimu Turaki (SAN), has downplayed the impact of the recent judgment of the Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State, insisting that the ruling poses no threat to the party’s ongoing “rebirth” process. Turaki made this known on Friday...
Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State, has nullified the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Convention held in the city in November 2025, effectively dissolving the National Working Committee (NWC) that emerged from the exercise. Justice Uche Agomoh, in a judgment delivered on Friday, ruled that the convention...
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has issued a stern warning to the Rivers State Government over what he described as the denial of access to the Yakubu Gowon Stadium, Port Harcourt, for a political rally by the Renewed Hope Ambassadors. Wike, a former governor of...