Senator Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has called on residents of Sokoto State to remain calm and law-abiding following late-night explosions reported in parts of the state, assuring that authorities are already clarifying the circumstances surrounding the incidents and taking steps to protect innocent lives. The explosions were reported in Jabo...
By ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto
Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara, on Thursday, launched the distribution of humanitarian support to more than 4,000 households in the newly resettled town of Malam-Fatori, Abadam Local Government Area. The beneficiaries are returnees who spent over a decade as refugees in neighbouring Niger Republic after fleeing insurgent attacks....
Vice President Kashim Shettima and Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum on Friday, paid a visit to victims of Wednesday’s bomb blast at a Mosque in Maiduguri, that are currently receiving treatment at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH). The visit was to sympathise with those injured...
1. The reported American airstrikes conducted within Nigerian territory in Sokoto State targeted at ISIS fighters raise serious constitutional, legal, strategic and political questions that go to the core of Nigeria’s sovereignty and democratic governance. These questions are not matters of sentiment or politics; they are fundamental matters of...
Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Olufemi Oluyede, in company with the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Waidi Shaibu, on Thursday, 26 December 2025, feted frontline troops of Operation FANSAN YAMMA at a special Christmas luncheon held at Giginya Cantonment, Sokoto State. The operational visit to Headquarters...
Sokoto State Governor, Ahmad Aliyu, has expressed renewed confidence that the days of banditry in the state are numbered, unveiling fresh steps to intensify the fight against bandits and other criminal gangs troubling communities across the state. The governor made the declaration in Sokoto while declaring open the 17th...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has issued a strong call for an immediate halt to attacks on Christians in Nigeria, urging global leaders to confront what he described as unacceptable religious persecution. Netanyahu made the remarks in a Christmas message shared on his official X handle, where he addressed...
Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Tincan Island Port Command, has surpassed its 2025 revenue target, generating over ₦1.569 trillion, exceeding the assigned target by ₦55.83 billion. The Customs Area Controller (CAC), Comptroller Frank Onyeka, made the announcement during a press briefing at the command on Tuesday, 23 December 2025. Comptroller...
Nigeria has confirmed that its ongoing security and intelligence partnership with the United States played a key role in recent precision airstrikes against terrorist targets in the North West, as authorities intensify efforts to curb violent extremism across the country. NATIONAL ACCORD reports that US President Donald J. Trump,...
United States (US) President, Donald J. Trump, has announced that the United States military carried out airstrikes against ISIS-affiliated terrorists operating in northwest Nigeria, describing the operation as a decisive blow against violent extremism in the region. In a statement posted late on Sunday via his Truth Social account,...
As part of the decisive phase of the ongoing Operation PEACE SHIELD, troops of 3 Division/Joint Task Force Operation ENDURING PEACE (JTF OPEP) have sustained robust offensive operations across the Joint Operations Area to ensure a peaceful and secure environment during the yuletide period. Media Information Officer, JTF Operation...
Catholic Bishop of the Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Hassan Kukah, has challenged Nigerians to rise above divisions of region and religion and see every life lost to insecurity as a collective national tragedy. Speaking at the Holy Family Cathedral, Sokoto, during his annual Christmas message, Bishop Kukah said the true...
Presidency has moved swiftly to debunk a viral claim suggesting that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has replaced his Chief of Staff, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, with the Principal Private Secretary, Hakeem Muri-Okunola, describing the report as entirely false and misleading. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Presidential spokesman, Bayo...
The Office of former Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, SAN, has firmly dismissed claims that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was not served with a subsisting court order, insisting that due process was followed and that the anti-graft agency is fully aware of the directive. In...
Governor Uba Sani has renamed the Centre For Qur’anic Science of Kaduna State University after Sheikh Dahiru Usman Bauchi, the late Islamic cleric that died on November 27. A statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary, Malam Ibraheem Musa, said the Governor made this known at the Maulid celebration...
Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum has marked Christmas on Thursday by visiting frontline troops of the Nigerian Army’s 68 Battalion in the strategic border town of Malam Fatori, Abadam Local Government Area. The governor has spent the preceding four days traversing northern Borno, coordinating security measures and...
Borno State Government has disbursed the sum of ₦15 million to 500 widows and orphans across the state as part of its Christmas welfare intervention programme. The gesture was carried out through the Ohaneze APC Support Group and officially flagged off at a ceremony organised by the group to...
All Democratic Alliance (ADA) has strongly condemned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over its refusal to register the association as a political party, describing the decision as unjust, premeditated and dangerous to Nigeria’s democratic growth. In a statement issued on Wednesday, December 25, 2025, and signed by its...