Vice President Kashim Shettima has arrived in Luanda, Angola, to represent President Bola Tinubu at the 7th AU–EU Summit. On arrival, he was briefed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amb. @YusufTuggar; Amb. Aminu Nasir (Charge d’Affaires, Addis Ababa); Amb. Faith Ekwekwo (Charge d’Affaires, Brussels); Amb. Maxy Ogbede (Charge...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja-
By CLEMENT OMANIBE, Abuja Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Adewale Adeniyi, has charged senior officers to strengthen and demonstrate institutional discipline with a view to ensuring operational effectiveness in the Service. The CGC gave the charge during the just-concluded 2025 edition of the Comptroller-General of Customs’ Conference...
The Society of Nigerian Broadcasters (SNB) has conferred the Award of Excellence on Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum , for his contribution to the media industry. President of the Society, Professor Umaru A. Pate, presented the award at the 2nd annual national conference in Kano, stating that...
The sentencing of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), to life imprisonment by a Federal High Court in Nigeria on charges related to terrorism, incitement, and organised violence, has elicited mixed domestic and international reactions. The court presided by Justice James Omotosho found Kanu guilty...
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), has confirmed investigations of a United Arab Emirates (UAE) company, John Crane Middle East FZE. This followed an appeal for intervention from an indigenous company, Cona Engineering and Technical Services. The investigation is to ascertain claims of Nigeria’s Cona Engineering that...
The personal coordination by President Bola Tinubu of the strategies presented by heads of security agencies led to the successful rescue of all the 38 kidnapped church worshippers of Eruku, Ifelodun LGA, Kwara State by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) at about 3.20 pm on Sunday,...
Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has announced an investigation into reports that military personnel were pulled back shortly before terrorists abducted 25 students from Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga, Kebbi State. The abduction occurred on November 17 in Danko-Wasagu Local Government Area, following the killing of the school’s Vice...
Kaduna State Government has dismissed as false and politically motivated the allegation by former Governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai that the administration of Governor Uba Sani paid ₦1 billion to bandits. The claim, made by El-Rufai during a Channels Television interview, was described by the government as baseless and deliberately...
Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has debunked a statement credited to the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, that the Nigerian government has handed a private firm, Xpress Payments, monopoly power over revenue collections under the Treasury Single Account (TSA). Reacting to Atiku’s remarks, Technical Assistant on Broadcast Media to...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has delivered a message of relief to Nigerians, confirming the rescue of all 38 worshippers of Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) abducted in Eruku, Kwara State, following a violent attack by armed men suspected to be bandits. In a statement signed on Sunday by the President,...
After many days of hard work by security forces and government representatives, Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq (CON), has announced the freedom of 38 persons who were recently abducted in an attack on Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) Eruku, Ekiti LGA of the state. Governor AbdulRazaq in a statement by...
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has launched a scathing attack on President Bola Tinubu led administration following a series of mass kidnappings in Northern Nigeria, accusing the Federal Government of “surrendering to terrorists” through what it describes as weak, uncoordinated, and reactionary security measures. In a statement signed by its...
A fresh wave of anxiety has gripped communities in Borno State after suspected Boko Haram/ISWAP fighters stormed a farmland in Askira/Uba Local Government Area and abducted 14 girls—an attack that further deepens Nigeria’s unsettling rise in mass kidnappings. The incident, which occurred on November 22 around 3:30 p.m., adds...
UPDATED: 50 St. Mary’s pupils escape mass abduction, 253 remain in bandits’ captivity in Niger State
UPDATED: 50 St. Mary’s pupils escape mass abduction, 253 remain in bandits’ captivity in Niger State
A wave of relief swept through Papiri community in Niger State over the weekend as 50 children earlier seized during a violent raid on St. Mary’s Private Catholic Primary and Secondary Schools found their way back home and into the arms of their anxious families. The Thursday night attack,...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has ordered the withdrawal of police officers currently providing security for Very Important Persons in the country. Henceforth, police authorities will deploy them to concentrate on their core police duties. The presidential directive was issued at the security meeting President Tinubu held on Sunday with the police,...
The Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Alhaji Bashir Mohammed Dalhatu, has warned that the worsening insecurity across Northern Nigeria poses a grave threat to national stability, urging leaders at all levels to act decisively to halt the resurgence of violence, mass abductions and terror...
Troops of the North East Joint Task Force ‘Operation Hadin Kai’ (OPHK) have again repelled a mid night invasion by suspected members of Boko Haram terrorists, who attempted to wreck havoc in Magumeri Local Government Area of Borno state. Magumeri located in Northern Senatorial District is about 45kms drive...
Following the reported Boko Haram/ISWAP ambush which led to the death of two Civilian Joint Task Force members, with some troops of the North East ‘Operation Hadin Kai’ missing in action last week, Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume (Borno South), has urged the Federal Government and security agencies to quickly...
Truces Between Farmers and Armed Groups in Katsina: Evidence of State Absence, By AUDU LIBERTY OSENI
Truces Between Farmers and Armed Groups in Katsina: Evidence of State Absence, By AUDU LIBERTY OSENI
To capture the voices of those directly affected by the escalating terror attacks in Katsina State, I engaged with local residents, security officials, researchers, and NGO practitioners. Their accounts reveal a disturbing consensus: the unchecked violence in North-West Nigeria has pushed farmers across 20 local government areas in Katsina...