By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja- Nigerian Army’s 12 Brigade Headquarters in Lokoja has kicked off its second Annual Range Classification Exercise, set to run from August 25 to August 28 at the Chari Maigumeri Barracks’ shooting range in Lokoja. Acting Assistant Director of 12 Brigade Army Public Relations, Lt. Hassan...
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By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja- Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has refuted claims that Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Christopher Musa, urged Nigerians to carry firearms. In a statement issued on Friday in Abuja, Brig.-Gen. Tukur Gusau, Director of Defence Information, clarified the CDS’s remarks from an August 20 television interview,...
By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – Rivers State Police Command has apprehended 23-year-old Kingsley Chinamezu for the gruesome killing of his 44-year-old girlfriend, Miss Confidence Sunny, in Etche Local Government Area. The Command’s spokesperson, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, announced the arrest in a statement released in Port Harcourt on Wednesday. She...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna In line with the recent posting and appointments by the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt Gen Olufemi Oluyede, the new General Officer Commanding (GOC) 1 Division Nigerian Army (NA), and Sector 1 Joint Task Force Operation FANSAN YAMMA, Major General Abubakar Sadiq Mohammed Wase...
A recent study by Oxford Policy Management has uncovered alarming impacts of insecurity on education in Katsina State, with approximately 330 students abducted and 52 schools closed in Batsari, Faskari, and Kankara Local Government Areas (LGAs) between 2020 and 2025. The findings were presented by Hadiza Tijani, a consultant...
By HARUNA AHMED, Katsina – Katsina State Government has reported that 13 individuals were killed by bandits during a dawn prayer session on Tuesday in a retaliatory attack at Unguwan Mantau, Malumfashi Local Government Area. The Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Dr. Nasir Muazu, confirmed the incident...
No fewer than 62 kidnapped individuals have escaped from a notorious bandit camp in Danmusa Local Government Area of Katsina State following a targeted Nigerian Air Force (NAF) airstrike. The state’s Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Dr. Nasir Mu’azu, confirmed the mass escape in a statement issued...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos- National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a notorious drug kingpin, Sunday Ibigide, 36 in Asaba, Delta State. Ibigide was apprehended on August 10, 2025, while attempting to move 250 blocks of skunk weighing 138 kilograms using his distribution bus. A statement issued by...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – In a joint operation, the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Nigeria Police have arrested a suspected agent of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Shehu Aliyu Fatangi for allegedly engaging in vote-buying activities in Kaduna State. The arrest took place late Friday night...
National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (NCCSALW) has revealed that Nigeria accounts for 70% of the estimated 11 million illicit small arms and light weapons circulating in West Africa. This disclosure was made by Mr. Alex Ebimiebo, the South-South Zonal Director of NCCSALW, during...
By BARBARA KALU, Owerri – Imo State Police Command has apprehended a 32-year-old pastor, Ikenna Emmanuel, and his alleged accomplice, Franklin Chizoba, for the reported rape of a 20-year-old woman under the pretense of conducting a prayer session. According to a statement by the command’s spokesperson, DSP Henry Okoye,...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has refuted claims that notorious bandit leader Bello Turji has turned himself in to the military. During a press briefing in Abuja on Thursday, Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Markus Kangye, clarified, “Bello Turji has not surrendered. We are still...
By BARBRA KALU, Enugu – Enugu State Police apprehend a 30-year-old suspect, Raymond Wonna, for alleged transnational human trafficking, rescuing two young women en route to Ghana. The victims, both 18 and from Yala Local Government Area in Cross River State, were intercepted on July 30 by the Crack...
Nigerian military, under the leadership of Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Gen. Christopher Musa, has reaffirmed its unwavering commitment to safeguarding Nigeria and the African continent from evolving security challenges. Speaking at a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday, ahead of the inaugural African Chiefs of Defence Staff Summit...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – In a remarkable display of air superiority, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has neutralized 592 terrorists and obliterated 372 enemy assets in Borno over the past eight months, outstripping the operational achievements of the entire 2024 campaign. A statement by the NAF’s spokesperson, Air...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum has called for the deployment of additional air platforms to further degrade the capabilities of Boko Haram and ISWAP fighters in the Lake Chad, Sambisa forest l, Timbuktu triangle and Mandara mountains. Governor Zulum made the call...
In a chilling discovery, the Ogun State Police Command has apprehended a motorcyclist (okada rider), Kadir Owolabi, allegedly caught with three human skulls during a routine patrol. The arrest has sparked a deeper investigation into a potential network of criminal activity in the region. According to the command’s spokesperson,...
In what could be described as a deadly attempted ambush, scores of Boko Haram terrorists, have met their waterloo in Kareto, following an attempted, but failed Improvised Explosive Device (IED) ambush on Operation HADIN KAI troops of 145 Battalion Damasak from Sector 3. The Acting Deputy Director, Army Public...
Operatives of the Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), have arrested 93 suspected internet fraudsters in Ogun State. It was gathered that the operatives reportedly stormed the Green Legacy Hotel, located within Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), and arrested some persons suspected to...
After months of fleeing abroad to evade arrest, the founder and General Overseer of The Turn of Mercy Church, Prophet Adefolusho Aanu Olasele (alias Abbas Ajakaiye) has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for masterminding multiple shipments of illicit drugs into Nigeria. The...