The final batch of 130 students abducted from St. Mary’s Catholic Primary and Secondary School in Papiri, Niger State, regained their freedom on Sunday, bringing to an end one of Nigeria’s largest recent mass school kidnappings. Special Adviser to the…
Troops of the Nigerian Army under Operation HADIN KAI have reportedly ambushed a Boko Haram/Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) logistics convoy in Borno State. The troops neutralized 21 terrorists during operations in Sojiri and Kayamla communities, a statement posted…
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 26-year-old housewife and her 30-year-old accomplice for allegedly staging her own kidnapping and extorting N2.5 million from her husband. The command’s spokesperson, Abimbola Adebisi, confirmed the arrest in a statement issued on…
Unknown gunmen killed 10 people and wounded 10 others in an attack at a township outside Johannesburg, police said in Sunday, in the second mass shooting in South Africa this month. The motive for the attack at Bekkersdal, 40 kilometres…
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has confirmed the death of 12 people and two others injured in a road crash on Friday along the Ejule–Enugu highway in Kogi State. Disclosing this while speaking with newsmen in Lokoja on Saturday,…
The United States Government has temporarily stopped the legal immigration applications filed by Nigerians and other new countries added to the US “travel ban” proclamation this week, CBC News reports. The move mainly affects immigrants who hail from certain African…
Troops of Operation Hadin Kai have intercepted two pick-up vans suspected to be conveying logistics supplies to Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists in Borno State. This was disclosed by the Media Information Officer, Joint Task Force Operation Hadin…
President Bola Tinubu has earmarked N5.41tn for Security, the single largest allocation in the proposed 2026 budget. Disclosing this on Friday while presenting the N58.18tn 2026 Appropriation Bill to a joint session of the National Assembly, Tinubu said national security…
President Bola Tinubu is seeking the approval of the National Assembly for the extension of the implementation of the 2025 Appropriation Act to March 31, 2026, as part of efforts to end the practice of running multiple budgets simultaneously. …
The Trump administration announced on Thursday it will suspend a green card lottery that allowed a man believed to be behind both a mass shooting at Brown University and the killing of an MIT professor into the United States. Claudio…
