President Bola Tinubu has declared nationwide security emergency following rising security crisis in Nigeria. The president further ordered the recruitment of 20,000 police officers, more army personnel and the use of NYSC camps as trainung grounds. In a statement signed…
Former Field Commander of the Joint Task Force, Operation Safe Haven, Major General Anthony Magnawa Atolagbe (Rtd.), has urged Nigerians to understand that not every rescue operation will result in the arrest or neutralisation of kidnappers, emphasising that such missions…
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS says condom distribution in Nigeria fell by 55 per cent over the past year. Launching its 2025 World AIDS Day report, Overcoming Disruption, Transforming the AIDS Response, on Tuesday, UNAIDS warned that the…
The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, on Monday, disclosed that security agencies are fully aware of the identities and locations of the bandit groups terrorizing the country. Recently, there have bee mass abductions…
Labour Party’s Peter Obi has lamented over the recent invasions, killings and abductions in Nigeria by bandits. In a statement on his social media handle on Sunday, Obi decried the heightened insecurity in the land in the last 10 days…
President Bola Tinubu has on Sunday disclosed that all 38 worshippers who were abducted in Eruku, Kwara state, have regained their freedom. According to the president, in a statement directly signed by him on Sunday, the development was possible through…
Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost, on Sunday urged the immediate release of more than 300 people abducted in a series of mass kidnappings targeting schools in Nigeria, describing the news as a source of immense sadness, Vatican News reported. “I…
The Nigerian Army has dismissed a claim in a viral publication that the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Waidi Shaibu was planning to forcefully recruit Nigerians aged 18 and above into military service. The Nigerian Army denied this in a…
The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Olufemi Oluyede, has urged military retirees to engage in skills acquisition a move aimed at improving the living standards of retired military officers and personnel. Oluyede made this call on Wednesday while speaking at…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has reportedly postponed his scheduled trip to South Africa for the G20 Leaders’ Summit as he awaits further security briefings from Vice President Kashim Shettima on the kidnapped Kebbi schoolgirls and the attack on Christ Apostolic…
