•Chibok girls in Boko Haram captivity in May 2014 The #BringBackOurGirls movement has called on the federal government to release findings of the 2014 Brigadier General Mohammed Sabo-led Fact-Finding Committee on the Chibok girls abduction. In a statement yesterday signed by its spokesperson, Jeff Okoroafor, the group criticised past and prese...
•Tigran Gambaryan Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) has called on the leadership of the House of Representatives to investigate, urgently, allegations levelled against some lawmakers by the Head of Financial Crime Compliance at the cryptocurrency firm, Binance, Tigran Gambaryan. Gambaryan alleged that three Nige...
•Boko Haram terrorists The Chief of Defence Standards and Evaluations at the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) Major General Adekunle Ariyibi says Boko Haram and other terrorists enjoy foreign funding. Ariyibi made the comment on Channels Television today, saying that Boko Haram and Islamic State in West African Province (ISWAP)’s foreign backing is ...
•Boko Haram insurgents The case of missing children in Borno State has sparked public outcry, following a disturbing video of a young boy confessing to undergoing military training in a forest alongside dozens of other children. Some residents who spoke with our correspondent yesterday recounted the agony of their missing loved ones and expres...
•Airstrike by Nigerian Air Force An army jet killed at least six civilians after mistakenly attacking them while pursuing gangs in northern Nigeria’s Katsina State, residents told our correspondent yesterday. It dropped a bomb on a cluster of huts on the outskirts of Zakka village in Safana district on Saturday, three residents said. The strik...
•The burnt police station Angry youths in Ifon, the headquarters of the Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State, have chased away policemen at the divisional police station in the town and set the place ablaze. According to information from some locals, the violent crisis was said to have started with a clash between two […]
•Senator Ali Ndume The lawmaker representing Borno South Senatorial District, Ali Ndume, has asked the Tinubu-led federal government to probe a claim by US Congressman Scott Perry that the aborted United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded terrorist organisations, including Boko Haram. “You can’t say it’s just an allegat...
A civil society group, the Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC) has urged the Police Service Commission to order an independent investigation into the alleged kidnapping, extortion, and abuse of power involving members of the Enugu State Command of the Nigeria Police Force, reports The Nation. RULAAC’s appeal followed allega...
•Reverend Father Livinus Maurice Gunmen have abducted a Catholic Priest of Port Harcourt Diocese, Reverend Father Livinus Maurice, alongside two others. Fr. Maurice, who is the Parish Priest of St Patrick’s Catholic, Isokpo in Ikwerre Local Government Area of the state was abducted alongside two others whose identities were not disclosed while...
A final-year student of Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin, Lawal Hafsoh Yetunde, has reportedly been murdered by a man she met on social media. According to reports, the suspect dismembered her body for alleged ritual purposes after the gruesome killing, reports Saturday Tribune. The Kwara State Police Command, which confirmed the incid...

