•Gunmen Residents of Eda-Oniyo Community in Ilejemeje Local Government Area of Ekiti State have staged a peaceful protest, calling for urgent intervention from the state and federal governments, as well as security agencies, over the continued captivity of 16 kidnapped residents despite the payment of a ₦10.5 million ransom. The protesters, co...
•Bandits A coalition of prominent elders and stakeholders from Kwara North Senatorial District has issued a stark warning over the worsening security situation in the region. They claimed that more than 1,200 residents have been killed by bandits and terrorists since President Bola Ahmed Tinubu assumed office in 2023, reports Daily Trust. The ...
•Hadi Sirika A Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, today deferred its ruling on an application seeking to discontinue the alleged N2.8 billion fraud trial involving former Aviation Minister Hadi Sirika until the day judgment will be delivered in the substantive case. Justice S.C. Oriji made the decision during proce...
The Nigeria Police Trust Fund (NPTF) has called for a substantial increase in its statutory funding allocation as the Senate intensifies efforts to strengthen the country’s security architecture amid rising cases of kidnapping, terrorism and other violent crimes. The proposal was presented today during a public hearing organised by the Senate ...
•Tinubu and CAN logo The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has declared Sunday, June 14, 2026, as Black Sunday to mourn victims of terrorist attacks across the country. The Association also said there will be national prayer from June 12 to 14, reports Daily Trust. Speaking at the end of its National Church Denominational Leadership [&hel...
•House of Representatives In a bid to ensure the well-being of the citizenry, the House of Representatives has called for the immediate implementation of state policing and other structural security reforms following the kidnapping of pupils and teachers in Orire Local Government Area of Oyo State and the killing of a teacher, Michael Oyedokun...
The African Democratic Congress (ADC), Lagos State Chapter, has demanded the immediate rescue of kidnapped school children. The party in a statement today signed by the state chairman, George Ashiru, urged community leaders, religious institutions, civil society organisations, and well-meaning Nigerians to cooperate with security agencies by p...
•DSS operatives and Prof Okey Ndibe The Department of State Services (DSS) has officially reacted to the viral insinuations surrounding the alleged “arrest and detention” of Prof Okey Nadine, a globally known journalist at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos yesterday, June 1, 2026. An explicit statement signed and issued by Favour D...
•So-Safe Corps A man, identified simply as Success, has reportedly died from injuries sustained after being tortured by some operatives of an Ogun State security outfit, So-Safe Corps, along Coca-Cola Road, in the Oju-Ore area of the state. It was learnt yesterday from a Facebook post by Ota Gossip that the incident occurred after an […...
•Abducted Major General Rabe Abubakar (rtd) A notorious bandit leader, Kachallah Muhammad, has established communication with relatives of the abducted retired senior military officer, Major General Rabe Abubakar Batsari. Sources told our correspondent that the bandit kingpin, who operates in parts of Katsina State, opened a line of communicat...
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