•An escapee Chibok girl with children (left) and Borno Governor Zulum (center) It has been nearly a year since 26-year-old Rabiat left the Boko Haram enclave she was held in for close to a decade. In her home in Maiduguri, the northeast Nigerian city at the heart of 15 years of fighting by the armed […]
•Kits belonging to fallen soldiers The military high command today vowed to go after some youths, who reportedly killed 16 of its personnel attached to 181 Amphibious Batallion in Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta State. Trouble started on Thursday when the troops responded to a distress call regarding a communal crisis between the Okuoma ...
Israel killed a top commander of the Iran-backed Hezbollah group in a strike on south Lebanon, a security source told our correspondent today, adding to fears the conflict in Gaza could spread. Hezbollah later announced the killing of a “commander” for the first time, naming him as Wissam Hassan Tawil. It said he died “on […]
•IPOB The Imo State Police Command has arrested a suspected commander of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Ikechukwu Uba, at his hideout in the state. Police spokesman Okoye Henry in a statement said the suspect was apprehended last Saturday, December 16 alongside three others. Henry said on interrogation, the suspect confesse...
•FRSC officials on duty The Federal Road Safety Corps today disowned the Unit Commander, Central Business District Unit Command, Assistant Corps Commander IL Ibrahim, over his recent statement on Vehicle Inspection Officers, otherwise known as Directorate of Road Traffic Services. Ibrahim was quoted to have said that VIO officials do not have ...