•Celine Lafoucriere with children Millions of Nigerian children are being denied safe education as schools increasingly become centres of fear amid abductions, worsening insecurity, overcrowded classrooms and poor learning conditions, UNICEF warned today, raising alarm over threats to their rights and development. Speaking at the 2026 Internat...
•Protest A coalition of civil society organisations, organised labour unions, youth groups, community associations and prominent activists has declared June 12, Nigeria’s Democracy Day, a day of nationwide protest over worsening insecurity, economic hardship and deteriorating living conditions across the country. The coalition, led by human ri...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives has warned the service chiefs to step down honourably if the country’s deteriorating security situation persists and public confidence in the government’s efforts is not restored within a clearly defined period. It also urged President Bola Tinubu to come up with a comprehensive and aggres...
A group of young Nigerians today staged a protest at the National Assembly, urging the federal government to take immediate and decisive measures to address the worsening insecurity across the country. The protest, tagged “Nigerians Unite Against Terror,” commenced at the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and ended at the National Assembly com...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives has passed a resolution to summon the Minister of Defence, Christopher Musa, service chiefs, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Tunji Disu, and the Director-General of the State Security Service (DSS), Adeola Ajayi, to appear before it to outline details of funds released to the securi...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate has pledged to commence urgent deliberations on the establishment of state police this week as part of efforts to address the growing insecurity across the country. Speaking at a media briefing with Senate correspondents, the Senate Leader, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, stated that the matter had gained priority among o...
•Nuhu Ribadu and Tinubu The Delta Past Student Leaders Community (DPSLC), also known as the Comrade Community, has called for the immediate resignation of the National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu, citing what it described as a failure to effectively coordinate the nation’s security architecture amid rising insecurity across the country...
•Tinubu and terrorists At least 8,521 Nigerians sought refuge in Niger, Cameroon and Chad between December 2025 and May 2026 as a result of insecurity in the North-West and the North-East. This is according to an analysis of data from the UNHCR Nigeria Forcibly Displaced Populations dashboard, obtained by our correspondent for the six-month pe...
•Tinubu and bandits Ahead of the 2027 general elections, Nigeria appears to be under siege with alarming rise in kidnapping and killing incidents. Amid the waiting for the safe release of schoolchildren and teachers abducted from their schools in Oyo and Ondo states on May 15, 2026, five soldiers and three members of the Civilian […]
•Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has imposed a statewide night-time ban on commercial motorcycle operations in the state, barring okada riders from operating between 10:30 p.m. and 5:30 a.m. as part of a broader security crackdown aimed at curbing criminal activities and enhancing public safety. The restri...
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