•Tinubu and bandits Leading Christian, Muslim, traditional and interfaith leaders from across Nigeria have delivered a blunt message to President Bola Tinubu, saying the country’s worsening insecurity sits squarely on his desk, and the situation has now escalated into a national emergency. They warned that the National Assembly also has little...
•Obasanjo Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has expressed worry that the fight against Boko Haram in Nigeria has lasted longer than the country’s civil war that took place between 1967 and 1970. He spoke on Sunday during the ‘Toyin Falola Interviews’ conversation, which was live-streamed on social media. Other panellists included the Catholic...
•Governor Abdullahi Sule The Northern Governors’ Forum has established a security fund, with each state committing N1billion monthly to tackle insecurity challenges across the region. Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State and Chairman of the North Central Governors Forum disclosed this during the State Executive Council meeting in Lafia, r...
•Nigerian workers Nigerian workers through the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, have raised a fresh alarm over the alarming rise in insecurity across the country, warning that it will no longer fold its arms while criminal gangs terrorise citizens, abduct schoolchildren, and murder workers. Speaking at the opening ceremony of its National Executi...
The Vice Chancellor of Summit University Offa in Kwara State, Professor Abiodun Musa Aibinu, says Nigerian universities must become strategic partners in addressing the nation’s insecurity, stressing that the solution goes beyond kinetic responses. Speaking with journalists during the institution’s fifth and sixth combined convocation, the VC ...
•Some Northern governors at a meeting of Northern Nigerian leaders in Kaduna yesterday  Worried by the worsening insecurity across the country, northern governors and traditional rulers have proposed the suspension of mining activities across the region for six months. Giving the proposal in a communiqué issued after a joint meeting of the No...
•Police parade Amid rising killings, mass abductions, and growing security failures across Nigeria, several state Houses of Assembly have begun moves to consider the creation of state police, a long-debated reform that President Bola Tinubu last week urged the National Assembly to legalise as part of sweeping constitutional amendments. Nigeria...
•Tinubu, terrorist and Trump France-based forensic consultant Dr Yusuf Aliu has advised that Nigeria must move swiftly on President Bola Tinubu’s directive to establish a high-level team to engage the United States on new security cooperation, stating that any delay will worsen the country’s rapidly deteriorating security crisis. President Tin...
•Obasanjo Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that Nigerians have the right to seek help from the international community if the government fails in its constitutional duty to protect them. Obasanjo stated this yesterday during the 2025 Plateau Unity Christmas Carol, held at the Ten Commandments Altar in Jos, where he attended as a spe...
•Nuhu Ribadu President Bola Tinubu has approved the constitution of Nigeria’s delegation to the US-Nigeria Joint Working Group, as part of efforts to deepen collaboration in tackling security challenges in the country. ‎Malam Nuhu Ribadu, National Security Adviser (NSA), will lead the Nigerian side of the joint working group, supported by a mu...

