•School children and policemen Federal and state governments are beefing up security in schools across the country as the 2026/27 session commences on Monday. The move is meant to protect students, teachers and property from possible attack by terrorists, reports The Nation. The Federal Ministry of Education said yesterday that the relevant se...
The United States has delivered a fresh consignment of military equipment to Nigeria. The equipment was transported to Nigeria aboard a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft under the Foreign Military Sales arrangement between Washington and Abuja, reports Daily Trust. The US Africa Command disclosed the development today through its offi...
•House of Representatives The Minority Caucus of the House of Representatives has proposed the withdrawal of $5 billion from Nigeria’s external reserves to fund an extraordinary national security intervention to tackle terrorism and banditry in Northern Nigeria. The caucus made the proposal in a statement signed by its Leader, Hon. Fredrick Ag...
•Naira notes and NFIU logo The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) has raised the alarm over emerging methods being used by terrorist financiers to conceal the identities of individuals controlling illicit funds, including the use of pre-registered SIM cards and bank accounts opened in women’s names. The disclosure was contained in the...
•Oyedepo and Adeboye General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, and the founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide, Bishop David Oyedepo, have called for stronger U.S. collaboration with Nigeria to combat terrorism. They lamented that insecurity has continued to devastate communities across the country...
•The convicts A High Court sitting in Sokoto State has sentenced three men, including a foreign national, to death by hanging, following their conviction on charges bordering on terrorism and arms proliferation. The convicts, Yusuf Muhammad (alias Sallau), a Nigerien; Jabbi Alhaji Yalle; and Kabiru Muhammad, were apprehended on June 13, 2025, ...
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday sentenced each of the five persons arrested on May 31, 2026, by the Department of State Services (DSS) for their involvement in the 21 November 2025 attack on St. Joseph Catholic Church, Papiri, Niger State, to 25 years in prison. In what could pass as the fastest […]
•Adeboye, Tinubu and Chief of Defence Staff, Lieutenant General Oluyede The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has urged the federal government to give Nigeria’s security chiefs a 90-day ultimatum to eliminate terrorists or resign from office. Adeboye made the call in a video shared on his X handle...
•Convicted Halima Umar Justice Hauwa Yilwa of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has sentenced a woman, Halima Haliru Umar, to 20 years’ imprisonment following her conviction on the offences of unlawful possession of 302 rounds of AK-47 live ammunition and attempting to render support for the commission of acts of terrorism. The convict had, durin...
•Abubakar Malami The Department of State Services has re-arraigned a former Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), and his son, Abdulaziz, before Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on an amended charge bordering on alleged terrorism and unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition. At the day’s hea...
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