•Police The Lagos State Police Command has dismissed fears over a circulating threat notice allegedly pasted in a school, claiming that bandits planned to attack and abduct schoolchildren, assuring residents that there is no verified intelligence supporting such a threat. In a post shared on X today, the Police Public Relations Officer, Lagos ...
•Terrorist inside forest For about two decades, the northern part of the country has been ravaged by terrorism characterised by sacking of entire communities, mass killings, looting, destruction and kidnappings for ransom. The terrorists later upped their evil acts by attacking schools and abducting students and teachers. What was witnessed in...
•Lagos teachers protesting student abduction in Oyo State The Muslim community in Oyo State has condemned the Sharia-related demands reportedly made by terrorists holding teachers and pupils abducted from schools in Oriire Local Government Area, declaring that the criminals do not represent Islam or Muslims. The position came as public and pri...
•Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State Ondo State governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has commended the judiciary and security agencies for securing the conviction and death sentence of the four suspects linked to the June 5, 2022, terror attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo. Aiyedatiwa described the court verdict as a victory for justice, the...
•Attacked Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja today sentenced four members of the Al-Shabaab terrorist group to death by hanging for their involvement in the June 5, 2022, attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State, which left more than 40 worshippers dead and over 100 others injured. […]...
•Kidnapped Major General Rabe Abubakar (rtd) Suspected armed bandits have abducted retired Major General Rabe Abubakar, a former Director of Defence Information, along with his wife in Katsina State. Reports say the incident happened along the Katsina–Matazu road when the retired senior military officer was travelling with his wife yesterday. ...
•Terrorists Suspected terrorists who abducted schoolchildren and teachers from three schools in Esinele, Yamota and Alawusa towns in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State have opened communication channels with the state government. Two highly credible sources told our correspondents that the hoodlums refused to speak directly with the fam...
•Casket of the late teacher, Adesiyan Adegboye during the burial programme in Ogbomoso The burial arrangements for late Adesiyan Adegboye, one of the teachers killed during the coordinated attack on three schools in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State, commenced today at Ayegun Baptist Church, Ogbomoso. Adegboye, 49, was killed at the sc...
•Tinubu and PDP logo The Tanimu Turaki-led Interim National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the killing of a mathematics teacher among those abducted from three schools in Oyo State, describing the incident as a grim reflection of what it called the worsening state of insecurity under the administration of...
Terrorists The head of one of the kidnapped teachers of Community High School, Ahoro-Esinele in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State, Michael Oyedokun, has been cut off by the terrorists who captured them. A video released by the captors yesterday, Sunday, May 17, 2026, captured the gunmen beheading Oyedokun. The gunmen invaded the school...
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