•Christians demonstrate against Plateau killings Members of the Christian community in Plateau State staged a rally in Jos, the state capital, today, in a demonstration against the heinous Christmas Eve killings of over 200 persons in the Bokkos and Barkin-Ladi local government areas by blood-thirsty marauders. The leaders alongside, their pla...
•Terrorists Two policemen have sustained bullet injuries, while seven family members have been abducted as terrorists intensify attacks on Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. It was gathered that a middle-aged man, simply identified as Alhaji, who led policemen to foil the kidnapping of the seven family members, w...
•Terrorists Suspected Boko Haram insurgents have killed Pastor Luka Levong of the Church of Christ In Nations (COCIN) in Kwari, Geidam Local Government Area of Yobe state. The attackers also killed five others. Some residents who evacuated the corpses to the Specialist Hospital Geidam told our correspondent that the attackers invaded the commu...
Southern and Middle Belt Leaders’ Forum (SBLM) has written to President Bola Tinubu, regretting that the joy expressed by him in his New Year message welcoming “compatriots to this brand new year 2024” could not be understood or shared by several millions of Nigerians, particularly the people of Mangu, Bokkos, Barkin-Ladi Local Government Area...
•Terrorists A chilling account of how communities were attacked in three local government areas of Plateau State was given on the floor of the Senate at the weekend. Senator Abdul Ningi (Bauchi Central) held the Red Chamber spellbound when he told his colleagues how almost 200 people were massacred by bandits, reports The Nation. According [&h...
An officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has died as a result of the bombing of three power transmission towers by terrorists along Maiduguri-Damaturu, the Transmission Company of Nigeria announced yesterday. The General Manager of Public Affairs, TCN, Ndidi Mbah, disclosed this in a statement issued in Abuja, adding that the...
•Terrorists Invaders have threatened fresh attacks on a community in Plateau State on Friday (today), barely four days after they killed 195 persons in 17 communities across the state. The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the Middle Belt Forum, Stanley Kavwam, in an interview with Arise Television yesterday, said the terrorists had sent ...
•Tinubu inspects guard of honour in Maiduguri We will not lose the battle against insecurity. We will secure Nigeria, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu said yesterday. Tinubu spoke at the palace of the Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar Ibn Umar Garbai Al-Amin El-Kanemi, in Maiduguri,the Borno State capital, reports The Nation. The President was in Mai...
•Uba Sani Kaduna State governor, Uba Sani, has faulted the Army’s statement attributing the reason for the air strike in the Tudun Birni community to terrorists embedding themselves with civilians. The incident, which happened on Sunday, resulted in the deaths of over 120 people and injuries to several others in the Igabi Local Government Area...
•Defence Headquarters Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has broken its silence over the air strike by the Nigerian Army at Tudun Birni community in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, saying terrorists embedded with civilians. Eighty-five people were killed with several others injured in the bombing, making it one of the country’s deadliest ...