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The 75 students kidnapped from the Government Day Secondary School, Kaya, in Maradun local government area of Zamfara state have regained freedom, 12 days after their abduction. Following their release …
75 abducted Zamfara school children regain freedom Read MoreSave the Children International Nigeria has expressed concern that with the total or partial closure of schools in Zamfara, Katsina, Adamawa, Kaduna, Niger and other states due to kidnapping and …
SCi laments spate of out of school children Read More
Ebonyi Police command Tuesday, paraded two suspects for trafficking teenage girls for prostitution. The suspects Ivi Chukwu Chinecherem, age 20yrs and Ogbonna Justice, age 19 yrs were said to have …
Prostitution: Police nab 2 for trafficking teenagers to Ghana Read More
A former zonal director of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Ahmed Abdulkadir, his daughters and three others have been abducted Monday night in Bakori, Katsina state. A colleague of the …
Bandits abduct ex-NBC director, daughter, 3 others in Katsina Read More
Hours after, the Zamfara state Police command has confirmed that up to 73 students were on Wednesday kidnapped from Government Day Secondary school, Kaya in Maradun local government area. Police …
Breaking: Police confirm how many students were kidnapped at another Zamfara school Read More
Three weeks after the father of the Speaker of Zamfara State House of Assembly Hon. Nasiru Muazu Magarya, step mother and four others were abducted by bandits at Magarya town …
25 days after, Zamfara speaker’s father, mother, 4 others still in captivity Read More
The Middle Forum (MBF) has raised the alarm over recent killings in Jos North, Plateau state and communities in Guma, Benue state, saying ethnic nationalities in the Middle Belt region …
Jos/ Benue killings: Middle Belt ethnic nationalities marked for extermination – MBF Read MoreThe Nasarawa state police command, Wednesday, confirmed the abduction of the Secretary of Nasarawa State Independent Electoral Commission (NASIEC) Barr. Muhammed Abubakar Opu by unknown gunmen. The Police Public Relations …
Breaking: Police confirm kidnap of electoral scribe in Nasarawa Read More
Director General of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Salihu Moh Lukman, has faulted the former chairman of the Independent National Electoral …
Corruption, insecurity differentiate APC from PDP, PGF boss replies Jega Read More
Betinah Benson, mother of secretary to Bayelsa state government, Kombowei Benson, has regained her freedom after 32 days in captivity.The 80-year-old woman was abducted on July 20 from her residence in Ekeki, Yenagoa, …
Bayelsa SSG pays ransom as kidnappers free own mother 34 days after Read More
The Bandits who kidnapped 15 students of Zamfara State College of Agriculture and Animals Health Bakura have demanded the sum of N350 million ransom before they could release the students. …
Breaking – Abduction of Zamfara college students, others: Kidnappers demand N350 million ransom Read More
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has debunked a write up alleging that about 200 corps members have been killed or abducted in Kaduna or Zamfara states, saying the story …
NYSC speaks on ‘killing, abduction’ of corps member in 2021 Read More
A chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the director general of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) Salihu Moh Lukman, has said the leaders of the ruling party …
Nigeria’s challenges: APC leaders not in denial like PDP – PGF boss Read More
Hours after bandits attacked Bethel Baptist school and made unsuccessful attempt to invade Living Faith’s Academy, the Kaduna state government has ordered the immediate closure of 13 schools located in …
Breaking: As bandits target abduction of more students, Kaduna govt orders closure of mission, other schools Read More
The Principal of National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Training Centre (NTBLTC) Zaria in zaria Local Government of Kaduna state, Dr Shehu Labaran, has escaped being kidnapped by gunmen who stormmed the …
NTBLTC’s principal escapes abduction as gunmen attack, kidnap 7 staff in Kaduna Read More
Sheikh Ahmed Gumi, Islamic scholar, cleric and former military officer with the rank of captain in the Nigerian Army, said in a recent interview on Arise TV that the bandits …
Fighting terror: The human right challenge Read More
A group of the ruling All Progressives Congress on the platform of APC Legacy and Awareness Campaign (APC-LAC) said peace has gradually returning to the country because the security agencies …
Security agencies now speaking language bandits, IPOB, others understand- APC group Read MoreA very horrendous climate of mass deaths and abductions, garbed in the term ‘insecurity’ is fast enveloping the North, and snuffing out whatever dividends the PMB administration may have brought …
Whistles of genocide in the North Read MoreLike many other weeks before it in the past several years, the past one week has been very tragic for the people of Jibia in Katsina state. It was during …
Banditry: The problem with PMB’s approach Read More
The Association of Ebonyi State Indigenes in the Diaspora (AESID) has condemned the renewed communal clashes between the people of Enyibichiri, Izzi in Abakaliki Local Government Area and Echialike, Ikwo, …
Ebonyi: Group calls for urgent intervention in renewed Izzi/Ikwo communal hostility Read More
A total of 76,855 candidates, Saturday, sat for the 2021 national common entrance examination for admission into the 110 federal government colleges, otherwise referred to as unity schools. Minister of …
76,855 candidates sit for 2021 entrance exams into unity schools Read More…It’s a threat to nation’s corporate existence – CDS ‘…6,145,000 illegal arms with civilian non-state actors’ …Increases insecurity, deaths – Ex-head of state …Drives increasing violence rate in Nigeria – …
Arms proliferation: Nigerians alarmed as insecurity heightens Read More
The senator representing Niger East, Mohammed Sani Musa, has described the abduction of about 200 children by armed bandits from Islammiya school in Tegina, Rafi local government area, Sunday, as …
Abduction of Niger Islammiya school kids callous, unfortunate – Sen Musa Read More
The Minister of Women Affairs, Dame Pauline Tallen, has raised alarm over the proposed National Diaper and Sanitary Pads Policy meant to increase the import tariff on Diapers and Sanitary …
High tariff on sanitary products danger to MHM – Tallen Read More
Following the abduction of a 400-level student of Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Ogun state, Nathaniel Olayinka, students in the state have given the federal and state governments 72 …
Ogun students protest abduction of colleague Read More