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The federal government has filed a ten-count criminal charge against three men accused of kidnapping schoolchildren and teachers in Oyo State. The prosecution filed the case at the Federal High Court in Abuja following a sweeping counter-terrorism investigation. The state accuses the defendants of terrorism, kidnapping, concealment, incitement, and running illegal mining operations. Department of…
A combined force of military and police personnel has rescued four school kidnapping victims in Kogi State. The rescue occurred just hours after their abductors demanded a ten-million-naira ransom. The victims include the principal of Government Secondary School, Olowa, a National Examinations Council official, and two female candidates. Gunmen had snatched them on Tuesday evening…
Armed men disrupted a National Examinations Council exam in Kogi State on Tuesday, abducting a school principal, an exam official, and several candidates. The assailants stormed the Government Secondary School in Olowa, Dekina Local Government Area, firing weapons to scatter terrified bystanders before entering the examination hall. Local security forces launched an immediate search-and-rescue operation…
Oyo State has shifted its administrative focus toward the extensive clinical and social rehabilitation of the 44 pupils and teachers rescued from forest captivity. Governor Seyi Makinde announced that his immediate priority is to safely reunite the traumatised citizens with their families after surviving a harrowing 56-day ordeal. The governor stated that the government will…
The Nigerian Army has revealed how a month-long, multi-agency intelligence campaign forced suspected Ansaru terrorists to release 44 abducted pupils and teachers without a ransom payout. General Officer Commanding 2 Division, Major General Chinedu Nnebeife, coordinated the sophisticated joint operation across several states. Security forces systematically dismantled the insurgents’ subnational logistics ring, choked off food…
President Bola Tinubu has declared that the state will bring the perpetrators of the Oriire school abductions to full justice following a successful military extraction. In an official briefing from Abuja, the president confirmed that a joint security operation successfully neutralised several terrorists and apprehended eight suspects. The tactical raid ended a tense 56-day captivity…
A joint security operation in Zamfara State has rescued an electoral officer and recovered hundreds of rustled cattle following a series of fierce gun battles with armed bandits. Combined teams of police operatives and military personnel coordinated across three local government areas to suppress the latest insurgent incursions. The successful interventions offer a rare tactical…
Nigeria is dismantling its fragmented emergency response systems in favour of a single communications framework. The federal government has resolved to roll out 112 as the sole national emergency telephone number across all tiers of government. Vice President Kashim Shettima finalized the operational roadmap during a high-level briefing with the Nigerian Communications Commission at the…
Islamist insurgents have launched a coordinated assault against state infrastructure in Borno State, exposing the persistent fragility of Nigeria’s northeastern security borders. Heavily armed Boko Haram fighters swarmed a frontline military installation before setting a nearby police divisional headquarters on fire. The raid directly challenges federal declarations that the decade-long insurgency has entered its terminal…
Nigeria has run out of alternatives to local policing. The country’s former Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor (retd), argues that decentralisation is no longer a matter of political debate but an operational necessity. Decades of central control from Abuja have failed to secure the hinterlands. Insurgents and bandits routinely exploit the vast gaps…
