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Armed raiders killed four mobile police officers and eight local farmers during a dawn assault on Ayilamo community in Benue State on Friday. More than two hundred gunmen crossed from neighbouring Taraba State along the Alufu corridor to storm the agrarian settlement in Logo Local Government Area. Eyewitnesses reported that the attackers set residential houses…
Nigeria’s top police officer has reopened an old wound about citizen oversight and street-level impunity. Inspector-General of Police Olatunji Disu warned the public against the indiscriminate filming of officers, claiming the practice demoralises personnel and disrupts delicate security operations. Human rights groups, opposition politicians, and the Nigerian Bar Association quickly pushed back against any official…
Armed bandits killed five people and seized 27 villagers during nighttime raids across farming settlements in Kaduna State on Monday, 7 September 2026. Gunmen struck rural outposts in Giwa and neighbouring districts, turning quiet homesteads into open hunting grounds. In Tunburku, assailants shot two community elders, Alhaji Surajo and Alhaji Ado, while another resident, Ayyuba…
Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps rescued 15 trafficked minors who were sold for N2 million each across southern states, corps spokesman Babawale Afolabi confirmed on Friday, 4 September 2026, in Abuja. The criminal operation targeted destitute farming families in the Kokona local council area of Nasarawa State under the pretext of…
At least twenty-three insurgents died during fierce fighting between rival Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province factions in the Sambisa forest on Thursday, 3 September 2026. The lethal clash erupted around the Chingolo axis of Bama Local Government Area as Boko Haram gunmen ambushed advancing ISWAP units. Hours later, Boko Haram fighters struck…
Suspected Boko Haram insurgents ambushed the campaign motorcade of Mustapha Gubio, the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate in Borno State, along the Kareto-Damasak road on Thursday, 3 September 2026. Gunmen detonated an improvised explosive device before firing rocket-propelled grenades and automatic rifles into the long column of civilian vehicles and police escorts. A joint detachment…
The Kaduna State Police Command seized 332 fake $100 bills, nine homemade firearms, a pump-action rifle, and two stolen vehicles in raids across the state on Wednesday, 2 September 2026. State Police Public Relations Officer Mansir Hassan told reporters in Kaduna that coordinated operations by patrol teams and tactical squads broke several criminal rings. The…
Security operatives in Zamfara State dismantled a major auxiliary network feeding rural terror gangs on Wednesday, 2 September 2026. The Zamfara State Community Protection Guards, working alongside joint task force units, paraded nine suspects in Gusau for running logistics and medical lifelines for forest outlaws. The haul included an unlicensed medic, a fake lawyer, weapons…
Nigeria logged 500 distinct security incidents in August 2026, with the northern states absorbing two-thirds of the violence. Data from the latest Nigeria Security Index by Eons Intelligence reveals that the northern region accounted for 334 breaches, or 67 per cent of the national tally. Zamfara led the grim league table with 45 recorded events,…
Nigerian troops, alongside local security operatives, rescued fifteen abducted National Youth Service Corps members and six other travellers during a clearance operation inside Egume Forest in Kogi State. Armed bandits had intercepted a commercial passenger bus along the Aloma-Egane highway in Ofu Local Government Area as young graduates travelled from orientation camp. The outlaws marched…