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Ninety one health workers were abducted and 15 others killed across 101 separate incidents of violence against healthcare in Nigeria between 2023 and 2025, according to conflict monitoring data compiled by the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition, laying bare the scale at which the country’s already fragile medical workforce is being drawn into…
President Bola Tinubu has formally moved the battle to establish state police to the doorstep of the House of Representatives, transmitting the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Alteration) (State Police) Bill, 2026, in a bid to secure the constitutional backing that would end more than two decades of debate over how Nigeria polices…
Grief without a grave is the burden the family of Michael Olugbade Oyedokun continues to carry, nearly two months after the Mathematics teacher was killed in captivity following the mass abduction of pupils and staff in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State. In an open letter dated Tuesday and addressed to President Bola Tinubu,…
Nigeria’s rank-and-file soldiers now take home a minimum of N100,000 a month, more than double the N49,000 they earned only a couple of years ago, yet the country’s defence chief concedes that the money flowing into the armed forces still falls short of what the war against insurgency and banditry demands. Defence Minister Christopher…
The killing of a retired general in captivity has pushed the Senate to draw a firm line against one of Nigeria’s longest-running counter-insurgency tools, with lawmakers demanding that captured terrorists be prosecuted rather than resettled, even as the Army announced the surrender of two senior Boko Haram commanders barely a day before the resolution….
Soldiers of Operation HADIN KAI have rescued 10 of the 11 National Examinations Council candidates and teachers abducted by suspected ISWAP fighters who stormed a school in Lassa, Askira/Uba Local Government Area of Borno State, while pupils sat for their examinations. The Acting Military Information Officer, Captain Mohammed Goni, said in a statement on…
A member of the United States Congress, Riley Moore, has welcomed the Nigerian Senate’s passage of the constitutional amendment establishing state police, describing the reform as a tool that would help states protect citizens, particularly Christians he says face persecution. Moore, who represents West Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives,…
Nigeria moved closer than at any point in its democratic history to dismantling its single, centrally controlled police structure on Wednesday, after the Senate passed a constitutional amendment bill authorising state-controlled police services across the federation. The passage shifts the decades-long debate to the 36 state Houses of Assembly, where at least 24 must…
The Senate on Wednesday passed a constitutional amendment bill clearing the way for the establishment of state police services across Nigeria, marking one of the most consequential security reforms in the country’s history and a decisive break from a policing structure controlled from Abuja since independence. The bill, titled “A Bill for an Act…
A homemade bomb concealed beneath a parked vehicle ripped through a residential street in the Oke Mushin area of Lagos on Monday morning, injuring the car owner and sending shockwaves of fear through a community more accustomed to commercial bustle than security scares. The blast went off around 6 a.m. at 22, Wey Street,…
