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President Bola Tinubu gathered his entire security establishment at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Thursday evening for a closed-door review of a threat picture that has grown more complicated by the week, bringing together the military high command, intelligence heads and homeland security advisers for a session that ran beyond two hours. The State…
A worsening tide of armed violence has now uprooted more than 3.5 million people across the Lake Chad Basin, pushing one of the world’s most protracted humanitarian emergencies to what the United Nations refugee agency has described as a dangerous tipping point. The warning came from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, which…
Examination halls turned into scenes of terror in Lassa town on Monday morning as gunmen stormed Government Day Secondary School in the Askira/Uba Local Government Area of Borno State, abducting an unspecified number of students sitting the National Examinations Council Senior School Certificate Examination and killing at least one teacher. The attackers struck at…
A fresh group of top Islamic State West Africa Province commanders has surrendered to troops of the Joint Task Force North East, Operation HADIN KAI, in the latest sign that sustained military pressure is fracturing the insurgent group’s leadership across Borno State and the wider Lake Chad Basin. The Acting Media Information Officer of the…
Banks and other financial institutions across Nigeria have been ordered to immediately freeze all accounts, funds and assets belonging to six individuals and four Bureau de Change operators designated for terrorism financing, as regulators move to disrupt money channels linked to the Islamic State network. The directive came in a circular dated June 24, 2026,…
The Federal Government has directed banks and other regulated businesses to freeze the assets of suspected terrorism financiers, throwing Nigeria’s weight behind fresh United States sanctions on a Lagos-based ISIS facilitator and three bureaux de change. The Nigerian Sanctions Committee issued the directive on Tuesday, instructing financial institutions and designated non-financial businesses and professions…
A Nigerian national and three currency exchange firms operating in Lagos and Kano now sit on Washington’s terrorism blacklist, after the United States accused them of channelling funds for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria through Nigeria’s bureau de change sector. The designations, announced on Monday, June 22, 2026, by the U.S. Department…
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday reserved judgment in the trial of five men accused of orchestrating the June 5, 2022 terrorist attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State, in which 41 worshippers were killed and over 140 others injured. Presiding judge, Justice Emeka Nwite, fixed judgment for a…
Nigeria is contending with extraordinary levels of insecurity, with approximately 2.2 million kidnapping incidents recorded within a single year and ransom payments estimated at N2.2 trillion, a security expert, Prof. Oyesoji Aremu, has said. Aremu, a security scholar at the University of Ibadan and Acting Vice Chancellor of Achievers University, Owo, Ondo State, made…
Nigerian troops killed at least 50 Islamic State West Africa Province fighters during a night raid on a military base in Yobe State. The insurgents launched a multi-pronged assault on the 27 Brigade headquarters in Buni Gari at 2 am on Thursday. They moved from the west and south in an attempt to encircle the…
