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Five men accused of abducting 20 prospective corps members and four other travellers in Imo State were arraigned on Tuesday by the Department of State Services. The arraignment came almost three weeks after the Independence Day attack that left families in Oyo State waiting a week for news of their children. The defendants appeared before…
The Abia State Police Command says operatives have recovered 28 human skulls and other bones from two abandoned criminal camps in forests around Umuaku-Isuochi and Nneato, in Umunneochi Local Government Area of the state. According to a statement by the command’s spokesperson, DSP Maureen Chinaka, the remains were found during an intelligence-led raid that…
A rumour that swept across Nigerian social media this week pushed the Minister of Defence, General Christopher Gwabin Musa (retd.), into a rare public rebuttal on Tuesday, as he stepped out of a closed door meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Aso Rock Villa in Abuja to declare that he had no intention…
A fresh political fault line has opened over who should carry the blame for Nigeria’s worsening kidnapping crisis, with the Presidency insisting that state governors and local council chairmen, not the Federal Government, must answer for abductions that happen on their soil. The position was laid out by Daniel Bwala, Special Adviser to President…
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…
Nigeria’s Minister of Defence, General Christopher Musa (retd.), has drawn a hard line for the country’s security forces, warning that any operative who holds fire while waiting for instructions from above will be treated as a friend of the very criminals he was sent to fight. The minister issued the directive on Wednesday in…
Yoruba Nation advocate Sunday Adeyemo, widely known as Sunday Igboho, has confirmed that members of his private security outfit, Iru Ekun, who sustained injuries during an ambush by suspected bandits in the Old Oyo National Park, Oyo State, have fully recovered. Igboho disclosed this in a video message on Sunday, 28 June 2026, where…
Fifty elderly residents of Magamin Diddi village in Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State remain in the grip of bandits more than two weeks after they were seized while attempting to broker peace with a notorious gang leader, even as Governor Dauda Lawal insists his administration will not negotiate with armed groups. The…
Peter Obi, the former Anambra State governor and a leading opposition figure ahead of the 2027 election, has declared his readiness to die for Nigeria, arguing that genuine leadership demands the ultimate sacrifice in the face of the country’s worsening security crisis. Obi spoke in a recent episode of the Black Box interview on…
Soldiers of the Nigerian Army, backed by the Air Force, have rescued Mrs Amina Abubakar, widow of the late Major General Rabe Abubakar, weeks after bandits seized her and her husband on a Katsina road, even as the military widened its offensive across the troubled state. The Defence Headquarters announced the rescue on Monday,…