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Suspected bandits have abducted Kebbi State High Court Judge Faruku Hassan Bunza from his home in Bunza Local Government Area. The armed gang struck around midnight on Sunday, shortly after the jurist returned from a trip to neighboring Sokoto State. Attackers invaded his residence along Zogirma Road, firing shots into the air before whisking him…
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…
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…
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…
The Nigerian Senate has called on the Federal Government to immediately halt the rehabilitation and reintegration of repentant Boko Haram fighters. Lawmakers unanimously adopted a resolution demanding that all captured or surrendered insurgents face criminal prosecution rather than state-sponsored social re-entry programmes. This legislative shift marks a major institutional pushback against Operation Safe Corridor, the…
President Bola Tinubu has taken the reform of Nigeria’s policing architecture a decisive step closer to reality, inaugurating a Presidential Working Group tasked with drafting the legal machinery that will bring state police to life once the ongoing constitutional amendment is concluded. The panel was inaugurated on Tuesday at the Presidential Villa in Abuja…
The Senate has moved to calm one of the most persistent fears surrounding Nigeria’s proposed shift to decentralised policing, insisting that the new legal framework gives the federal police clear grounds to step in wherever a state police outfit is turned into a weapon of electoral intimidation or presides over a collapse of public…
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 United States government has placed a high-profile Nigerian citizen and a network of affiliated businesses on its global terrorism blacklist. The US Department of the Treasury announced the sanctions on Tuesday through its Office of Foreign Assets Control. Federal investigators uncovered evidence linking the individual directly to illicit financial networks that funnel money to…
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,…
