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A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday closed one of Nigeria’s most consequential terrorism trials by handing life sentences to two senior commanders of the Ansaru group, only for the Department of State Services to reject the punishment within hours and announce plans to seek a stiffer penalty at the Court of Appeal….
The Senate has cautioned Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, over his call for a United Nations led investigation into the abduction of pupils and teachers in Oriire Local Government Area, warning that such a demand could undermine the efforts of the Federal Government and security agencies in tackling terrorism and kidnapping. The caution was contained…
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,…
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…
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…
The presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party, Adewole Adebayo, has criticised the Senate’s refusal to investigate military spending despite escalating insecurity, insisting that accountability in defence expenditure must not be traded away under the cover of protecting troop morale. Speaking with journalists in Abuja on Monday, Adebayo questioned the value Nigerians have received from…
The National Association of Nigerian Students and the Take It Back Movement Nigeria traded accusations on Thursday over the abduction of schoolchildren and teachers in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State, with each group blaming the other for a violent confrontation that broke out during an earlier protest in Ibadan. The two bodies…
The Agbekoya Farmers’ Society of Nigeria has raised fresh alarm over the fate of victims abducted from schools in Esinele, Yamota and Alawusa communities in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State, alleging that the kidnappers are now ferrying their captives through dense forests across neighbouring states in a deliberate bid to evade security operatives….
