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COAS Urges Nigerian Army To Innovate Against Emerging Threats
Location: Bauchi State 🗣️ Speaker: Lt. Gen. Olufemi Oluyede, Chief of Army Staff 🏷️ Event: Combat Arms Training (CAT) Week 2025 🛡️ Theme: “Strengthening Combat Arms Cooperation in a Joint Environment: A Prerequisite for Success in Counter Terrorism and Counter Insurgency Operations” 🔑 Key Highlights: COAS called on all arms of the Nigerian Army to think beyond doctrine and adopt innovative, resource-efficient strategies...
Late Gospel Singer Osinachi’s Husband Gets Death Penalty By Hanging
Justice Nwosu-Iheme of a FCT High Court Wuse Zone 2 in Abuja today April 28, sentenced the husband of late gospel singer, Osinachi, Peter Nwachukwu, to de@th by hanging. This was after the court found Nwachukwu guilty of culpable hom!cide resulting in the de@th of the celebrated singer on April 8, 2022. While delivering his judgment, Justice Nwosu-Iheme held that the...
Delta: Police Kill Five Suspected Kidnappers, Recovers AK-47 Rifles.
Delta State Police Command operations have killed five suspected kidnappers who were causing terror in Delta State's Ubulu-Uku, Issele-Uku, Issele-Asagba, and surrounding areas. The police public relations officer in the state Command, SP Bright Edafe stated this in a statement on Sunday in Asaba, the Delta State capital. According to Edafe, acting on intelligence, the operatives stormed one of their hideouts...
Hunters Seek FG Support To Combat Banditry
Hunters and farmers have urged the federal government to give them official authority to expel bandits, Boko Haram insurgents, and other criminal elements that hide in forests in the face of growing insecurity throughout the nation. The groups, including the Nigerian Forest Security Service, Professional Hunters Association of Nigeria, Agbekoya Farmers’ Society of Nigeria, and the Oodua Peoples Congress, insisted...
Borno Gov Raises Alarm As Boko Haram Regroups
Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has raised the alarm over the regrouping of Boko Haram insurgents in the Tumbus areas of Lake Chad and the Mandara Hills within the Sambisa Forest in the state. Zulum lamented what he called a setback in military operations in the state, saying Boko Haram terrorists were freely breeding in Tumbus water areas on the...
Court Authorizes EFCC To Arrest, Detain Six CBEX Staff Over Alleged $1bn Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was granted permission by the Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday to detain and arrest six promoters of Crypto Bridge Exchange (CBEX) in connection with alleged investment fraud totalling more than $1 billion. Justice Emeka Nwite, who gave the order after the EFCC’s lawyer, Fadila Yusuf, moved an ex parte motion to...
Police Nab Two Suspects In Imo Over Alleged Attempt To Sell Abducted Child
The Imo State Police Command has apprehended two women in Owerri for attempting to sell a kidnapped four-year-old boy for ₦2.7 million. The boy was kidnapped in Abuja while hawking vegetables and then brought to Owerri to be sold before luck ran out for them. The suspects are Joy Ugwu from Idah, Kogi State, and Rosella Michael of Zamba in Abuja,...
Insecurity: Governors Form Subcommittee To Collaborate With Security Chiefs
Alarmed by the escalating insecurity marked by rampant crime, banditry, kidnappings, and widespread destruction of property across the country, the 36 state governors, under the umbrella of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), have formed a subcommittee to partner with security agency heads in crafting a coordinated and urgent response to the nation’s security crisis. In response, the 36 state governors...
Tinubu Demands Fresh Security Blueprint From Intelligence Chiefs
President Bola Tinubu has directed a security outreach to Plateau, Benue, and Borno, the sites of recent killings to bring peace to regions plagued by bombings and mass murders. National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, revealed this to State House correspondents after a four-hour security briefing with the President at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja on Wednesday. “We listened and we took...
Insecurity Crisis: Enough Is Enough, Tinubu Tells Security Chiefs, NSA
On Wednesday, President Bola Tinubu told Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, the National Security Advisor, and other security chiefs that "enough is enough" and voiced his deep concern over the nation's deteriorating security situation. But the National Security Adviser said that the heads of the security apparatus have taken the directives from the President and are acting accordingly. Mallam Ribadu also said that...
