Some suspected terrorists have attacked the Izge community in the Gwoza local government area of Borno State, killing an army captain and a private soldier. The Emir of Gwoza, Alhaji Mohammed Shehu Timta while speaking to journalists yesterday said the incident, took place at about 1: am on Wednesday, also left three terrorists suspected to be members of Boko Haram dead. He added that motorcycles, bicycles, an operational vehicle and a sophisticated rifle from the...
Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum has reaffirmed that the law enacted by the State House of Assembly banning the sale of alcohol is still enforce. The governor restated this yesterday (Wednesday) at the council chambers of the Government House in Maiduguri while inaugurating the reconstituted committee on “revocation of illegal hotels, brothels, shanties, and criminal hideouts and curbing the menace of antisocial vices”. The governor co-opted the military, police, civil defence, and several other...
Troops of 6 Brigade, Nigerian Army, and Sector 3 of Operation Whirl Stroke, OPWS, have thwarted the activities of suspected bandits operating in Adamawa and Taraba States. The acting spokesperson of the Brigade, Captain Oni Olubodunde, announced the breakthrough in a statement made available to journalists in Jalingo, said the mission was carried out in Bali. The statement said: “Troops acted swiftly on intelligence reports about the movement of suspected bandits from Toungo and Garin...
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has over 1,116,677 children to be immunized against polio in 2025. Flagging in off the campaign held in the Palace of Sarki Jiwa, HRH Alj Idris Musa over the weekend in Abuja, the Mandate Secretary of the Health Services and Environment Secretariat, Dr. Adedolapo Fasawe, led the charge, called on all residents to support the National Immunization Plus Days (NIPDs) holding from May 4 to 10, 2025. The Mandate...
The success of the non-kinetic approach in tackling insecurity in Kaduna State has been attributed to sharing intelligence with security agencies by traditional leaders. Kaduna State Governor Uba Sani who spoke at Sir Kashim Ibrahim House, where 23 vehicles were distributed to traditional leaders on Sunday, noted that his administration holds the royal fathers in high esteem. “The vehicles are to motivate you because we cannot achieve much without synergy between the traditional institution, religious...
The former chairman of Jama’are Local Government Area of Bauchi State, Isa Muhammad Wabi, was stabbed to death in his apartment around the Fadama Mada area of Bauchi metropolis. The Bauchi State police command’s Public Relations Officer, CSP Ahmed Wakil, in a statement on Friday said: “On the early morning of May 2, 2025, about 0403 hours, the police command received a distress call from a Good Samaritan concerning an incident involving an attack by...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) is probing 51 tertiary institutions across Nigeria over N159.6 billion released under the Nigeria Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), which were unaccounted for. Demola Bakare, the ICPC Spokesperson, said the investigation revealed that the total money received by NELFUND as of March 19, 2024, was N203.8 billion. However, the total amount disbursed to institutions from inception to date is about N44,200,933,649.00. Out of the total of...
A local market vessel en route from Port Harcourt to Akuku-Toru LGA had collided with a barge in the middle of Bukuma River in Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State. But 99 passengers on board were rescued by Officers of the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Pathfinder, Port Harcourt, on Wednesday. Lieutenant Commander Bridget Bebia, Base Information Officer in a statement issued in Port Harcourt, said no lives were lost, and most of the passengers’...
There was a heavy sounds from Giwa Barrack in Maiduguri, Borno State capital in the early hours of Thursday. The blast and red flares in the sky forced residents of Polo, Fori, GRA, Unimaid and others out on the streets in fear of possible attack by Boko Haram Terrorists. However, the Headquarters Joint Task Force North East Operation HADIN KAI Maiduguri, attributed the explosion to the current high temperatures in Maiduguri which led to the...
Air Craftman Benard Kalu has been sentenced to death by hanging for the killing of his colleague-girlfriend, Corporal Oladipupo S. A., after a General Court Martial of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) found him guilty. Kalu shot and killed Oladipupo at her Corporal and Below Quarters, Compound 9, Air Force Base, Makurdi, on the allegation that she was having an affair with another man. Kalu, 21, after breaking into Oladipupo’s home in the early hours...
