The high level of insecurity in Northern Nigeria has reached a level where bandits and insurgents have taken over some communities, imposed tax and made laws for them. A former Minister of the Interior, Lt Gen Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau (rtd), former Minister of Interior who revealed this on Monday at the First Media and Security Summit held in Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State, with the theme ‘Existential Threats and National Security’, said the insecurity issue in...

Military authorities are investigating 16 military officers detained for their alleged involvement in a botched coup plot against the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration. The detained officers, according to Premium Times, an online news platform, include a brigadier general, a colonel, four lieutenant colonels, five majors, two captains, a lieutenant, a lieutenant commander from the Navy (the naval equivalent of a major), and a squadron leader from the Air Force. The Defence Headquarters and the...