ABUJA —  The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has confirmed that 7,000 people were displaced in recent bandit attacks in two local governments of Sokoto State. Mr. Manzo Ezekiel, the agency’s Head of Media and Public Relations, announced this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. Ezekiel listed the affected councils as Sabon Birni and Isa Local Government Areas. According to the statement, a joint assessment by the staff of NEMA and Sokoto State Emergency...

The Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) counted the losses caused by incessant attacks on its offices since 2019. According to INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, the attacks which have been across 14 states cost the body about 1,105 ballot boxes, 429 generator sets, 13 vehicles, and other tangle assets. Yakubu while speaking at an emergency meeting with security agencies convened under the inter-agency consultative committee on election security in Abuja on Thursday said the attacks are a...

The Enugu Police Command has confirmed the killing of four operatives during gunmen attack Iwollo Police Division on Tuesday. The spokesperson of the Command, ASP Daniel Ndukwe, confirmed the incident in a statement made available to the journalists in Abakiliki. Ndukwe stated that the assailants attacked the station in large numbers at about 4am, killed the operatives, and set some sections of the station ablaze. He said the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mohammed Aliyu, had...