Security Report

  A nutrition consultant, Dr. Davis Bamidele Omotola has attributed the activities of Boko Haram insurgents as the greatest driving force responsible for the severe malnutrition among children and women in the northeast of Nigeria. Dr. Omotola stated this at the opening of a two day media dialogue on child …

The Inspector General of Police has deployed additional 2000 Police Mobile Force (PMF) and Counter Terrorism Units (CTU) Personnel of the Force and the Sniffer Dog Sections to the North East in the last few days for purely Military Duties to fight Boko Haram insurgency under the Operation Lafiya Dole. This …

It was a renewed call to arms in N’djamena, capital of the Republic of Chad, on Thursday, as President Muhammadu Buhari held a one-day consultation with Heads of State and Governments of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC). The meeting, according to a statement by Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the …

The Director, Security Services, Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, Abuja, Nigeria, Mohammed M. Mohammed has warned that Boko Haram insurgents are planning to attack the Federal Capital, Abuja, Nigeria. This is as the Nigerian Army has formally confirmed that  the insurgents have resorted to the use of drones and foreign …

President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday in Maiduguri, Borno State, ordered the military to eliminate all threats of Boko Haram, declaring that the war against terrorism is “a must win’’. “It is a must win war. I want to encourage our troops not to be distracted by speculations but remain focused and …

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has responded with heavy airstrikes directed at Boko Haram terrorists’ locations and vehicles after about one hundred soldiers were killed in a coordinated attack on a military base in Metele village of Guzamala Local Government Area, Borno State. A top military intelligence officer told PRNigeria …

 The Department of State Security (DSS) on Monday rescued an American citizen, Tawanda Lynn Jackson who was held hostage by one Mathew Adedoyin, her acquaintance whom she had met on social media.  Parading the prime suspect and his accomplice at the DSS Lagos Command, Director of the Command, Mrs. Betty …

  President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed deep shock over the killing of military personnel in Metele village of Borno State by Boko Haram terrorists, assuring at the same time that immediate measures are being taken to ensure that the loopholes which led to the fatalities are blocked once and for …

Residents of Akemfa, a suburb in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State of Nigeria, on Saturday blocked all access roads to protest the killing of Tariela Nikadae, a 20 year old undergraduate by a member of a Police Patrol Team on Friday. The protesters allege that Policemen in patrol vans load people from …

Following eventual disclosure by the Police that Michael Adikwu, the principal suspect in the deadly bank robbery attacks in Offa, Kwara State, on April 5, 2018, is dead, the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has called on the Presidency to institute a judicial inquiry into the ‘how …

Robert Awokuse The presidency has explained why Service Chiefs ‘partly’ graced the official opening of President Muhammadu Buhari’s  campaign kick off. The campaign team tagged ‘2019 Next Level’ was launched on Sunday and had Service Chiefs of the nation in attendance. Some service chiefs, including the Chief of Defence Staff, …

The relationship between Nigeria and India is a worthy one, and mutually beneficial, President Muhammadu Buhari has said. Receiving the outgoing Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, His Excellency B.N Reddy, at a farewell audience in State House Monday, the President, according to a statement by Femi Adesina, his Special Adviser …

Following the directive of Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike for the Rivers State Neighbourhood Safety Corps Agency ( RIVNESCA) to recruit quality operatives, the agency on Monday  commenced the final process of recruiting 3000 personnel. On Monday, thousands of shortlisted candidates gathered at the Sharks Stadium in Port Harcourt …

The Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Alhaji Musiliu Smith, on Monday, stated that Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State deserves credit for running the state in a progressive, people-oriented and security-conscious manner. Alhaji Smith, who made the statement while delivering his keynote address at the opening ceremony of …

The Bayelsa State Government has confirmed the arrest of two suspected killers of Miss Seieyefa Fred, who was gunned down by suspected cultists on robbery mission in Yenagoa on November 8, 2018. The Special Adviser to the Governor òf Bayelsa State on Security, Mr. Boss Spero-Jack, said that the two …

By Abdullahi Isah, MAIDUGURI No fewer than one person was killed and many others injured, when suspected members of Boko Haram  on Wednesday set ablaze Mammanti Village of Jere local government area of Borno state, burning down over 30 houses and carting away livestock and food stuffs.. Mammanti village is …

The Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Naval Command, Rear Admiral David Adeniran has announced that the Eastern Naval Command will commence EXERCISE ANI-OFORIFORI meaning Chase Thief in Kalabari language. The Exercise, according to Thomas Otuji,  Commander, Command Information Officer, will hold at the Eastern Flank of Nigeria’s Maritime Environment from 15 – …

The Bayelsa State House of Assembly has called on the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris to stop further deployment of police commissioners to the state in order not to raise unnecessary tension.   The lawmakers say the incessant deployment of police commissioners to the state is worrisome and necessitated …

By Rabiu Sani Maiduguri, Nov. 13, 2018 The Nigeria Army on Tuesday said its troops had arrested a teenage female suicide bomber while attempting to infiltrate into Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The army said in a twitter post that the girl, simply identified as Shaidatu Adamu, confessed that she …

A twenty-six year old teacher of Raudatul Qur’an Primary and Secondary School, Bye-pass Gombe has been paraded by the Gombe State Police Command for raping a five year old pupil of the school. Parading the suspect, the State Commissioner of Police, Muhammed Garba Mukaddas, who gave the name of the …

By Joseph Edeh Abuja, Nov. 7,  2018 The Police said it had arrested four of its personnel on duty at the residence of Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, when the alleged assassination attempt on him took place. Also arrested, according to the Force  Public Relations Officer, Acting DCP …

The Nigeria Police, Plateau State Command have paraded suspects in the alleged disappearance and death  of Major General Idris Mohammed Alkali Rtd. A statement by the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Tyopev Mattias Terna on November 4, 2018 detailed the allegations against those paraded or levels of their involvement, stressing that those …

Former Governor of Rivers State and Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi on Sunday afternoon rescued a kidnap victim along the Omoku/Egbeda road in Rivers State. Amaechi  was on his way to Ubimini Community of Emohua LGA to address  All Progressives Congress, APC, supporters  when he sighted a Lexus SUV …

London, Oct.31,2018 (Reuters/NAN) British jets were scrambled to investigate suspected Russian fighter aircraft flying near United Kingdom airspace on Wednesday. “Typhoon fighters … were scrambled today as a precautionary measure against a potential incursion into UK area of interest by one or more unidentified aircraft,” a spokesman for the Ministry …

  By Peter Amine Jos, Oct.  31, 2018 The Nigerian Army has recovered the body of the missing Gen. Idris Alkali.The body was found in an abandoned well in Guchwet, Jos South LG, said Brig. Gen. Umar Mohammed, the Garrison Commander 3 Division of the Nigerian Army. Alkali was the …