Security Report

By Francis Onyeukwu Awka, April 17, 2017 Anambra Government has announced a N5 million reward for any credible information that will lead to the arrest of the killers of former Anambra lawmaker, Chief Frank Igboka. Igboka, the President-General of Nimo Community in Njikoka Local Government Area (LGA) of the state was shot …

Taipei, April 15, 2019 (Reuters/NAN) Chinese bombers and warships conducted drills around Taiwan on Monday, the latest military maneuvers near the self-ruled island that a senior U.S. official denounced as “coercion” and a threat to stability in the region. The U.S. has no formal ties with Taiwan but is bound …

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent Freedom of Information requests to President Muhammadu Buhari and the 36 state governors in Nigeria requesting them to use their “good offices and leadership positions to urgently provide information on specific details of spending of appropriated public funds as security votes between …

In line with the IGP’s stated commitment to curb all forms of crimes and criminality, especially incidences of kidnapping and other violent crimes in the country, Police Operatives attached to Operation Puff Adder, acting on intelligence report, on April 9, 2019 at about 6:30am arrested three notorious persons involved in the kidnap …

  By Abdullahi Isah,, Maiduguri Back from his official visits to Jordan and Dubai, President Muhammadu Buhari has been brifed on the security situation in parts of the country, especially the North West states of Zamfara, Katsina and Sokoto where bandits have been terrorizing communities and the North East states …

Armed bandits attacked, killed and burnt houses in Kakangi village, South-West of Birnin-Gwari on Saturday in broad daylight.   The bandits, according to a statement by Ibrahim Abubakar Nagwari, Chairman, Birninin-Gwari Vanguards for Security and Good Governance, stormed Kakangi around 5.00 pm on motorcycles shooting sporadically at the police station before proceeding …

By Doris Esa Abuja, April 6, 2019 The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says the Air Task Force (ATF) for Operation DIRAN MIKIYA has successfully destroyed a bandits’ logistics base at Ajia in Birnin Magaji Local Government Area of Zamfara. Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, …

By Aderogba George Abuja, April 6, 2019 Indigenes of Zamfara, resident in Abuja, have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently intervene and stop the killings and kidnappings currently going on in the state. The indigenes, who held a protest in Abuja on Saturday, decried the insecurity in the State …

By Moses Omorogieva Lagos, April 4, 2019 The Police Command in Lagos state says it has recommended the dismissal of the police officer, who allegedly shot dead a youth, Kolade Johnson, Insp. Ogunyemi Olalekan. The spokesman of the command, DSP Bala Elkana, said this in a statement on Thursday in …

President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on Wednesday assured the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu of the readiness of the 8th National Assembly to pass the Police Reform Bill and the Police Trust Fund Bill before the end of its tenure. Saraki, according to a statement by …

  President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed regret at the recent killing of a youth, Mr. Kolade Johnson, in Lagos by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) operatives from the Lagos State Police Command. A statement by Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity),  said the President also commiserated …

By Yunus Yusuf Lagos, April 2, 2019 Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc, has urged public and private sectors to invest more in research and development aimed at promoting safety in all sectors of the economy. The Operations Director of the company, Mr Effiong Okon, made the appeal in a statement …

By Moses Omorogieva Lagos, April 1, 2019 A police team under the Lagos State Police Command had been arrested over the alleged killing of a youth, Kolade Johnson on Sunday. The command’s spokesman, DSP Bala Elkana, confirmed the arrest in a statement on Monday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) …

Teniola Ibitola/Mateen Badru Lagos, March 31, 2019 (NAN) Some residents of Mangoro/Onipetesi community in Lagos on Sunday went on a rampage blocking the Oshodi/Abeokuta expressway in protest against the killing of a youth in the area. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the angry residents blocked the major …

Mrs. Habiba Abdulsalam, the daughter of the Deputy President of Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), Mallam Suleman Uba-Gaya, who was abducted recently in Kano, has regained her freedom and reunited with her family members. Speaking on the terrifying incident, Uba-Gaya told PRNigeria that his daughter miraculously escaped from her kidnappers’ …

A five (5) year old girl, Aisha Ibrahim who was kidnapped on March 16, 2019 at Ibudu 1 Area, Warri, Delta State by unknown persons was rescued unhurt by the Police at Bukan-Kwatu, Lafia, Nasarawa State. According to a statement by ACP Frank Mba, Force Public Relations Officer, Force Headquarters, Abuja, …

  Chimezie Anaso Awka, March 23, 2019 The Police Command in Anambra has arrested three persons allegedly involved in production and circulation of a viral video where a nude woman was humiliated. SP Haruna Mohammed,the Police Public Relations Officer, disclosed this in a statement entitled “Conspiracy, Blackmail, Deprivation of Liberty …

By Abubakar Ahmed Anka (Zamfara), March 21, 2019. A group of unidentified bandits have attacked a mining site on Wednesday in Anka Local Government Area of Zamfara, killing one of the six mobile policemen on guard and abducting the others. Speaking to journalists on phone, one of the eye witnesses …

One week after he was taken into hostage, Sheikh Ahmad Sulaiman, a popular Quranic Reciter who regularly offered supplications for President Muhammadu Buhari at campaign rallies, is yet to be released by his abductors. The religious scholar was kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Katsina State while returning from a religious …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State, has asked the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai,  to investigate the role of the military in the violence that occurred in the state during the last general elections. The party alleged that some army officials directly participated in the …

By Joseph Edeh Abuja, Feb. 4, 2019 The Nigeria Police Force said it has arrested 323 persons across the country for alleged electoral offences during the Feb. 23 Presidential and National Assembly elections. The force had earlier arrested 128 persons for alleged electoral offences. The Acting Inspector-General of Police (I-G), …

By Isaiah Eka Uyo, March 2, 2019 The 2 Brigade Nigerian Army, Uyo in Akwa Ibom has embarked on a joint show of force parade. Speaking to newsmen in Uyo on Saturday during the exercise, Maj. Bashir Jajira, Assistant Director, Army Public Relations Officer, said the  exercise was in conjunction …

Soldiers on patrol duty on Friday foiled the operations of a seven man armed robbery gang, killing the gang leader. Six of the suspects escaped while two people were killed by stray bullets. The leader of the gang had pointed a gun at a female victim at Swali market, demanding …

 By Abdullahi Isah   Maiduguri Boko Haram terrorists  have  shot dead three persons, while many vehicles were seized when they ambushed Governor Kashim Shettima’s of Borno state’s convoy along Maiduguri Gamboru road. The governor was on campaign tour to the area to canvass support for All Progressives Congress, (APC) candidates …

By Abdullahi Isah  Maiduguri. The Nigerian Police has called for the full co-operation of all stakeholders to ensure peaceful, free and fair federal and state elections on February 16 and March 2, 2019, respectively. Speaking at a stakeholders meeting in preparations of Presidential and National Assembly elections on February 16 …