Security

Police in Borno on Wednesday debunked rumored attack on the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar at a rally in Maiduguri. Spokesman of the Abubakar presidential campaign council, Mr. Dino Melaye, had said earlier in the say that at least 74 persons were hospitalized while …

The Department of State Services (DSS) hereby draws public attention to plans by criminal elements to return the country to the pre-2015 era reminiscent of IED attacks on soft and hard targets in parts of the country. Though there are already reported cases of such incidents in some areas, the …

Heavily armed policemen have ‘brutalised’ the Commandant of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in Imo State, Michael Ogar His Orderly was reportedly killed, while some Civil Defence operatives sustained injuries, it was also learnt. The Imo NSCDC boss, PRNigeria gathered was first assaulted physically by alleged personnel …

The terrorists who attacked an Abuja-Kaduna train on March 28 on Tuesday released four photos of their captives. In the photos, 62 of the kidnapped victims are seen in four groups. The first photo has 23 persons, including five children (two females and three males) and 18 women. Among them …

Abba Kyari, a suspended deputy commissioner of police, has accused the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) of providing cover for drug cartels to ferry in cocaine into Nigeria. Mr Kyari, who is standing trial at the Federal High Court in Abuja over his alleged involvement in …

Gunmen suspected to be bandits, have attacked Abuja-Kaduna train, forcing the train to stop midway. This newspaper gathered that the bandits first attacked the train on Wednesday night and successfully immobilized it after struggling to move for 7km after the attack. The bandits, according to sources, return again on Thursday …

Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has been re-arraigned at a federal high court in Abuja on terrorism charges. The federal government recently amended the charges against him raising them to seven counts as against the five counts he was previously answering to, bordering on treasonable …

The Federal Government has directed the leadership of all security agencies in the country to conduct periodic psychiatric evaluations and drug tests on their men to forestall issues of human rights violations and extra-judicial killings by security operatives. Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture stated this while briefing …

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Hakeem Odumosu, has explained why operatives fired a tear gas canister at the Lekki tollgate, during the #EndSARSMemorial car procession, on Wednesday, October 20. Speaking in an interview with Channels Television at the venue, Odumosu said the police did not disperse the youths taking part …

The Lagos Police Command has disclosed why its men fired tear gas at #EndSARSMemorial protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate on Wednesday. Naija News earlier reported that the Police fired tear gas at the protesters, who were holding a memorial car procession to mark the #EndSARS one-year anniversary. But in an interview with …