Suspected bandits attacked a police station and a traditional ruler’s palace in Nigeria’s Kwara State early on Sunday, abducting at least 10 people and setting part of the palace on fire, police said on Monday. In a separate attack, gunmen targeted a prayer gathering in the Ekiti local government area of the state late on...
A deadly bomb blast hit a shuttle train carrying Pakistani security personnel and their families in the southwestern province of Balochistan on Sunday, officials said, in the latest major attack claimed by separatist militants. The explosion killed at least 24 people and injured around 70, according to three provincial government and security officials, who spoke...
The Catholic Archdiocese of Kaduna has raised fresh alarm over renewed terrorist attacks on communities under the pastoral care of Saints Peter and Paul Parish, Kurmin Dangana District in Kagarko Local Government Area of Kaduna State, where no fewer than nine persons have been killed and 25 others abducted in separate attacks within the last...
Life Gradually Returns to Odonget After 60 Days of Occupation Residents of Odonget community in Obubra Local Government Area of Cross River State have accused soldiers of destroying their homes, killing community members, and displacing thousands during a nearly two-month military operation that began on March 12, 2026. No fewer than 4,000 people, including natives...
Residents of Ariko community in Kachia Local Government Area have appealed to the federal and Kaduna State governments to urgently intervene and secure the release of 37 worshippers abducted during coordinated Easter Sunday attacks on churches in the area. The community said it could not meet the N1 billion ransom and 35 motorcycles reportedly demanded...
Tragedy struck on Wednesday, May 21, at about 12:00 p.m. along the busy Gombe–Yola Federal Highway near the New Mile 3 Market in Gombe after a heavy-duty DAF truck loaded with bags of grain reportedly lost control and crashed into a crowded commercial area, killing a female police officer and an unidentified male pedestrian. The...
Every terrorist group, no matter how ideologically driven or militarily organised, shares one unavoidable vulnerability: it needs money to survive. From kidnapping ransoms and cattle rustling to cryptocurrencies and shadow networks, extremist groups operating across Nigeria have raised billions to sustain their campaigns of carnage — and the question that now confronts the nation is...
An Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo on Wednesday, May 21, 2026, sentenced a church usher, Ndifreke Isaiah Nelson, to death by hanging after finding him guilty of murdering his girlfriend, Emem Monday Effanga, at her residence along Aka Road in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital. The judgment followed months of trial...
Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank, has raised concerns over the health and safety of former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, alleging that a foreign doctor of Russian origin was secretly brought to examine him while in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS). In a...
NIGERIA– In a landmark judgment delivered on Wednesday, May 20, 2026, the Federal High Court in Abuja set aside key portions of the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INrevised timetable for the 2027 general elections, holding that parts of the schedule were inconsistent with the provisions of the Electoral Act, 2026. Hon. Justice M. G. Umar,...
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