The Nigerian Federal Government is negotiating with the World Bank to conclude the procedures for securing loans surpassing $1 billion. Naija News gathered that these funds...
The Nigerian Federal Government is in talks with the World Bank to complete the processes of obtaining over $1 billion loans to address the challenges facing...
The Borno Youth Forum has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to release the former head of the IGP Intelligent Response Team (IGP-IRT), DCP Abba Kyari,...
The Nigerian Federal Government is in talks with the World Bank to complete the processes of obtaining over $1 billion loans to address the challenges facing...
Safety of schoolchildren is again under scrutiny as bandits carry out audacious attacks across the Northern part of the country. DAILY POST reports that from Wednesday,...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) on Sunday posted a cryptic message on X, formerly called Twitter, after 16 military personnel were killed in Delta state. The...
A fresh controversy has emerged regarding the narratives surrounding the 2015 presidential election battle between former President Muhammadu Buhari and then-incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan. The General...
In the last two weeks, cases of kidnapping assumed a dangerous and frightening dimension. Kidnapping is not new in Nigeria but since 2014 when scores of...
If I were President Tinubu, I would, without further delay, approve the contracting of search and rescue missions to private security firms. The deliverables would be...
The Federal Government has said the suspended Home Grown School Feeding Programme would now cover basic education and not just the primary schools when the suspension...
A representative of Chibok school girls in Borno, Alamson Ayuba, has spoken about managing expectations on the possible release or rescue of the 287 school children...
As Nigeria continues to seek solutions to the rising crisis of insecurity, Daniel Bwala, former spokesperson of the Atiku presidential campaign, has said the real perpetrators...
The Nigerian Defence Headquarters has announced the elimination of 213 terrorists and the arrest of 283 others across various theatres of operation in the country over...
The Defence Headquarters said troops have eliminated no fewer than 213 terrorists and arrested 283 others in different theatres of operation across the country in the...
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja has advocated investment in research and development to surmount insecurity in the country. Lt.-Gen. Lagbaja said the...
Ten years following the abduction of 276 female students at a Government Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State, the affected community is demanding the freedom of...
Ramadan 2024 began on the eighth anniversary of my father’s passing. He died on March 11, 2016. They say time heals the pain of loss. It...
President Bola Tinubu has directed that no ransom should be paid to kidnappers no matter the amount of pressure. Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed...
President Bola Tinubu has stated that the Federal Government will not pay any ransom to secure the release of abducted victims. Minister of Information and National...
Almost ten years ago on the night of April 14, 2014, Nigerians woke up to the distressing news which gradually turned into an unending nightmare. 276...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has increased the charges against Abiodun Agbele, the associate of the former Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose from 11 to...
It’s almost 10 years since we woke up to the very upsetting news that gunmen had invaded a girls’ school in rural Borno, and gone away...
The kidnapping of the Chibok schoolgirls in 2014 was a horrific event that shook Nigeria, but unfortunately, it wasn’t an isolated incident. According to Save the...
In recent years, Nigeria has faced a horrifying trend of the mass kidnapping of students from their schools. These attacks, targeting vulnerable children in sanctuaries of...
Two children have been confirmed dead after a fire broke out at the Muna Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in the Muna area of Borno state. ...
Two children have tragically lost their lives in a fire at the Muna Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Borno State. Channels Television reports that the...
In a devastating turn of event, a fire outbreak has engulfed the Muna Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp located in the Muna area of Maiduguri p,...
The Leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, on Tuesday, said those behind the kidnap attacks in Kaduna and Sokoto are not Boko Haram...
Disturbed by the growing insecurity in the country, a pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, on Monday, asked President Bola Tinubu to go after the terrorists operating across...
Deputy Senate President, Barau Jibrin, House of Representatives Speaker, Tajudeen Abbas, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume and state governors have felicitated Nigerian...
Nigerian Army troops in conjunction with hybrid force elements have neutralised eight Boko Haram (BHT)/ ISWAP terrorists at Ukuba; a notorious terrorists‘ enclave in Sambisa Forest....
Pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere, has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to change his tactics and go after the terrorists across the country. It warned that the...
The recent mass abduction of nearly 300 schoolchildren has raised questions about the Safe Schools Initiative which the Nigerian government launched a decade ago to prevent...
Troops of Sector 4 Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) in Kabalewa, Niger Republic, have intercepted a cache of arms reportedly being trafficked for terrorists. The...
Troops of Sector 4 Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) in Kabalewa, Niger Republic, have arrested three transnational gunrunners in a Toyota V8 Sequoia vehicle travelling to...
Troops of the Nigerian Army on Sunday neutralised 12 Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists in Sambisa, Borno; Zamfara and Katsina State. The Director, Army Public Relations, Maj.-Gen. Onyema...
Nigerian Army troops in conjunction with hybrid force elements, have neutralized eight Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists at Ukuba; a notorious terrorists’ enclave in Sambisa Forest. Director...
The Nigerian Army, on Monday, said its troops in conjunction with hybrid force elements, successfully neutralized 8 Boko Haram, BHT/ ISWAP, terrorists at Ukuba; a notorious...
Shortage of power supply in Yobe State has thrown residents of the state and people in the Damaturu metropolis into water scarcity. LEADERSHIP gathered that most...
Shortage of power supply in Yobe State has thrown residents of the state and people in the Damaturu metropolis into water scarcity. LEADERSHIP gathered that most...
Three incidences of looting occurring in separate locations, recently, had coalesced into a pointer of the coming chaos. I refer to the incidences in no particular...
The one-month Ramadan fast for this year begins today, Monday, March 11, 2024, in Nigeria. This is sequel to the official announcement, last night, by the...
Nine, out of the 102 female internally displaced persons (IDPs) kidnapped last Sunday by Boko Haram terrorists in Ngala, the headquarters of Gamboru Ngala Local Government...
Nine internally displaced persons (IDPs) from the Gamboru-Ngala camp have reportedly made their way back after being purportedly abducted by Boko Haram terrorists on March 4....
The mass abductions of mostly students in Sokoto, Kaduna and Borno states in a matter of 10 days is leading a number of security watchers to...
Terrorists and bandits appear to be daring the government and security forces with audacious, but outrageous group abductions of women, girls and school children in Borno,...
I thought the scary times of bandits and terrorists abducting innocent kids from their classrooms was over. But Nigeria has been thrown back into the horror....
The Department of State Services Friday put to rest speculations and reports doing the rounds on looting of warehouses and food trucks in the North-East as...
The latest mass abductions in Nigeria by bandits have clearly shown that President Bola Tinubu and his government have no effective plan for end years of...
The Accord party has strongly condemned the recent abduction of over 250 schoolchildren in Kaduna State. In a statement signed by Hon Joseph Omorogbe, its National...
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in a camp in Abuja have asked the federal government to end the security challenges in the North East and relocate them...
The 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has said the abductions of women and students in Borno and Kaduna States are...
Sequel to the abduction of over two hundred women and young girls from three Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, camps in Ngala at the Nigeria-Cameroon border, Governor...
Nigeria’s First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, has criticized the recent abduction of women and children in Borno and Kaduna State, describing the perpetrators as animals and cowards....
President Bola Tinubu has condemned the heinous incidents of abduction involving very vulnerable victims, internally-displaced persons in Borno State, and students in Kaduna State. In...
The kidnap, on Thursday, of 287 students and pupils of the LEA Primary and Secondary Schools, Kuriga, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, as well as some of...
Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) has dispatched a search team to work with security operatives to rescue the over 200 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), who...
Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, said his administration is targeting the construction of 85,000 new houses in 66 communities in the state aimed at resettling IDPs...
Families ask FG, N/Assembly to rescue loved ones Terrorists burn IDP houses at Dikwa The United Nations (UN) yesterday confirmed Wednesday’s Daily Trust exclusive report...
Where I come from, it is a borderline taboo for someone to yawn without closing their mouth. It is said that when you yawn without cupping...
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has arrested 254 suspected kidnappers, armed robbers and cultists from across the country in the last two weeks Force PRO, ACP...
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has affirmed Julius Abure as the National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP). The appellate court in its judgment on...
Naija News looks at the top happenings making headlines on the front pages of Nigeria’s national newspapers today Wednesday 6th March 2024. The PUNCH: In continuation...
They left camp in search of firewood – Community leader ‘Only 4 of 117 returned so far’ Military, Borno govt mum Terrorists have abducted over...
The Kulen Allah Cattle Rearers Association of Nigeria (KACRAN) has appealed to the governments of 19 Northern States to procure and distribute livestock feed to pastoralists...
Residents of Iddo-Sarki along Airport Road in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Monday protested against an alleged takeover of their land by the Nigerian Navy...
The Yobe State Governor Mai Mala Buni has restated the commitments of his administration towards strengthening collaboration with the federal government and European Union (EU) on...
A fire disaster has destroyed about 20 tents and displaced about 100 residents of Rundaben-Shuwa Arab, an internally displaced persons camp on the outskirts of Bauchi...
Inflation rates have been one of the major problems that have bedevilled the Nigerian economy for years. Naija News reports that Nigeria’s inflationary pressure is tied...
The Nigerian Army, in conjunction with a hybrid force and elements of the Civilian Joint Task Force, has successfully overrun Boko Haram/Islamic State West Africa Province...
Vice President Kashim Shettima has disclosed that President Bola Tinubu provided an alternative political platform for Nigerians as Governor of Lagos State during the era of...
A BUA truck conveying cartons of spaghetti has been attacked by hoodlums at Dogarawa axis of Zaria-Kano expressway. Dogarawa is a settlement located on the outskirt...
Troops of the Nigerian Army swooped on the stronghold of Boko Haram/Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists in Timbuktu triangle in the Lake Chad Region....
The Nigerian Army says its troops, in conjunction with elements of the Civilian Joint Task Force, CJTF, have neutralized three terrorists. A statement by the Director,...
The military authorities have confirmed that three members of the Boko Haram/Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) were killed recently by troops of the Nigerian Army...
The Nigerian Army in conjunction with hybrid force and element of Civilian Joint Task Force, have successfully raided Boko Haram/Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP, terrorists’...
Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has pleaded with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to reconsider the decision of merging the Army University, Biu, with the Nigerian Defence...
The Defence Headquarters says the troops neutralised no fewer than 974 terrorists, apprehended 621 others, and rescued 466 hostages in different theatres of operation across the...
The Defence Headquarters says the troops neutralised no fewer than 974 terrorists, apprehended 621 others, and rescued 466 hostages in different theatres of operation across the...
Borno State governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has flagged off the distribution of food items to over 100,000 households in Maiduguri Metropolitan Council (MMC) and Jere local...
Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum has flagged off the distribution of food items to over 100,000 households in the state capital Maiduguri and its environment, Jere...
Counter-rally in Abuja Police halt demonstration in Maiduguri Lagos CP gives water, biscuits to protesters The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC)-led protests, against the hardship in...
The team of anti-terrorism squad led by the Commissioner of Police has thwarted the protest of the Nigerian Labor Congress (NLC) in Borno State. The anti-hardship...
In a bold declaration of support for democratic principles, the pan-Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere, has openly disagreed with Pa Reuben Fasoranti’s recent call urging the Yoruba...
The recent call for the creation of additional three states in the South West by the House of Representatives member representing Obokun/Oriade Federal Constituency of Osun...
The inability of the Federal Government to secure and develop Nigeria’s border communities is contributing to the lingering security crisis bedeviling the nation, DAILY POST reports...
Alhaji Idris Muhammad Farouk, better known as Idi Farouk, is a man of many parts. He was in the Air Force as a young man before...
I published my first observations on the political party now known as the All Progressives Congress (APC), 11 years ago, titled, “Welcoming the APC.” Ten years later,...
Many residents of Dikwa town in Dikwa local government area of Borno State thronged the streets on Thursday protesting the rising cost of living amid economic...
As long as insecurity pervades the land, so long will the discourse to find means of ending it never ends. On Thursday, the Nigeria Union of...
President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has charged security executives to be mindful of intelligence gathering in any operation as this would enhance security of...
The rising cost of living in the country assumed another dimension on Thursday with an attack on a truck carrying food items in Suleja area of...
The rising cost of living in the country assumed another dimension on Thursday with an attack on a truck carrying food items in Suleja area of...
Nigeria undeniably faces significant challenges, including economic hardship, rising inflation, insecurity, and widespread poverty. These issues are complex and multi-faceted, with a mix of historical factors,...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ), says troops eliminated no fewer than 286 terrorists, apprehended 244 others, and rescued 122 kidnapped hostages in different theatres of operation across...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ), says troops eliminated no fewer than 286 terrorists, apprehended 244 others, and rescued 122 kidnapped hostages in different theatres of operation across...
A senior consultant and public affairs analyst, Abdulsalam Suleiman Izuagbe, has identified how the Nigerian government can end kidnapping, food shortage and boost the economy within...
The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) has lost two soldiers in clearance operations aimed at strengthening free movement and rejuvenating economic activities across the Lake Chad...
The lingering multi-faceted crises besetting Nigeria which are believed to be offshoots of the protracted terrorism perpetrated by the Boko Haram and allied groups that hit...