The Defence Headquarters says the release of 313 terrorism suspects to the Borno Government was on the orders of the Federal High Court sitting in Maiduguri....
The Nigerian Army, working alongside Hybrid Forces, has reported the successful neutralization of terrorists and the recovery of arms and stolen cattle in operations across Borno...
On March 14, 2024, 17 soldiers attached to 181 Amphibious Batallion, Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta State while on peace mission to Okuoma Community were...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Tuesday, said that those involved in kidnappings must be treated as terrorists. The president made the comments at a Ramadan dinner...
Nigerian Army troops have neutralized three terrorists in Borno and Katsina State. The Army in a statement on Wednesday, March 27, 2024, said the troops...
Two terrorists’ commanders have surrendered to the troops of Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) in the Lake Chad region. In a statement he released yesterday, the...
The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector coordinator for North East, Mr Francois Bellet has claimed that over five million people comprising internally displaced persons (IDPs),...
Eventually, the federal government has succumbed to pressure and did what it should have done long ago. The need to expose suspected terrorism sponsors in Nigeria...
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has said mass abduction, especially of school children, have not been heard of in the state lately because the Safe...
The WASH Sector Coordinator for North-East, Mr Francois Bellet, has revealed that over five million people comprising internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees, and the host communities...
Two high-ranking Boko Haram commanders have surrendered to the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) after fighting soldiers for 15 years. Confirming the development, spokesperson for...
The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) has said two high-ranking Boko Haram commanders have surrendered to the MNJTF after 15 years of fighting against the troops....
Two terrorist commanders have surrendered to the troops of Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) in the Lake Chad region. The Chief Military Public Information, Lt. Col...
The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) has revealed how terrorist groups in the country are funded. The NFIU, in a newsletter, said terrorist groups receive...
The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) has outlined ways terrorist groups in the country are being funded. In a recent newsletter, the NFIU said it...
The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), on Monday, revealed how terrorist groups in the country are funded. Naija News understands that NFIU, in a newsletter, disclosed...
Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Sunday reportedly killed several terrorists of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) and Boko Haram sects while bombing their hideouts...
Nigerians have expressed diverse reactions to the escape of a key Binance executive from the custody of the Nigerian Government. Recall that two Biance executives, Nadeem Anjarwalla and...
Last Friday, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, was reported as appealing to journalists to not give “undue attention” to bandits and other...
Nigeria is an agrarian country with over 70 million hectares of agricultural land area and 44% of it under cultivation. The Nigerian agricultural sector absorbs over...
In a renewed bid to rein in terrorists across the country, the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has released pictures of 97 terrorists and armed bandits declared wanted...
The killing of 17 soldiers in the Okuama community of Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State on Saturday, March 16 2024, is a despicable...
Our country is under siege. It has been for some years now. It is worsening because a problem not solved, and a challenge not taken up,...
The Chief Imam in Imo State, Suleiman Njoku, has said Muslims are facing a lot of discrimination and other challenges in the South East. Njoku said...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has declared Simon Ekpa, a self-styled Biafra agitator based in Finland wanted following the ongoing discussions and tensions surrounding the Biafra movement. In...
The Defence Headquarters has called on citizens to volunteer information on 97 persons comprising terrorists, insurgents among others, who are behind violent crimes in the...
The Defence Headquarters has declared 97 persons wanted for terrorism, violent extremism and secessionist threats against the state. The Director, Defence Media Operations, Major Gen...
A factional leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Simon Ekpa, has been declared wanted. Naija News understands that Ekpa was among ninety-seven (97)...
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Tuesday lost his bid to regain freedom after spending over two years in...
The Defence Headquarters said that troops neutralised 106 terrorists and arrested 103 in different operations nationwide in the last week. The Director of Defence Media Operations,...
A former presidential aide, Reno Omokri, has said the Muhammadu Buhari administration remains the worst government in the history of the country. In a post on...
Reno Omokri, a sociopolitical analyst, on Friday suggested that President Bola Tinubu should have probed former President Muhammadu Buhari. Omokri said Tinubu’s administration should not make...
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has berated the Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo, over the deployment of soldiers to the Ogbaru Local Government Area of...
Reno Omokri, a sociopolitical analyst, on Friday suggested that President Bola Tinubu should have probed former President Muhammadu Buhari. Omokri said Tinubu’s administration should not make...
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Wahab Shittu, has said the list of alleged terrorism financiers in the country released by the Federal Government is a...
Governor Babagana Umara Zulum has disbursed N255,650,000 cash and 5,513 bags of rice to members of the Civilian Joint Task Force (JTF) and hunters fighting Boko...
Former Minister of Communications, Maj. Gen. Tajudeen Olanrewaju, retd, issued a warning on Thursday regarding the killing of some army officers and soldiers in Okuama, Bomadi...
The former Head of Reintegration of the Presidential Amnesty Program, Alfred Kemapado, has said that the reports of people being killed, and houses being razed in...
Borno State Governor, Prof Babagana Zulum has disbursed the sum of N255,650,000 cash and 5,513 bags of 50kg rice to members of the Civilian Joint Task...
The Nigerian Army on Wednesday blamed the July 5, 2022, Kuje prison break on the absence of Close Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras and a low fence...
NFIU disowns memo 4 of 6 indicted BDCs not registered with CAC Case already in court – Govt officials There is controversy around the list...
The Federal Government says it has uncovered the identity of 15 entities – consisting of nine individuals and six Bureau De Change operators and firms –...
The Nigerian government has reportedly identified 15 entities, including nine individuals and six Bureau De Change operators and firms, believed to be involved in financing terrorism...
The Federal Government has named Tukur Mamu, a Kaduna-based publisher, and 14 others as terrorism financiers in the country. Mamu has been in the custody of...
The Federal Government has released a list of 15 entities, including nine individuals and six Bureau De Change operators and firms, involved in terrorism financing. The...
The Federal Government says it has uncovered the identity of 15 entities, including nine individuals and six Bureau De Change operators and firms, allegedly involved...
The Northern Christian Youth Professionals on Monday called on the Federal Government to revitalize the Forest Guards to protect to complement the efforts of security agencies....
The Northern Christian Youth Professionals on Monday called on the Federal Government to revitalize the Forest Guards to protect to complement the efforts of security agencies....
The North East Development Commission (NEDC) has donated relief materials to victims of fire disaster that destroyed over 20 tents at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)...
Borno State governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has flagged off the distribution of 25kg bags of rice and maize each to 52,000 vulnerable residents of Biu, Bayo,...
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...