From Ifeoma Ejiofor The Anambra State Police Command has issued a security advisory to communities across the State scheduled to conduct their respective town union elections during the Yelutide period. The advisory was contained in a press statement signed by Read more…
Two suspected bandits and kidnapping kingpins responsible for violent crimes across Katsina, Zamfara, Niger and Kwara states have been arrested by the police. The suspects, according to a statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, on Friday, were Read more…
Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has criticised the United States’ recent airstrikes on terrorist camps in north-western Nigeria. He described the attacks as potentially polarising and detrimental to national sovereignty. This comes after US President Donald Trump’s announcement that US Read more…
The federal government has stated that it provided the United States with the intelligence on terrorists before the strikes by the country’s forces on Christmas Day. US President Donald Trump announced the strike on Islamic State militants in the northwest Read more…
The Holy Family Church, shelled repeatedly during the war, has held a quiet service for the enclave’s small Catholic community The Christian community in Gaza has held its first Christmas service since the start of the Hamas-Israel war two years Read more…
…As US President Donald Trump announces military airstrikes in Nigeria The Federal Government has said that the airstrikes by the United States against terrorists in a village in Sokoto were part of the Nigeria-United States Security Cooperation and Intelligence Collaboration. Read more…
President Donald Trump announced on Dec. 25 that the U.S. military had attacked Islamic State targets in Nigeria, claiming the group had been targeting Christians in the region. In a post on Truth Social, the president said he directed the military to launch Read more…
Condemnation has continued to trail the suicide bomb attack on a mosque in Borno State during prayers, which killed about five people and maimed more than 35 others. LEADERSHIP Friday reports that a teen suicide bomber detonated the bomb strapped Read more…
Palestinian Christians have gathered at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem for the first time since Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza began in 2023 to celebrate Christmas. Bethlehem’s mayor says the municipality has chosen to restore the city’s festivities after a Read more…
“Our men manoeuvred and took cover, but the attackers fired sporadically because they had several weapons,” the commandant said. The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has confirmed an attack by suspected terrorists on its personnel stationed at Wawa Read more…
Washington’s responsibility for such actions is obvious,” Moscow’s envoy to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, has said Russia condemns the seizure of oil tankers off the coast of Venezuela by the US military, Moscow’s envoy to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, has Read more…
A public affairs analyst and activist, Adekunle Adebayo, has raised the alarm over what he described as a plot to arrest and intimidate key opposition figures in Nigeria, including former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and ex-Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi. Read more…