Thursday, 12 November, 2026

Category: Security


Lagos State Police Command Press Release. Attention of the Lagos State Police Command has been drawn to a newspaper publication with the above caption which appeared on page 21 of the Friday, August 13, 2021 edition of the New Telegraph. Read more…


Abduct eight Islamic school pupils, teacherGunmen, suspected to be bandits, yesterday ambushed and killed two Niger Republic military officers in Jibia Local Government Area of Katsina State. The incident allegedly occurred late Tuesday night, when the gunmen crossed over from Read more…


No fewer than six persons were on Tuesday night, killed by gunmen suspected to be Fulani militia. The gunmen reportedly stormed the communities at the wee hours of the night and started shooting sporadically. Secretary General of the Irigwe Association Read more…


The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed says Nigeria is not a failed state and cannot go the way of Afghanistan where the terrorist group has taken the rein of power. The minister stated this in Washington DC Read more…


As the Afghan government collapsed this week in Kabul and the United States scrambled to speed up its evacuation effort, hundreds of Russian armored vehicles and artillery pieces were clearly visible hundreds of miles away, on the border with Tajikistan. Read more…


Gunmen suspected to be bandits have abducted eight pupils of an Islamiyya school at Sakkai village, Faskari Local Government Area of Katsina State. Also abducted was one of their school teachers, The PUNCH was told on Wednesday. The identities of Read more…


Seven people have been killed in an attack on a convoy transporting workers to a Shell oil and gas project in South-east, police said on Wednesday. No group claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack, but southeast region has seen a wave Read more…


The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Mr Abubakar Malami, SAN, on Wednesday filed an application before an Oyo State High Court praying to vacate the order stopping the arrest and freezing the accounts of  Sunday Adeyemi, a.k.a , Sunday Igboho. Read more…


Americans attempting to leave Afghanistan are getting some conflicting information from their embassy staff in Kabul: come to the airport but not until emailed to do so, flights are first-come-first-served, safety not guaranteed. US citizens, legal permanent residents and their Read more…


Russian President Vladimir Putin has spoken to the presidents of Iran and Tajikistan by phone. The leaders discussed the latest developments in Afghanistan, which has fallen into the hands of the Taliban in a sweeping takeover. The situation in Afghanistan Read more…


A staff of a first-generation commercial bank, Babatunji Lawal, on Tuesday, told a Kwara state high court in Ilorin, the identity of one of the suspects who withdrew money from the raped and murdered 300 Level student of the University Read more…


In a statement made available to Tribune Online in Dutse by the special assistant to the governor on the new media, Mr Auwalu Sankara said the governor made the warning when he paid a visit to commiserate with the Plateau Read more…