Thursday, 12 November, 2026

Category: Security


Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi said makers of juju and sellers of hard drugs are the major problems bedevilling Nigerian youths. Umahi made this known in a statement made available to newsmen in Abakaliki by the Special Assistant on Media Read more…


Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, on Thursday, tackled the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), for appointing a northerner as the Chief of Army Staff yet again. National Coordinator of HURIWA, Emmanuel Onwubiko, in a Read more…


The newly appointed Chief of Army Staff, Major-General Farouk Yahaya, has indicated that his hobbies are cracking jokes, travelling, reading and listening to local music. This is according to his curriculum vitae posted on Facebook by the Senior Special Assistant Read more…


Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State has said his administration is committed to restructuring and repositioning vigilance groups in the state to assist Federal security agencies. Tambuwal made this commitment in a issued statement by his Special Adviser Media and Read more…


The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) yesterday set up a committee to conduct a safety audit of its operational and engineering units. The committee is coming three days after the crash of one of its aircraft in Kaduna that killed the Read more…


Gunmen have attacked policemen in a checkpoint along Otulu Akwukwu- Igbo road in Aniocha North, Delta State and killed one policeman, The Nation has learnt. The gunmen also set a police van ablaze during the attack. The Nation gathered the Read more…


Four policemen were killed in the early hours of Tuesday when unknown gunmen attacked a police station at Iwollo, Ezeagu local government area of Enugu State. LEADERSHIP reports that the attack took place less than two weeks after the Inspector General Read more…


Bauchi Gov. Bala Muhammed on Monday said he was not opposed to the ban on open grazing, but only detests ethnic criminalisation of herders. Muhammed made this known at the ongoing 2021 Annual Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Read more…


There was pandemonium at the Ile-Epo area of Lagos on Monday following attempts by a mob to burn the local police station. The station, situated inside the market, became a target for the rampaging crowd after a yet- to- be Read more…


Rivers State governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has accused a former Niger State governor, Dr. Muazu Babangida Aliyu, as a mole in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Wike, who stated this on Monday while speaking with journalists in Port Harcourt, was Read more…


What are your reflections on the deteriorating security situation in Nigeria? The deteriorating security situation in Nigeria is a thing of worry to every concerned citizen. It has become very unsafe to travel in this country again. There are so Read more…


• ALGON, traditional rulers, elders council, others  back outfit Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC), yesterday, exchanged words over the legality of the Ebubeagu security network in Ebonyi State. PDP, at a press conference in Abakaliki, claimed the Read more…