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The new Commissioner of Police in Anambra state, Mr Monday Bala Kuryas, Tuesday, warned purveyors of fake news to vacate the state or face prosecution. Kuryas, who replaced the former …
Anambra Police commissioner resumes, vows to tackles fake news Read More
Governors under the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) on Tuesday stormed Minna, Niger state capital in solidarity with the state government over the abduction and eventual release of 27 students of …
Breaking: Govs storm Niger for freed Kagara students Read More
The Senate, Tuesday, confirmed immediate past service chiefs as non-career ambassadors. The confirmation of their nomination came through despite criticisms in some quarters. The former Chief of Defence Staff, General …
Breaking: Senate confirms Buratai, other ex-Service Chiefs as Ambassadors Read More
The new Aide-De-Camp (ADC) to President Muhammadu Buhari , Lt. Col Yusuf Muktar Dodo, Monday officially resumed duties at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Dodo, the Academy Adjutant of the …
Abubakar out, Dodo in as Buhari’s ADC Read More
The Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), FCT Chapter,has condemned the spate of kidnappings across the country, especially recent kidnapping of students and staff of Government Science Secondary School, Kagara, …
NAWOJ FCT tasks govt on security of schools across the country Read More
The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum( AYCF) has sounded a word of warning to “a political leader of the Southwest who has been engineering violence and arson in order to further …
Arewa youth talks tough, threatens to deal with politician behind Ibadan killings Read More
A civil society organisation (CSO), Global Rights, has lamented the state of insecurity in Nigeria, calling on the federal government to intervene and stop the killing of security personel and …
Insecurity: CSO laments killing of security personel, other Nigerians Read More
The Nigerian Air Force Sunday said seven persons onboard a Beechcraft KingAir B350 aircraft died when the jet crashed in Abuja. The jet en route Minna, Niger state, crashed not …
Tears, condolences as Rep reveals mission of crashed NAF aircraft Read More
The 27 students of Government Science College Kagara, Niger state, abducted Wednesday have been released, Blueprint has reliably gathered. Although details of the release were yet to be made public as at the time …
Updated: 27 abducted Kagara students, 39 passengers released Read More
Bandits on Saturday night killed two people and kidnapped nine others including two infants on Saturday night in Baka village, Igabi local government area, but troops in nearby Sabon Birni were …
Bandits kill two, abduct 2 infants, 7 others in Igabi, raze church, houses in Kajuru Read More
The 27 abducted students of Government Science College Kagara have been released. They were abducted last Wednesday, Details of where the boys were released from was not made public but …
Breaking: 27 kidnapped Kagara students regain freedom, head to Niger govt house Read More
Hours after, the Nigeria Air Force (NAF), Sunday, released the names of officers who died in the Beechcraft Kingair B350i plane crash. In a statement issued by the NAF spokesman, …
Breaking: NAF reveals names of crashed officers Read More
The Niger state government has secured the release of abducted 39 bus Passengers after eight days in captivity of bandits. The government stated this in terse statement Sunday without details …
Breaking: Niger secures release of 39 passengers Read More
The Director-General, Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR), Dr. Bakut T. Bakut, Sunday, cautioned the media to be conflict sensitive in their reportage on farmers and herders’ clash. Bakut, …
Farmers/Herders’ clash: Be conflict sensitive, IPCR DG tells journalists Read More
A Nigerian air force plane crashed while approaching the Abuja airport runway due to engine failure on Sunday, Nigeria’s aviation minister Hadi Sirika has said. Sirika who revealed this via …
Breaking: Real cause of crashed Military plane revealed Read More
Some eminent elders across the country have condemned, in strong terms, the rising spate of insecurity across the country, saying the situation has the potential of overwhelming the Nigerian state, …
Insecurity: Declare state of emergency now, Nigerian Elders tell Buhari Read More
The Coalition of Northern Organisation (CON), a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO )has supported Governor Bala Mohammed over his comments that Fulani herdsmen need to carry arms to defend themselves from …
Herders: Northern coalition backs Bauchi gov Read More
Bandits have killed three people, one each in Ungwan Sha’awa, Ungwan Galadima and Ungwan Gamu, all in Kajuru local government area of Kaduna state in what was believed to be attacks coordinated …
Bandits kill 3 in Kajuru, youth lynch ‘collaborator’ Read More
The federal government has revealed that no ransom will be paid for release of Kagara students and teachers. It also said no ramson was paid for the release of the …
Breaking: No ransom paid for release of Kagara, Kankara, Dapchi abductees – FG Read MoreJust when efforts are on to secure release of abducted school boys, teachers and other staff, gunmen suspected to be bandits have attacked Madaka, a nearby community to Kagara. Kagara …
Breaking: Again, bandits invade Niger community, kill one, abduct many Read More
Two persons Kudirat Obayomi and Hannah Olugbodi who brutalised by Police have been awarded N10 million each as compensation by the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Restitution and Inquiry. The …
Breaking: Lagos Judicial panel compensates 2 with N20m over police brutality Read More
The Secretary to the Government of Niger State (SSG), Ahmed Ibrahim Matane, has appealed to Bandits across the state to lay down their arms and embrace dialogue and reconciliation for …
Breaking: Bandits table conditions as Niger SSG, Sheik Gumi storm forest ‘for students, teachers’ release’ Read More
Concerned Nigerians, operating under the auspices of the Conference of Concerned Nigeria Security Experts, have responded to the deteriorating security situation in the country, occasioned by insurgency in the North …
Apply psychological approach to end insecurity, experts advise Buhari Read MoreThere are indications that foremost Islamic Sheikh Ahmed Gumi may have secured the release of 27 students of Government Science College, in Kagara, Rafi local government area of Niger state …
Breaking: Sheikh Gumi ‘secures release of abducted Kagara students’ Read More
It was lamentations galore Thursday by the immediate past Service Chiefs on reasons the nation’s insecurity worsened under their watch from November 2015 to January 2021. This is even as the former Chief of Army …
Buratai @Senate screening: Why terrorism may persist for the next 20 years Read More